Former Attorney General William Barr said on Tuesday that John Durham’s long-awaited report was “a success,” further indicating it has cleared former President Donald Trump of all wrongdoing “as far as Russiagate is concerned.”
The key takeaway of Durham’s 300-plus page report (pdf) published on Monday was that FBI agents pursued a full investigation—dubbed “Crossfire Hurricane”—without actual evidence supporting the alleged claims of coordination between his associates and Russia during Trump’s 2016 campaign.
During an interview on Fox News’s “Special Report” on May 16, Barr called the FBI’s investigation “one of the greatest injustices done to a presidential candidate and president,” designating the federal law enforcement agency’s probe as “an abomination.”…