WASHINGTON, DC — Former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann never told the FBI that the research company behind the infamous “Steele dossier” also drafted a “white paper” supporting a since-debunked theory about secret ties between Donald Trump and a Russian bank, the bureau’s former general counsel testified Friday.James Baker also told jurors he would have treated the white paper and other material Sussmann gave him in September 2016 much differently if he’d known that the Fusion GPS firm, then working for the Clinton campaign, was involved.During questioning at Sussmann’s trial in Washington, DC, federal court, Baker said the knowledge would have raised fears that “the FBI was being pulled into some type of political agenda — a political ploy” and would have led to “serious conversations” among the bureau’s top leadership about “what, if anything, to do with this material and how to handle it.”When asked by a member of special counsel John Durham’s team what difference it would have made if he knew Sussmann was also pressing a reporter to publish a story about the purported cyber back channel between a Trump Organization server and Russia’s Alfa Bank, Baker said he would have questioned Sussmann’s credibility.
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