“The Durham investigation is in real trouble,” Wheeler said. “One of the allegations in the indictment is that Sussman was coordinating with the Hillary [Clinton] campaign on these Alfa Bank allegations back in October. Sussman was, like, name the people. In October, Durham said, ‘I don’t have any people.’ In November, he first interviewed a Hillary staffer, he hadn’t actually investigated this. We also learned recently that even though Durham and [then-attorney general] Bill Barr flew to Italy to get the phones from Joseph Mifsud, if you remember, is that Italian who was talking to George Papadopoulos. He never walked across DOJ to get the phones from James Baker, who is the single witness to this conversation with Michael Sussman. He didn’t find out that DOJ [inspector general] had two of the phones until January. Then, after he revealed that he had these phones that he should have looked for four years ago, he then had to disclose that he had been told about one of the phones back in 2018 but he didn’t remember it anymore.”
“That’s not the only thing that Durham didn’t do before charging Sussman,” Wheeler added.
She listed other flaws in Durham’s investigation, and she expects Sussman to file a motion to dismiss the indictment against him — and she believes the special counsel filed his pretrial motion last week to get ahead of that move.
“Probably what last Friday’s stunt was about for Durham was an attempt to preempt that, an attempt to pretend that this investigation isn’t kind of post-hoc a discovery of things,” Wheeler said. “For example, he didn’t investigate what the FBI’s relationship is with Rodney Joffe before he charged Michael Sussman. He only pulled the communications when Sussman said, ‘Why don’t you find out what kind of relationship the FBI has with Joffe.’ He discovered there were thousands of communications, so Durham is very close to position where Sussman is going to have the opportunity to say, ‘You didn’t do an investigation before you charged me.'”
“A week before he probably is going to have to do that this stunt comes out and you have all of these people who were witnesses, who fed these conspiracy theories to Durham on the front end,” Wheeler concluded, “who then go on Fox News and make false claims about it. That’s what the story is, Kash Patel garbage in, Kash Patel garbage out, and Trump threatening to kill people as a result.”