A prominent Democratic lawyer tried to “use the FBI as a political tool” when he met with the bureau’s chief counsel about an alleged connection between a Russian bank and Donald Trump while hiding that he was doing so on behalf of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, a prosecutor for special counsel John Durham told a Washington, D.C., jury on Tuesday.
In fact, prosecutors say, Sussmann, then a partner at the Perkins Coie law firm, was representing Clinton’s campaign and Rodney Joffe, a cybersecurity researcher and longtime client who was allegedly seeking a top job in a potential Clinton administration. Sussmann “didn’t lie to the FBI and wouldn’t lie to the FBI,” Bosworth said. Sussmann was a serious national security lawyer with a top-secret security clearance for over two decades who approached Baker out of concern for national security, he argued.Sussmann approached Baker after Joffe brought him information about the alleged contacts between the Trump Organization and the Russian bank, according to Bosworth.
But Shaw, the prosecutor, argued that the real purpose of the meeting was to gin up an FBI investigation that would give more traction to media stories about Trump-Russia ties, an effort she described as an attempt to create an “October surprise” for the Clinton campaign.
Trump being the alleged victim of someone trying to use the department of justice as a political tool is funny.
She's near!
Remind me again yahoo how you pushed the narrative for impeachment on DT with Ukraine phone convo, you and the Dems but I guess it’s all good to send billions to them now, now that it’s a dem 🤣🤣🤣
Talk about a poorly written headline
Um...that's his job?
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