‘Spygate’ figure Stefan Halper wanted to be Trump’s secretary of state, recording suggests
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter |
| August 16, 2020 02:02 PM
A newly released audio recording of Cambridge professor Stefan Halper revealed that the “Spygate†figure harbored ambitions of being President Trump’s secretary of state even after serving as an FBI informant against Trump’s campaign.
The revelation was made by former State Department official Steven Schrage on Sunday, who shared a recorded conversation he claims was between himself and Halper on Jan. 10, 2017, showing the FBI informant hoped to join the highest levels of the Trump administration after Trump’s surprise victory over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Schrage, who claims to have spoken with U.S. Attorney John Durham in his inquiry of the Russia investigation and who has broken his yearslong silence during back-to-back interviews with Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News, also said Halper later told him that the professor had been offered the ambassadorship to the Philippines under Trump.
“But you have no desire to go back in, unless there’s something, there’s nothing that would appeal to you?†Schrage said during the purported January 2017 discussion, which he told Bartiromo he was recording as part of his Ph.D. dissertation discussions with the Cambridge professor.
“They’ve already given it away," Halper said. "They’ve already given it away: secretary of state.â€
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