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New Durham Filing: Clinton Campaign paid to 'infiltrate' Trump Tower, White House servers to link Trump to Russia
15 Feb 2022 7:17 pm
But legal analysts have told Newsweek that the document isn't the damning evidence conservatives are touting it to be.
"It's not the smoking gun that folks are saying that it is," said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers.
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Or as Nick Akerman, a former Watergate prosecutor, put it: "It's absolutely nonsense."
The filing is centered on Michael Sussmann, a lawyer with ties to the Clinton campaign. Sussmann has been charged with a single count of lying to the FBI in 2016 when presenting it with documents that allegedly showed secret communications between the Trump campaign and a Russian bank.
"It's not the smoking gun that folks are saying that it is," said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers.
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Or as Nick Akerman, a former Watergate prosecutor, put it: "It's absolutely nonsense."
The filing is centered on Michael Sussmann, a lawyer with ties to the Clinton campaign. Sussmann has been charged with a single count of lying to the FBI in 2016 when presenting it with documents that allegedly showed secret communications between the Trump campaign and a Russian bank.