{"id":1932490,"date":"2023-05-17T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T13:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932490"},"modified":"2023-05-17T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T13:58:14","slug":"durham-report-reveals-politicization-in-trump-russia-probe-ex-assistant-ag-jeff-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-report-reveals-politicization-in-trump-russia-probe-ex-assistant-ag-jeff-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham report reveals politicization in Trump-Russia probe: Ex-Assistant AG Jeff Clark."},"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\">22<\/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-report-reveals-politicization-in-trump-russia-probe-ex-assistant-ag-jeff-clark%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=1932490&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--><h2>Special Counsel Report Reveals Deeply Politicized FBI Investigation into Trump Campaign<\/h2>\n<p>Legal analyst Jeffrey Clark has stated that Special Counsel John Durham\u2019s report on the origins of the FBI\u2019s investigation into former President Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 campaign leaves little room for doubt that the investigative process was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disney-quietly-removes-anti-racism-training-from-website-after-insider-leaks-documents-to-reporter\/\" title=\"Disney Quietly Removes \u2018Anti-Racism\u2019 Training From Website After Insider Leaks Documents To Reporter\">deeply politicized<\/a>. Durham\u2019s 316-page report, published on Monday, concluded that FBI officials pursued the investigation into the Trump campaign, dubbed \u201cCrossfire Hurricane,\u201d without much analytical rigor and often with minimal concern for factual accuracy. The report also revealed that some of the FBI officials involved in the investigation had \u201cpronounced hostile feelings toward Trump,\u201d including Deputy Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Peter Strzok.<\/p>\n<h3>Obama and High-Ranking Officials Aware of Clinton Campaign Plan to Vilify Trump<\/h3>\n<p>The Durham report also revealed that former President Barack Obama and key high-ranking Justice Department and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/israeli-military-officials-unite-in-opposition-to-biden-admins-iran-deal\/\" title=\"Israeli Military Officials Unite in Opposition to Biden Admin\u2019s Iran Deal\">intelligence community officials<\/a> were aware that Hillary Clinton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">presidential campaign<\/a> was pursuing a plan \u201cto vilify Trump\u201d by tying him to the Russian government. Specifically, Obama was present at an Aug. 3, 2016, White House briefing with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, former FBI Director Jim Comey, and former CIA Director John Brennan. According to declassified notes Brennan took at the meeting, he briefed those in attendance about the Clinton campaign plan to smear Trump.<\/p>\n<h3>\u201cA Massive Politicization of the Process\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>Clark told NTD\u2019s \u201cCapitol Report\u201d host Steve Lance that the revelations in the Durham report amounted to \u201ca massive politicization of the process.\u201d Dr. Steven Allen, the vice chairman of the Conservative Caucus, described the report\u2019s findings in even starker terms, stating that \u201cThe FBI had tried a coup that ultimately really was successful because Trump would have been reelected if this had not happened.\u201d Allen noted communications between Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page, in which the pair described stopping Trump from becoming president and having an \u201cinsurance policy\u201d in the \u201cunlikely\u201d event that Trump did win the election.<\/p>\n<h3>Allegations of Collusion and Viral Acceptance<\/h3>\n<p>Allegations of collusion between Trump and the Russian government had served as a premise for Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate the Trump administration. That <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-report-reveals-politicization-in-trump-russia-probe-ex-assistant-ag-jeff-clark\/\" title=\"Durham report reveals politicization in Trump-Russia probe: Ex-Assistant AG Jeff Clark.\">special counsel investigation continued<\/a> through the first two years of Trump\u2019s four<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-fbi-raid-warrant-demanded-seizure-of-literally-any-record-trump-ever-saw-during-4-year-presidential-term\/\" title=\"BREAKING: FBI Raid Warrant Demanded Seizure Of Literally Any Record Trump Ever Saw During 4-Year Presidential Term\">-year presidential term<\/a>. Allen also noted that the claim that Trump had colluded with the Russian government was an idea that eventually gained viral acceptance, becoming the subject of regular news coverage, popular memes, and jokes by late-night TV hosts.<\/p>\n<h3>FBI Acknowledges Missteps<\/h3>\n<p>The FBI has acknowledged that it made \u201cmissteps\u201d in its investigation into the Trump campaign, but has stated that it has already corrected these errors. However, the revelations in the Durham report have led to calls for further investigation and accountability.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Legal analyst Jeffrey Clark has stated that the investigative process was deeply politicized.<\/li>\n<li>The Durham report revealed that FBI officials pursued the investigation into the Trump campaign without much analytical rigor and often with minimal concern for factual accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>The report also revealed that some of the FBI officials involved in the investigation had \u201cpronounced hostile feelings toward Trump.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Former President Barack Obama and key high-ranking Justice Department and intelligence community officials were aware that Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign was pursuing a plan \u201cto vilify Trump\u201d by tying him to the Russian government.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Steven Allen, the vice chairman of the Conservative Caucus, described the report\u2019s findings as \u201ca massive politicization of the process.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The FBI has acknowledged that it made \u201cmissteps\u201d in its investigation into the Trump campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>campaign with political motivations, says legal analyst Jeffrey Clark. The report by Special Counsel John Durham, released on Monday, provides strong evidence of politicization in the FBI&#8217;s investigative process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1932496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[25244,23453,11773,12707,4441,4083,3819,5114,4080],"class_list":["post-1932490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-politicization","tag-clark","tag-durham","tag-ex-assistant","tag-jeff","tag-probe","tag-report","tag-reveals","tag-trump-russia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932490","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\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}