Durham expanded Trump probe to include criminal investigation of financial deals: Report
January 27, 2023 | Melissa FineAfter four years of wondering what special counsel John Durham has been doing, only to learn that there was no wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia investigation, The New York Times has published a report claiming Italian officials tipped Durham off in 2019 to alleged financial crimes committed by Donald Trump and sparked a separate investigation.
According to The Times, which interviewed “more than a dozen current and former officials,” Durham “spent his first months looking for any evidence that the origin of the Russia investigation involved an intelligence operation targeting the Trump campaign.”
After finding nothing in the CIA’s files to support the allegation that “the origin of the Russia investigation involved an intelligence operation targeting the Trump campaign,” Durham and then-Attorney General Bill Barr “traveled abroad together to press British and Italian officials to reveal everything their agencies had gleaned about the Trump campaign and relayed to the United States, but both allied governments denied they had done any such thing.”
It was on one of those trips abroad, according to anonymous “people familiar with the matter,” that “Italian officials — while denying any role in setting off the Russia investigation — unexpectedly offered a potentially explosive tip linking Mr. Trump to certain suspected financial crimes.”
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