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Had found political bias within the agency at least when it came to the investigation of the Trump campaign this is of course about Crossfire hurricane do you remember the whole Russia collusion narrative well it was of course all made up it was Make-Believe it was fake and Durham explained in the
Open hearing how this fake information was created by Trump’s political opponents they had colluded with foreign Nationals and then provided false evidence to individuals in the FBI which resulted in investigations being launched into Trump and his administration interestingly with no evidence to do so have a look here this
Is Durham today he explains how the FBI did not have a legitimate basis to open the crossfire hurricane investigation into Donald Trump so then was there adequate predication for the FBI to open Crossfire hurricane as a full investigation on July 31st and my view based on our investigation that was not a legitimate
Basis to open as a full investigation an assessment of something that had to be looked at to gather information such as interviewing the people who provided um the Papadopoulos information checking their own databases the databases of other intelligence agencies and the standard kinds of things that you would
Do in an investigation like this he emphasized as well that despite the allegations there was evidence that Trump had colluded with Russia while this was all just a big lie as well there was no evidence of collusion there was no evidence of a conspiracy who wrote in your report quote based on
The evidence gathered in the multiple exhaustive and costly Federal investigations of these matters including the instant investigation neither U.S law enforcement nor the intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their Holdings at the commencement of the crossfire investigation to date has any evidence
Of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia ever been uncovered I mean there is there’s information obviously in the report that was prepared by director Mueller uh and whatnot but as uh to collusion or conspiracy I’m not aware of any now it turned out as well that the crossfire hurricane investigation was
What many critics including Trump himself believed it was all along it was nothing more than a political Scandal designed to get Trump and these so-called Steele dossier was the fabricated evidence that started it all it was the document that led many political actors to go on Prime Time
News and declare that they had seen evidence that Trump had colluded with Russia they saw it only the American people were not allowed to see it it was just that bad you wouldn’t be able to take it apparently and it was the document that BuzzFeed news later did
Publish in full online and when the public did in fact see that document what happened its credibility quickly waned given it’s ridiculously outlandish claims but while the ghost of that document it continued to develop behind the scenes it continued to hunt Trump not just through his candidacy in the 2016
Elections but also through Federal investigations into him while he was president and then in the form of a special counsel under Robert Mueller that threatened even to remove him from office and possibly throw him in prison and the American people were told today what was known to a handful of us all along
John Durham clarified that nothing not a single thing in the steel dossier none of it was true not a single claim in the document was ever proven it was fake was it was entered into our Congressional Record was it true there is not a single substantive piece
Of information and the dossier that has ever been corroborated by the FBI or to my knowledge anyone else now Not only was the Steele dossier fake well it was financed it was financed politically it was ironically disinformation which was paid for and disseminated to mislead the American voters and then used to
Weaponize our justice system using politics and Durham confirmed also what we’ve been saying here all along it was in fact funded by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee the Democrat Party dossier come from president Trump’s political opponents it was funded by the Clinton campaign
Um in the in the DNC so in that that degree yes it came that’s how it was paid for in other words it was paid for by Trump’s political enemies but where did it come from well it came from a foreign spy that was former British spy Christopher Steele who then hired a
Russian citizen Igor danchenko to Cobble together its claims anyone who remembers the narratives in the document at the time well you might laugh at this because if you remember the narrative against Trump was that he colluded with Russian Nationals to spread disinformation in an attempt to
Rig the 2016 elections we now know it turns out this is actually what the other side did then when the case got bigger well the FBI tried confirming claims from the alleged source for the Steele dossier and they could not confirm anything they even offered the
Person money a lot of money and there was nothing they could prove according to your report Steele was unable to corroborate any of the substantial allegations made in the dossier is that correct that’s correct even after the FBI offered steel a million dollars if somehow he could actually follow through and and
Underscore some of those uh specific items is that correct that’s correct so the FBI interviewed Dan changko and Steele’s subsource the steel sub source for three days from January 24th through January 26 of 17. however according to your report dancheco could not provide any evidence corroborating allegations
Contained in the dossier is that correct that’s a fact you following all this the whole investigation was launched on a lie the FBI had no evidence they found the evidence they were given was actually fake they knew it came from foreign Nationals they knew as well that
It was fueled by partisan financing but the leaders at the FBI who frequently voiced their dislike of trump they decided to carry out the investigation anyway they did this while the American people were lied to for years and those lies they framed a false narrative that resulted in protests on America’s
Streets fake news articles in the media and misinformed votes cast by American voters in three separate elections his representative Ben Klein confirming some of the key points with Durham the FBI did not have an adequate basis on which to launch Crossfire hurricane correct that’s correct the FBI failed to examine all available exculpatory
Evidence correct correct FBI leadership continued the investigation even when case agents were unable to verify the evidence correct that’s correct the FBI did not interview key Witnesses in crossfire hurricane correct correct and individuals within the FBI abused their Authority Under the foreign intelligence surveillance act correct correct
Now look of course the Scandal didn’t mean the whole FBI was partisan Durham actually emphasized that it was a group of individuals in leadership positions who were acting out of confirmation bias in other words they were so convinced that Trump must be guilty that they were unwilling to follow the law they were
Unwilling to uphold their basic standards but they were willing to harm the country in an attempt to find evidence that they just believed must exist and despite this they never found any such evidence it was all fake all of it and many agents within the FBI who
Believe in the importance of their work well they actually felt remorse Durham said there were FBI agents who apologized to him for how the trump-russia hoax was carried out I have had any number of FBI agents who I’ve worked with over the years some of them
Are tired some are still in place who have come to me and apologized for the banner in which that investigation was undertaken I take that seriously these are good hard-working the majority of people in the FBI the decent human beings sweared under their Odes to abide
By the law and the like and I think that that typifies exemplifies of the concern here um there is there are investigative activities undertaken or not undertaken here which raise real concerns about whether or not the law was Fallen to policies in place the FBI were followed
With all this in mind Durham’s final report was actually also income complete he never interviewed many key people of Interest interestingly including some of the top FBI leaders who played Major roles in the Scandal he did not look into key pieces of evidence including the alleged breach of the Clinton
Campaign servers allegedly by Russia they said that the reused to launch the fake narratives he also did not recommend further prosecutions America is again watching right now as we speak the levers of Justice being pulled in ways that will likely impact another election in 2024 where watching As Trump
Faces charges and allegations all over again we’re seeing how legal precedence is being thrown out the window but the American public is also not getting a better idea of what was taking place behind the scenes how political bias was able to manipulate our systems of Justice
And they’ve now also been made aware of how they were lied to well stay tuned after the break and be speaking with Mark Ruskin about special counsel John Durham statements today what this means going forward
