Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is moving to intervene in a case brought by Special Counsel John Durham against Michael Sussmann, a lawyer who represented the campaign when he brought information alleging a link between Donald Trump and Russia in 2016.
At the time, Clinton was the Democrat presidential nominee and Trump was the Republican presidential nominee; Trump went on to win the election.
Federal prosecutors are seeking to compel Clinton’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and Fusion GPS, the operative firm they hired to conduct opposition research on Trump, to produce documents that the government may want to admit during the trial of Sussmann, who has been charged with lying to the FBI for allegedly claiming he was not bringing the derogatory information about Trump on behalf of a client.
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