Posted on 05/19/2022 2:59:20 AM PDT by Libloather
(CNN) - Special counsel John Durham has used his first trial as a vehicle to air some of the Hillary Clinton campaign's dirty laundry, but that was derailed Wednesday when the campaign's top lawyer, Marc Elias, promptly used his testimony to slam Donald Trump and the FBI for how they responded to Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Durham's case against a different Clinton campaign lawyer, Michael Sussmann, is the first courtroom test of his three-year probe into potential misconduct in the FBI's early Trump-Russia investigation. Sussmann has pleaded not guilty to one count of lying to the FBI during a September 2016 meeting where he passed along a tip about Trump's potential ties to a Russian bank.
To make his case, Durham has relied on witnesses unlikely to be sympathetic to his inquiry, which has been celebrated by Trump and right-wing commentators. One of those witnesses on Wednesday was Elias, a well-known election attorney who has been a senior lawyer for the past five Democratic presidential candidates and was Clinton's general counsel in 2016.
Elias called Trump a "bully" and excoriated Trump's reaction to the Russian hacks and leaks of Democratic National Committee emails, which rocked the party convention in July 2016 by driving a wedge between supporters of Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders at a pivotal moment.
"There was clearly an attempt by Russia to ruin the one clean shot that candidates get to talk to the American public," Elias said, adding that he believed the campaign was under attack. "And instead of doing what any decent human being would do, and condemn it, Donald Trump said, 'I hope Russia is listening and will find the 30,000 Hillary Clinton emails ... and release them.'"
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And yet Sussman’s lawyers are asking for a mistrial based on Elias non-responsive testimony. I guess Elias spent to much time trying to exorcise his Trump demons. CNN is grasping for straws.
Elias should be in Prison.
Fabricating a crime to attack someone you don’t like is called “Slander”.
The exemption for public servants needs to be repealed.
CNN is sounding more like The Hill every day. Or is it the other way around? Hard to tell the difference.
Lying scumbag,Russia didn’t leak the emails,Assange begs to differ,he has said multiple times,it was NOT the Russians,the guy ,forgot his name leaked them and he was supposedly robbed and shot and killed in the middle of the night,Robbery where nothing was robbed
So... Elias is THAT lawyer who in a paternity suit would make the plaintiff PROVE she’s the actual mother - DNA tests, hospital records, etc....
So CNN thinks that a witness in a trial about political corruption motivated by extreme bias who fully displays that bias is somehow supportive of the defendant’s actions?
Elias is a fool.
As much as CNN would like us to believe that Elias’ comments are some earth shattering moment in the proceedings, he’s doing nothing more than repeating debunked myths.
This is from CNN and we all know that Leftists are completely oblivious to results of actions.
Elias sounds like he came off like someone who would DO AND SAY ANYTHING to advance Hillary Clinton. If there are any donors to Hillary, they must be able to see what a fat, lying load she is now and will receive no sympathy.
Furthermore, Elias, is a smart azz jackazz and totally unlikable.
SO, CNN, NO, he made no points.
Just as you and your loser Entertainment Channel won’t.
Jury nullification - DC juries are as criminal as they come...
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