The Clinton campaign lawyer who took sketchy allegations to the FBI ahead of the 2016 election maintained communication via text with an FBI official for years afterward, including sharing an Epoch Times article, newly published messages show.
The lawyer, Michael Sussmann, in September 2016 took claims about then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russia to then-FBI counsel James Baker.
Sussmann was later charged with lying to the FBI because he told the bureau he was not taking the information on behalf of a client when both he and his firm, Perkins Coie, later said he did act on behalf of a client.
In a Sept. 18, 2016, text, Sussmann wrote to Baker telling him he had something “time-sensitive (and sensitive)” to discuss and asked to meet the following day. “I’m coming on my own – not on behalf of a client or company – and want to help the Bureau,” Sussmann wrote….