In a bombshell court filing late Monday night, Durham for the first time suggested Hillary Clinton’s campaign, her researchers and others formed a “joint venture or conspiracy” for the purpose of weaving the collusion story to harm Trump’s election chances and then the start of his presidency.
Sussmann was acquitted of lying to the FBI about his motivations. Observers, such as Byron York of the Washington Examiner, said they believed that Sussmann had, in fact, lied, but that the jury was in Democrat-friendly Washington, DC, and included several Clinton donors on the panel.
“A strong argument can be made that there was a joint venture,” Ruskin said. “In this case, Judge Cooper, for whatever reasons, ruled against the prosecution, did not recognize that there was a joint venture, and did not admit certain evidence, which could have led to, perhaps, a different result,” Ruskin explained.
While former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann was acquitted of lying to the FBI, a number of new details came to light during his trial. Some have not been reported, or have not been widely reported.
The Sussmann trial provides more evidence that she personally directed the effort.
“If we don’t win, our country is ruined. We have bad borders, bad elections, and a court system not functioning properly,” Trump said, adding that “our country is being systematically destroyed.”
After Election Day, two people would find solace in the collusion hoax, which increasingly has come to seem a lot closer to treason than many of the things imagined or alleged against Mr. Trump. One was Mrs. Clinton ….The other was FBI chief James Comey.
Michael Sussmann did exactly what he was accused of by Special Counsel John Durham. But the latter charged the former with lying to former FBI general counsel James Baker on the wrong day.
The verdict came early on the second day of deliberations in the first trial to result from Durham’s probe of Trump-Russia investigations by the FBI and former special counsel Robert Mueller.
The FBI is probing the alleged withholding of exculpatory information during the series of investigations into Donald Trump and his campaign known collectively as Crossfire Hurricane, it was revealed in federal court.
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