Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has remained silent after the release of Special Counsel John Durham's report, which revealed significant missteps by the Department of Justice and FBI during the Trump-Russia investigation.
Pelosi's office has not responded to requests for comment regarding her reaction to the report, which found that "the Department and the FBI failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law" during the origins of the Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Pelosi's office has also declined to comment on whether she would retract any of her previous insinuations that Trump colluded with Russia and that the 2016 election was illegitimate. In July 2017, Pelosi responded to news of Donald Trump Jr.'s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer in Trump Tower by stating, "This week we saw cold hard evidence of the Trump campaign, indeed the Trump family, eagerly intending to collude, possibly, with Russia, a hostile foreign power, to influence American elections."
Pelosi also called on then-Speaker of the House Paul Ryan to establish a commission to "get to the bottom of the Trump campaign's role in Russias assault on our democracy." In May of the same year, she tweeted, "Our election was hijacked. There is no question."
In June 2020, Pelosi continued to push the collusion narrative by stating that "all roads lead to Putin" when it comes to President Donald Trump. Durham's investigation into the Trump collusion probe also revealed that "senior FBI personnel displayed a serious lack of analytical rigor towards the information that they received, especially information received from politically-affiliated persons and entities."
The report stated that "this information in part triggered and sustained Crossfire Hurricane and contributed to the subsequent need for Special Counsel [Robert] Muellers investigation. In particular, there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded [directly or indirectly] by Trump's political opponents."
The report also added that "the Department did not adequately examine or question these materials and the motivations of those providing them, even when at about the same time the Director of the FBI and others learned of significant and potentially contrary intelligence."
Trump has called for former FBI Director James Comey, who Pelosi called a "great man" in July 2016, and other Democrats involved in pushing Russian collusion to pay a "heavy price" in response to the Durham report. Pelosi's office has not responded to these comments.
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