Durham report: DeSantis iterates ‘need to clean house’ at federal agencies
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) reiterated his call for federal agencies to be overhauled after the release of the report from special counsel John Durham on Monday.
The Florida governor said the report, which looked into the origins and conduct of the FBI investigation regarding alleged ties between former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, “confirmed what we already knew” about the “false conspiracy theory” relating to Trump and Russia.
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“The Durham Report confirmed what we already knew: weaponized federal agencies manufactured a false conspiracy theory about Trump-Russia collusion,” DeSantis tweeted.
“It reminds us of the need to clean house at these agencies, as they’ve never been held accountable for this egregious abuse of power,” DeSantis added.
DeSantis previously served in the House from January 2013 until September 2018 before being inaugurated as the Sunshine State’s governor in January 2019. In the House, DeSantis was a critic of the Trump-Russia investigation. He called it a “goose chase” that was wasting time.
“The goose chase for Trump-Russia collusion took up valuable time and has unnecessarily politicized policy towards Russia. The net result is the undermining of our ability to confront Russia malevolence in a unified fashion,” DeSantis tweeted after the House Intelligence Committee found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
DeSantis’s call for federal agencies to clean house comes as the Florida governor is widely expected to announce a White House bid in the coming weeks. DeSantis’s chief rival in the GOP primary would be Trump if the Florida governor decides to run.
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The long-awaited report found there was no proper basis for the FBI and Justice Department to launch an investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Durham concluded in the report that “based on the evidence gathered in the multiple exhaustive and costly investigations of these matters,” including the special counsel’s own inquiry, “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.”
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