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Former campaign manager Paul Manafort was imprisoned for tax fraud over his lobbying in Ukraine.
Baker that he was not acting on behalf of a client, even though he represented an unnamed tech executive, an internet company, and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Sussmann represented the Democratic National Committee in matters related to the alleged 2016 hack of its computers and documents, which Clinton and the DNC have blamed on Russia, but could never prove.
The FBI also paid Steele, and used the dossier as pretext to obtain warrants to spy on Trump – first as a candidate, then as president – via his aide Carter Page.
Who is Jake Sullivan? He is now United States National Security Advisor to President Joe Biden. He was previously a senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential election campaign. Head of the NSA. This lying snake had much to do with the disaster Afghanistan pull out. How about security at the southern border, Jake? Once a liar always a liar.
Meanwhile, the only other indictment that came out of Durham’s probe was against a low-level FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who altered evidence in order to secure a FISA warrant to spy on Page. He pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of making a false statement, and was sentenced in January to a year of probation and 400 hours of community service. His license to practice law in Washington, DC was quietly reinstated earlier this month.
While many US media outlets pointed to the Alfa Bank claims as proof of Trump’s “collusion” with the Kremlin, the FBI found that the email server in question was run by an advertising agency that sent out promotional emails for Trump’s hotels, among other things. Special Counsel Robert Mueller ignored it in his sweeping probe entirely.
The indictment of Hillary Clinton attorney Michael Sussmann offers new evidence that the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory that engulfed Trump’s term in office was itself the product of fabrications involving Clinton’s 2016 campaign.
“We are blessed as a country to have journalists as talented as you and Franklin Foer writing about this,” Rachel Maddow told Filkins from across the anchor desk.
Sussmann is charged for failing to disclose that he was acting on behalf of Clinton’s team. But the indictment makes clear that Durham has uncovered a wider deception. For weeks prior to his meeting with the FBI, Sussmann worked with the unnamed technology executive (“Tech Executive-1”), who, like the Clinton campaign, was also Sussmann’s client. The executive’s “goal”, Durham says, was to create a “narrative” about Trump’s “ties to Russia” which would ultimately “please certain ‘VIPs'” – i.e., Sussmann’s clients in the Clinton campaign.
Weeks later, the DNC -funded Steele dossier would see a similar entry into public consciousness: after sitting on the salacious dossier for months, the US media was given a news hook to publish it when then-FBI Director Jim Comey – in concert with other intelligence officials – went to Trump Tower and briefed then-President-elect Trump about the alleged “pee tape.”
This allegation was generated by a different private firm, Crowdstrike, which, like Fusion GPS, was also hired by Perkins Coie — specifically, by Michael Sussmann.
Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.
Michael Sussmann, a Washington attorney and former federal prosecutor, was indicted for making a false statement to the FBI in September 2016. Durham alleges Sussmann misrepresented his own capacity when making accusations to the FBI over the course of the agency’s deep-state operation to find Russian collusion with the Trump campaign.