New Durham bombshell: FBI paid Russian accused of lying as a confidential informant against Trump

In a bombshell revelation, Special Prosecutor John Durham revealed Tuesday in court filings that the FBI paid a Russian businessman as a confidential human source in the investigation of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign even though it had prior concerns that businessman was tied to Moscow's intelligence services.

Durham persuaded the federal judge in the upcoming trial of Igor Danchenko to unseal a motion revealing that Danchenko, the primary source of the now-discredited Steele dossier, was paid by the FBI as a confidential human source for more than three years until the fall of 2020 when he was terminated for lying to agents.

Danchenko is charged with five counts of lying to the bureau during that relationship and faces trial next month in federal court …








https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/new-durham-bombshell-fbi-paid-russian-accused-lying









This to is a bombshell that is not truly a surprise to us on the right. All the crap the deep state fed us about Trump was supplied by a Russian agent with ties to the Kremlin. And now we know who really was colluding with the Russians.

 

What exactly is the "bombshell" of this report? The FBI had a paid informer? So what.....that's what they and police do. That the informer had alleged ties to Russian intelligence? Seems like that could be a good source to be paying. The fact that he lied? I'm shocked!! SHOCKED I SAY!!
The guy lied and he got caught......about time Durham came up with SOMETHING!!

 

Not really a "bombshell" since all this information was known back when the Judiciary Committee released a report on Danchenko back in July 2020.
But continue with your wailing claims of victimhood, it's the MAGA way.

 

Exactly...
Another "Bombshell" credited to John Solomon...
John Solomon (A Discredited Conspiracy Monger)...
in recent years he has been accused of magnifying small scandals, creating fake controversy, and advancing conspiracy theories

 

"Bombshell" equals "clickbait" in MAGA-speak.

 

COOL AND?

Why the Discredited Dossier Does Not Undercut the Russia Investigation

Donald J. Trump and his backers say revelations about the Steele dossier show the Russia investigation was a “hoax.” That is not what the facts indicate.

Mr. Trump and his supporters have long sought to use the flaws of the dossier to discredit the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election — and the nature of numerous links between Russia and the Trump campaign — as a “hoax.”

But the available evidence indicates that the dossier was largely tangential to the Russia investigation. Here is a look at the facts.

What was the Russia investigation?
It was a counterintelligence and criminal inquiry into the Russian operation to manipulate the 2016 presidential election by hacking and anonymously dumping Democratic emails and by spreading propaganda using fake accounts on American social media platforms. The scrutiny of Russia’s activities included examining the nature of links between Trump campaign associates and Russians to see if there was any coordination.

The F.B.I. launched the investigation in July 2016, and a special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, eventually took over. His March 2019 report detailed “numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign” and established that “the Russian government perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency and worked to secure that outcome, and that the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/01/us/trump-russia-investigation-dossier.html

 

Bombshell



JUNE 1, 2022

The Humiliation of John Durham
Hired by Bill Barr to investigate the Trump investigators, the prosecutor had little to show for his work even before his defeat in court yesterday.

John Durham, the special counsel appointed days before the 2020 election by Donald Trump’s attorney general William Barr, just lost the only trial he has brought to date in his long tenure. A Washington jury took only about six hours yesterday to acquit lawyer Michael Sussmann of making a false statement to the FBI.

....The moment he let Barr recruit him, Durham, a former U.S. attorney in Connecticut, risked ruining his once-strong professional reputation. That reputation is now in tatters. Durham first knifed it in December 2019, when he joined Barr in an unprecedented attack on the department’s own nonpartisan inspector general. The IG had just issued a 478-page report concluding that the Trump-Russia investigation began properly. Barr and Durham’s actions were widely criticized as inappropriate. William Webster, the revered former Republican director of the FBI and CIA, lambasted Barr’s conduct, saying it risked “inflicting enduring damage” on the FBI. Durham should have known better than to be used in that attack.

Then, in September 2020, Nora Dannehy, Durham’s respected and loyal aide, resigned from his team. She expressed concern about, in the words of the Hartford Courant, “pressure from Barr . . . to produce results before the election.”


Durham could have departed then, too, and saved himself further embarrassment. After all, the month before, Durham had obtained his one and only conviction, a guilty plea from then-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith for lying to investigators in June 2017.

Still, a low-level FBI agent’s lie, nearly a year after the Trump-Russia investigation began, did nothing to prove that the FBI had launched the investigation illegitimately.



https://www.thebulwark.com/the-humiliation-of-trump-backed-prosecutor-john-durham/

 

Yes....remember the Kraken Sidney Powell and Rudi were going to release? SFA eventuated.

Have a reminiscent point and giggle. Go to the 7.27 mark.

 

So….the Trump admin paid him too? Lol

 

Since when do republicans care if someone lies to the fbi??

 

He created the Trump Russia collusion background story the Hillary campaign was pushing out of whole cloth with not a shred of truth to it. The pee tape was pure fraud.

 

I guess you didn’t follow the link to read the whole investigative report…

 

So why did the trump keep paying him for 3 years?

 

“The prosecutor argued the new evidence would show a pattern and how Danchenko's deception led to false narratives in the Steele dossier and the news media, including the salacious and untrue allegation that Trump had consorted with prostitutes in Moscow.

Durham plans to show the jury evidence that Danchenko made "uncharged false statements to the FBI regarding his purported receipt of information reflecting Donald's Trump's alleged salacious sexual activity at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Moscow,"”


https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/new-durham-bombshell-fbi-paid-russian-accused-lying

 

So he lied to the fbi, why didn’t trump pardon him like he did SO many other people who did the same thing?
And why did the Trump admin keeping paying him until 2020??

 

And you clicked on it.......lol!

 

It’s a little different when the FBI is paying them to KNOWINGLY lie to the FBI.

And isn’t this the same FBI y’all are saying we need to trust isn’t targeting Trump unconstitutionally AGAIN?

 

Did you miss the fact that he was a source on the Russian dossier. Your right he did lie and I’m glad you admit it.

 

This shouldn't surprise us at all. The FBI is a liberal hack organization that has failed the American people over and over again.

 

AHHH, there it is. The unsubstantiated allegation projection that the FBI paid the guy to lie.
Tell me: Why PAY the guy to lie.......why not just make the crap up and say he said it.

 

No, I didn't miss that and don't know why you think I did. Now that that's out of the way.............so what??

 

Lol because if you didn’t he’d just come out and say “I never wrote that”

 

The left responding in this thread would give Putin himself a pass as long as he damaged Trump. It's everything wrong with politics today. Bottom line Hils campaign started a rumor, the fbi help push the rumor and hired this dude from russian intelligence that helped falsify russian rumor to begin with. Our government was paying this guy for god's sake. Trump fought back hard against these rumors and he became the villain number 1 to the left for fighting back. It's quiet a tale of deception and collusion with Russians just not from Trump. The left wanted an arrest for Russian collusion, well they have it and I bet they end up not carrying about Russian collusion to help change an election after all.

 

So why did the trump admin keep paying him for 3 years?

 

Good point. There was collusion with the regime in Russia, it’s just that it was Hillary, her campaign, and the deep state doing it, not Trump or his campaign