Trump and his allies demand criminal action against Hillary Clinton’s campaign after John Durham said it funded spying on Trump Tower and the White House servers while Trump was president
- Hillary Clinton’s lawyers worked to ‘infiltrate’ Trump Tower, White House servers
- Claim was made in John Durham’s investigation which brought charges against an FBI attorney and a former Hilary Clinton campaign worker
- Donald Trump reacted furiously on Saturday, saying those involved were guilty of treason
- He also added that such behavior would previously have resulted in execution
- Durham was appointed by then-Attorney General William Barr to lead a review into the Russia investigation
- Trump’s most fervent supporters believe officials in the Obama administration looked to sabotage Trump’s candidacy in 2016 and later his presidency
- He said Durham’s investigation would reveal the truth, but lamented that the findings did not come before his 2020 presidential election loss
- Durham’s investigation brought charges against an FBI attorney and a former Hilary Clinton campaign worker
- It also led to the arrest of a Russian-born spy charged with lying to FBI agents
- Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation yielded no evidence of criminal conspiracy or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian officials
- After Mueller’s investigation, Barr appointed Durham to investigate origins of the FBI’s original Russia probe, which began in July 2016
Donald Trump has furiously accused Hillary Clinton’s election campaign of treason after a special counsel said her team had tried to spy on his White House servers in a bid to find ties to Russia to smear him with.
The former president unleashed a furious broadside on Saturday, claiming that Team Clinton’s behavior would once have merited execution, after Special Counsel John Durham made a court filing explaining the alleged hack.
