An FBI agent has testified in court that it was the bureau’s leaders who demanded an investigation of then-candidate Donald Trump into now-debunked claims of a link to a Russian bank even though the evidence was flimsy.
Just the News reveals that FBI agent Curtis Heide, the co-case agent on the investigation into the unfounded claims of a secret communications channel between the Trump Organization and the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank, testified this week the orders came from the top.
His testimony came in the trial of a lawyer who worked for the Hillary Clinton campaign at the time, Michael Sussmann. He’s accused of lying to the FBI for stating that he was bringing the allegations about Trump to the bureau of his own behalf, when he actually was working for the losing political campaign at the time.