Durham Report on FBI’s Investigation of 2016 Election | PBS NewsHour

Special counsel John Durham’s report of the FBI’s probe into the 2016 Donald Trump campaign was released to the public in May 2023. Durham was appointed by former Attorney General William Barr to look into what many on the right saw as a politically motivated witch hunt, but the report offered no significant new evidence to support those claims.

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