New York Times narrative engineer Charlie Savage is tweeting from within a packed media center at the E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse in Washington DC for the government case against Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann. [TWEET THREAD] The mentions and notations, while skewed toward the self interest of media, give us a good insight into what is taking place in the courtroom.
First things first. All media reporting of this case will be done through the prism of their own cooperation in the perpetration of the fraud. The MSM knew along with everyone else inside and outside of government, that their efforts to create the Trump-Russia conspiracy and collusion narrative were based on fraudulent pretext manufactured by the Clinton campaign. They all knew it. They all acted collaboratively and they all engaged purposefully.
As noted by Charlie Savage, prosecutor Deborah Shaw, a member of the Durham team, delivered the opening remarks to frame the government position in the case.
The telling remarks came early: “Shaw addresses “the elephant in the room” – tells jury their feelings about Russia, Trump, Clinton can’t play a role in the case. This is about “our FBI” which should not be used as a tool by anyone, Republicans or Democrats.” In essence, prosecutor Shaw is telling the jury the FBI were duped into the Trump-Russia conspiracy investigation by outsiders connected to the Clinton campaign.
That’s a critical baseline from the government we must understand and accept. That baseline now indicates that none of the DOJ and FBI operatives involved in the fraudulent scheme will be held accountable by the Durham team. “Our FBI should not be used as a tool by anyone,” yet they were, so sayeth the United States Government.
There you have it folks. For those who tried to avoid the uncomfortable reality of the situation. The Durham prosecution has set down the cornerstone establishing the DOJ/FBI was used and tricked.
The prosecution cannot later turn toward DOJ and FBI officials who were victimized by the Clinton outside group, reverse the predicate motive of the prior trial, and then hold the DOJ and FBI legally accountable.
That’s that.
The Durham accountability focus is now narrowed to the Clinton team, starting with Michael Sussmann.
This outcome was always visible when we accept the totality of the Robert Mueller probe as an overlay into this entire scenario. Put into a question I have asked for two years:
How could John Durham hold DOJ and FBI officials accountable for participating in the Trump-Russia fraud, when those same DOJ and FBI officials were part of the Robert Mueller cover-up operation?
Answer, they can’t. If Durham were to connect the conspiracy of the outside government and inside government collusion, he would be penetrating an impregnable firewall that would take down multiple DC government institutions simultaneously.
Durham is being permitted to give the illusion of accountability, but he was not authorized or permitted to expose the Dept of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, or any other institution.
The vehicles of our justice institutions are rusted and broken.
Bill Barr was the Bondo application. John Durham is the spray paint.
The question asked two years ago is answered.
How does the office of a U.S. president; and more importantly the republic itself; survive a coordinated coup effort involving all three branches of government; while simultaneously those in charge of exposing the corruption fear the scale is too damaging for them to reveal? pic.twitter.com/oT5yPtPgIo
— TheLastRefuge (@TheLastRefuge2) October 10, 2020
If the FBI was duped and acted upon the accusations of the Clinton campaign in good faith how does the FBI and Durham explain the departures of so many FBI co-conspirators? Are they to be reinstated?
If it wasn’t the downfall of the country, it would be funny.
Real intrigue I’d say, not so much comical.
Nobody could’ve written this script. Nobody!
If they were really serious about holding people to account they would have moved this trial out of DC. Finding juries that is not biased and not beholding to the Federal government is impossible in DC. This trials needs to be held someplace in Red America in order to get any kind of accountability. The only way we are ever going to get this mess straighten out is to clean house completely and start over. The FBI and DOJ are thoroughly infiltrated from the top to bottom by the new Nazi democrat party. Asking them to police themselves is like asking a starving wolf to watch your steak while you go wash your hands.
DC is NaziCrat Control Center.
Notice Sundance didn’t say “Clinton Campaign”, he said “outsiders connected to the Clinton Campaign”. Hillary is also an unsuspecting victim. Only un-anointed grunts like Vince Foster and Sussman can be sacrificed.
At this point, I think the best we can hope for is that Elias and Glen Simpson go down.
