Trial set to test special counsel probe, Trump's 2016 allegations

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A trial over whether a lawyer with ties to the Democratic Party lied to the FBI in 2016 is set to begin on Monday in what could be the first major test for John Durham, the special counsel appointed during the Trump administration to investigate the former president’s allegations of a conspiracy to undermine his campaign.

Michael Sussmann, a former partner at the law firm Perkins Coie, is charged with making false statements to the FBI’s top lawyer during the 2016 campaign when he handed over data to the bureau purporting to show links between Trump and a Russian bank.

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Gene Rossi, who served as a federal prosecutor for nearly 30 years, said the indictment is questionable in part because it risks pitting one individual’s account of a private meeting against another’s.

“You have no audio. You have no video. You have no contemporaneous notes. You just have Michael Sussmann versus Baker at a meeting in September 2016. That is not a strong case,” Rossi said. “They’re going to trial on something that was said almost six years ago.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trial-set-to-test-special-counsel-probe-trump-s-2016-allegations/ar-AAXj8vM

Brilliant!!!!

[Bev54]

1. Yeah this should be fun, 1 charge of lying to the FBI which they can't even prove

the FBI asked the question let alone that he lied about anything. I have been following this entire shit show over at Empty Wheel, and Durham has shown himself not only as a liar but an incompetent one.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Spending a lot of money on a he said, he said trial just that lap dog Durham

can say he did something for the Pig. (smh)

They still haven't explained how what Sussman lied about somehow set off the investigation in Russia and the Pig.

So they are maybe going to prove he lied to the FBI and that is it. AFAIK this doesn't change a thing about the Russian connections or any other so called witch hunt accusations against the Pig.

[Tickle]

3. It won't be televised

Apparently he lied to the fbi saying he was a concerned citizen not talking on behalf of anyone and then he billed the Clintons for his time. Go figure

[Takket]

4. what a travesty

the entire Mueller probe got kneecapped, shut down, and buried. and instead of all the people on the right that should be locked up, we have a trial of this one guy the Durham puts up there on a wing and a prayer just to give the right SOMETHING to seize on because there wasn't SHIT anywhere else.