Trump shares post saying John Durham indictments could come ‘this week’

The post, authored by “staff” and shared by Jarrett’s verified Twitter account, focused on a recent interview conducted by Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, during which investigative reporter John Solomon said “this week — the last couple weeks” — that “some criminal investigative activity” indicated there “could be a handful of indictments and much more information.”

Solomon, who recently founded the new outlet JustTheNews.com, issued on Wednesday a denial that he ever said indictments were imminent.

He became mired in controversy last year when his reporting on Ukraine for the Hill got swept up into the impeachment investigation and became subject to a review that found he “failed” to identify “important details about key Ukrainian sources.”

Attorney General William Barr picked Durham, the top federal prosecutor in Connecticut, to conduct a review of possible misconduct by federal law enforcement and intelligence officials during the Russia investigation. Durham is said to be focused on former CIA Director John Brennan.

Democrats have criticized Durham’s review, which reportedly was upgraded into a criminal investigation last year, as a politically motivated scheme to undermine the work of special counsel Robert Mueller and attack Trump’s perceived enemies. Republican allies of the president have championed Durham’s investigation and called for top officials, including former FBI Director James Comey, to face accountability for an alleged effort to undermine the president.

There have not yet been any confirmed reports or official statements about indictments in the investigation.

Trump retweeted other posts shared by Jarrett, who recently said Barr “tipped his hand” about potential indictments in Durham’s investigation during an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham, including one that said new evidence shows the Russia investigation was a “witch hunt.”

During the interview with Ingraham earlier this month, Barr argued that Trump had “every right” to be upset with the Russia investigation and talked about “a whole pattern of events while he was president to sabotage the presidency … or at least have the effect of sabotaging the presidency.”

“My own view is that the evidence shows that we’re not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness,” the attorney general said. “There is something far more troubling here, and we’re going to get to the bottom of it. And if people broke the law, and we can establish that with the evidence, they will be prosecuted.”

Trump called FBI leadership involved in the Russia investigation “human scum” during a coronavirus task force briefing over the weekend.