General Mike Flynn has filed suit against a whole slew of these slimeballs. Here’s his “Basis of Claim” document (linked from Just the News:
https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-05/FLYNN_FTCA_-_Additonal_Sheets.pdf
It reads well and is compelling. It will all end up depending on who (judge) it gets assigned to. One of the missing pieces in all of this are the FISA judges. They need to be questioned.
The FBI was duped, nope. In on it from the start. And when Wray made the announcement that white supremacy was the greatest terrorist threat, you knew that the IC was the bosses of this mess we’re in now. No, they won’t stop. Why would they? They hold the military, the federal budget, and every damn thing. All they need do is keep lying with a schizoaffective face.
but they are going to be beaten by the rest of the world. that’s what will surprise them. russia, china, india, iran, iraq, syria, vietnam, pakistan, laos, cambodia, central america, africa, the new silk road . . .
it’s all coming to a reckoning and the war in ukraine made it happen.
a show trial
a communist specialty
As I’ve said before. All of the idols are false. No one is coming to save you. Badged up Oath breakers the whole lot of them. Good and bad doesn’t even matter anymore. With most of the populace poisoned and broken and still refusing to accept it. We are well past cognitive dissonance boyos. The rest of us watch and wait for what comes next. The only thing I know for sure is that things are going to get a whole lot worse before they will ever get better. Buckle up..
Sad ,but so true. This country is FUBAR. I walk among the braindead. They are so clueless of what is being done to us.
Summed up very well.
“No one is coming to save you.”…
Thrawlbrauna, IT HAS BEEN WRITTEN:
“We know that we are the ones we have been waiting for.
If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?
Let us join hands in taking back our health, our freedom and our power.
In Unity for Health, Freedom, and Sovereignty.”……
“no one” you are right….the Trinity is however the true victor in all of this and is the ONLY path to salvation…they may get a temporary victory here on Earth but the win is God’s eventually HERE and in eternity….so many weeping souls that determined their path leads to the Lake of Fire think themselves more worthy than Him that was slain for the sins of the World
What we’re witnessing is Obama and his cabal eliminating another element of Hillary’s network of influence within the administrative state.
That’s the only reason this farce has been allowed to continue.
The balance of Obama’s own power inside the DOJ and its depts. (DHS, ATF, FBI etc) will be left unscathed.
Hillary’s cronies will be the only ones harmed by this. That was a given from the start.
The final and messiest one will be his takeover of Foggy Bottom. Look for that before Nov of ’24.
Political corruption is never monolithic, even in politics. The struggle for power between the Hillary camp and the Obama camp for control of the DNC and the Admin State has persisted since 2008. These are the last vestiges of Hillary’s influence.
The DNC’s legal beagles left in the Hillary camp (Sussman, Elias? Perkins-Coie, etc) will be brought to heel under the Obama crime family or they will perish politically.
And to the outside world, it will look like Trump and his people did it, via Durham, Barr etc.
Smart assessment. Obama could have used his very expansive voter fraud organization to get Hildabeast into the white house and he didn’t, he just thought he could get rid of President Trump with an impeachment before any real damage could be done to his fundamental transformation of America and he was basically right and used his voter fraud organization to install biden in the big chair. Makes it kinda funny the person who Hildabeast hates takes her out.
And most would be shocked to learn it was Obama that sabotaged Hillary in 2016, and probably helped Trump win in places like PA, MI and WI via voterfraud.org.
He and Holder and Jarrett spent 8 years building out their control of WADC and getting rid of Hillary’s Old Guard in the DNC.
He wasn’t about to turn control of his personal corrupt machine and the levers of politics and the Administrative State (back) over to Hillary. Say what you want about Hillary, but she was politically savvy in the ways of WADC and still had some connections in 2016.
It was far easier to control a political rookie like Trump. An “outsider” with no real connections in government or legal circles within the WADC establishment.
Turning it over to Hillary would have cemented her status at a number of levers of control until her death. and he couldn’t risk that.
