{"id":579,"date":"2023-05-16T06:36:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2023-05-16T06:37:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T12:37:32","slug":"durham-report-finds-trump-russia-hoax-was-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/durham-report-finds-trump-russia-hoax-was-a-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Durham Report Finds Trump-Russia Hoax was &#8211; a Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The John Durham Special Counsel report is out, and it confirms what we have said since 2016 &#8211; that the FBI colluded with the Hillary Clinton campaign in opening the &#8220;Trump-Russia&#8221; probe, which morphed into the Mueller Investigation after Donald Trump was elected President. This hoax was used by the biased Media to hinder and hamper Donald Trump&#8217;s Presidency for the first 2.5 years. They breathlessly reported every rumor and false accusation day after day, all to try and stop the Trump agenda. Durham has found the investigation never should have been opened. How sad this could happen in America. It&#8217;s ironic that Joe Biden and the Democrats &#8211; and their Media minions &#8211; constantly talk about Trump and the GOP not accepting the election results, when that is exactly what they did to Trump in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Special counsel&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/15\/politics\/who-is-john-durham-special-counsel-trump-russia\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">John Durham&nbsp;<\/a>concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump\u2019s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/15\/politics\/john-durham-report-fbi-trump-released\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report compiled over three years<\/a>&nbsp;by the Trump-administration appointee and released on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Durham\u2019s&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/15\/politics\/read-durham-report\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">300-plus page report&nbsp;<\/a>also states that the FBI used \u201craw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence,\u201d to launch the \u201cCrossfire Hurricane\u201d investigation into Trump and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/europe\/russia\" target=\"_blank\">Russia<\/a>&nbsp;but used a different standard when weighing concerns about alleged election interference regarding Hillary Clinton\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The special counsel, however, did not recommend any new charges against individuals or \u201cwholesale changes\u201d about how the FBI handles politically charged investigations, despite strongly criticizing the agency\u2019s behavior. . . . . <\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/15\/politics\/john-durham-report-fbi-trump-released\/index.html\">CNN<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John Durham Special Counsel report is out, and it confirms what we have said since 2016 &#8211; that the FBI colluded with the Hillary Clinton campaign in opening the &#8220;Trump-Russia&#8221; probe, which morphed into the Mueller Investigation after Donald Trump was elected President. This hoax was used by the biased Media to hinder and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132,154,155,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cnn","category-durham-report","category-john-durham","category-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}