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Who is John Durham

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  1. Commodore

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  2. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    How does it feel to never be wrong?

    Lose the election - illegal voting
    Lose every appeal - corrupt election officials and courts
    Lose other court case - corrupt court
    Facts presented in the media that contradict Trump - fake news
     
  3. larsv8

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    Lawyers have multiple tools to account for biased juries.

    Enough of the bullshit Commodore.

    You got taken...again...own it.
     
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    If that's true (tweets aren't necessarily the news), why didn't the person named in this post strike that juror?

    Of course the charges at play weren't related to Trump.

    This whiny victim card crap with no substance is weak sauce. If the prosecutor didn't use his strikes wisely then people should be asking for his name.

    So either the thread's name sake is incompetent or there was no issue to begin with. Either way, it wasn't because of any unfairness.
     
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    I think @Commodore is mad…lol. Posting random tweets won’t help either.
     
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    Durham's last-ditch effort to railroad Michael Sussman failed.


    On Tuesday, Sussman was found not guilty of the lying charge by a federal jury.
    "The verdict is a major defeat for Durham and his Justice Department prosecutors,
    who have spent three years looking for wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia probe."

    It remains to be seen when Durham will conclude his probe and whether he will bring charges against anyone else.

    But what is clear is that the Sussman allegation, which was by far the most high-profile output of Durham's probe to date,
    amounts to a huge swing and a miss by the special counsel.
     
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    Turley 's evidence-free accusation, even if true, points to the incompetence of team Durham who selected the jury
     
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    Q: Who is John Durham

    A: He is either the guy who didn't have the evidence to prosecute or the guy who couldn't select a jury.


    Question answered. End of the thread
     
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    Bill Barr after Sussmann acquittal: Durham ‘did an exceptionally able job’
    BY CAROLINE VAKIL - 06/01/22 10:00 PM ET

    Former Attorney General William Barr defended special counsel John Durham after a federal jury acquitted prominent Democratic attorney Michael Sussmann, saying that despite the failure of his flagship prosecution, Durham “did an exceptionally able job.”

    Fox News host Jesse Watters asked Barr in an interview on Wednesday if he was disappointed in Durham or if he felt “any way responsible for how this Durham situation’s unfolding,” as he appointed the special prosecutor.

    “No, I’m very proud of John Durham, and I do take responsibility for his appointment, and I think he and his team did an exceptionally able job, both digging out very important facts and presenting a compelling case to the jury,” Barr responded.

    “While he did not succeed in getting a conviction from the D.C. jury, I think he accomplished something far more important, which is he brought out the truth in two important areas,” he continued.

    Barr said he believed Durham “crystallized the central role” that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign played in espousing a narrative that former President Trump’s campaign was colluding with Russia.

    He said that Durham also “exposed really dreadful behavior by the supervisors in the FBI, the senior ranks in the FBI, who knowingly use this information to start an investigation of Trump and then dupe their own agents by lying to them and refusing to tell them what the real source of that information was.”

    Barr picked Durham to look into the FBI’s probe of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign in early 2019, being given the status of special counsel in late 2020 so Durham could finish his work even after Trump left office.

    Sussmann, a key figure in the Durham probe, stood accused of not being forthcoming in an October 2016 meeting with the then-FBI’s general counsel regarding who he had represented.

    He had reportedly been meeting with FBI official James Baker to present evidence of supposed questionable traffic online between Russian financial institution Alfa Bank and the Trump Organization.

    A federal jury acquitted Sussmann on Monday on one count of lying to the FBI, a decision that was slammed by Trump.
     
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    -Barr continues to lie, because the cultists are too stupid to see through the bullshit.
    -Embarrassing use of taxpayer dollars.
    -3 years and absolutely nothing of substance
    -The only truth uncovered here was what we already knew.
     
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    an alternative view

     
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    Another alternative view:

    "Here's how the Sacramento Kings really have been the best team in basketball..."
     
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    It's not hard to believe there's access and privilege in Washington and that the court system favors corruption for the powerful.

    What do we do about it except whine about the box score when our team loses?

    Cheer when we win, ofc
     
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    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    So.... if the acquittal was due to politics would it be fair to also say that a guy appointed by Trump that charged Sussman was also politics? Or is it just politics and fraud and unfairness when it happens to Trump's side?
     
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    excerpt:

    Mr. Schoen was a senior adviser to Bill Clinton’s 1996 campaign, a White House adviser (1994-2000) and an adviser to Hillary Clinton’s 2000 U.S. Senate campaign. Mr. Stein, a Democrat, served as New York City Council president, 1986-94.
    more at the linked article
     

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