Special Counsel: Trump’s Meeting With Russian Delegation Is Not A Crime

Speaking to the House Judiciary Committee, special counsel John Durham stated that Trump did not “discuss Hillary Clinton” during the meeting, although he argued that there was “no illegal element” in Trump’s meeting with the Russians before the election. presidential of 2016.

Adam Schiff, a member of the California Democratic House of Representatives, accused Durham of downplaying the meeting with the Russian delegation at Trump Tower.

John Durham said that he would not prefer to hold such a meeting, but there was not enough evidence to constitute a criminal element in the meeting.

“We never, in any way, act with the intent to advance political or partisan causes,” the special counsel said in more than five hours of testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on details of his 306-page report on the Trump-Investigation. From Russia.

Maintaining his criticism in his report on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigation into the meeting between Trump and the Russian delegation, Durham also confirmed that there is “substantial evidence” of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

John Durham, who was appointed special counsel in 2019 during the Trump era to investigate the origins of the investigation into allegations that the Russian government influenced the 2016 US presidential election in favor of Trump, said in his final report, released on May 16. , that the FBI and the Justice Department are “important in law enforcement.” he concluded that they had failed in their duties.” (AA)