So through his puppets in gov’t and the media, he controlled the Trump admin via his corrupt.gov, and his pet members of the Senior Executive Service, from the shadows.
Trump’s lightweights (think Reince Priebus, Steve Bannon) had zero chance of wresting control away from the Obama machine.
The path to restoring this republic starts with congress abolishing the Senior Executive Service, so Obama’s puppets can be removed from the Administrative State.
Anything less is just theater from here on out.
Finally somebody get’s it.! Has Sundance talked about the SES?
Not that I’m aware of, but that may be due to a modicum of good sense.
We are writing/speaking about people with near limitless power. (And not near enough good judgement)
The power to see to it that unspeakable things are done to good people in their endeavor(s) to hide the truth from the American people.
It used to be these things could be safely spoken about under the protection of the 1st, 4th and 5th Amendments. I no longer believe that to be the case.
If as a parent, you can no longer voice your concerns at a school board meeting without garnering the attention of the DOJ/FBI and their Anti-terrorism thugs (enabled by GWB’s Patriot Act), you better be very careful about advocating for dismantling the control mechanism that is now the Obama zealots within the SES, and its influence over the Administrative State.
Most of the pieces are already in place for the final destruction of the constitutional governance of the American people.
And if not remedied, the only avenue left to us will be to revoke “The Consent of the Governed.”
If it comes to that, all bets are off.
See, Obama needed Biden in the Oval Office in a way not enough people have considered, or understand.
Obama knew that if the U.S.ofA. came crashing down on his watch, that would forever be his legacy.
He’s far too narcissistic for that. No one wants to be remembered for destroying the greatest country in the history of governance.
But if it falls apart under an old white guy with a racist history?
Under the Obama’s Marxist doctrine, that would be perfect. Perfectly illustrative of the faults and deficiencies of “White Supremacy,” Xenophobia, Misogyny etc. that people like Obama love to claim America and patriotic Americans engender.
Buckle up folks, we’re about to reach our final destination.
And the guy at the helm of this ship of state, has dementia.
OMG
They probably did use it; but the Trump votes were unexpectedly overwhelming. The recount in Detroit had more ballots than eligible voters. They had to stop the recount or expose the fraud. They were more prepared in 2020.
The Obama Legacy.
No birth certificate
Used different names
Storefront attorney
Jr. Senator
President & in his 3rd term
Thanks to all the unthinking, sins of the fathers, guilt-ridden, who vote with their sick minds because they are incapable of objective reasoning, for your part in destroying this great experiment called America.
He is a puppet just like Joe?
Durham team let Clinton donors in the jury pool. Stick a fork in it. Its done.
Judge is married to Lisa Paige’s lawyer! LOL
Sounds like Fauci & his wife.
How do these characters pass the smell test?
Guess it depends on who’s doing the smelling.
Wonder what they talk about over coffee in the morning
I’ve said it before and here it is again. Although we’ve gotten to the point where it’s not funny. 😡
The Corrupt mafia of the FBI ran point on the coup and will skate once again with no accountability. The Imperial City should be nuked from orbit.
well, let’s see. the fbi under mueller (again) was fooled by gw bush, cheney, rumsfeld, et. al. into believing they weren’t the mossad assets on the inside that helped israel (again outside the u.s. justice department) run 9-11.
i’m ok with that. oh, and the cia just missed it. never saw the medusa touch, never thought the ussr would implode, never thought the taliban would take over afghanistan.
the penalty for stupidity is a lot less than for treason and mass murder. go with it.
Look a wee bit deeper into Heir Bush & family.
If the FBI is so easily duped, then the entire organization is incompetent and needs to be mothballed.
“If.” You know, I know, and most of the country knows that the FBI was NOT duped. They WANTED to get rid of Trump because they are crooked as a dog’s hind leg and he could have put people in place who might out their corruption. Anything that would hinder, handicap or possibly oust Trump while in office they would support.
