Posted on 04/17/2022 1:26:50 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The accusations of former President Donald Trump having a relationship with Russia that was provided by a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer was "not technically possible," special counsel John Durham wrote in a court filing posted Friday.
Less than two months before the 2016 presidential election, Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann presented "purported data and 'white papers' that allegedly demonstrated a covert communications channel" between the Trump Organization and the Kremlin-tied Alfa Bank to then-FBI General Counsel James Baker. In February 2017, Sussman reportedly furnished an "updated set of allegations" about Trump working with Russia to the CIA.
Durham outlined Sussmann's involvement with the discredited anti-Trump dossier authored by ex-British Intelligence agent Christopher Steele. Sussmann allegedly met with Steele in the summer of 2016 at the law offices of Perkins Coie, where he informed Steele about the Alfa Bank allegations.
Durham noted that "the dossier's author was hired" by Fusion GPS to "dig up dirt on Trump for an unnamed U.S. client."
The Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign reportedly funded the anti-Trump dossier through Perkins Coie.
"The fact that FBI headquarters received on the same date both sets of information involving the same political campaign (Clinton campaign), the same law firm [Perkins Coie] and the same investigative firm [Fusion GPS] makes Steele’s involvement in these matters relevant," Durham wrote.
Sussmann is accused of lying to the FBI because he told "the general counsel that he was not providing the allegations to the FBI on behalf of any client," according to the indictment. Sussmann allegedly presented the damning accusations against Trump on behalf of the Hillary Clinton campaign.
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The GOP knew by June of 2017 that the whole Trump/Russia collusion delusion was a Hillary hit job, yet they continued to assist the Democrats to keep it going for much, much longer.
“Made up lies”.
Hmmm?
“not technically possible”
Couldn’t that be said for the 2020 election?
Nope, the CIA said it wasn’t plausible and was user created. Durham’s investigation only uncovered the internal communications of the CIA describing that conclusion.
They wanted Trump crippled because they didn’t want to have to follow through on their promises to their constituents.
The GOP is “lies, all the time.”
Yep and we’ve known for years that the “dossier” was bs. Nice of Durham to finally catch up. I wonder how many millions the taxpayers will shell out to prove the $40 million they already shelled out for the bogus witch hunt will be?
Just more money trickling upwards with zero results aside from expanding fedgov. What a racket.
Gee how many millions were poured into the Mueller investigation and they never discovered this?
What they really wanted to block him from doing was building a fence and securing the border and restoring the rule of law.
Bush League Republicans colluded with Democrats to hobble him and cheat him out to cut off our last chance to keep our country.
No American should ever trust any of them ever again. They were willing to turn our entire election system upside down because they didn't like who the American people had selected as their candidate so they looked the other way and even helped them steal 2020 for Bite me.
Tell us something we haven’t already known for the past 6 years.
And the reason they did so, I’ve come to believe, is that the one thing the whole ruling class values most highly is the “administrative state”, which we call the deep state, aka “the swamp”. They protect it like their own families, and while it’s OK to occasionally deal with a bad actor here or there, nothing must be allowed to tarnish or injure the agency(s). Think back, and I bet you’ll not be able to recall a single person in government other than DJT saying anything that threatens the deep state. It’s like the “mama bear” reaction whenever anyone does...
One step closer to the “Arkansas Medusa”,
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