Posted on 05/02/2022 9:04:44 PM PDT by bitt
Special counsel John Durham has revealed that employees of the research firm Fusion GPS sent journalists hundreds of emails with unverified accusations against President Trump to trigger negative news stories.
Mr. Durham was responding to efforts of people with ties to Hillary Clinton‘s presidential campaign to keep potentially explosive evidence out of his hands during the upcoming trial of a Clinton campaign lawyer accused of lying to the FBI.
In a court motion filed late Monday, Mr. Durham said the slew of emails undercuts the assertion of Clinton campaign officials that Fusion GPS’s research for them should be protected under attorney-client privilege.
The Fusion GPS emails peddled to news outlets, as revealed by Mr. Durham, led to stories including:
• A Wall Street Journal article about a Trump adviser meeting with a former KGB official close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• A Washington Post story about a Trump campaign adviser investing in Russia.
• New York Times and Reuters articles about the FBI investigating a secret communications setup between Mr. Trump and Russia’s Alfa Bank.
Republicans seized on Mr. Durham’s revelations. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin said the special counsel is exposing the Clinton campaign’s “political dirty tricks.”
“We’ve known for quite some time what happened here. And what the Durham indictments are just proving is how not only complicit but the Clinton campaign did this. They literally did this,” Mr. Johnson told The Washington Times.
“What the Clinton campaign did in terms of political dirty tricks, we are still putting up with the repercussions. Would Vladimir Putin have invaded Ukraine if Trump was still in office? That’s an interesting question,” he said.
Top Clinton campaign officials John Podesta, Robby Mook and Marc Elias have maintained that Fusion GPS provided legal work that should be rendered off-limits to
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You should note that Mueller and others investigating Republicans seized the Documents, they did not ask for them, they conducted raids, even on Lawyer’s offices.
Hell, they conducted Raids to get Joe’s Drug addicted daughter’s dairy that she left behind while high.
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Privileged information went out the door when the feds raided Michael Cohens office to get at Trump.
Or does that only applies to the republicans?
“Or does that only applies to the republicans?”
Of course it only applies to pubbies.
The whole “justice dept” is dirty
If the issue had stopped with the press, this would be normal stuff. But it didn’t stop with the press.
The government ran an operation against Trump as candidate, and against Trump when he ws POTUS. The intelligence community, the DOJ, Congress ... all of them knew the allegations were false, yet chose instead to run along with and amplify the false news. Hearings, Special Counsel Mueller, impeachments.
Can’t credibly blame that on Hillary.
Someone should boobytrap a catalytic converter with the same explosive dye they use for bank robbers.
“employees of the research firm Fusion GPS sent journalists hundreds of emails with unverified accusations against President Trump to trigger negative news stories.”
A lot of people don’t seem to realize that that is exactly Fusion GPS’s business model. It’s what they do. Their success is based on their contacts with the media and their ability to get stories in the news whether by friendship, bribes, or blackmail. The veracity of the stories play no part in the plan because the clients have plausible deniability as to their involvement.
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