Former President Donald Trump says he hasn’t heard a peep from special counsel John Durham as he wraps up his yearslong investigation into the origins and conduct of the Russia inquiry.
Conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt popped the question Thursday during a wide-ranging interview with the 45th president, who has long decried special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation as a “witch hunt” that targeted his allies and himself.
“I’ve never heard from Durham, never once. I never heard from him,” Trump said to Hewitt following inquiries about whether the former president has been contacted for an interview or if he knows anything about the special counsel’s progress.
This tracks with what former Rep. Trey Gowdy said on his podcast in May.
“There are people that were really, really high up in government. Like really high up in government in the last administration that I talked to in the last week, and they don’t have a clue,” the former federal prosecutor said.
Rep. Devin Nunes, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, often praises the investigation for lacking leaks, saying it’s a “good sign” Durham is running a “legitimate” operation.
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Still, Trump often asks, “Where’s Durham?” in a show of frustration stemming back to before the 2020 election, when he vented at then-Attorney General William Barr for not pushing Durham to produce a report or more indictments ahead of his faceoff against now-President Joe Biden.
During the entire investigation, Durham brought only one criminal charge against former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who admitted to altering an email about a Trump campaign aide under government surveillance. However, this month it was reported the federal prosecutor had presented evidence before a grand jury, a sign he is considering more criminal charges.
His team has interviewed some high-level officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan, but is now focused on low-level FBI agents. Durham, former U.S. attorney in Connecticut, is expected to deliver a lengthy report by the end of the summer. However, that deadline is likely to get pushed back, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Durham’s endeavor has long been criticized by Democrats and legal observers who claim the inquiry is meant to undercut Mueller’s investigation into alleged ties between the Trump 2016 campaign and Russia. Still, Trump and his allies have championed it as a means to root out corrupt officials out to settle political scores.
Mueller’s team was unable to find a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia. However, his report described 10 instances of possible obstruction of justice that Democrats seized on as a road map to impeachment. The investigation also led to several convictions and guilty pleas from Trump’s associates over charges unrelated to collusion with Russia.
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