Over the weekend, special counsel John Durham has revealed a stunning result of his investigation into the origin of the Russia probe during former President Donald Trump’s first term, and it’s bigger than the media would have you believe.
According to reports released from Durham’s investigation, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign accessed servers at Trump Tower during the election season — and later the executive office of the White House while Trump was in office — and then filtered that information to the FBI to feed the false Russian collusion conspiracy.
Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said the investigation will likely lead to many, many more Clinton-related indictments — because he’s seen the still-classified evidence.
In September 2020 “was the first time the public found out when I declassified [former CIA Director] John Brennan’s handwritten notes that there was a Hillary Clinton campaign plan to create fake Russian collusion allegations … involving Donald Trump,” Ratcliffe told Fox News on Monday.
Ratcliffe said those filings were just the ones currently declassified. He implied that more bombshells remain classified, and they go deep.
“This latest filing relates to one of Hillary’s lawyers, Michael Sussman,” he said. “All of these filings are details that the public are just finding out, as John Durham is alleging was part of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s plan to falsely accuse Donald Trump of collusion with Russia.”
Ratcliffe said this wasn’t hacking the server because what was done was technically legal… but what was done with the information gleaned may have been illegal.
“Based on the allegations, a tech executive and tech company used what was originally lawful access into government servers to gain information — but to use it for an unlawful purpose,” he told Fox News.
“Hillary Clinton’s lawyer, Michael Sussman, took this information from the tech executives and pitched it to the FBI as evidence of Trump-Russia connections that simply weren’t true,” Ratcliffe explained. “The lawyer, Michael Sussman, and the tech executive knew this not to be true.”
Now that the three-year-long investigation has seemingly broken open, Ratcliffe said it could ensnare Hillary campaign advisors, lawyers, consultants, and more.
“This pleading alleges to a conspiracy,” he said. “Anyone that was aware that this campaign plan would be falsely pitched to the FBI, the CIA, law enforcement, or intelligence authorities would be subject to criminal prosecution for any number of crimes: mail fraud, wire fraud, lying under oath, false testimony.”
“It could go broadly and deeply,” Ratcliffe said of the prosecution. “That’s based on the evidence I’ve seen, and that I discussed with John Durham.”
Ratcliffe said he thinks more indictments should be coming in the near future, but didn’t have a timeline because he wasn’t involved in the investigation.
“I’ve been saying there would be indictments before there were any,” he said. “The folks that have been indicted does relate to intelligence I shared with John Durham. And based on more intelligence that has not yet been declassified, I would expect there to be… frankly, quite a few more indictments.”
“I think this conspiracy — and I do think there was a criminal conspiracy — is broad and deep,” he said. “I would expect and anticipate … quite a few more indictments related to this.”
Ratcliffe said the plan from the Hillary campaign to falsely accuse Trump was known to former President Barack Obama and then-Vice President Joe Biden as far back as 2016.
It’s why Durham is investigating in the first place — and only time will tell how far up the ladder the conspiracy went.
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