Durham claims Clinton campaign paid tech company to hack Trump residence and the White House, too

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If his claims prove true, the filing made yesterday by Special Counsel John Durham is the kind of material that produces a best-selling spy thriller. Durham’s court filing claims that Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid a tech company to hack into Donald Trump’s servers in his residence and in Trump Tower during the presidential campaign. The surveillance continued on into the White House when he became president.

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While everyone else is focused on Russia invading Ukraine, trying to find extra money in their budgets to pay for food and gas, and ignoring the Olympic coverage in protest of China’s genocide of religious minorities, Special Counsel John Durham pops up and says, “Hey, look at this!” Talk about it being out of the blue. You’d be like most Americans to have forgotten Durham is still investigating because the information is so rare coming out of his investigation. Not to mention that it happened on a Saturday.

Durham claims that he has evidence that an unnamed tech executive, referred to as “Tech Executive-1”, exploited an arrangement with the government to monitor Trump’s internet traffic at Trump Tower, at his Central Park West apartment, and continued with surveillance in the Trump White House. There is also surveillance alleged of an unnamed healthcare provider. From previous filings, it is assumed that Tech Executive-1 is Rodney Joffe. Joffe is an internet entrepreneur and data expert.

Let all that sink in for a minute. Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid for surveillance of Trump after he became president and was in the White House. Look, I put nothing past the Clintons. I’ve followed their careers since Bill was the governor of Arkansas and a rising star in Democrat politics. Their corruption is decades long and deep. However, even for them, spying on the President of the United States in the White House is shocking.

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“Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the [Executive Office of the President] for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump,” Mr. Durham writes.

We know that Michael Sussman, a cybersecurity lawyer, has been charged with making false statements to the FBI about a secret communication channel between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank. Those claims have been debunked. Sussman is a former federal prosecutor and former partner at the law firm Perkins Coie. Perkins Coie works closely with the DNC and Democrats. Sussman tried to share information with the FBI showing a link between the Trump Organization and Kremlin-connected Alfa Bank. That alleged link has been debunked. The whole Russiagate story was made up by Team Clinton and the media lapped it up.

According to the filing from Durham, the aim was to try and smear Trump by linking him to Russia, which had been accused of meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Durham’s filing also points to potential conflicts of interest for Sussman. Sussman originally claimed he was not working for a specific client when he presented his alleged findings of a connection between Trump and a Russian bank. Billing to the Clinton campaign by Sussman has been uncovered, though, which disproves his claim.

Durham’s motion that was filed on Friday looked a potential conflicts of interest with regards to former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. Sussman has pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The former chief investigator of the Trump-Russia probe for the House Intelligence Committee under Republican Devin Nunes, Kash Patel, said Friday’s filing ‘definitively showed the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia,’ reports Fox News.

‘Per Durham, this arrangement was put in motion in July of 2016, meaning the Hillary Clinton campaign and her lawyers masterminded the most intricate and coordinated conspiracy against Trump when he was both a candidate and later President of the United States while simultaneously perpetuating the bogus Steele Dossier hoax,’ Patel told Fox.

In Durham’s filing on Friday, he revealed how Sussman ‘had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1), named as Rodney Joffe, at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign.’

Sussman’s own ‘billing records’ show he ‘repeatedly billed the Clinton Campaign for his work on the Russian Bank-1 allegations.’

It also states how Sussman and the Tech Executive (Joffe) met to speak with another lawyer working as General Counsel to the Clinton campaign, who Fox identify as Marc Elias from Perkins Coie law firm.

The filing also reveals how Josse worked with Sussman at the instruction of the Clinton campaign to ‘assemble the purported data and white papers’ – essentially to gather information that would tie Trump to Russia.

Durham tells how Tech Executive-1 said he was trying to please certain ‘VIPs,’ which is said to have been a reference to the Clinton campaign.

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What a web the Clinton campaign wove, right? Trump claimed all along that he was being spied on. It looks as though he will be vindicated on this. He released a statement

‘Durham’s filing provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia.

‘This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution,’ Trump said.

‘In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death.

‘In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this,’ Trump added.

One claim by Sussman was that he had data from websites he said included Russian mobile phone companies. He claimed Trump and others around him were using “rare, Russian-made wireless phones” in the vicinity of the White House and other locations. Durham’s report shows this claim to be false. There isn’t anything unusual with looking up Russian cellphone companies.

‘The Special Counsel’s Office has identified no support for these allegations,’ Durham wrote noting the ‘lookups were far from rare in the United States.’

‘For example, the more complete data that Tech Executive-1 and his associates gathered–but did not provide to Agency 2–reflected that between approximately 2014 and 2017, there were a total of more than 3 million lookups of Russian Phone-Prover 1 IP addresses that originated with U.S.-based IP addresses,’ Durham stated.

‘Fewer than 1,000 of these lookups originated with IP addresses affiliated with Trump Tower.

Some of the lookups occurred as early as 2014 when the Obama administration was still at the White House.

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Durham’s investigation has passed its 1,000 day milestone. He works quietly and there has been an absence of leaks coming from his investigation that is rarely seen these days in Washington. Hillary’s name has been floated as a potential presidential candidate in 2024, as unlikely as I think that is, so this bombshell filing by Durham isn’t helpful to that idea. The real story is the level of corruption that can be traced back to Hillary’s campaign now and the fact that the FBI must have known about the phoniness of things like the Steele dossier all along and just turned a blind eye because of their hatred of Trump. Trump calls Durham’s latest findings treasonous behavior. Ironically, a young Hillary was a part of the Watergate hearings on Capitol Hill as a staffer. Rumor was at the time that she was fired from her position because of a lack of ethics. The Clintons have a long history and most of it isn’t good. That makes this kind of story seem believable. Even for Hillary Clinton, though, this filing is bad news.

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