‘I Hear There’s a Lot Coming’

Former President Donald Trump has heard that “there’s a lot coming” from the wide-ranging investigation led by Special Counsel John Durham, who’s probing the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign.

“I hear there’s a lot coming,” Trump instructed former prime aide Kash Patel on The Epoch Times’ “Kash’s Corner.” The interview will premiere at 8 p.m. Eastern on Feb. 7 on EpochTV.com.

“We’re gonna see what happens. But what he’s doing is one of the most important jobs being done right now in America.”

Attorney General William Barr assigned Durham on May 13, 2019, to research the origins of the FBI’s investigation of the Trump marketing campaign, codenamed Crossfire Hurricane. In October 2020, with the presidential election approaching, Barr designated Durham as a particular counsel to guard the legal investigation in case of a change of guard on the White House in 2021.

Durham secured the first responsible plea in August 2020, previous to his appointment as a particular counsel. Former FBI assistant basic counsel Kevin Clinesmith admitted to forging an electronic mail used to arrange an software to surveil former Trump marketing campaign international coverage adviser Carter Page. Clinesmith was sentenced to probation for a single cost of constructing false statements associated to the forgery.

In September and November final 12 months, Durham introduced indictments towards Russian nationwide Igor Danchenko, the first supply of the notorious Steele file, and towards Michael Sussman, the legal professional for the Clinton marketing campaign in 2016.

Trump has beforehand expressed frustration with the tempo of Durham’s investigation. In March final 12 months, he issued a assertion saying, “Where’s Durham? Is he a living, breathing human being? Will there ever be a Durham report?”

The former president instructed Epoch TV he nonetheless needs the investigation would transfer sooner.

“I wish it were faster,” Trump mentioned. “It is really the crime of the century and changed everything, including the election.”

Some of the earliest proof of misconduct within the Crossfire Hurricane investigation emerged in a report ready by the Republican-led House Intelligence Committee in early 2018.

After, an inside inquiry by the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (OIG) yielded two important studies. The first detailed a sample of intense political bias towards Trump by the important thing officers concerned within the Crossfire Hurricane probe. The second discovered 17 main errors within the FBI’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court functions to spy on Carter Page. The accountability for the errors ran to the highest of the chain of command on the FBI, based on the inspector basic, Michael Horowitz.

Horowitz finally concluded that, regardless of the errors, the FBI opened the investigation of the Trump marketing campaign on lawful grounds. Durham publicly disagreed with that discovering, issuing a formal assertion in December 2019 explaining that his investigation reached past the Department of Justice and its elements.

Recent court docket filings by Durham within the Sussman case present that Horowitz withheld very important proof from the particular counsel within the Sussman prosecution and the legal leak investigation of former FBI General Counsel James Baker. According to the filings, Horowitz’s workplace didn’t disclose that it was in possession of two of Baker’s cellphones.

The full unique interview will premiere on EpochTV.com at 8 p.m. Eastern on Feb. 7.

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Ivan has reported for The Epoch Times on a number of subjects since 2011.

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