Democrats are terrified by what U.S. Attorney John Durham will put in his report, according to conservative commentator Dan Bongino.
Fox News host Sean Hannity had the former Secret Service agent and California Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, on his show Wednesday night, and they touched on Attorney General William Barr’s testimony the day before in which Barr refused to rule out releasing Durham’s report before Election Day.
Hannity mentioned that Democrats are “scared to death” of Durham’s criminal inquiry into the Russia investigation, a point Bongino drew out in his comments.
“There are three things we know now that are going to be really horrifying for the Democrats, OK?” he said.
“No. 1, we know that that January meeting happened, where we know Steele’s sources were garbage,” Bongino started. “January of 2017, so what Mueller was doing — we still have no idea.”
He was referring to British ex-spy Christopher Steele, whose unverified and flawed dossier was used by the FBI in its counterintelligence investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, and by special counsel Robert Mueller, who closed his investigation last year.
Bongino continued to discuss recent document disclosures that have further shredded the Russian collusion narrative that has hung over President Trump’s time in office.
“We know that the FBI interviewed the translator in that meeting with Don Trump Jr.,” he said, referring to notes about the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting. “The translator said, ‘No, Don Jr. is telling the truth, and I don’t even like Don Jr.’ That is what the translator in the meeting said. And we now know FBI notes from January of 2017 said, ‘Hey, all those media stories about Trump contacts with the Russians? Yea, yea, that’s all a load of b.s.‘”
Democrats are fretting that Durham’s report could amount to an “October surprise,” but Barr has insisted that the investigation will have no improper bearing on the election because it is not focused on either of the major candidates: Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden.
Barr and the Justice Department said they expect “developments” by summer’s end.
