Trump is calling the situation 'worse than Watergate' but a former federal prosecutor told Newsweek that 'no one's going to be going after Hillary Clinton.'
that the document isn't the damning evidence conservatives are touting it to be.
"It's not the smoking gun that folks are saying that it is," said Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor and president of West Coast Trial Lawyers.The filing is centered on Michael Sussmann, a lawyer with ties to the Clinton campaign. Sussmann has been charged with a single count of lying to the FBI in 2016 when presenting it with documents that allegedly showed secret communications between the Trump campaign and a Russian bank.
Durham said Sussmann falsely said he wasn't working"for any client" at the time. Sussmann has disputed Durham's account and pleaded not guilty. The pretrial motion filed Friday asked the court to look into potential conflicts of interest with Sussmann's defense counsel Latham & Watkins LLP. The document also detailed a 2017 meeting in which Sussmann presented a federal agency with suspicious internet data purported to show Russian-made cellphones being used near the White House complex and Trump Tower.
Sussmann had received that information from a tech executive who accessed the domain name system, or DNS, data through his firm which maintained servers for the executive office of the president .
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