Durham points out that a December NY Times 2017 article was false. The article with the false info is below.
"Durham highlights a Times report from December 2017, which claimed that in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump, 'made a startling revelation' to Australia's top diplomat in Britain.
Namely: 'Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton' and 'Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs Clinton'.
Yet the Australian diplomat in question - Alexander Downer - told the Durham probe that 'Papadopoulos made no mention of Clinton emails, dirt or any specific approach by the Russian government to the Trump campaign'.
In fact, Durham found the Papadopoulos information was so not 'startling' that agents immediately dismissed it.
But The NYT report was critical in triggering the FBI probe into Donald Trump's alleged collusion with Russia, which the Durham report has now found should never have been launched."
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/...-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html