Former President Trump responded to a report on new court filings from Special Counsel John Durham that say that lawyers for Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign paid a tech company to “infiltrate” servers belonging to Trump Tower and the Trump White House in an effort to establish a “narrative” connecting President Trump to Russia.
Trump released a statement on the court filing through his Save America PAC.
“The latest pleading from Special Counsel John Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia,” Trump said. “This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution.”
“In a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death,” Trump continued. “In addition, reparations should be paid to those in our country who have been damaged by this.”
The Washington Examiner reports:
Durham’s filing Friday was a motion for the Washington, D.C., federal court to look into possible conflicts of interest related to the defense team of Michael Sussmann, an attorney who has been indicted in the special counsel’s investigation on the accusation that he lied to the FBI in a meeting about Trump and Russia by saying he was not representing any clients when he was acting on behalf of a technology executive and the Clinton campaign. Sussmann denies any wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty.
Trump and others argue there is a crime to be found in Durham saying in the filing that he is gathering evidence to show the technology executive, known to be former Neustar Senior Vice President Rodney Joffe, and his associates “exploited” internet traffic at the White House, Trump Tower, and other places to establish a narrative tying Trump to Russia.
However, neither Joffe nor members of the Clinton team have been charged with a crime in Durham’s investigation. Still, on Saturday, the former president said such a finding would have, at one point in history, been punishable by the death penalty.
“The latest pleading from Special Counsel John Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia,” Trump stated. “This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution.”
