Remember when then-President Trump was interviewed by Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes in October of 2020? If so, maybe you remember this exchange:
“President Donald Trump: …(t)he biggest scandal was when they spied on my campaign. They spied on my campaign, Lesley-
Lesley Stahl: Well, there’s no– real evidence of that.
President Donald Trump: Of course there is. It’s all over…the place. Lesley, they…spied on my campaign and they got caught–
Lesley Stahl: Can I– can I say something? You know, this is 60 Minutes. And we can’t put on things we can’t verify–
President Donald Trump: No, you won’t put it on because it’s bad for Biden.”
Well, guess what? Trump was right. “They” did spy on his campaign. Further, Stahl was wrong. There is “real evidence” for the former President’s allegations.
Who, you may ask, is the “they” who spied on the Trump campaign? According to Special Counsel John Durham, “they” is two people affiliated with the Hillary Clinton Campaign.
In September of 2021, Durham brought a federal indictment against “Michael A. Sussmann, 57, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney, with making a false statement to the FBI on Sept. 19, 2016… Sussman, a lawyer at a large international law firm, met with the FBI General Counsel at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Sussmann had requested the meeting to provide the General Counsel with certain data files…that allegedly demonstrated a covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and a Russia-based bank. Sussmann, who had previously represented the Democratic National Committee in connection with a cyber hack, falsely stated to the General Counsel that he was not bringing these allegations to the FBI on behalf of any client. This false representation led the General Counsel to understand that Sussmann was providing information as a good citizen rather than a paid advocate or political operative. In fact, Sussmann assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two clients, including a U.S. technology executive and the Clinton Presidential Campaign.
“Sussmann worked with the aforementioned U.S. technology executive, other cyber researchers, and a U.S.-based investigative firm to assemble the data…that Sussmann ultimately provided to the FBI and the media. The technology executive, for his part, exploited his access to non-public data at multiple internet companies and enlisted the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university…(t)he indictment further alleges that (these) researchers were tasked to mine this internet data to establish ‘an inference’ and ‘narrative’ that would tie then-presidential candidate Donald Trump to Russia…(t)he indictment also alleges that Sussmann, his law firm, and the technology executive coordinated with representatives and agents of the Clinton Campaign in these efforts.”
That previously unnamed “technology executive” has now been identified, according to the National Review; “In a court submission last week, Durham alleged that a tech executive, who was supposed to be helping the government combat cyber threats, used his privileged access to Internet data…to mine contacts between Russia and facilities connected to Donald Trump. The information, Durham says, was taken out of context and distorted to suggest that Trump might be a clandestine agent of Vladimir Putin’s regime. Alarmingly, some of the Internet traffic mined in early 2017 was generated by the Executive Office of the President — the White House. That is, the tech executive, who has been identified as Rodney Joffe, was monitoring then-President Trump, trying to portray him as Putin’s mole…
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“Last year, Durham indicted Sussmann for lying to the FBI to conceal that he was working for the Clinton campaign and Joffe when he conveyed the information to James Baker, who was then the Bureau’s top lawyer (and an old acquaintance of Sussmann’s).”
The identity of the tech executive is only part of the story. This https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/02/durhams-jaw-dropping-revelation/“revelation by Durham indicates that, even after Sussmann delivered information to the FBI during the 2016 presidential campaign, Joffe continued to scrutinize Trump-connected Internet traffic.”
In other words, Joffe used his tech skills and access to gather information, information that was taken out of context and even manipulated, then gave that information to Sussmann, who then turned it over to the FBI. Joffe gathered this information hoping for a position in a Hillary Clinton Administration, and Sussmann passed it on to his contact at the FBI in his capacity as a representative of both Joffe and the Clinton Campaign. Both Sussmann and Joffe intended to foster the image of the Trump campaign, and the Trump Administration, as working on behalf of the Russian government.
Sussmann’s alleged crime was lying to his contact at the FBI about his status. Rather than admit he was working on behalf of Joffe and the Clinton Campaign, Sussmann claimed to be “a good citizen, rather than a paid advocate.”
You may further recall that much of the media was obsessed for the majority of 2017 thru 2019 with “Russian collusion” – that is, the allegation that President Trump’s campaign had been working as a tool of Russian state agents. In particular, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow “covered the story with a consistent breathlessness…(s)he worried in March 2017 that the Russians had not just stolen the election, but our government: ‘We are also starting to see what may be signs of continuing influence in our country. Not just during the campaign, but during the administration. Basically signs what could be a continuing operation’…(n)o matter how alarming all this was, there was always an underlying sense of glee in Maddow’s coverage, the bastards were finally getting their due, the whole treacherous plot steadily coming undone via Robert Mueller’s investigation and the brilliant, long-form explications of it by America’s champion at 9 p.m.”
Ah yes, the Mueller Report. Did Special Counsel Robert Mueller find Russian Collusion between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government? As we reported back in June of 2019, “It is well known that one of the major findings of the Report is that ‘the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.’”
Now that Special Counsel Durham has revealed the real source of the “Russian Collusion” allegations, will Maddow report the truth? Don’t hold your breath – In September, when Michael Sussman was indicted, “MSNBC star Rachel Maddow appeared widely dismissive of the latest indictment from Special Counsel John Durham’s probe looking into the origins of the Russia investigation…’So what that apparently leaves Durham with is a lawyer who gave the FBI some information he says he thought they should have. The FBI chased that down and decided, ‘eh, it’s probably nothing.’ And maybe that lawyer- there’s some question as to whether he fully revealed who he was representing at that time? Does it matter who he was representing at the time?’ Maddow asked.”
Yes, Rachel, it does matter. An attorney misrepresented to a government law enforcement agency that he was acting on behalf of a political campaign and someone hoping to get a job with that candidate’s incoming administration. That lawyer’s client used his access to selectively gather and manipulate data to make the Trump Campaign look like traitors. That client continued to use his access to gather and manipulate data after the election in an effort to make the Trump Administration look like traitors.
In what world does that NOT matter?
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