Durham Hints Russia Probe May Not Have Continued If Clinton Lawyer Hadn’t Lied
Jon Dougherty March 9, 2022
A recent filing by special counsel John Durham notes that if just one thing had changed regarding the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign — so-called “Russiagate” — then the course of history would have been much different.
Namely, if a lawyer linked to the campaign of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, had been honest with the bureau, Just the News’ John Solomon noted in a column published earlier this week.
“It was an allegation that dogged Donald Trump for three years: a claim the Republican nominee-turned-president had a secret backdoor communications channel with the Kremlin. Repeated endlessly by the liberal media, the allegation was never true,” Solomon wrote, adding:
Now, Special Counsel John Durham is raising the tantalizing specter the FBI might never have investigated the claim during the height of the 2016 presidential election if the man who brought it to the bureau — Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann — had told the truth about its origins.
In his latest court filing this weekend, Durham gave his most sweeping assessment yet about the consequences of Sussmann hiding the fact that he brought the allegation to the FBI on behalf of the Clinton campaign and a computer executive aligned with the campaign. more
https://conservativebrief.com/durham-3-60933/
