The group who originally funded the research behind the infamous Trump dossier was revealed on Friday to be the conservative website Washington Free Beacon.

The publication hired Fusion GPS to conduct research into now-President Trump and other GOP nominees from the fall of 2015 through the spring of 2016, according to The Washington Examiner.

After Trump locked up the nomination the Free Beacon withdrew funding and the project was picked up by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Examiner said.

The Free Beacon tried to distance itself from the dossier in a statement Friday night.

“All of the work that Fusion GPS provided to the Free Beacon was based on public sources, and none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier,” the statement read.

The Free Beacon is largely funded by hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, according to The New York Times.

Singer was a supporter of Senator Marco Rubio during the GOP primary.