- Special counsel John Durham claimed that her team had tried to spy on his White House servers in a bid to find ties to Russia to smear Trump with
- On Saturday, Trump ranted that Team Clinton’s behavior would once have merited execution
- ‘President Trump’s statement yesterday, I think is right on target. This is truly unprecedented,’ Jim Jordan said on Sunday morning
- Durham was appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr to lead a review into the Russia investigation
- Durham’s investigation brought charges against an FBI attorney and a former Hilary Clinton campaign worker
- It also led to the arrest of a Russian-born spy charged with lying to FBI agents
- Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation yielded no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials
- After Mueller’s investigation, Barr appointed Durham to investigate origins of the FBI’s original Russia probe, which began in July 2016
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan said that Donald Trump was ‘right on target’ to suggest Hillary Clinton‘s operatives should be executed after the former president accused her campaign of treason.
Trump unleashed a furious broadside on Clinton on Saturday after special counsel John Durham claimed that her team had tried to spy on his White House servers in a bid to find ties to Russia to smear him with.
The one-term president claimed Durham’s report was bigger than Watergate and said everyone involved should be prosecuted and preferably, executed.
‘In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death,’ he said.
On Sunday, Jordan appeared on Fox & Friends where said backed Trump’s statement.
‘We’ve never seen anything like this in history,’ Jordan said. ‘So President Trump’s statement yesterday, I think is right on target. This is truly unprecedented, truly something that has never happened in the history of our great country.’
Jordan added that the ‘spying’ was ‘worse than [we] thought.’
The indictment against Sussman details how two months prior to the presidential election, in September 2016, he explained to FBI General Counsel James Baker he was not working ‘for any client’ when presented papers allegedly outlining a ‘covert communications channel’ between Trump’s Organization and Alfa Bank, the largest of the private banks in Russia which has ties to the Kremlin.
Democratic lawyer Michael Sussman was indicted for allegedly lying to FBI general counsel James Baker over whether he was advising Hillary Clinton.
In Durham’s filing on Friday, he revealed how Sussman ‘had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1), named as Rodney Joffe, at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign.’