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On the recordSeptember 23, 2021
last week, Special Counsel Durham indicted Michael Sussman, an attorney for the Hillary Clinton Presidential campaign. He was indicted for lying to the FBI. The indictment gives example after example of the Democratic Party's bag of dirty tricks. In September 2016, Sussman met with the FBI's general counsel, James Baker. At that meeting he provided information and data files that allegedly contained evidence of a secret communication between the Trump organization and the Russian bank Alfa Bank. The evidence, however, was fabricated. The allegations about the Trump organization being linked with a Russian bank--these were false. The email server at issue was neither owned nor operated by the Trump organization. But the lie in the indictment occurred when Sussmann allegedly told the FBI general counsel that he wasn't providing the information on any client's behalf. He repeated the same to another government agency. Those assertions were apparently false. He was working for the Hillary Clinton Presidential campaign. Now, interestingly, the indictment states that although Baker was allegedly unaware of the political affiliation of the information starting in April 2016, Sussmann represented the Democratic National Committee and regularly met with the FBI. According to the indictment, the FBI failed to connect the dots.…
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Chuck Grassley
Republican · Iowa

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