Jim Jordan: Hillary Clinton Spying on Trump 'Worse Than We Thought’
'President Trump was right'
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) weighed in on the explosive news that special counsel John Durham filed a motion in federal court alleging that Hillary Clinton operatives hired a contractor to spy on Donald Trump as a sitting president and candidate.
During FNC’s “Fox & Friends Weekend," Jordan backed Trump’s claim of being spied on from 2017.
Jordan declared, “it was worse than we thought.”
“President Trump was right,” Jordan stated.
“Remember back in 2017 when President Trump said, ‘They were spying on me,’ and the press and Democrats said they weren’t.”
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“And then in 2019, then-Attorney General Bill Barr said spying took place at the FBI on President Trump’s campaign, and everyone said, ‘No, no, no.’ Well, now we know for sure,” he said.
“Now we know 100%.”
“John Durham’s filing here, yep, there was spying going on, and it was worse than we thought because they were spying on the sitting President of the United States, and it goes right to the Clinton campaign,” Jordan added.
“So, God bless John Durham and his investigation,” he said.
“It’s taken a long time, but we’re getting to know what we all suspected,” he continued.
“The only thing we didn’t understand was it was worse than we thought.”
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As Neon Nettle reported over the weekend:
Durham filed a motion in federal court alleging that Hillary Clinton’s political allies spied on Donald Trump as a presidential candidate and as the president using cell phone data.
The motion was filed in the case of former Clinton Campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who was charged with lying to the FBI about whether he was working for the campaign after telling the FBI about the link between Trump and Russia, which turned out to be untrue.
Sussmann was a partner at Perkins Coie, which hired Fusion GPS to produce the false Russia “dossier” on Trump at the behest of the Clinton campaign.
Durham noted in the filing:
4. The Indictment also alleges that beginning in approximately July 2016, Tech Executive-1 had worked with the defendant, a U.S. investigative firm retained by Law Firm-1 on behalf of the Clinton Campaign, numerous cyber researchers, and employees at multiple Internet companies to assemble the purported data and white papers. In connection with these efforts, Tech Executive-1 exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data.
Tech Executive-1 also enlisted the assistance of researchers at a U.S.-based university who were receiving and analyzing large amounts of Internet data in connection with a pending federal government cybersecurity research contract. Tech Executive-1 tasked these researchers to mine Internet data to establish “an inference” and “narrative” tying then-candidate Trump to Russia. In doing so, Tech Executive-1 indicated that he was seeking to please certain “VIPs,” referring to individuals at Law Firm-1 and the Clinton Campaign.
5. The Government’s evidence at trial will also establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system (“DNS”) Internet traffic pertaining to (i) a particular healthcare provider, (ii) Trump Tower, (iii) Donald Trump’s Central Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States (“EOP”). (Tech Executive-1’s employer, Internet Company-1, had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP as part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP. Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.)