They will be even less efficient now at doing their putative job because any even moderately informed American knows better than to have any faith, trust or confidence in the FBI. They taught us not to trust or believe them with their blatant lies and partisanship. If I ever end up on a Federal jury and the prosecution case rests on FBI-provided evidence, the prosecution better have something else up their sleeve. If all that ties the defendant to the crime is FBI testimony, that defendant will walk. 302s in the 21st Century just don’t fly.
Gretchen-gate?
There is no if!
They win until Jesus comes.
Jesus might unplug them before He comes.
Who gave the order??? We all know.
Durham = Barr 2.0
It will be interesting to see if the Clinton machine has any life left in it or if they fold up their tents and let the Obama faction of the Democrat party finally control the reins of this donkey.
The Clintonista crime family is well past their use by date.
Oh, they’ll get a bad newspaper editorial or two.
But they will still ride off into the sunset with some rat-holed millions from the Clinton Foundation.
(While YOUR 401k loses ground daily)
Justice will come only from the hand of God. Not any dirty court or investigation.
But what about that insurance plan they claimed to have? More people pretending not to know things.
It looks like SC Durham isn’t really “Special” after all!
Following the trial through reporting by John Solomon and his news outlet: https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/second-day-sussmann-trial-opening-statements-witness?utm_source=breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
I recall the reporting that CIA Brennen briefed President Obama on the Clinton campaign plan to create the Russia hoax. I’ve always believed that the insider FBI/DOJ officials’ defense, when interviewed by Special Counsel (both Mueller and Durham), was: “I was acting on express orders of the President of the United States.” And with that, the involved FBI/DOJ officials walk away from prosecution in US District Court.
But then again, I may be mistaken.
If the premier law enforcement agency can be duped by the Clinton’s they’re not very primer are they? If I ever get called for jury duty for the FBI I will decline on the basis that the FBI was duped by the Clinton’s and couldn’t investigate themselves out of a paper bag.
The FBI “may have” been duped into getting involved in the investigation.
But, that doesn’t mean the FBI should have ignored information/facts indicating that there was not there, there.
It also doesn’t mean that it was OK for key FBI employees to leak information to the MSM.
Was the FBI stupid, or were they just going along with the lies? Either way, the FBI did not do its job in fact it did the opposite of its job.
Once again the disclaimer: not one politician (or FBI elite) was harmed during this process.
Barr, a sputtering disappointment who double-spoke/fooled President Trump in the beginning. We can only hope that President Trump will have the last word with regards to this now immortal Weasel…
Bondo Barr had the temerity to write a deceptive book about his time as A/G in the DOJ. sundance’s Barr tweet sums it up well.
It takes a considerable amount of arrogance and deceit to portray yourself as a paragon of virtue and goodness after you sell out your country and let the corruption and decline continue unopposed due in part to your cowardice or complicity.
God Bless the USA because there doesn’t yet seem to be any humans in power that are willing to stop the decline of the USA and punish the corrupt and the guilty if they are too far up the corrupt ladder. It is still open hunting season on P Trump, his family and his attorneys but Hillary’s Sussman will likely be “exonerated” soon and write a poor me book, praising Hillary etc.
Does Sussman have to prove they weren’t duped to win his case? Might this be a case of Durham letting Sussman’s lawyers do some heavy lifting for him?
My point above. Folks are justifiably confused about the scope and purpose of this trial. Sussman is charged with lying to the FBI. Whether the FBI believed him or not is irrelevant. Whether or not Hillary knew about it is irrelevant. Same with Joffe, same with everyone else. One charge, one crime, one conviction. It is a solid brick for the greater edifice. Team Durham is setting Elias, Joffe etc. up like bowling pins. I suggest we support Durham and his team and start understanding how this has to roll, one small step at a time.
I swear the other day I heard that there is solid evidence that Strzok and someone else (Baker? McCabe?) were in cahoots with Sussman and that Sussman’s call to Baker was just a ruse, a cover-up. IIRC it was gleaned from a Durham filing prior to the start of the trial. I’m sorry I can’t remember the exact source, I’ve been watching so many Fox and Sky News Australia videos during the past week.
