Igor Danchenko trial shows how much Mueller either didn't know or ignored for his Trump report: Turley

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The trial of Igor Danchenko shows how much previous Special Counsel Robert Mueller either failed to include in or did not know about for his own report in his investigation on Russia interference in the 2016 election, constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley told Fox News.

Turley made his observation Friday after Special Counsel John Durham rested his case and Judge Anthony Trenga threw out one count against Danchenko.

Attorneys for Danchenko  suggested they would not put forth a defense. Danchenko, a Russian national, pleaded not guilty last year to lying about the source of information that he provided to ex-MI6 Agent Christopher Steele for the much-discredited Trump-Russia dossier.The FBI paid Danchenko – the primary sub-source for Steele's dossier – more than $200,000 to serve as a confidential human source from 2017 to late 2020. "It's very alarming," Turley said of the instances of money changing hands and how knowingly unverified information was presented to the FISA court – on which the George W.

Bush-appointed Trenga also sits – to procure a warrant for then-Trump campaign aide Carter Page. "It is really breathtaking how much either Special Counsel Mueller did not know or chose not to put it into his report." "We have learned a lot from this special counsel (Durham), including how the Hillary Clinton campaign funded the Steele dossier, denied they were funding it [and how] they hid that funding through their attorney, Marc Elias, and they ultimately got false statements into the media," Turley added.