Meawhile, former President Donald Trump chimed in, responding to the bombshell testimony out of the trial of Michael Sussmann that Hillary Clinton herself approved the dissemination of inaccurate information, claiming a covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank to the media.
Trump explained to Fox News Digital that the whole Russia probe is "one of the greatest political scandals in history" and that he will "never" get his "reputation fully back."
Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook on Friday testified as part of the first criminal trial out of Special Counsel John Durham’s years-long investigation into the roots of the Trump-Russia probe, stating that Clinton approved and "agreed" to share the discredited data with the media.
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Former FBI General Counsel James Baker testified Thursday that the bureau investigated the data claiming a Trump connection to the Kremlin-linked bank and discovered that "there was nothing there."
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"This is one of the greatest political scandals in history," Trump explained to Fox News Saturday morning. "For three years, I had to fight her off and fight those crooked people off, and you’ll never get your reputation fully back."
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"Where do I get my reputation back?" Trump announced once more.
"I had to fight them off," Trump stated. "And if we had real leadership, instead of people like Mitch McConnell, they would do something about it. And guys like Bill Barr. They would have done something about it."
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Trump said that the law enforcement and intelligence community resources devoted to investigating him and members of his 2016 campaign distracted officials from what "could have been a real danger with Russia."
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The FBI, in July 2016, started a counterintelligence investigation into whether candidate Donald Trump and members of his campaign were colluding or coordinating with Russia to influence the 2016 campaign.
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That FBI investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, was handed off to Special Counsel Robert Mueller after Trump was elected. Mueller was appointed on May 17, 2017.
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After almost two years, Mueller’s probe yielded no proof of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials throughout the 2016 presidential election.
Durham was tapped in 2019, shortly after Mueller declared his conclusions, by Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the roots of the FBI’s original investigation into the Trump campaign, which led to the appointment of Mueller as special counsel.
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Mook, through cross-examination by government prosecutor Andrew DeFillippis, was questioned regarding the Clinton campaign’s understanding of the Alfa Bank accusations against Trump and whether they planned to release the data to the media.
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Mook announced he was first briefed about the Alfa Bank matter by campaign general counsel Marc Elias, who back then was a partner at law firm Perkins Coie.
Mook testified that he was told that the data had come from "people that had expertise in this sort of matter."
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