Tracy Beanz discussed the McCabe memo that could possibly be evidence that they all (Baker & McCabe)knew Sussman was working on behalf of Hillary. Interesting point is that Durham does not want to enter the memo as evidence while Sussman does. It could prove that Sussmsn didn’t mislead, but pulls the veil off the FBI…..Durham does not want to get on that slope.
Why doesn’t he want to get on that slope? I want to see sussman argue in court that the FBI was fully aware and on board. Let him talk in court.
You need Sussman to be found guilty of the crime of lying to the FIBs, as to which it is irrelevant as to whether they believed him or not.
It doesn’t.
There are some who say all roads lead back to Hillary Clinton. I think there’s a fork in the road , veering off to Obama Avenue …
Went to look at Charlie Savage Twitter feed, I am blocked!
Was it something I said?
Lol
Just like the Whitmer gang, all roads lead to the FBI
If truth is withheld, justice cannot be served. If justice cannot be served, criminality reigns.
Which is where we are today and will remain until our demise as a nation unless we turn from evil and make truth the gold standard.
So what is the bigger sham? The Russia hoax/collusion or the prosecution of the perpetrator(s)?
“Its a republic, if you can keep it.”
Having proved the DOJ/FBI are easily duped, we may conclude their services are no longer needed. So there’s that.
Well yeah SD but no one knows what’s gonna happen… as more of these cockroaches get dragged out of the darkness things can become pretty unpredictable pretty quickly.
I see a bad moon rising and I fear for my grandchildren’s future. I pray that it will not be one of tyranny, crime, and war. Alas, we have all of that already due to the coup that was perpetrated by the traitors, foreign and domestic, within our government today.
Not only duped, they are rife with mental illness.
The question that needs to be answered is whether Sussman has gone to trial to save his ass or to protect the cabal. Hard to say at this point.
The creation and establishment of a government of, by and for the people will not be tolerated by the elites. They prefer slaves (black and white) to do their bidding and have been busy dismantling our constitutional republic ever since it was established. We just happen to be living in the era they will finally take it down. The only question remaining is will their be patriots (as in 1776) to step up and save We the People from slavery or not? If yes then who, when and how? So far I see a lot of hand wringing and gnashing of teeth. Organize, prepare and train for the day patriots will be needed.
When a group of people are participants in a conspiracy involving felonies, in order for all of them to walk away free, none of them can be prosecuted.
Hillary Clinton’s organization lost the election in 2016. They are the designated “sacrificial goat” when a sacrifice is required. The people being targeted are low enough to not be directly tied to the principals in the crime. And to ease their burden, they are getting treated with kid gloves.
All of Obama’s senior administrators, the DOJ senior leadership, DNI, CIA, FBI, all of Hillary Clinton’s senior advisors … everyone involved in this gets to walk because if you get one, and he turns, you can get them all. So, you never place any of the senior conspirators in legal jeopardy.
US CODE 793
(f)Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense,
(1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed,
or
(2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
There is no intent in this statute. Their is no intent implied in this statute. James Comey stood up and unilaterally exonerated Hillary Clinton of life in prison. All John Durham is doing is following through on Comey’s actions.
When someone tells you to “move on” from the Russia Collusion and 2020 Election Theft, tell them you will move on when the people responsible for 2 Sham Impeachments and the theft of the 2020 Presidential Election are prosecuted.
Heard Barr interviewed by Ben Shapiro, no Trump supporter. Barr has a new book. Fairly good questioning. Barr damned Trump with “faint praise,” acknowledging Trump’s actions were mostly unfairly criticized by the Leftist media. More telling I think was when Barr, supposed AG and head of the Justice Department, admitted the Leftist political bias in Justice that kept BLM and Antifa thugs out of jail while zealously prosecuting conservatives. Apparently he was powerless to change this because the bias is so pervasive. Jeff Sessions may have run into these same roadblocks. Barr did express the hope that Republicans might hold the White House long enough to effect lasting changes in the bureaucracy. No surprise that Durham will be blocked from a fullest exposure of the culpability of three letter agencies in their treasonous attempt to overthrow the lawfully elected president.
