{"id":1953205,"date":"2023-06-21T15:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/discredited-democrats-attack-durham-to-deflect-from-their-own-tarnished-reputations\/"},"modified":"2023-06-21T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:32:08","slug":"discredited-democrats-attack-durham-to-deflect-from-their-own-tarnished-reputations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/discredited-democrats-attack-durham-to-deflect-from-their-own-tarnished-reputations\/","title":{"rendered":"Disgraced Dems target Durham to divert attention from their tarnished image."},"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\">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%2Fdiscredited-democrats-attack-durham-to-deflect-from-their-own-tarnished-reputations%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=1953205&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 class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Former Special Counsel John Durham Exposes DOJ&#8217;s Weaponization<\/h2>\n<p>In his first public remarks since the publication of the Durham report, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weeks-after-being-appointed-special-counsel-jack-smith-returns-to-u-s\/\" title=\"Weeks After Being Designated, Unique Counsel Jack Smith Returns to U.S.\">special counsel tasked<\/a> with investigating the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax testified before lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. After the conclusion of his three-and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/discredited-democrats-attack-durham-to-deflect-from-their-own-tarnished-reputations\/\" title=\"Disgraced Dems target Durham to divert attention from their tarnished image.\">-a-half-year probe<\/a>, Durham spoke about the failure of the FBI to properly vet sources behind allegations of collusion between former President Donald Trump and the Russian government presented in the Steele dossier. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/12\/even-after-offering-1m-fbi-never-got-corroboration-of-russia-dossier-they-used-to-spy-on-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">debunked dossier<\/a>, authored by former British intelligence official Christopher Steele and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/30\/election-watchdog-fines-clinton-campaign-for-lying-about-steele-dossier-in-finance-filings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">financed<\/a> by the DNC, became the foundational document that launched the FBI\u2019s Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Testifying with the calm and collected demeanor of a credible prosecutor, Durham made clear \u201cthere is not a single substantive piece of information in the [Steele] dossier that has ever been corroborated by the FBI or, to my knowledge, anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Durham said FBI agents even apologized to him \u201cfor the manner in which that [Crossfire Hurricane] investigation was undertaken.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durham also told lawmakers at the hearing that the FBI ignored evidence indicating former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planned to link Trump to Russia. The bureau, Durham said, failed to \u201capply the same standards to allegations it received about the Clinton and Trump campaigns,\u201d and refused to \u201csufficiently scrutinize information it received.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>California Rep. Ted Lieu\u2019s live reaction to the special counsel\u2019s testimony sums up how Democrats have come to embrace the weaponization of federal law enforcement against political opponents.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t actually know what we\u2019re doing here,\u201d Lieu said, before concluding \u201cThank goodness the FBI did\u201d conduct the Crossfire Hurricane investigation \u2014 despite the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/15\/bombshell-obama-admin-had-no-actual-evidence-of-collusion-by-trump-when-it-launched-crossfire-hurricane-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cascade<\/a> of evidence outlined in the Durham report revealing the Russia hoax to be nothing more than a partisan witch hunt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the same hearing, Tennessee Rep. Steve Cohen suggested Durham\u2019s character was compromised unless the long-time attorney would endorse the Democrats\u2019 zealous takeover of the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have a good reputation. You had a good reputation,\u201d Cohen said, \u201cbut the longer you hold on to Mr. Barr,\u201d he added, \u201cyour reputation will be damaged. \u2026 You will end up on the bottom of a pyre.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Durham dismissed the personal attack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect, and my family, and my Lord, and I\u2019m perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir,\u201d said Durham, whose response was met with applause in the room.<\/p>\n<p>When questioned by California Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democrats\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/20\/adam-schiff-is-an-emblem-of-institutional-decline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lead Russia hoaxer<\/a> who spoke more than any other member at Wednesday\u2019s hearing, Durham pointed out the representative\u2019s own history of soliciting dirt from foreign sources on political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff pressed Durham on a 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and a Russian lawyer, wherein Trump Jr. was expected to receive incriminating information on Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople get phone calls all the time from individuals who claim to have information like that,\u201d Durham said.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff was aghast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReally? The son of a presidential candidate gets calls all the time from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/durham-appears-to-squeeze-schiff-zinger-into-trump-russia-probe-testimony\/\" title=\"Durham's Testimony Suggests Schiff's Zinger in Trump-Russia Probe\">foreign government offering dirt<\/a> on their opponent?\u201d Schiff said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think this [situation] is unique in your experience,\u201d Durham noted.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Schiff became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/schiff-apparently-pranked-by-russian-radio-hosts-who-promised-naked-trump-photos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">target<\/a> of a prank by Russian radio hosts who posed as Ukranian politicians claiming to have nude photos of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Durham made clear on Wednesday that the special counsel\u2019s conclusions unearthed systemic issues in the bureaucracy that are \u201cnot susceptible to overnight fixes\u201d and require substantive \u201caccountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Special Counsel John Durham recently addressed lawmakers on the House Judiciary, dispelling doubts about the Department of Justice&#8217;s politicization by left-wing ideologues. His remarks, following the release of the Durham report, shed light on the investigation into the origins of the Russia-collusion hoax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1953206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[7885,3933,3689,24875,11773,19632,4650,29306],"class_list":["post-1953205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-attention","tag-dems","tag-disgraced","tag-divert","tag-durham","tag-image","tag-target","tag-tarnished"],"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\/1953205","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1953205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1953205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1953206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1953205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1953205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1953205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}