After 3 1/2 years John Durham comes up empty on Trump’s claim of a Witch hunt

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“Since then, $5.8 million in taxpayer money has fueled a fruitless search for evidence of a hoax or witch hunt that did not exist. Two indictments, both flimsy, have ended in not-guilty verdicts. What has emerged more or less matches what Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz already revealed in his own 2019 report: There remains no reason to believe that the FBI’s 2016 probe was improperly predicated”


“The evidence stubbornly shows that the FBI’s inquiry wasn’t politically motivated, even after Mr. Durham spent so much money and so many months trying to show otherwise”.
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The FBI does not look faultless. Most notably, the agency’s treatment of 2016 Trump adviser Carter Page was scandalous: The FBI provided false information and withheld material detrimental to its case in multiple court applications to surveil the aide.
Even this part is dubious. Carter Page had been surveilled by the FBI and a subject of the FISA Court long before Donald Trump was ever a candidate. So it was not a stretch to authorize surveillance on him again after he ceased being an advisor to the Trump campaign.

That’s because Page did business in Russia and had contact with several  known Russian government operatives.

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Can't wait for the Republicans to install a new FBI after November.
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Can't wait for the Republicans to install a new FBI after November.
That’s because you’re a moron.

And because you’re a moron you don’t know only the President can “install a new FBI”

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I think 87,0000 new Federal agents in a Republican spending bill should do the trick. Hope you deleted all your tweets.

You just might discover you are a threat to democracy after November :)
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I think 87,0000 new Federal agents in a Republican spending bill should do the trick. 
What are you talking about JoJo Bozo?

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Shhh...just keep your eye on MSNBC....nothing to see here... all is fine in the world...
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JoJo Bozo! Do you still live with your mother? 
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We should report this guy to the FBI for questions the election results
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for questions the election results
You might want to work on your grammar first dum dum.

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Another result of this harebrained investigation, the FBI has now lost a credible intelligence source in Yurievich Danchenko, a Russian citizen who had provided useful information from his contacts in Russia. He was basically blown up for politics.

“Two F.B.I. agents have testified that Igor Danchenko, who became a paid confidential source, had provided the bureau with valuable information“
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He also questions deficits. Clearly a tea party insurrectionist.
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He also questions deficits. Clearly a tea party insurrectionist.
Wow TDS really creates new breeds
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The report isn't even out and you believe some op-ed?

Real Class A snooping there, Mr. FDR. /s
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The report isn't even out and you believe some op-ed?
The article is from the Post’s editorial board. They made the point that after 3 1/2 years John Durham took two cases to trial and lost both of them in short order. The FBI was NOT politically motivated in investigating Trump’s connections to Russia during the 2016 election. As you know, it is illegal and a National security concern to have any candidate seek or even accept help from  any foreign source, either a government source or private source. Many of Trump’s campaign staff had contact with Russians during the campaign. Trump fired James Comey when he wouldn’t give Flynn a free pass on his Russian contacts. Paul Manafort gave campaign polling data to a known Russian intelligence operative. There was the welcoming of Russian help indicated in the Trump Tower meeting. There was the Wiki Leaks coordination with Roger Stone. There were intercepted Russian conversations saying Trump was requesting back channel communications with the Kremlin before he was inaugurated. All this certainly warranted an investigation.

But you dummies are like it’s all perfectly normal.

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John Durham took two cases to trial and lost both of them in short order. The FBI was NOT politically motivated in investigating Trump’s connections to Russia during the 2016 election.
I'd be interested in seeing how you think one proves the other when he hasn't even finished his report yet.

Additionally, Danchenko was acquitted for lying to the FBI. [1] Not for any other charges related to the FBI's political conduct. This doesn't prove anything.

And Durham won another court case where an FBI member was sentenced to probation for altering an email in the investigation. [2]

The same thing is true about Sussman. He was acquitted of lying to the FBI.

SO how do you spin this to mean there was no collusion or corruption in DC? If you read what Sussman actually did, which, you know, wasn't tried before the court but simply whether he lied about one detail of it, the same for Danchenko, it is abundantly obvious there was corruption.

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I'd be interested in seeing how you think one proves the other when he hasn't even finished his report yet.
He’s done you dummy. He’s done. He’s gonna retire, with his reputation shattered.

Oooh an innocuous altering of an email - the crime of the century just as Trump said. Lol you dummy

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The same thing is true about Sussman. He was acquitted of lying to the FBI.
Gee, Flynn, Manafort and Stone were all convicted of lying and you take that to mean there was no corruption. Then they were pardoned by the guy they were trying to protect with their lying. All perfectly fine for Republicans and their stupid, stupid voters.

Manafort also admitted lying to investigators and under oath before a grand jury about his contact with a Russian associate during the 2016 campaign.




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I'd be interested in seeing how you think one proves the other when he hasn't even finished his report yet.
The whole reason for starting this “investigation” was so that idiots like you could say “ the investigation into corruption of the FBI is still ongoing”

There was never a case. Bill Barr initiated the Special Counsel to serve Trump. Now he wishes he never met Trump.

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so that idiots like you could say “ the investigation into corruption of the FBI is still ongoing”
I may not be up on the whole new foucolt logic out there, but aren't idiots the people without facts?

The fact of the matter is it still IS ongoing. It won't be completed until the final report is written up. And if the DOJ decides to release it, then I'll see what, if anything, was found.

If it doesn't find anything then so be it. If it did find things, then that should matter. After all Horrowitz already said it was handled horribly and the original FBI investigation by Mueller completely discredited the mainstream media and most liberals.

But you likely don't believe that because you are a liberal and don't care about facts. You'd rather be an ignorant idiot than be factual. Facts are like a disease to you.

So, once again, the real idiot, Mr. FDR surfaces again. 
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Just to be clear, there are liberals who do care about facts. You just happen to not be one of them.
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But you likely don't believe that because you are a liberal and don't care about facts. You'd rather be an ignorant idiot than be factual. Facts are like a disease to you.
Bullshit. Republicans are the fact free morons.

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Just to be clear, there are liberals who do care about facts. You just happen to not be one of them.
Just to be clear Pubic hair, did Bill Barr say that Trump’s stolen election accusations were bull shit? Is that a fact?

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the original FBI investigation by Mueller completely discredited the mainstream media and most liberals.
That’s a lie. The Mueller report confirmed there was Russian meddling (just as the intelligence community said) and there was a conspiracy to help Trump win the election as well as obstruction of justice during the investigation. Many people and organizations were indicted. Some plead guilty. Others were convicted. The Republican Party worked to protect Trump and shield him from justice to protect their own political prospects.

Mueller objected to Bill Barr’s characterization that the report exonerated Trump.

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