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Trump has promised that the three-year investigation in Durham will expose the FBI conspiracy. Instead, it ends after failing to uncover the "crime of the century."
It Will Defend Donald Trump: An Investigation Led By A Respected Federal Prosecutor Will Uncover His FBI Investigation Into The Trump Campaign's Ties To Russia : politically motivated 'hoaxes' and 'witch hunts'.
But three years later, the investigation, led by former federal prosecutor-turned-special counsel John Durham, is quietly coming to an end. To the anti-climax ending.
An investigation resulted in only one indictment, his FBI attorney, who admitted to falsifying wiretapping applications. This breach was discovered by previous research, not by Durham. The lawyer pleaded guilty and received probation in return.
Durham is also reportedly looking for evidence of political bias or conspiracy within his FBI, but two of his other criminal charges brought by Durham were not against members of the FBI, but in court. to an FBI source who said Durham's team lied to federal agents. – Officially position the FBI as the victim of fraud, not the perpetrator.
Durham's team lost both cases, the most recent being last week. Now, the grand jury used by Durham in northern Virginia is reportedly out of action, and Durham is likely to face mounting pressure to eventually drop the investigation.
Even candidates running under the Trump banner in the upcoming midterm elections, despite regularly denouncing the FBI and Trump's treatment, have missed the bait for additional campaigns against the Democrats and the federal government. You didn't mention the investigation.
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The investigation "not only failed, but completely reversed what Donald Trump said," said former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, now a legal analyst and professor at the University of Michigan Law School. One Barbara McQuade said. .
Her two losses for the special counsel in court are all the more shocking considering that more than 80% of his 2% of federal criminal cases that go to trial end in conviction. A federal jury has acquitted Igor He Danchenko, a researcher who was the main source of the infamous "armored files". He was one of Trump's campaign advisers to authorize the wiretapping.
Durham claimed that Danchenko misled the FBI as to who the source was. The indictment listed him on five counts, one of which was deemed so weak that he was dismissed in an unusual and unusual move by the judge at trial in this case. A jury quickly and unanimously acquitted Danchenko of his four remaining charges.
The trial follows in May when another federal jury acquitted cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann on similar charges of lying to the FBI.
Danchenko's release marked his deathbed, and the Durham investigation was presumably completed. He wrote the final report and submitted it to Attorney General Merrick Garland, who decided how many reports to publish. Garland previously told a congressional panel that he was committed to issuing as many final reports as possible, and the Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment.
Investigation Investigation
Durham's investigation was not the first of his FBI investigations and was eventually taken over by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. After years of President Donald Trump criticizing the Mueller investigation as a political stunt crafted by Democrats and the FBI, Durham received an extensive review of the FBI's Russia investigation by Attorney General William Barr in May 2019. Barr was hostile to the FBI's work and Mueller's findings about the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, disrespecting them and criticizing them when Mueller's report was released. No doubt you have misrepresented them to the public.
But another independent review by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz was already underway when Burr chose Durham to lead another investigation. The letter contained concerns about certain FBI actions, such as the discovery that FBI attorneys had tampered with wiretap applications, but ultimately Horowitz concluded that the Russian investigation was legal and justified and that the FBI We have concluded that there are proper rights to the reason for the initiation of an investigation.
But with Durham's investigation ongoing, Horowitz's report could more easily be ruled out. At the time, Barr took a publically favorable stance on the report, and Durham released a statement indicating that his investigation produced evidence that contradicted Horowitz's conclusions.
“Based on the evidence gathered to date, an investigation is ongoing, but last month I notified the Inspector General that I disagree with some of the conclusions of the report regarding the prophecy and how the FBI case was opened. did".
At his two trials this year, Durham's team incorporated criticism of the FBI and the evidence it used to portray the incompetence of federal agents in the prosecution's claims. Durham's final report has not yet been published, but is widely expected to contain similar findings.
Analysts said they were concerned that the legacy of the investigation would become one of the politicization of the Justice Department because of how the investigation was initiated, how it was conducted, and subsequent perceptions and interpretations.
"I'm concerned that political forces within the Justice Department will see it as an attempt to step up investigations to uncover wrongdoing by political rivals," McQuaid said, while Horowitz said. He noted that Durham had already conducted a thorough and independent review of the Russian investigation. he was detained. he was appointed. “I think appointing a special counsel who is a politician gives the impression that it is a political mission rather than an independent fact-finding, so I hope others don’t follow suit in the future.”
Fire fuel
While the investigation failed to expose the widespread indictment of FBI members and the rampant political bias underlying the Mueller investigation, it was remarkably successful in other ways. Maintaining the view that the Russian investigation is illegal is not only alive, it is working. Since then, Mueller's investigation has faded from public opinion in clips of him racing subsequent political developments, but for more than three years.
It has also been a credible fuel for fueling Trump and his supporters' conspiracy theories within the FBI, which have since spread to other branches of the government and fueled partisan divisions.
He ran more than 2,000 segments in Durham's investigation, according to a Media Matters for America tally by Fox News, a conservative network. At one point, political commentator Sean Hannity told the audience that if Durham's investigation did not produce "justice," he said, "You will no longer live in the land of the free. The great American Republic will be your eyes." will collapse in front of the
His failures in court were mostly ignored or explained.
“Durham does not get a fair shake in the swamp of bigoted partisan juries, where it is said that no Republican-based or favored lawsuit, no matter how good, can win. And the judges are biased, unfair, and angry.They literally... are really dangerous to be in court!Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social after Danchenko's release. Posted.
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