Clinton Lawyers Deny Involvement With Dossier Source Danchenko

Hillary Clintons lawyers are denying any connection to British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s alleged main source Igor Danchenko following a lawsuit brought by former President Donald Trump in the lead-up to Danchenko’s October trial.

Trump filed a federal racketeering lawsuit contending a host of characters (including Clinton, members of her campaign, FBI leadership, Danchenko, and others) were part of a broad conspiracy to undermine his candidacy and presidency with false collusion claims, and Clinton sought to dismiss the suit late last week, in part by disputing any direct links between Danchenko and her campaign.

“Danchenko could not have conspired with the RICO Defendants,” Clinton’s lawyers said. “He does not know them. He has never met, communicated, or agreed with any of them about anything. This is why all of [Trump’s] allegations that Danchenko conspired with anyone are conclusory and factually baseless. … [Trump] can allege no specifics. There are none.”

ALLEGED DOSSIER SOURCE DANCHENKO FACES DURHAM TRIAL

Danchenko, a Russian-born lawyer, was charged in November by special counsel John Durham with five counts of making false statements to the FBI, which Durham says he made about information he provided to Steele for his discredited dossier.

According to Durham’s charges, Danchenko anonymously sourced what was a fabricated claim from longtime Bill and Hillary Clinton ally Chuck Dolan about Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s resignation. Durham claimed Dolan “actively campaigned and participated in calls and events as a volunteer” for Clinton’s 2016 campaign, and he spent years doing work for Russian businesses and Russia’s government, including in 2016. Durham has not charged Dolan or Clinton with wrongdoing. Dolan is discussed at length in the Danchenko indictment.

Danchenko has pleaded not guilty. He has lived and worked in the Washington, D.C., area for many years, and he allegedly relied upon a network of Russian contacts but undermined key collusion claims when interviewed by the FBI. The special counsel noted that “certain allegations” which Danchenko provided to Steele that appeared in the dossier “mirrored and/or reflected information that [Dolan] himself also had received through his own interactions with Russian nationals.”

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Trump’s lawsuit, filed in March and then amended in June, said the “RICO Defendants” (including Clinton, Danchenko, and others) “conspired” in a “scheme to manufacture and disseminate the Steele Dossier and Danchenko’s various false statements to law enforcement” to hurt Trump.

The Clinton attorneys argued Trump “conveniently overlooks” that the claim about Manafort provided to Danchenko by Dolan “was widely reported prior to when he alleges Danchenko received an email about it.” The Clinton legal filing contended that “just as the media’s reporting on the goings-on of the [Trump’s] political campaign was political speech protected by the First Amendment, so it would have been for any defendant.”

Robert Trout, who is at the same firm as Danchenko’s lawyers, represented the Clinton campaign ahead of the trial against Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who was found not guilty.


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