Special Counsel John Durham’s May 2023 report states that before FBI Headquarters received information from Australia on 28 July 2016 concerning comments reportedly made in a tavern on 6 May 2016 by George Papadopoulos, the government possessed no verified intelligence that Trump or the campaign was in a conspiracy or collaborative relationship with Russian officials. Durham wrote that neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appeared to have possessed actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the commencement of Crossfire Hurricane. That is Durham’s official finding about predication. It is not a criminal conviction of Alexander Downer.
Note the date layer: Durham used May 6 and a tavern; other reporting and Downer’s interviews use May 10 and the Kensington Wine Rooms. Horowitz wrote May 2016 without a day. This site does not flatten those into one calendar FACT.
Durham also wrote that no defensive briefing was provided to Trump or the campaign on the Australian information, and that the Bureau instead opened full investigations on Papadopoulos, Carter Page, Paul Manafort, and Michael Flynn. Those are Durham’s statements about FBI choices. They are not a finding that Downer ordered those openings.