John Durham might ‘punt’ until after 2020 election if investigation not done by summer’s end: Report

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U.S. Attorney John Durham may decide to wait until after the 2020 presidential election to make his conclusions public or to announce any criminal charges despite pressure to finish by the end of the summer, according to a new report.

Durham, who was picked by Attorney General William Barr last year to conduct an inquiry into the origins and conduct of the Trump-Russia investigation, may end up waiting until after November to reveal what he has found or to hand down indictments, according to sources cited by Fox News, who said the federal prosecutor from Connecticut is trying to wrap up his inquiry by the end of the summer but hasn’t yet finished multiple strands of the investigation.

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