Post mortem

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/webcontent/the-humiliation-of-trump-backed-prosecutor-john-durham/wc-39FC76B9C27F7D63209D12671AFEA8CA?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=98f6172ac9c6471683f8addf7cfabbcd

What’s more, the prosecution had Sussmann’s client-billing sheets. While he charged the Clinton campaign for “work on confidential project” the day he spoke to Baker, the billing entry did not mention the FBI. Previously, Sussmann had specifically billed other clients in other matters for “meeting with FBI” when he did so on their behalf.

Reasonable doubt screamed out.

From the start, Durham should have seen that such gaps in his own evidence made declination the better part of valor. As Sussmann’s lawyers said after his acquittal yesterday, Sussmann “should never have been charged in the first place. This is a case of extraordinary prosecutorial overreach.” Prosecutors know the danger of bringing weak §1001 indictments—deterring individuals from offering tips for fear of being prosecuted for lying if something turns out to be mistaken.

Prosecutors, that is, with no political ax to grind.

Shoddy decisions and the paucity of results characterize Durham’s whole tenure. Yet there are no signs that he intends to close up shop anytime soon. In fact, he has yet another case pending. Last November, Durham’s office indicted Igor Danchenko, an individual who contributed to the Steele Dossier, and particularly the infamous rumor of a Trump “pee tape.” Danchenko’s trial is scheduled to get underway this fall.

In Danchenko’s case, as in Sussmann’s, the indictment is not for any wrongdoing related to the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. Rather, it’s another case of a prosecution on §1001 charges of subsequently lying to investigators.

Maybe Durham will obtain a conviction in Danchenko’s case, and maybe that will give him a face-saving opportunity to pack up and skip town. But everything Durham has done to date has proved not the bang he was brought in to sound but rather a sad, inglorious whimper.

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HHusky

Sussman lied to the FBI

Not in dispute
pesky lack of evidence
Exactly what the Mueller investigation concluded.
Mueller convicted some guys. Remember? The guys Daddy had to pardon?
Nothing involving Russia or anything Trump was in any way, shape, or form involved in.

"What Trump Tower Moscow project?", cried the little retarded boy.

MikeDamone

Sussman lied to the FBI

Not in dispute
pesky lack of evidence
Exactly what the Mueller investigation concluded.
Mueller convicted some guys. Remember? The guys Daddy had to pardon?
Nothing involving Russia or anything Trump was in any way, shape, or form involved in.

"What Trump Tower Moscow project?", cried the little retarded boy.

Trump was exonerated, madam.

RaceBannon

Sussman lied to the FBI

Not in dispute
pesky lack of evidence
Exactly what the Mueller investigation concluded.
Mueller convicted some guys. Remember? The guys Daddy had to pardon?
Nothing involving Russia or anything Trump was in any way, shape, or form involved in.

"What Trump Tower Moscow project?", cried the little retarded boy.

How did the jury vote?

Dumbass

HHusky

Sussman lied to the FBI

Not in dispute
pesky lack of evidence
Exactly what the Mueller investigation concluded.
Mueller convicted some guys. Remember? The guys Daddy had to pardon?
Nothing involving Russia or anything Trump was in any way, shape, or form involved in.

"What Trump Tower Moscow project?", cried the little retarded boy.
How did the jury vote?

Dumbass

You didn't know Cohen went to prison?

SDCJR

And it had nothing to do with Trump.

HHusky

And it had nothing to do with Trump.

Daddy's public lie denying his Russian ties didn't make him vulnerable to Russian blackmail?

Interesting viewpoint in a you're really a dumbfuck sort of way.

MikeDamone

And it had nothing to do with Trump.
Daddy's public lie denying his Russian ties didn't make him vulnerable to Russian blackmail?

Interesting viewpoint in a you're really a dumbfuck sort of way.

Was he charged with blackmail? That’s what I thought, Adolph.

SFGbob

Sussman lied to the FBI

Not in dispute
pesky lack of evidence
Exactly what the Mueller investigation concluded.
Mueller convicted some guys. Remember? The guys Daddy had to pardon?
Over taxes? A shitty POS like Mueller will always go the easy route since he couldn't prove shit in the actual case. It's what shitty lefties like you do.
Bank fraud, tax fraud, lying to the FBI, lying to Congress, and more. You got one of them right. That's pretty good . . . for you.

And none of it had anything to do with colluding with the Russians.

SFGbob

Sussman lied to the FBI

Not in dispute
pesky lack of evidence
Exactly what the Mueller investigation concluded.
Mueller convicted some guys. Remember? The guys Daddy had to pardon?
Meh, lying to the investigators. No big deal is what I’m hearing.

My statement is correct. Trump exonerated.
Mueller was explicit on that point. How come we've never seen Damone and Butterball at the same time?

Since you're currently sucking Mueller cock, ask him why he never informed us that Hillary and the DNC paid for the Dossier and that Hillary was behind the bogus Alfa bank story? All that time investigating and the never uncovered any of that.

RaceBannon

Sussman lied to the FBI

Not in dispute
pesky lack of evidence
Exactly what the Mueller investigation concluded.
Mueller convicted some guys. Remember? The guys Daddy had to pardon?
Nothing involving Russia or anything Trump was in any way, shape, or form involved in.

"What Trump Tower Moscow project?", cried the little retarded boy.
How did the jury vote?

Dumbass
You didn't know Cohen went to prison?

The subject is Trump lady

Cohen was useless for the witch hunt

Too bad girl

HHusky

And it had nothing to do with Trump.
Daddy's public lie denying his Russian ties didn't make him vulnerable to Russian blackmail?

Interesting viewpoint in a you're really a dumbfuck sort of way.
Was he charged with blackmail? That’s what I thought, Adolph.

No one is charging him for making himself vulnerable to Russian blackmail. He lied, but not under oath. Cohen repeated the lie under oath.

Your claim was that it was a big fat nothing. That's retarded, of course. Having retreated to this new position, I agree with you that Daddy's lies to the public weren't felonies.

Sledog

And it had nothing to do with Trump.
Daddy's public lie denying his Russian ties didn't make him vulnerable to Russian blackmail?

Interesting viewpoint in a you're really a dumbfuck sort of way.

Post up those proven ties. Not like Joe who's son gave him Russian bribe money. That's not really wrong at all right dipshit?

RaceBannon

And it had nothing to do with Trump.
Daddy's public lie denying his Russian ties didn't make him vulnerable to Russian blackmail?

Interesting viewpoint in a you're really a dumbfuck sort of way.
Was he charged with blackmail? That’s what I thought, Adolph.
No one is charging him for making himself vulnerable to Russian blackmail. He lied, but not under oath. Cohen repeated the lie under oath.

Your claim was that it was a big fat nothing. That's retarded, of course. Having retreated to this new position, I agree with you that Daddy's lies to the public weren't felonies.

Sussman lied to the FBI, Boris

Swaye

Sussman lied to the FBI

Not in dispute
pesky lack of evidence
Exactly what the Mueller investigation concluded.
Mueller convicted some guys. Remember? The guys Daddy had to pardon?
Nothing involving Russia or anything Trump was in any way, shape, or form involved in.

"What Trump Tower Moscow project?", cried the little retarded boy.

Hi Adolph. Nice of you to bring up retards. Nazi's didn't just hate the Jews, they hated gypsy's, gays and retards as well. Good to see you are staying consistent.