A key source for the anti-Trump dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign has asked a federal judge to throw out charges filed against him after he allegedly lied to federal agents about where he got the information he fed the dossier’s author.
Igor Danchenko, a Russian national, says that the five false statement charges were improperly filed because he made statements that were “literally true.”
The charges stem from interviews in 2017 where Danchenko answered questions from FBI agents regarding the dossier.
According to charging documents, Danchenko said at one point that he had never communicated with a U.S.-based public relations expert—identified as longtime Clinton associate Charles Dolan—about any of the allegations in the dossier, but in reality Danchenko sourced at least one of the allegations from Dolan….