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A surprisingly large share of Democrats wants to see Hillary Clinton investigated over her possible role in manufacturing dirt to try to tie Donald Trump to the Kremlin, a new poll shows.
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The survey, conducted by TechnoMetrica Institute of Policy and Politics in New Jersey last month, polled 1,308 Americans about the mushrooming investigation by Special Counsel John Durham into the FBIxe2x80x99s probe of Trumpxe2x80x99s alleged links to Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign.
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Nearly three out of four of those polled who are following the story said they think itxe2x80x99s important prosecutors investigate Clinton for her role in the Russiagate scandal along with her top campaign advisers.
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That includes two-thirds xe2x80x94 or 66 percent xe2x80x94 of the Democrats polled who said they have been keeping up with the case.
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Thatxe2x80x99s up 20 points from this past October, when TIPP asked the same question of a national panel, and indicates the Durham probe may be turning Democratic opinion regarding Clinton and the controversy.
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Meanwhile, 91 percent of Republicans in the same group and 65 percent of Independents also called for Clinton to specifically be investigated.
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Durham has already charged Clinton campaign subcontractor Igor Danchenko for allegedly lying about the sourcing behind the debunked so-called Steele dossier he helped compile, which attempted to frame Trump as a Kremlin agent.
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Danchenko, a former Brookings Institution analyst, completely fabricated the source for the dossierxe2x80x99s most explosive allegations, according to the indictment. It turns out he also allegedly used a Clinton campaign adviser as another key source for other dirt he gathered. Danchenko was arrested in October and has pleaded not guilty.
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Michael Sussmann, the former law partner of Clinton campaign general counsel Mark Elias, was indicted in September for allegedly lying about his work for the Clinton campaign on a scheme linking Trump to a Russian bank. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty.
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As part of the probe involving Sussmann, Durham said in a legal filing Friday that he discovered Clintonxe2x80x99s 2016 presidential campaign paid a Web firm to xe2x80x9cinfiltratexe2x80x99xe2x80x99 servers at Trump Towers and the White House to try to tie Trump to Russia.
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Meanwhile, the new poll found that Americans want greater scrutiny of the Biden family, too.
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More than two-thirds, or 68 percent, of respondents said they think itxe2x80x99s important that the presidentxe2x80x99s son, Hunter Biden, and brother Jimmy Biden are walled off from any business involving the administration. That includes communicating with the president and his aides about policy proposals or taking any government jobs or contracts, the majority told pollsters.
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An equal share of Democrats and Republicans xe2x80x94 71 percent xe2x80x94 agreed that the presidentxe2x80x99s relatives should be kept at armxe2x80x99s length, the poll found.
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Last year, Hunter revealed that he is under federal investigation for possible tax fraud. He has insisted hexe2x80x99s handled his xe2x80x9caffairs legally and appropriatelyxe2x80x9d and has no plans to strike a plea deal.
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It was recently revealed that Delawarexe2x80x99s US Attorney, David Weiss, a Trump appointee, has issued subpoenas for bank records involving Hunter, his uncle Jimmy, and former business partners Devon Archer and Eric Schwerin.
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The same poll found that 46 percent of Americans think the mainstream media have done a fair to poor job covering Biden and his familyxe2x80x99s alleged influence-peddling and other corruption.
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A majority of Republicans, 69 percent, and Independents, 54 percent, give the media poor grades. In contrast, 53 percent of Democrats think the media are doing a good job covering allegations of Biden graft.
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Among other key findings: 76 percent of Americans want Attorney General Merrick Garlandxe2x80x99s counsel Maggie Goodlander to recuse herself from the Durham probe because of a potential personal conflict posed by her husband, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, who is cited in the Sussmann indictment.
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Eight-two percent of Republicans and 79 percent of Democrats agree.
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xe2x80x9cThey understand that she canxe2x80x99t be involved in matters related to the probe since her husband played an active role in Hillary Clintonxe2x80x99s campaign,xe2x80x9d said Raghavan Mayur of TIPP.
