In a motion filed on February 11, special counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origin of the Russiagate probe said that Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign accessed servers associated with Donald Trump to help build a narrative that he was coordinating with Russia.
And that’s just the beginning.
First reported by the Washington Examiner and Fox News, a lawyer linked to Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign reportedly had a technology company spy on the Trump campaign… and the White House after Trump took office.
The lawyer, Michael Sussmann, allegedly used campaign funds to pay a technology company “infiltrate” the computer servers at Trump Tower — and later servers the White House Executive Office — to build a “narrative” that members of Trump’s team were coordinating with the Kremlin. They would reportedly later bring that narrative to government agencies investigating Trump’s team, Fox News reported.
Sussmann has previously been charged with lying to federal investigators. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Republican leadership reacted to the news with outrage.
“Yep, there was spying going on, and it was worse than we thought because they were spying on the sitting president of the United States,” Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told “Fox & Friends” over the weekend.
“And it goes right to the Clinton campaign.”
“So, God bless John Durham. His investigation is taking a long time. But we’re getting to now what we all suspected,” he said. “The only thing we didn’t understand was it was worse than we thought.”
Rep. Michael Turner, R-Ohio, called the information in Durham’s filing a threat to American democracy on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“It doesn’t matter really which political campaign this is or which political party this is,” Turner said. “This is so wrong and allegations of such a level of illegal activity that goes directly to our faith in our own government that the truth must be found.”
Turner predicted that Durham’s probe could later implicate former top intelligence officers, including former CIA Director John Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey.
Mark Meadows, the White House’s former chief of staff, released a statement on social media. Take a look —
They didn’t just spy on Donald Trump’s campaign.
They spied on Donald Trump as sitting President of the United States.
It was all even worse than we thought. https://t.co/z991l7Mc9r
— Mark Meadows (@MarkMeadows) February 12, 2022
Trump himself released a blistering statement on his blog after the Durham filing was made public.
“The latest pleading from Special Counsel John Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia,” Trump’s statement read. “This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution.”
“In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death. In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.”
For years, the mainstream media dismissed Trump’s claims about spying from Clinton campaign. Conservative activist Dan Scavino, the former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communication under Trump, posted a 60 Minutes interview from October 2020 where the former president’s claims were dismissed —
— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) February 12, 2022
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