Posted on 05/20/2022 1:59:02 PM PDT by blam
Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook dropped a bombshell in court on Friday – testifying that Hillary Clinton approved the dissemination of allegations that then-candidate Donald Trump had a covert communications channel with a Russian bank, despite campaign officials not being “totally confident” in the rumor, according to Fox News.
Mook, who was called to the stand by the defense team for former Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann, was asked under cross-examination about the campaign’s understanding of the allegations against Trump, and whether the campaign planned to release it to the media.
He told prosecutor Andrew DeFillippis that he was first briefed by campaign general counsel Marc Elias, who was a partner with Perkins Coie at the time, adding that he was told the data had come from “people that had expertise in this sort of matter.”
Mook said the campaign was not totally confident in the legitimacy of the data, but had hoped to give the information to a reporter who could further “run it down” to determine if it was “accurate” or “substantive.”
He also said he discussed whether to give the information to a reporter with senior campaign officials, including campaign chairman John Podesta, senior policy advisor, now White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and communications director Jennifer Palmieri. -Fox News
“I discussed it with Hillary as well,” said Mook, who added “I don’t remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter.”
When asked how Clinton responded, Mook said: “She agreed.“
And then she did this:
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2016
Of note, after previously denying the prosecutions request to include the tweet into evidence, he approved it on Friday.
Sussman has been charged with lying to the FBI when he told General Counsel James Baker in September 2016 – less than two months before the US election – that he wasn’t doing work “for any client” when he presented the Alfa Bank “purported data and ‘white papers’ that allegedly demonstrated a covert communicates channel” between the Trump organization and the Kremlin-linked Alfa Bank.
Special Counsel John Durham alleges that Sussman was in fact working for the Clinton Campaign and tech executive Rodney Joffe. He has pleaded not guilty.
The only question is , isis real court testimony?
Depends who know which plane. Durham is putting Mook away for safe keeping if there is a Hillary trial so he can be called asawkttness
Don’t be so sure.
Durham only charged Sussmann with one count of lying to the FBI in the D.C. because that is where he committed that crime.
Durham’s has gotten evidence and admissions of a wide-spread conspiracy, which he can prosecute in any one of a large number of jurisdictions.
Durham is a very smart guy and knows even if aa D.C. jury acquisition Sussmann, it’s of little consequence. Sussmann has far more to worry about than a possible lying to the FBI conviction.
Mook, who was called to the stand by the defense team
Memo to self: Find out who the DEFENSE Lawyer is and
NEVER HIRE HIM/HER FOR ANYTHING!
It’s hard to believe that there are so many who are blase about this.
I thought it was HUGE when the Sussman info came out, and I still feel the same way.
Was there always a feeling here that everything was doom and gloom and loser and annoying and not worth the time and it’s not going to mean a thing and I could go on and on.
I am going out on a limb, this is HUGE.
Now, that there is funny in a sad way.
BINGO, finally, you have it right.
bump
We don’t care BECAUSE we know there will NEVER be consequences OR justice why in the hell would we care about HUGE news when NOTHING ever comes of it!!
Do we know that for sure, or is it just that we have been so disappointed.
I am going to sound like a pollyanna here, but whether something comes out of this or not, in my mind, THIS WAS HUGE.
And if Durham does nothing with it, the fact remains that Hillary Clinton has been exposed. Just THAT is worth it.
No more admiring MSM being told everything is a “vast right wing conspiracy,” by this totally evil harridan.
I wonder if this guy is aware his name is an Italian slang word for a dope.
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