John Durham reveals 'troubling violations of law' with FBI Trump-Russia investigation

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John Durham defended his “sobering” report on wrongdoing committed during the Trump-Russia investigation, telling Congress that the problems he unearthed could pose “significant national security risks” if left unaddressed at the FBI.

Durham, who appeared before the House Judiciary Committee during his first public testimony on the report on Wednesday, argued that “the findings set forth in this report are serious and deserve attention from the American public and its elected representatives.

The report also revealed that evidence of Trump-Russia collusion never materialized and that Steele’s dossier was linked to Russian sources. Rep. Jim Jordan , chairman of the committee, claimed that “seven years” after the 2016 campaign, “nothing has changed, and frankly they’re never going to stop.” He contended that “seven years of attacking Trump is scary enough, but what is more frightening is that any one of us could be next.”

“We found troubling violations of law and policy in the conduct of highly consequential investigations directed at members of a presidential campaign and ultimately a presidential administration,” Durham said. “To me, it matters not whether it was a Republican campaign or a Democratic campaign — it was a presidential campaign.”

The Durham report also concluded that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign played an outsize role in pushing such collusion claims to the media and the FBI.

 

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