A new legal filing alleges that Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign paid an internet company to "infiltrate" Trump Tower and White House servers to try and find information connecting Donald Trump and Russia.
Special Counsel John Durham, a Department of Justice prosecutor tasked with investigating the origins of the FBI's Russian probe, filed the motion on Friday.
The motion is related to potential conflicts of interests in connection with the case of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who has been charged with lying to the feds, Fox News reported.
The Trump Organization had been linked to a Kremlin-tied bank just two months before the 2016 election. The documents that connected the two were presented by Sussmann, who had allegedly told the FBI he was not working with Clinton when he did so.
Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to the charge of making a false statement to a federal agent, the New York Post reported. However, the motion filed by Durham on Friday tells a different story.
The motion alleges that Sussmann "had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1) at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign."
The motion also says that records show he "repeatedly billed the Clinton Campaign for his work on the Russian Bank-1 allegations." The bills involved an investigative firm, cyber researchers, a tech executive, and several employees at internet companies.
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The motion claimed that in 2017 Sussmann had given "an updated set of allegations" about then-President Trump and how he was connected to another government, Fox News reported.
One accusation from Sussmann claimed that "Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations," the motion said.
However, the motion by Durham reported his office found "no support of these allegations." It also claimed that Sussman had provided incomplete and skewed evidence to back the allegation.
The former president spoke out about the filing on Saturday via a statement, Fox News reported. In it, he said that he had been vindicated. He then said Sussmann's alleged crime "would have been punishable by death" in the past.
He added that the motion "provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia."
Trump then had some comparisons to throw out, claiming that this scandal was one of the biggest the nation had ever seen.
"This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution," Trump said in his statement.
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