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Former Attorney General Bill Barr on Wednesday heaped praise on special counsel John Durham for boosting former President Donald Trump's "Russiagate" narrative even though his three-year investigation has been dismissed as an epic failure by legal experts.
Durham, the former U.S. attorney for Connecticut, was first assigned to investigate the origins of the FBI investigation into Trump's ties to Russia in 2019 and was later appointed as a special counsel by Barr in 2020, ensuring the probe would continue after Trump left office.
Durham in September 2021 indicted former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, alleging he lied to the FBI about his ties to the campaign while discussing his suspicions about Trump's ties to Russia with former FBI general counsel James Baker. Sussman's attorney argued that the charge was a "circus full of slideshows" as Durham used the proceedings to stoke Trumpworld conspiracy theories. A jury acquitted Sussman on Tuesday in a major blow to the investigation, which Trump and his allies had hyped for years.
Fox News host Jesse Watters on Wednesday pressed Barr on whether he felt "responsible" or "disappointed" for how the Durham situation unfolded.
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Bill Barr is a walking toxic waste dump.
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,299 posts)It will be jailbirds of a feather...
onecaliberal
(32,864 posts)spanone
(135,846 posts)cilla4progress
(24,737 posts)well, you know...
Why the patriarchy's gotta go! Barr fully believes he can get away with this!
And why wouldn't he?
"He did an admirable job..[even though] he did not get a conviction from the DC jury.." subtext Black jury....
UTUSN
(70,711 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,769 posts)Goddamn I am sick of these corrupt Republicans.
agingdem
(7,850 posts)is a failure...no one's buying his hero/victim garbage...that arrogant ton of corpulent flesh was Trump's shit deflector, his revenge errand boy... no tell-all revisionist trash tome or talk show shit down can wash way his Tump stink...