Posted on 05/20/2022 6:52:13 AM PDT by Kaslin
Baker back on the stand now
Defense up
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> Baker told the jury he had not prepared for questions about his meeting with Sussmann and had not refreshed his memory at the time.
i.e. he hadn’t got the story straight yet. This is yet another modified limited hangout.
Let’s see, one juror’s daughter is a friend of Sussman’s daughter at school/family friend and on the same rowing team, and another juror is a huge Clinton donor.
What could go wrong?
Political, DC Swamp Lawyer just walks into FBI office off the street, gives them all kinds of secret intelligence against Trump - and FBI just runs with it?
Sussmann is just a patsy. The FBI should be on trial.
Yeah, but Sussman got back and billed the Clinton campaign for his time. That indicates otherwise. And Baker probably has a selective memory. If he’s “100 percent confident” in his recollection from 6 years ago, I’m 100 percent confident he’s lying.
These are the DC courts, where the book is thrown at republicans and democrats walk.
A jury member who donated to Clinton's campaign and said he would "strive to be objective as possible" was allowed to remain by the Obammy appointed judge. There is also an AOC voter on the jury. You only need one jury member to say there's not enough evidence to convict, and Sussman will walk.
“Baker told the jury he had not prepared for questions about his meeting with Sussmann and had not refreshed his memory at the time.”
Then don’t answer the question...whoops.
I’ll pay attention as soon as the conviction is announced.
Spoken by someone who has no clue what the job of the alternate jurors is.
My speculative construct:
Joffe was an FBI informant at the time he started gathering the information about Alfa-Bank/Trump.
Isn’t it plausible that FBI resource and Dem/Hillary operative Joffe was acting on FBI orders, or at least with its knowledge, the entire time? Sussmann’s star turn was to re-introduce the cooked-up information so the FBI could have agents, not read into the operation, “investigate” it so the FBI could answer “yes” when “reporters” asked if there was such an investigation.
Will the Defense pursue the idea that Baker knew who Sussmann was working for because it was all part of an FBI operation? Er, no, even though they are in a position to know if it’s true.
Nope he’s rt. Alternate jurors don’t get into the deliberation room. They only get involved when a juror drops out or is removed. They hear the evidence during trial but don’t participate after the closing argument and Judge’s instruction. Criminal trials requite a unanimous verdict. One goes the other way and there is no conviction.
How were they even allowed on the jury? Oh wait, it’s the Swamp.
Alternates do not get pulled in in a hung jury situation, only if a juror is unable to serve or if there is misconduct, correct?
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Please keep in mind, this is Washington DC.
DC. = Distinctly Crooked
I was going to say I'll get the popcorn ready, but than I realized this is DC.; and I shouldn't get my hopes that high.
I could hear my inner self: Back away from the popcorn.
I too wonder is the FIB weren’t knee deep in the construction of this narrative.
nobody is going to jail and it is all Kabuki theater..... and if he gets chatty.... suicide.
After being convicted Sussman is going to sing like a cornholed canary just to get the prosecution to ask for a lenient sentence.
Sing little Sussman, SING!
And them we will get all the swamp names we do not have now.
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