The trial of former Hillary Clinton presidential campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann is set to begin Monday.
The clash in federal court in Washington, D.C., represents the biggest and most public test yet for John Durham and his special counsel investigation.
Sussmann, who also helped the DNC handle its response to the 2016 hack, denies wrongdoing, pleaded not guilty, and unsuccessfully called upon the judge to dismiss the case, even relying in part on legal analysis by fired FBI agent Peter Strzok.Christopher Cooper, the U.S. district court judge presiding over the Sussmann case, has said he was “professional acquaintances” at the Justice Department with Sussmann in the 1990s.
Sussmann also put his lie down in writing in a text message to Baker the night before their meeting in September 2016, according to Durham. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in a December 2019 report that the FBI"concluded by early February 2017 that there were no such links." Durham revealed the CIA “concluded in early 2017” the Alfa-Bank and YotaPhone information was not “technically plausible" and did not “withstand technical scrutiny."The special counsel said Joffe “exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data" and tasked researchers to mine internet data to establish “an inference” and “narrative” tying Trump to Russia. Durham said Joffe indicated he was doing this to please certain “VIPs” on the Clinton campaign.
“This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow,” Sullivan claimed, adding, “We can only assume that federal authorities will now explore this direct connection between Trump and Russia.” Sullivan continued pushing the Alfa-Bank claims on TV in 2017.Marc Elias, who last year started his own law firm, the Elias Law Group, was the Clinton campaign's general counsel and hired the opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which hired Steele in 2016.
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