Special Counsel John Durham's report on the FBI's Trump-Russia probe did not produce evidence of major conspiracy as the former president and his allies hoped.
Some legal and political experts have argued that the Mueller investigation—which took over the FBI probe—did justify the agency examining alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 elections. They suggested that Trump does not stand fully exonerated.
Thomas Gift, an associate professor who heads the Center on U.S. Politics at University College London, U.K., told"Experts will get into the technical semantics of what the Durham report means legally, and there's no doubt some have read between the lines in asserting that it 'exonerates' Trump or 'proves' the FBI was on a 'witch-hunt.' In fact, the document does neither.
"The accusations contained in the report will be spun that way because they do articulate an ostensible bias in how prosecutors pursued evidence of foreign influence on the Trump and Clinton campaigns. That alone is enough for Trump to muddy the waters, and to give him the political ammunition to say that he was the victim of a 'deep state' engaged in a partisan hit job."
Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman tweeted:"There really is no precedent for the Durham report. Mueller's long report explained precisely his reasons for his prosecutorial decisions. Durham just recycles old cavils about the launching of the Russia investigation that have zero connection to any alleged crime. It's bogus,"
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