H illary Clinton approved a plan devised by her campaign to falsely smear Donald Trump with claims of Russian collusion to distract from the email scandal that haunted Clinton during the 2016 election, newly declassified documents show.

Special counsel John Durham uncovered the information during a multi-year probe into intelligence activities during the 2016 election.

An annex to a report by the special counsel John H. Durham was the latest in a series of disclosures about the Russia inquiry, as the Trump team seeks to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files.