(The Clinton campaign was later sanctioned by the FEC over its hiding of the funding.)įBI, DOJ’s Trump-Russia ‘collusion’ probe was ‘seriously flawed,’ no basis in evidence when opened: Durham The funding was hidden as legal expenses by then-Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias. The report details how the Russian collusion conspiracy was invented by Clinton operatives and put into the now-infamous Steele dossier, funded by the Clinton campaign. Here are a few of the characters implicated in this report. In this conspiracy, there were dozens of key participants in the campaign, the government, and the media. In the report, Durham said former President Barack Obama and his security team were briefed on how “a trusted foreign source” revealed a Clinton plan to vilify Trump. It was a plot that required everyone to take a hand in derailing a duly elected president and effectively shutting down his administration for three years of investigation and prosecutions. Special prosecutor John Durham issued a 305-page report on May 15, 2023.Īs detailed in the report, President Barack Obama and his national security team were briefed on how “a trusted foreign source” revealed “a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server.”
Making this even more implausible is that the CIA and FBI know about the plot. In hindsight, it would appear impossible.Ī political campaign hatches a plot to create a false claim of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.
Not only did the impossible happen, but they all did it: the Clinton campaign, the FBI, and the media. That may be the best summary of the findings of special prosecutor John Durham in his 305-page report issued yesterday. In Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express,” detective Hercule Poirot observes, “The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.” NATO member Poland warns Russian Wagner forces moving closer to border: report Russia courts new militias as Wagner group takes pause
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Trenga nearly threw out all of the charges before the trial began, citing the legal strength of Danchenko’s defense, but allowed the case to proceed in what he described as “an extremely close call”.Russian missiles kill six, including 10-year-old girl and her mother in Kryvyi RihĮx-Russian president threatens nuclear attack to halt counter-offensive: ‘No other option’ On Friday, the US district judge Anthony Trenga threw out a fifth count, saying prosecutors had failed to prove it as a matter of law. The jury began deliberations Monday afternoon after hearing closing arguments on four counts. Prosecutors said Danchenko lied about the identity of his own sources for the material he gave to Steele. As it turned out, the FBI used material from the dossier to support applications for warrantless surveillance of a Trump campaign official, Carter Page, even though the FBI never was able to corroborate a single allegation in the dossier. Prosecutors said that if Danchenko had been more honest about his sources, the FBI might not have treated the dossier so credulously. Trump derided the dossier as fake news and a political witch-hunt when it became public in 2017.ĭanchenko, by his own admission, was responsible for 80% of the raw intelligence in the dossier and half of the accompanying analysis, though trial testimony indicated that Danchenko was shocked and dismayed about how Steele presented the material and portrayed it as factual when Danchenko considered it more to be rumor and speculation. Most famously, it alleged that the Russians could have blackmail material on Trump for his supposed interactions with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel. The Danchenko case was the first of the three to delve deeply into the origins of the “Steele dossier”, a compendium of allegations that Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was colluding with the Kremlin. Despite hopes among Trump supporters that the prosecutor would uncover a sweeping conspiracy within the FBI and other agencies to derail his candidacy, the three-year investigation failed to produce evidence that met those expectations. The acquittal marked a significant setback for Durham. The jury reached its verdict after roughly nine hours of deliberations over two days. His wife wiped away tears after the clerk read the final “not guilty” to the four counts he faced. The first two cases ended in an acquittal and a guilty plea with a sentence of probation.ĭanchenko betrayed no emotion as the verdict was read.
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