Steve Cohen told Durham his "reputation will be damaged, as everybody's reputation who gets involved with Donald Trump is damaged." After four years, thousands of employee hours and more than $6.5 million in taxpayer dollars, special counsel Durham failed to uncover any wrongdoing that Justice Department Inspector General Horowitz had not already found in 2019." "The Durham report is by itself a deeply flawed vessel. "Republicans have planned this hearing and constructed an entire false narrative around this work of special counsel Durham, in an effort to distract from the former president's legal troubles and mislead the American public," Nadler said. Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the committee, accused Durham of prolonging the investigation to "keep Donald Trump's talking points in the news." "Seven years of attacking Trump is scary enough, but what's more frightening, any one of us could be next."įor their part, Democrats heaped criticism on Durham about his nearly four-year investigation, which yielded three prosecutions, resulting in two acquittals and one conviction. "Nothing has changed and frankly they're never going to stop," Jordan said Wednesday. Jim Jordan, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, slammed the Russia investigation and Trump's recent indictment over classified documents - claiming they were both politically motivated. To the extent that somebody suggests otherwise - that's simply untrue and offensive." "At no time and in no sense did we act with a purpose to further partisan political ends. "My colleagues and I carried out our work in good faith, with integrity, and in the spirit of following the facts wherever they lead, without fear or favor," he said. Democrats, on the other hand, cast Durham's investigation as fruitless and a rehashing of talking points by former President Donald Trump.ĭurham repeatedly pushed back on assertions that politics motivated the investigation. Republican lawmakers claim Durham's report supports what they believe is the political weaponization of the federal government, specifically the FBI. The hearing, in effect, served as a stage for the proxy battle being fought between parties over claims of politicization. Special counsel John Durham, who investigated potential government wrongdoing in the early days of the Trump-Russia probe, defended his report in an often-contentious congressional hearing Wednesday.
Durham was tasked by former Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of the FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. Special Counsel John Durham testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
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