pro-trump conspiracy theories. statements like the fbi s investigation of the trump campaign relied on certain things. well, there was never an fbi investigation of the trump campaign unless you listen to some kind of far extreme right commentators or folks in congress who assert that there was, but that s nonsense. the indictment makes a point to note that the fbi was unable to corroborate steele s reporting. at the same time it neglects to mention that we weren t able to disprove it either. as you look through there, these subtle one-sided portrayals of the facts that lay down a narrative that plays into the sort of prior assertions by president trump, by the prior administration, by his enablers in congress and the media that this is all somehow nonsense. that can t be that can t be unintentional in my opinion and it is concerning. i think it s seeking to lay out a false narrative about the entire effort of what the fbi and special counsel mueller did. peter strzok, former head
couldn t say. we treated it all accordingly. after trump became president, christopher steele was in hiding for a while, and then he stayed more or less off the radar for years. peter strzok and his colleagues at the fbi who pursued the counterintelligence investigation into president trump and his campaign, they were all fired or hounded out of their jobs. but then last month christopher steele popped up again. he did an hour-long interview special with abc news george stephanopoulos. in that interview christopher steele said he stood behind his work and said he believes nothing in those reports has been disproven. we ve all been wondering about the timing of that. why did he come out to publicly defend his work? well, now maybe this is it. today the special counsel that was appointed during the trump administration, the prosecutor tasked by trump s attorney general, bill barr, with investigating the russia
actors who were all democrats, who were making this stuff up, knowing that it was false and giving it to the fbi, knowing it was all made up just to basically implicate the fbi in a dirty trick against trump. that s the public portrayal, i believe, he s trying to paint about the russia investigation, at least these two elements of it, the steele dossier and the alfa bank allegations. am i right to read these in these sort of speaking indictments? is that also the way you see it? and do you feel like that overall allegation is fair for mr. durham? i agree with you. i think i m certainly concerned when i read these indictments, both mr. sussman s and mr. danchenko s. his indictment is 39 pages long. if you go through those 39 pages and pull out the facts that are relevant to the statements he s alleged t.o. made to the fbi, that s a much smaller subset. whether intentionally or not, when you look at the balance of those pages, they have several dog whistles to these kind of
to keep secret during the election. the special counsel appears to be trying to make that allegation about those computer contacts between the trump organization and alfa bank, he tried to appear to be making those allegations seem crazy and even criminal. but by charging somebody relatee heki to those allegations, somebody who brought those allegations to the fbi, what that indictment did is ended up dragging the initial allegation about trump back into the news where it has now gotten more attention and more of a live issue than it ham in years. a bit of a boomerang effect for them on that. now today in this new indictment it s against a researcher that was interviewed by the fbi multiple times in 2017. he s now been charged with making false statements during those 4-year-old fbi interviews. but, again, the indictment in this case tells a story beyond just the charges. the indictment in this case is 39 pages, and it s written well
personal attorney, his personal roger stone, personal fixer, and a large number of very significant people that were key and critical to the trump campaign and later to the administration. when i look at these two players, i see folks that were not involved in any of those cases. you know, robert mueller didn t rely on steele s information at all. the alfa bank information was looked at by the fbi and determined to be not didn t appear to be anything, we weren t quite sure what it was. and then finally with regard to mr. danchenko s information, it was relevant to carter page, but carter page made up about eight pages of an almost 500-page mueller report. so my worry is that as americans hear this news and don t really know how the russia investigation ended, they hear these concerns and they say, well, there must be a problem, and that s being picked up and amplified by people seizing on this to say, see, everything