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Even If The Jury Doesn’t Convict Michael Sussmann, The Special Counsel Has Won
The Federalist ^ | MAY 31, 2022 | MARGOT CLEVELAND

Posted on 05/31/2022 5:55:23 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The jury in the Michael Sussmann criminal case resumes deliberations today after the long Memorial Day weekend. While prosecutors presented overwhelming evidence over the last two weeks that Sussmann lied to then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in 2016, an acquittal by the D.C. jury still seems likely.

Judging the success of Special Counsel John Durham’s probe into the investigation of President Trump and those associated with the Trump campaign and administration should not rest on the outcome of the Sussmann prosecution, however. In fact, even if the special counsel’s office scores a conviction in its false statement case against Sussmann, that would do little to right the scales of justice unbalanced by more than five years of the politically motivated abuse of power that began as Crossfire Hurricane and continued even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller issued his final report.

So, measuring Durham’s performance by the outcome in United States v. Sussmann would be a mistake. Also, especially in the case of an acquittal, it would ignore the valuable information exposed related to the broader Spygate scandal. Using that gauge as a measure, the special counsel’s office succeeded wildly.

Durham Proved the Collusion Hoax Was a Hillary Clinton Enterprise

On September 19, 2016, Sussmann provided Baker data and whitepapers purporting to show a secret communications network between the Russia-based Alfa Bank and Donald Trump. In indicting Sussmann for allegedly lying to Baker during this meeting, the special counsel’s office revealed in its 27-page speaking indictment “a scandal much deeper than merely Sussmann’s role in a second Russian hoax — a scandal that entangles the Clinton campaign, multiple internet companies, two federally-funded university researchers, and a complicit media.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: corrupticrats; demagogicparty; hitlery; magicalthinking; michaelsussmann; wishfulthinking
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Durham doesn’t get a conviction and jail time for this turd then he ought to close up shop and call it a day. Durham failed miserably if he gets no conviction IMHO....


41 posted on 05/31/2022 10:51:26 AM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: eeriegeno

Durham didn’t fail.

L


42 posted on 05/31/2022 10:55:11 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it islam )
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To: Lurker

Curious what you think failure would be?


43 posted on 05/31/2022 11:00:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Durham did exactly what he set out to do. Specifically to waste enough time to let the statute of limitations pass so the bigger fish can’t be touched.

As an added bonus he pissed away God only knows how much taxpayer money to lose a case that should have been a slam dunk. A competent prosecutor would have screamed bloody murder over the Judge’s relationship and the blatantly biased jurors in order to get a change of venue.

No, he didn’t fail. Despite the gibbering of the Qballs, there was never going to be a conviction here. Durham saw to that.

His joke of an investigation will now be shut down never to be heard from again.

You just watch.

L


44 posted on 05/31/2022 11:07:24 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it islam )
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To: protoconservative

We both think along those lines, but he’s right. Clinton’s
bare ass is hanging out now.


45 posted on 05/31/2022 11:19:34 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Durham has ‘won’ in a way that doesn’t push witnesses or the charged to cooperate, or plead guilty, and doesn’t punish or deter miscreants but rather emboldens them.

Yes, he did prove what happened, and that is not nothing, but it doesn’t stop it from happening again until he gets convictions.


46 posted on 05/31/2022 11:56:24 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

Yes, he did prove what happened, and that is not nothing, but it doesn’t stop it from happening again until he gets convictions.


“Both” political parties wanted it to happen. It won’t stop until at least one party doesn’t want it to happen.


47 posted on 05/31/2022 12:13:38 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Next time, try the case in Florida, or maybe Texas.

Don’t give these creeps a “jury of their peers” because they’re all creeps too.


48 posted on 05/31/2022 1:27:14 PM PDT by DNME (... where are you, Sam Adams?)
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To: dfwgator

No, but we are willing to learn!


49 posted on 05/31/2022 1:32:10 PM PDT by Fledermaus (I'll wear a mask when Dr. Fraudchi shuts the hell up.)
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To: DNME

They didn’t have a choice of venues. The Justus system is a rigged game.


50 posted on 05/31/2022 1:40:24 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Contempt for pre-born human life breeds contempt for post-born human life.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I had a bad feeling on Friday.
Judge gave the Clintoon gumba’s a long weekend to work over the Jurors


51 posted on 05/31/2022 5:28:55 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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