{"id":1452978,"date":"2022-04-25T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1452978"},"modified":"2022-04-25T13:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T17:59:42","slug":"durham-ex-clinton-lawyer-sussman-part-of-joint-venture-to-help-clinton-campaign-smear-trump-with-russia-dirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-ex-clinton-lawyer-sussman-part-of-joint-venture-to-help-clinton-campaign-smear-trump-with-russia-dirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham: Ex-Clinton Lawyer Sussman Part of \u201cJoint Venture\u201d to Help Clinton Campaign Smear Trump With Russia Dirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdurham-ex-clinton-lawyer-sussman-part-of-joint-venture-to-help-clinton-campaign-smear-trump-with-russia-dirt%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1452978&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-03\/JohnDurhamDOJMug.jpg?h=a52b87b3&#038;itok=d5Y_0puU\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rejecting defense efforts to block evidence in an upcoming trial, Special Counsel John Durham says private attorney Michael Sussmann was part of a &#8220;joint venture&#8221; that aimed to help Hillary Clinton&#8217;s campaign by smearing Donald Trump with Russia dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Durham said in court filings submitted Saturday and made public Monday that the effort to tar Trump with the now-discredited allegations of a secret Kremlin computer channel at Alfa Bank began in June 2016, was &#8220;crystalized&#8221; two months later and involved tech executives, researchers and one of his law partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe parties agreed to conduct work in the hope that it would benefit the Clinton Campaign, namely, gathering and disseminating purportedly derogatory data regarding Trump and his associates\u2019 internet activities,\u201d Durham wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI, falsely claiming he wasn&#8217;t working for a client when he delivered the Alfa Bank allegations to the bureau&#8217;s chief counsel in September 2016. In fact, Durham alleges in the indictment, Sussmann was working for the campaign and a tech executive.<\/p>\n<p>Durham said in his new filing that \u201cTech Executive-1&#8243; and the \u201cOriginator-1\u201d &#8212; respectively Rodney Joffe and April Lorenzen of the information services firm Zetalytics &#8212; met with other researchers to discuss \u201csearching for and collecting derogatory internet data about the online activities of Donald Trump and his associates\u201d in June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Lorenzen \u201cassembled and shared initial purported data\u201d and then Joffe &#8220;shared the data\u201d with Sussmann,\u00a0Durham explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe joint venture continued and crystallized early in August 2016,\u201d when Sussmann, Joffe, Sussman&#8217;s law partner Marc Elias and members of the Clinton campaign met,\u00a0 the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evidence will show that as a result of these conversations and during this same time period, Tech Executive-1 did exactly that: he tasked employees from multiple Internet companies and a university working under a pending national security contract to mine and gather vast amounts of internet metadata in order to support an \u2018inference\u2019 and \u2018narrative\u2019 tying&#8221; Trump to Russia, Durham said.<\/p>\n<p>Durham said he plans to introduce evidence that some of the researchers who assisted the effort were also casting doubt on it, referring to some theories as &#8220;too obvious&#8221; or a &#8220;very weak link.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the full filing here.<\/p>\n<article class=\"align-center\">\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rejecting defense efforts to block evidence in an upcoming trial, Special Counsel John Durham says private attorney Michael Sussmann was part of a &#8220;joint venture&#8221; that aimed to help Hillary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1452978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1452978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}