No evidence has emerged that the informant acted improperly when the F.B.I. In one interview, Giuliani claimed there were two informants, but he also acknowledged uncertainty as to whether there were any, as the Times quotes him: "I don’t know for sure, nor does the president, if there really was one."Īs for the claim that it is "bigger than Watergate," the article notes some distinctions: We do not know if there were other sources not mentioned here. There is no evidence the informant discussed here was a member of the campaign staff, an advisor, or otherwise inside the organization in any way other than talking to individuals (individuals the administration has attempted to distance itself from at that). It appears that this informant was an outsider who asked individuals for information, as opposed to someone who became a part of the campaign. He also met and exchanged emails with Page.īased on this reporting, there is no evidence that the informant everyone is presently discussing was "embedded" in the campaign. The informant paid Papadopoulos to write a research paper and met with him and his assistant to press for information related to the investigation. The article tells us (with an unusual amount of detail for identifying a source intended to be kept confidential) that the informant is "an American academic who teaches in Britain" who engaged with George Papadopoulos and Carter Page (and had some prior contacts with Michael Flynn) as part of an FBI national security investigation. Used Informant to Investigate Russia Ties to Campaign, Not to Spy, as Trump Claims. Update: The New York Times published an article on this so detailed that it seems to supplant all previous information about this informant, at least pending further information: F.B.I. Simpson also later clarified that this is indeed what he meant. “It was someone like us who decided to pick up the phone and report something.” I think it was a voluntary source, someone who was concerned about the same concerns we had,” Simpson explained. Further quotes which McCarthy omits point to this as well: To me, this doesn't sound like an embedded informant, but like a leak. He did not try to retract it until the uproar that followed the publication of his testimony on January 9, 2018.Įssentially, what told me was had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing, and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump campaign. Simpson gave his testimony about the FBI’s human source at a closed Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on August 22, 2017. Something tells me the co-founder of Fusion GPS was dead-on accurate when he testified that Christopher Steele told him the FBI had a “human source” - i.e., a spy - inside the Trump campaign as the 2016 presidential race headed into its stretch run. They go on quoting an article by McCarthy: This Fox News article goes into more depth about what exactly is claimed:Ī new New York Times report stated that the investigation into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia began in the summer of 2016 and was code-named Crossfire Hurricane.īrian Kilmeade noted that the report "buried the lead," stating that "at least one government informant met several times" with Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. Trump's source is this Fox News segment in which Andew McCarthy makes the claim. There is no evidence that there ever was an embedded FBI informant in the Trump campaign. Tl dr: The claim is based on a misrepresentation or misinterpretation of testimony by a co-founder of Fusion GPS. Is there any concrete evidence that such a thing did happen? These tweets have been reported by the media, e.g. If true - all time biggest political scandal! 6:50 AM. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a “hot” Fake News story. Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. This has never been done before and by any means necessary, they are out to frame Donald Trump for crimes he didn’t commit.” David Asman Really bad stuff! 3:24 AM. “Apparently the DOJ put a Spy in the Trump Campaign. Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI “SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN EMBEDDED INFORMANT.” Andrew McCarthy says, “There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.” If so, this is bigger than Watergate! 5:45 AM. Donald Trump has tweeted allegations of the US's Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) planting spies in his 2016 presidential campaign:
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