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Statement on Report by Special Counsel John Durham
The conduct in 2016 and 2017 that Special Counsel Durham examined was the reason that current FBI leadership already implemented dozens of corrective actions, which have now been in place for some time. Had those reforms been in place in 2016, the missteps identified in the report could have been prevented. This report reinforces the importance of ensuring the FBI continues to do its work with the rigor, objectivity, and professionalism the American people deserve and rightly expect.

Deadline White House @DeadlineWH wrote: "John Durham, once highly respected hard-nosed prosecutor... has twisted himself into a pretzel in an attempt to deliver what he could not deliver. The goal was to rack up many, many indictments... he's failed miserably" - @FrankFigliuzzi1 w/ @NicolleDWallace

"What's unbelievable about John Durham is he brought two cases that he lost... was ok to bring a case even though it was really thin and not really provable, as long as you have some other story... that's not was criminal cases are for" -
@AWeissmann_
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@NicolleDWallace

DC_Draino @DC_Draino wrote: Friendly reminder that Trump has a defamation lawsuit against CNN for defaming him about Russia collusion

He wants $475 million in punitive damages

After Durham’s report, I’d say that his chances of winning nearly half a billion dollars just improved

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DC_Draino
@DC_Draino
Today I was supposed to fly out with Trump to lowa on Trump Force 1, but the rally was cancelled due to Tornado warnings in the area

So instead he invited us all back to Mar a Lago where we had chicken wings, pigs in a blanket, a burger, and more diet cokes than I can count

We talked about everything and he confirmed he will be BACK to lowa soon, likely in the next week or 2

He's sharp, hilarious, and said he believes we can do more to change America than ever before once he's back

I ended up having lunch and dinner with President Trump at Mar a Lago yesterday and we were the last table to finish up around midnight after everyone else went home

Let me tell you this guy’s energy is OFF THE CHARTS

He’s somehow getting younger

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Trump says there 'must be a heavy price to pay' for Comey, Democrats after release of Durham report
Durham's report found DOJ, FBI 'failed to uphold' mission of 'strict fidelity to the law' in Trump-Russia probe

Former President Trump said Monday that former FBI Director James Comey and Democrats need to be held accountable for spending years investigating alleged collusion between Trump and Russia now that Special Counsel John Durham has released a report that says the Trump-Russia probe never should have been launched.

"I, and much more importantly, then American public have been victims of this long-running and treasonous charade started by the Democrats — started by Comey," Trump told Fox News Digital. "There must be a heavy price to pay for putting our country through this."

Durham's report found that the Department of Justice and FBI "failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law" when it launched the Trump-Russia investigation.

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Trump said the activities surrounding the FBI's original Trump-Russia investigation were "a total disgrace," and said "public anger over this report is at a level that I have not seen before."

"This report took a long time because John Durham is a very thorough investigator," Trump said. "But the result is unequivocal and an absolute disaster in terms of justice."

Trump added that "the national security implications of what they did are very grave."

"It turned out to be a giant and very dangerous hoax," he said, adding that he would have "further comment in the near future."

@RonFilipkowski
So, John Durham spent $7 million to get no convictions while exhaustively seeking to prove the Trump Russian pee tape was fake. Money well spent.

this is as brazen a lie as anything Maria Bartiromo has said on air -- and that's really saying something

Mike Rothschild (no relation) @rothschildmd wrote: Elected official says if arbitrary arrests aren't made because of a bogus report by a disgraced investigator, America should become some sort of monarchal dictatorship.

The Recount @therecount wrote: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) tries to sell the Durham FBI report about the Trump-Russia investigation as a smoking gun:

“If people don’t go to jail for this, the American people should just stand up and say, ‘Listen, enough’s enough. Let’s don’t have elections anymore.’”

Pwnallthethings
@Pwnallthethings@mastodon.social

Fully 294 pages into the 316-page #Durham review and then it just concedes that the predication of Cross Fire Hurricane was validly predicated because of the low standard required, as was independently confirmed by OIG, and that it could have been opened under any of several different justifications ¯\_(ツ)_/

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CNN Special counsel John Durham concludes FBI never should have launched full Trump-Russia probe

"Despite acknowledging the FBI had sufficient reason to open a preliminary assessment or at most a preliminary investigation..."

MSN Durham Report Finds FBI Did Not Have Enough 'Factual Evidence' to Investigate Trump 2016 Campaign

"After three years, the Barr-appointed special counsel concluded that, in his opinion, the "speed and manner" in which the FBI opened a full investigation was ill-advised and not based on the merit of evidence collected at that time." Speed and manner critisised, The fact that they launched an investigation was not.

ABC After 4-year probe, Durham report slams FBI for actions in 2016 Russia investigation

"While Durham does not appear to say outright that the FBI's Russia investigation should not have been launched,..."

CBS - Durham report finds FBI "failed to uphold its mission" in handling of Trump-Russia probe

"The special counsel said the FBI had an "obligation" to look at the allegations, but it did not perform full due diligence in opening the probe." That means the investigation should have been started.

The FBI opened the Crossfire Hurricane investigation as a full investigation “to determine whether individual(s) associated with the Trump campaign are witting of and/or coordinating activities with the Government of Russia.” As described in section III the standard for opening a full investigation is an articulable factual basis for the investigation that reasonably indicates that… “[a]n activity constituting a federal crime or a threat to the national security… is or may be occurring… and the investigation may obtain information relating to the activity.”



The information that the FBI learned in July 2016 was that a Trump campaign advisor had suggested to the Australian diplomats that the campaign “had received some kind of suggestion from Russia that it could assist” the campaign. The OIG Review found that the FBI met the requirements of the AGG Dom because the “articulable factual basis” standard for opening the investigation is a “low” one and the information from Australia, at least when considered along with what was known about Russia's efforts to interfere with the 2016 U.S. elections, met that standard. We are not confident, however, that this is the case. Our investigation gathered evidence that showed that a number of those closest to the investigation believed that the standard arguably had not been met. For example, both Supervisory Special Agent-1 and UK ALAT-1 described the predication for the investigation as thin. Even Strzok, who both drafted and approved the Opening EC said that “there's nothing to this, but we have to run it to ground.” Strzok' s view would seem to dictate the opening of the matter as an assessment or, at most, as a preliminary investigation.

Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 12:33 am Is there anyone believable who can do pushback on this crap? I just don’t get how they continue to lie about everything with no consequences