Former President Donald Trump reacted to the release of special counsel John Durham‘s final report on his investigation into the FBI‘s probe into Trump’s alleged links to Russia.
Writing on the social media platform Truth Social, Trump touted the findings of the investigation, saying the American public had been “scammed” by people trying to undermine the United States.
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“WOW! After extensive research, Special Counsel John Durham concludes the FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia Probe! In other words, the American Public was scammed, just as it is being scammed right now by those who don’t want to see GREATNESS for AMERICA!” the former president wrote.
Though perhaps not reaching the heights that Trump and many Republicans had speculated, the report concluded that the FBI’s handling of the investigation was “seriously deficient,” and caused “severe reputational harm.”
Durham found that the Steele dossier, which triggered the Trump-Russia investigation, was deeply flawed and that the FBI was unable to corroborate “a single substantive allegation.” He added that the agency went through with the investigation despite “a complete lack of information from the Intelligence Community that corroborated the hypothesis upon which the … investigation was predicated.”
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Durham’s investigation was commissioned by Trump’s Attorney General, Bill Barr, in 2019. The findings of the four-year investigation corroborated some of Trump’s suspicions about the FBI’s Russian collusion investigation, specifically regarding political bias and a failure in judgment.
However, Durham’s report fell short of uncovering the “crime of the century,” as Trump speculated, and it did not recommend any criminal charges.
