John Durham wins over toughest critic with revelations of Dem scheme behind Trump-Russia probe Special counsel John Durham’s latest indictments impugn the source of the now-debunked Steele dossier’s most salacious accusations, which quickly elevated Mr. Durham from zero to hero in the eyes of some of his harshest critics.
His investigation into suspected wrongdoing by FBI officials in launching the Trump-Russian collusion investigation was viewed as a laughingstock by former President Donald Trump and his supporters. They mocked the investigation for taking more than two years to produce only one guilty plea.
But the investigation roared to life this fall as Mr. Durham secured indictments against two defendants with ties to the Democratic Party.
One of those defendants, Igor Danchenko, is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at a federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. He is expected to plead not guilty to five counts of lying to the FBI about how he obtained information that ended up in British former spy Christopher Steele’s dossier on Mr. Trump.
Michael Sussmann, a lawyer who worked for Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, was indicted in September. He pleaded not guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI in a 2016 meeting in which he shared purported links between the Trump organization and a Russian bank. The flurry of activity was enough to change Mr. Trump’s mind about the investigation.
Mr. Trump once ridiculed Mr. Durham’s lack of public activity by questioning whether the special counsel was a “living, breathing human being.”
Mr. Trump on Tuesday complimented the special counsel.
“Hats off, because it’s coming out and it’s coming out a level — Durham has come out with things that are absolutely amazing,” Mr. Trump said on Fox News. “We all sort of knew that happened, and now we have the facts, and I think they’re only going to get deeper and deeper — and it all leads back to the Democrats, Hillary and the dirty lawyers.”...........
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