A former top FBI official testified Thursday that he is “100% confident” that Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann told him he wasn’t providing a tip about Donald Trump’s potential ties to Russia on behalf of the campaign or any client, critical testimony that bolsters special counsel John Durham’s claims that Sussmann illegally hid his political ties.
Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to one count of lying to the FBI — specifically that he falsely told Baker he wasn’t there on behalf of any clients.
“He said he was not appearing before me on behalf of any particular client, and that he had some information that was of concern relating to an apparently surreptitious communications channel between something called Alfa Bank — which he described as being connected to the Kremlin in Russia — and some part of the Trump Organization in the United States,” said Baker, a former CNN legal analyst.
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