{"id":2237811,"date":"2024-05-05T16:45:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T20:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-docs-case-reeks-of-russia-collusion-probe-ratcliffe-says\/"},"modified":"2024-05-05T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T20:45:47","slug":"trump-docs-case-reeks-of-russia-collusion-probe-ratcliffe-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-docs-case-reeks-of-russia-collusion-probe-ratcliffe-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ratcliffe: Trump Docs Case Raises Suspicion of Russia Collusion"},"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\">18<\/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%2Ftrump-docs-case-reeks-of-russia-collusion-probe-ratcliffe-says%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=2237811&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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-questions-whether-biden-admin-suppressed-national-archive-statements-in-classified-documents-case\/\" title=\"House GOP Questions Whether Biden Admin Suppressed National Archive Statements in Classified Documents Case\">case involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/roger-stone-announces-he-will-sue-those-who-arrested-him-and-put-him-in-front-of-a-kangaroo-court\/\" title=\"Roger Stone Announces He Will Sue Those Who Arrested Him and Put Him In Front of a Kangaroo Court\">classified documents<\/a><\/a> against former President Donald Trump was likened to \u2062the FBI&#8217;s Russia collusion probe by ex-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. Ratcliffe mentioned similarities with \u2062the Crossfire Hurricane investigation during\u2064 an \u2063interview with Fox \u2064News&#8217;s\u200c Maria Bartiromo. There were implications of evidence tampering following revelations from special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s \u200cteam.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-asks-supreme-court-to-reject-trump-request-in-fbi-classified-documents-case\/\" title=\"DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Reject Trump Request in FBI Classified Documents Case\">classified documents case<\/a> against former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> \u201creeks\u201d of the FBI\u2019s infamous Russia collusion investigation, a top official in his administration said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Former Director of National Intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/john-ratcliffe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Ratcliffe<\/a> made the comparison to Crossfire Hurricane while speaking to Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo.<\/p>\n<p>Alluding to special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/05\/03\/mar-a-lago-trump-classified-documents-00156124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conceding<\/a> last week that documents seized by the FBI may have become jumbled despite previously saying otherwise, Ratcliffe suggested there was evidence tampering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat Jack Smith admitted in court this week was that, in his words, they mishandled the classified documents and misrepresented those to the court,\u201d Ratcliffe said during his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6352366664112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSunday Morning Futures\u201d appearance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe contended that prosecutors got \u201ccaught\u201d when Trump\u2019s lawyers and the other co-defendants raised the issue of scanned copies not matching up with the records of when they were taken from Mar-a-Lago in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Smith has \u201cabsolutely blown the chain of custody,\u201d Ratcliffe emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Ratcliffe went on to say the classified documents case \u201creeks of Crossfire Hurricane, when the Obama-Biden administration fabricated evidence before the FISA court, lied to the court about it to pursue Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to the FBI\u2019s use of an unverified dossier that raised allegations of collusion between Trump and Russia to obtain the authority to wiretap Carter Page, who served as an aide to Trumps\u2019 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd now we\u2019re seeing it again in this classified documents case. The judge could dismiss this case at any point in time, Maria,\u201d Ratcliffe said.<\/p>\n<p>He surmised the judge has not done so yet in order to let the public \u201csee just how this case is being prosecuted, how unfairly Donald Trump has been persecuted in this matter by Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges in the documents cases and three other criminal matters as he seeks re-election, similarly reacted to Smith\u2019s filing in Florida by claiming there was evidence tampering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese deeply Illegal actions by the Politicized \u2018Persecutors\u2019 mandate that this whole Witch Hunt be DROPPED IMMEDIATELY. END THE \u2018BOXES HOAXES.\u2019 MAGA2024!\u201d he said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/112379718145784478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post<\/a> to his Truth Social platform.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Intelligence Director John Ratcliffe likened the case of classified documents against ex-President Trump to the FBI&#8217;s Russia collusion probe. Ratcliffe drew parallels to the Crossfire Hurricane investigation during an interview with Fox News&#8217;s Maria Bartiromo, hinting at similarities with special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s team&#8217;s acknowledgment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2237813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1211871910-scaled-e1680453022166.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2023\/04\/GettyImages-1211871910-scaled-e1680453022166.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237811","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2237813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}