Charlie Kirk interviewed the former Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, where he hinted that there would be “more indictments coming,” beyond Michael Sussmann, the lawyer charged in the Durham Probe, for lying to the FBI in 2016 about the fake Russian collusion with Donald Trump.
Ratcliffe provided the “long” explanation, saying: “We had collected good intelligence indicating who was involved in the origins of the Russiagate hoax, if you will. That, in fact, it was the Hillary campaign that had started these fake Russian allegations, and that was incorporated in the CIA Director John Brennan’s notes, and so one of the first things that I did was I declassified those notes, and I shared that intelligence, and other intelligence with John Durham to allow him to get to the truth of ‘how did this all start, how did this investigation that became Crossfire Hurricane, that then became the Muller investigation,’ and continued on, really not just in an effort to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, but carried on throughout the Trump presidency. Who was responsible for all of that.”
Charlie Kirk talks to former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, who hints there will be “more indictments coming” from currently classified documentshttps://t.co/tU5f9SSvYy
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“I know I took the long way to get there,” he said apologetically, “I always felt that there were a lot of people responsible for what was a hoax perpetrated on the American public intending to mislead them about Donald Trump and relations with Russians that didn’t exist, and Michael Sussmann is just one of many people… all the way from other folks involved with the Clinton Campaign, to the DNC, to independent folks like Christopher Steele, to even folks within the FBI who perpetuated with what they knew would be a false narrative for some period of time.
“I expect there to be a lot more indictments coming from John Durran besides the ones that have trickled out so far, and that’s based upon documents… many of which are still not yet declassified.”
Kirk then asked about the five people involved with the Clinton campaign who took the Fifth Amendment, where Kirk noted that pleading the fifth does not indicate guilt.
“When five people who all take the fifth… What do you think the motivation is behind that? What do you think that speaks to? Is there anything to that, or are they trying to be extra careful,” he asked.
“Cases like this are difficult to prove. So I’m sure in some instances, someone would exercise the fifth because why help the prosecutor. These are the elements that he or she’s going to have to prove, and when it comes to me, there’s nothing there, so, the more I talk, the more trouble I get into. That may be the approach of some of the folks that John Durham wants to speak with.
“But there are other folks, Charlie, that very clearly have exercised their Fifth Amendment rights because their prior testimony jeopardizes them,” he said, providing the example of Bruce Orr, number 4 at the department of justice at the time, who was meeting with Christopher Steele, who testified under oath that he met with Glenn System at FusionGPS in August of 2016.
“Think about the time frame, several months before the election, he said ‘I met with Glen Simpson, and Glen Simpson handed me a thumb drive, and on that were aspects of the Steele Dossier.'”
“So that’s his sworn testimony… The problem for Glen Simpson at Fusion GPS—who was hired by the Clinton campaign… is that he had testified previously to the House Intelligence Committee that he never met Bruce Orr until some time after the election in November of 2016.
Watch Kirk’s full segment with John Ratcliffe on Rumble, by clicking here.
