An FBI agent said Tuesday that it took him and another agent “less than a day” to determine that the allegation that former President Donald Trump had ties to a Russian financial institution was false and pushed by Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Scott Hellman said “it took him and another agent less than a day to ascertain the data and ‘white papers’ on two thumb drives Sussmann gave Baker did not support the Trump-Alfa Bank ‘secret connection’ allegation.” Hellman took the stand on the first day of Sussman’s trial for allegedly lying to the FBI.
Sussman is on trial for telling FBI General Counsel James Baker
months before the 2016 election that he wasn’t working for “any client”
when he presented him with “white papers” and purported data that were
supposed to show Trump had a “covert communications channel” with
Russian-tied financial institution Alfa Bank. The indictment against him
states he was working for the Clinton campaign and Tech Executive-1,
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