So let me speculate on how this plays out in the long run. FBI/DOJ is judged easily fooled ergo incompetent (if not malicious). While we all (I think) want Sussman and Hildabeast along with her cronies to be charged and imprisoned this is just a stepping stone for the real fireworks come 2024. Trump, if he runs, will have to clean out both agencies to get rid of the idiots that cost time, effort and human treasure. Those agencies will finally get a much needed enema. And will be split up, shipped to other parts of the country to avoid a focused generalization in DC. From that the IC will also be targets for reorg. Which will solve the problem of this happening anytime soon. But how to deal with those who knowingly broke the law…Back in 2004 there was a huge scandal in DC over contracting officers selling themselves and the contract they were assigned (particularly in the DoD) to the highest bidders for personal gain. The higher ups called all the contractors into a meeting and told all of them that if they were involved is such nefarious dealings that if they resigned immediately there would be no criminal charges brought. Half of them resigned…that’s hundreds of people.
So I foresee the same thing happening with the FBI/DOJ/IC community. All brought about by this trial. Even if Sussman is the only person to be convicted the ramifications are extraordinary.
Unfortunately, the best chance in getting bad actors in FBI and DOJ will be by the accused defense.
FBI/DOJ did not follow their own procedures or notify Congress as required.
The defense will bring that forward if need be.
“Concerned citizens bring possible evidence of a crime to FBI/DOJ and FBI/DOJ do not follow their own procedures in verifying the evidence before submitting FISA applications”
It’s a very good defense, no?
Durham = Russiagate, The Final Troll
Russiagate and Durham could have gone away quietly, easily with the suppression and propaganda of the state media. But no, the people who know what is going on must be trolled and humiliated, much in the same way we are to accept and praise LBGT…., only in this case the DOJ/FBI end up the victim, the oppressed.
I completely and respectfully disagree. One brick at a time, please. For purposes of this case, the only issue is whether Sussman lied, not whether there was a conspiracy, and not whether the FBI knew or didn’t know. Those issues are not for the jury in the case! By yielding the point that the FBI is sacrosanct, by stating that this has nothing to do with Clinton or Trump, you remove the clutter which might distract the jury, or worse give them reasons to find a guilty party innocent just to get their favorite politician off the hot seat. This also removes the Sussman counterargument that “my lie did not cause the FBI to act, they already were in on it” is off the table. This is a well-laid trap for the FBI. The judge already limited the scope of the trial to this single question – did Sussman lie? And removed all of the clutter around that question. Once that lie is proved, and Sussman convicted, then you keep going. This is not a case of bondo and spray paint.
So Sussman’s defense is he didn’t intend to lie to the FBI….worked for HRC.
An insider i.e. Deep Stater being tried in a city run by the “Deep State” with jurors chosen from the “Deep State” area. What are the odds? The United States resembles a third-world country more each day. The longer the Deep State lives, the more America dies.
By dragging them from their offices and palaces as done in histories past.
It’s so sad to read all these comments and read of the death of what used to be The United States of America. There MUST be a way to resuscitate this country and bring it back to the life worth living. It’s almost an embarrassment to say I live here.
I honestly don’t know what to do to make this country what it once was, but I’ll do anything I can to help out. I do think one of the first things that needs to be done is get rid of the FBI and re-vamp and give the CIA more restrictive rules to follow. We need to make the laws actually BE the laws, not hedgeworthy pieces of junk.
We need term limits for all civil employees who are appointed to or elected to office. We need to restrict the elected officials from voting on their own raises and put that in the hands of the voters, too. Those retiring from office should have to live on the Social Security allowance for themselves (which would already be way above normal). No free rides. I might think otherwise if these elected persons had really worked for the voters and the best of this country, but they’ve only worked to fill their own coffers – which should be illegal.
I hope others might agree with at least part of what I’ve written. I know there’s more that needs to be said and done.
Head fake…we must save the sacrosanct FBI…it can do no wrong