A federal judge on Saturday turned down a request from special counsel John Durham that essentially limits evidence and testimony from the Clinton campaign and Democratic National Committee that prosecutors can use against former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann.
It means that documents and testimony potentially could suggest that the Clinton campaign and Democrats coordinated to push since-discredited allegations that in 2016 then-presidential candidate Donald Trump or his allies had a secret backchannel between the Trump Tower and a Russian bank. The Democrats foisted that allegation, among others, in a bid to claim that Trump had ties with Russia, which became a narrative used by the mainstream media during much of his presidency.
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