The Durham report on the politicized handling of the Trump-Russia collusion investigation has been released and it is deeply critical of the FBI's handling of the case. Fox News. Special Consul John Durham found that the FBI failed to uphold their fidelity to the law. The case, known as Crossfire Hurricane lead to the Robert Muller investigation and was centered on supposed links between Donald Trump and Russia. Durham found that evidence exonerating Trump was ignored while the investigation relied heavily on information generated by Trump's political opponents. Durham also found that the investigators in the case did not believe that there was probable cause that the people involved in the investigation were involved with foreign powers. He also found that the Steele dossier, which founded much of the investigation, was false with no corroborating evidence and that the FBI knew it at the time.
The report can be read here.
My Comment:
As expected the Durham report found that the FBI was totally out of control when it started its investigation into Donald Trump, an investigation that wasted millions of dollars of taxpayer money and brought a cloud over Donald Trump's first term. It shows that the FBI was biased against Trump and they did not even pretend to be on the side of justice.
This ended up being very damaging to Donald Trump and his presidency. Even now there are people that still believe that Trump had some connection to Russia and was somehow compromised as a candidate. Even after this investigation cleared him along with the original Muller report. Indeed, the very idea that Trump was involved with Russia wasn't based on anything other than rumor and innuendo, that was known to be false even at the time.
The investigation into Trump never found anything. Indeed, Trump is probably the most investigated man in world history and if there were any links between Russia and him they would have been found long ago.
Most of the information in this report was already known to anyone who even had a limited understanding of the topic. Everyone knew that the FBI treated Trump differently than they did to Clinton and the other candidates. Trump was never warned about possible Russian attempts to corrupt him, while Clinton was.
What was always stunning is that the FBI used political material from Trump's political opponents to justify spying on him. The report found that even the FBI knew that this material was bogus and they also ignored exonerating evidence that would have ended the investigation cold if it had been considered. But it wasn't because the FBI cared more about getting Trump then they did about doing the right thing.
What is scary about this is that if they could do this to Donald Trump, they could do it to basically anyone. What seems to be the criteria if the FBI investigates you or not is if they like your politics or not. We have seen people like Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton get a free pass for years but they went all in on Trump even though there was no "there" there. Trump had the political power and connections to actually expose this but what chance would you or I have?
The sad thing about this is that nothing will come of it. Sure, Trump will tout this as an exoneration, and rightly so, but nobody in the FBI is going to prison over this. One guy got community service. That's it. And the media that breathlessly covered this scam for years? No punishment whatsoever. Indeed, even now they are trying to downplay this report because it makes them look bad. It's a joke.
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