{"id":1484841,"date":"2022-05-19T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484841"},"modified":"2022-05-19T18:01:13","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T22:01:13","slug":"former-fbi-official-testifies-in-durham-case-says-hes-confident-sussmann-denied-acting-on-behalf-of-client","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-fbi-official-testifies-in-durham-case-says-hes-confident-sussmann-denied-acting-on-behalf-of-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Former FBI Official Testifies In Durham Case, Says He\u2019s \u2018Confident\u2019 Sussmann Denied Acting On Behalf Of Client"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fformer-fbi-official-testifies-in-durham-case-says-hes-confident-sussmann-denied-acting-on-behalf-of-client%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=1484841&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--><p>Former FBI general counsel James Baker testified Thursday that he is \u201c100% confident\u201d former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann told him the tip he provided was not on behalf of any campaign or client.<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann, a Democratic lawyer with ties to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/14\/trump-clinton-fbi-russia-collusion-durham\/\">Hillary Clinton\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0presidential campaign, was charged last year by <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/06\/john-durham-hillary-clinton-disinformation-joe-biden-governance-board\/\">Durham<\/a>\u00a0with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/06\/john-durham-hillary-clinton-disinformation-joe-biden-governance-board\/\">lying<\/a> to the FBI during a 2016 meeting. The trial kicked off earlier this week, with Baker providing crucial testimony Thursday that could strengthen special counsel John Durham\u2019s case against Sussmann.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Sussmann] 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 \u2013 which he described as being connected to the Kremlin in Russia \u2013 and some part of the Trump Organization in the United States,\u201d Baker said on the stand Thursday, referencing the 2016 meeting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/19\/politics\/michael-sussmann-john-durham-mistrial-request\/index.html\">according<\/a> to CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Durham has accused Sussmann of providing the tip to the FBI while keeping secret his connection to Clinton\u2019s campaign, CNN reported. Durham\u2019s team previously laid out the argument that Sussmann tried to \u201ccreate an October surprise on the eve of the presidential election,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/lawandcrime.com\/russia-investigation\/durham-prosecutor-kicks-off-false-statement-trial-by-accusing-michael-sussmann-of-using-fbi-as-a-political-tool-for-democrats\/\">according<\/a> to Law and Crime.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7433403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7433403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Michael Sussmann departs the U.S. Federal Courthouse after opening arguments in his trial, where Special Counsel John Durham is prosecuting Sussmann on charges that he lied to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) while providing information about possible and later discredited allegations of communications between the 2016 presidential campaign of former U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia, in Washington, U.S. May 17, 2022. REUTERS\/Julia Nikhinson<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That \u201cOctober surprise,\u201d according to Durham\u2019s team, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/17\/look-leak-lie-john-durham-prosecutor-michael-sussmann\/\">involved<\/a> a three-step process dubbed \u201ca look, a leak and a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baker also suggested Thursday that he had no reason to distrust Sussmann at the time, given the two were friendly and he was \u201ca serious lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought he was coming to see me as a good citizen who had obtained some information,\u201d Baker said, according to CNN. \u201cKnowing Michael [Sussmann], I would think he would want to help the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann\u2019s defense lawyers have in the past sought to discredit Baker, describing his memory as being \u201cclear as mud,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s testimony followed a tumultuous morning for the case, with U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/19\/judge-denies-michael-sussmann-mistrial-request-john-durham-case\/\">denying<\/a>\u00a0the defense\u2019s motion for a mistrial to start off the day. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/14\/jim-jordan-democrats-trump-spying-durham-clinton-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018As Wrong As It Gets\u2019: Rep. Jim Jordan Calls Out Liberal Media And Democrats For Denying That Trump Was Spied On)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former FBI general counsel James Baker testified Thursday that he is \u201c100% confident\u201d former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann told him the tip he provided was not on behalf of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":1484859,"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-1484841","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\/1484841","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\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}