Former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook has testified in the trial of Michael Sussmann that Hillary Clinton "Agreed to" a plan to take unsubstantiated allegations that Trump Tower was engaged in secret, back-channel communications with the Moscow-based Alfa Bank to the press, but not to the FBI. Sussmann, a former Perkins Coie lawyer who represented the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, is accused of lying to the FBI about who he represented, telling FBI Counsel James Baker that he was acting as a concerned citizen when he brought data purporting to show the connection between former President Donald Trump and Russia.
Sussmann is the person who brought the Alfa Bank connection to the Clinton campaign in the first place, who then approved it for distribution to the press, according to Christopher Steele, the former British spy hired by Fusion GPS who was hired by the Clinton campaign and the DNC in June 2016 who falsely alleged candidate Trump was a bought and paid for Russian agent.
In 2020, Steele stated in a defamation trial brought by Alfa Bank that the source of the Alfa Bank allegations as it related to his own reporting was none other than Sussmann: "I'm very clear is that the first person that ever mentioned the Trump server issue, Alfa server issue, was Mr. Sussmann." Steele said the meeting occurred on July 29, 2016.
If Sussmann was just acting as a good citizen by bring the Alfa Bank allegations to the FBI - and it was not a Clinton campaign work product - then why was it brought to Steele months earlier in July 2016, who similarly was acting on behalf of the Clinton campaign? Why didn't Sussmann go to the FBI first?
The Clinton campaign was upset that their candidate, Clinton, had an FBI investigation into her private email server that was illegally storing classified information, and that the Trump campaign didn't have an FBI investigation of its own to hamper its campaign.
It's exactly the case that Durham is making to jurors in the Sussmann case, stating, "You will see that when the reporter didn't publish this story right away, the defendant and others decided to bring this information to the FBI and to create a sense of urgency, to also tell the FBI that a major news organization was running a story within days. That's when the defendant requested the meeting with the FBI general counsel and told him that he was not doing this for any client."
At the end of the day, did Clinton even need to tell her team to get this fake story into the FBI? By the time there was a discussion in the campaign about getting the story to the press in Sept. or Oct. 2016, her opposition research team via Steele and eventually Sussmann had already been talking to the FBI for months.
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