After f___ing up several times John Durham gives it one last shot

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Special Counsel John Durham's final case goes to the jury after a series of prosecutorial setbacks

Special Counsel John Durham made his closing arguments Monday in what's expected to be the swan song of his three-year-long investigation of the Justice Department's inquiry into ties between Russia and former President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. In the case at hand, Durham charged Russian foreign policy researcher Igor Danchenko with five counts of lying to the FBI tied to his role as a sub-source for former British spy Christopher Steele's salacious, largely discredited Trump-Russia dossier.

Durham has faced several setbacks in the trial, including his own FBI witnesses appearing to bolster Danchenko's defense and U.S. District Judge Anthony Trenga's decision Friday to throw out one of the five charges, ruling that Danchenko's statements to the FBI about minor source Charles Dolan were "literally true." The remaining charges involve Danchenko's statements about phone conversations he said he believed he had with Sergei Millan, a former president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce.

Durham spent much of his closing argument attacking the FBI and Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, as he had during the trial. At times, Politico's Josh Gerstein noted last week, "Durham seemed to be training his fire on the FBI, even at the expense of his case against Danchenko." During Monday's closing arguments, as Durham defended his work and went after the FBI and Mueller investigation, The New York Times reports, Judge Trenga — a George W. Bush appointee — told him, "You should finish up."

After Durham and Danchenko's lawyers concluded their closing arguments in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, the jury deliberated for four hours Monday before being excused for the night.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/special-counsel-john-durhams-final-053354234.html

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1. Nice framing, yahoo dot com

"Christopher Steele's salacious, largely discredited Trump-Russia dossier." Really? If anything has been discredited, it would appear to be Durham's ridiculous case.

[BlueIdaho]

2. Durham is a paid political hack.

He’s shooting for a place in the Ken Starr Hall of Shame.

[UTUSN]

3. K&R

[iemanja]

4. "Christopher Steele's salacious, largely discredited Trump-Russia dossier."

Bullshit. It isn't "largely discredited." There isn't evidence about the pee tapes, but most of the rest proved to be true.

[Mr. Ected]

5. Contrived prosecutions targeted at the FOX News-addled rubes

To give them the impression that the fake news they hear every day is grounded in truth, to legitimize in their minds the ceaseless propaganda.

Just like the dozens of Benghazi hearings which always amounted to a giant nothingburger.

Added bonus: the consistent losses reinforce their belief that the system is tilted against them.