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Michael_Novakhov shared this story from  Eyes turn to Hillary Clinton, not Trump in the Russiagate scandal.
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So there you have it.xc2xa0
Russiagate, the collective delusion that Donald Trump was secretly a Russian agent aided and abetted by the Kremlin, the topic of uncountable inches of Washington Post and New York Times copy and the entire prime-time lineup of MSNBC, was a dirty trick by the Hillary Clinton campaign. Not just part of it. All of it. One of the most diabolical, successful misinformation campaigns ever concocted.xc2xa0
We already knew that the Steele dossier was garbage. Christopher Steele was paid indirectly by the Clinton campaign to dig up dirt, which he did by turning to other Clinton operatives, laundering every outlandish rumor about Trump he could find into an xe2x80x9cinvestigativexe2x80x9d document.xc2xa0
He shopped it to the FBI, which couldnxe2x80x99t verify his sources or any of his stories, but the agency dragged out the investigation to cast maximum suspicion on the new president. In the meantime, Steele found willing accomplices in the media to push his propaganda. The dupes at BuzzFeed even decided to print the whole pack of lies, with the flimsy rationale of xe2x80x9cWell, why not?xe2x80x9dxc2xa0
We got to the point where New York magazine was running a cover story that was one long piece of fan fiction that Trump was secretly a real-life version of xe2x80x9cThe Americans,xe2x80x9d a sleeper agent now seated in the highest office in the land. The Times and Washington Post won a freaking Pulitzer!xc2xa0
A made-up storyxc2xa0
Now another piece of Russia, Russia, Russia is kaputski. A computer server operated by Trumpxe2x80x99s company was secretly communicating with a Russian firm, so claimed Slate magazine and endless Twitter threads of would-be tech experts.xc2xa0
But as special counsel John Durham outlines in his latest indictment, that was just a story made up by tech executive Rodney Joffe, who desperately wanted a job with the Clinton administration. He hacked Trumpxe2x80x99s servers, cherry-picked privileged Internet data he had access to, and molded it to look like something nefarious.xc2xa0
He was coached by lawyer Michael Sussmann xe2x80x94 who was being paid by the Clinton administration, although he lied about that to investigators. Sussmann goes to the FBI as a xe2x80x9cconcerned citizenxe2x80x9d xe2x80x94 not a xe2x80x9cClinton stoogexe2x80x9d xe2x80x94 to try to get them to bite. The ultimate goal: be able to leak to the Times that Trump is under official investigation.xc2xa0
Durham xe2x80x9cdefinitely showed that the Hillary Clinton campaign directly funded and ordered its lawyers at Perkins Coie to orchestrate a criminal enterprise to fabricate a connection between President Trump and Russia,xe2x80x9d says Kash Patel, the former chief investigator for the House Intelligence Committee.xc2xa0
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Of course, Hillary didnxe2x80x99t get what she wanted xe2x80x94 the presidency. But her operatives didnxe2x80x99t stop, going on CNN to give xe2x80x9cvery concernedxe2x80x9d interviews about a theory they knew was bull. All to undermine Trumpxe2x80x99s presidency. It would take three years for the Mueller report to finally put the lie to rest, and wexe2x80x99re now, five years out, at the point where Durham is detailing the full conspiracy.xc2xa0
If this had happened to a Democrat, the press would be losing its mind. A candidate for president weaponized the nationxe2x80x99s Justice Department to pursue an investigation into their political opponent based on what they knew were lies. Americans were wiretapped! Some were entrapped for flimsy claims of perjury. The director of the FBI went into the Oval Office to tell the president that there was a sexual rumor floating around, so that it could be promptly leaked to the media. Outrageous doesnxe2x80x99t cover it. And still no shame from Hillary Clinton and her supporters, because itxe2x80x99s Donald Trump xe2x80x94 anything is fair game to take him down.xc2xa0
All these things wexe2x80x99ve been lectured about over the past four years: Norms being broken, Internet misinformation, perversion of government xe2x80x94 it was all happening. It was the Democrats who were doing it. Think anyone in the left-wing media will notice?
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