Closing arguments wrapped up on the trial of Igor Danchenko, the primary source who delivered fraudulent information to Christopher Steele for transmission to the FBI. The jury now has the case and it’s likely they will not convict.
When you accept the FBI knew the Steele Dossier was a fabricated assembly of political dirt against Trump, the trial of Danchenko becomes more about the FBI corruption than lies by the defendant. How can the same DOJ who willingly and willfully benefitted from the lies, now turn around and prosecute the liar. Hillary Clinton lawyers providing the defense for Danchenko used this angle to criticize the prosecution in closing arguments.
(Via CNN) […] Danchenko lawyer Stuart Sears said prosecutors brazenly cast aside information that “doesn’t support their narrative that he’s a liar.” Sears pointed out how Durham turned on his own witnesses after they provided evidence that helped the defense.
“The special counsel attacked them mercilessly,” Sears said. “They attacked the credibility of the very witnesses they called in here, because they didn’t say what they wanted them to say.” Sears added: “The government’s own evidence in this case proves that the defendant is not guilty.”
Durham’s team urged jurors to convict Danchenko on Monday, telling them to “look at his own words” in emails from 2016 that they believe prove that he later misled the FBI about his ties to a possible dossier source. “You didn’t check your common sense at the courthouse door,” prosecutor Michael Keilty said. “You need to use it.”
Keilty said Danchenko gave a “shifting story” to the FBI agents who interviewed him in 2017, while they were trying to corroborate the explosive allegations in the dossier that Trump’s campaign was colluding with the Russian government to win the presidency.
“The FBI surveilled a US citizen for nearly a year based on those lies,” Keilty said, referring to the wiretaps of former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. The FBI affidavits used to secure those surveillance warrants included material that came from the Trump-Russia dossier.
Danchenko’s lawyer also blasted the Trump-era Justice Department for “exposing” him as an FBI informant and for launching the probe that led to his prosecution.
“He was trying to help the FBI, and now they’re indicting him for it,” Sears said.
As a paid informant, Danchenko significantly assisted multiple FBI probes between 2017 and 2020. But the FBI was forced to cut ties with Danchenko in late 2020, after the Justice Department indirectly outed him as a dossier source.
“He deserved more than to be exposed because a bunch of politicians put politics over national security,” Sears said. (read more)
At this point, what difference does it make? LOL
Its a laser pointer, being waved around, to distract.
Only to the degree that it is ultimately successful ( in fortifying the false narrative that “Muh Russia” was a political dirty trick by the Clinton campaign, and Russian disinfo which fooled the FBI) does it “matter”.
Totally ignoring all of the efforts by FBI/CIA agents to, seperately from the Clinton campaign, lay the “groundwork” for the “Insurance policy” which glommed onto the same “Russia/Trump collusion” false narrative, in order to”Watergate” PDJT.
That is being swept under the rug, by Durham.
THAT is the “real story”.
All this is just chaff and countermeasures.
None. Durham prosecuted the wrong people or at the very least did not prosecute the most important criminals, the actors at the FBI, DOJ and within intel agencies that attempted to drive Trump from office breaking a variety of federal laws. That is why their totalitarian type behavior is continuing even today against people like Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro, Mike Lindell, the Jan 6th protestors and many others we don’t even know about.
Mr. Keilty tells the biggest lie of all to the jury, that Danchenko misled the FBI.
“The FBI surveilled a US citizen for nearly a year based on those lies,”
He forgot to add that when Danchenko told the FBI the Dossier was was Bull…they already knew it was Bull?.…but they refused to hear him shifting to the truth in January 2017, because the FBI needed to keep the lie floating. Is ignoring the truth a lie?
The act of making him a CHS was the FBI paying to keep the lie hidden—locked in the safe, which was Danchenko. And when Danchenko accepted payment it made him a POS liar as well. So there you have it—the FBI colluding with a Hillary Clinton, Brookings groomed Russian.
Danchenko did lie to the Bureau about communicating with people. He did it so well they needed to hire him to keep their lies hidden.
This wasn’t about Danchenko
Awaiting the arrests of Laufman and Contreras, without which nothing meaningful has transpired.
Who promised us Justice?
All that was ever promised was the pursuit of Justice.
And, shouldn’teven expect THAT, until AFTER the swamp is drained, can’t expect to eat the fruit, before you even plant the tree.
Pursuit of justice is correct. Justice was pursued and chased away
BAA, BAA, BAA.
Lady Justice was holding the scale of truth in her hand. They thought SHE HAD A WEAPON so they shot her.
The tick tock club, told us it would shock the soul of the nation and arrests would be made. Stopped watching Hannity, apparently my soul needed more than empty promises.
The wheels of justice grind slowly over the bones of patriots.
Even the low hanging fruit was unreachable. I’d like to thank Bill Bar for the bondo job. He sanded so smooth. And a shout out to John Durham. Great paint job.
Onto Faux Nooz for the wax and polish.
I think I bought a car once Bill practiced his sanding on. It fooled my inspection.
Did it look like Cheech and Chong’s van?
Never going to seat a honest jury anywhere near DC
Or get an honest Judge! The DC Circuit Court is run by obama and his Judges!!!
Would we get better if we were run by the mafia as was? I frequently think the answer is yes.
There can be no clear distinction drawn today between intelligence and organized crime. The two are, and have been, symbiotic for a very… very… long time now.
Exactly so. Even, I’d say, both under the same flag.
And the way to defeat them is the same. No mercy, sweep the leg
I beg to differ Sir…
La Cosa Nostra in their finest years, never made anything close to the money, nor controlled anything as powerful as the Jobama-Clinton crime family…
besides,over time their leadership…. went to prison
The Italians went to prison, the real financial brains of organized crime did not.
One of the most successful disinformation campaigns in American history by the fake media and Hollywood over the past century has been to ignore their brethern connections in the smarter tribe of mobsters.
With the Mafia, there would be a nice sit down dinner with Frank Sinatra or Tony LaRosa playing in the background and when you’re not expecting it, an ice pick to the base of the skull.
I’m listening…
(seriously asking for forgiveness later)
Up until around the 70’s they pretty much took care of their own if they got out of line. After that things got sketchy when they all started killing each other off or ratting out their bosses.
Which is exactly why I said “as was”.
The concept of ” justice” within our system has been destroyed. People speak of a “two tiered” justice system.
There is really no such thing. We either have it where it is dispensed fairly for all and without favour, or we don’t.
We don’t.
Our adversaries would certainly be afraid of us. Much better than being the laughingstock of the world as we are now.
A friend of mine who teaches at a University in Japan said they watch us and feel they are witnessing the suicide of the United States of America. How can I stop it? I want to.
I fear if We The People don’t stop these traitors… there is nothing left. America as we knew and loved her… has died.
Chilling.
He’s not alone, JWoo. The president of El Salvador tweeted months back it was clear this destruction was being done by entities within the US government.
We aren’t committing suicide. We are being murdered. And all our body parts sold off in short order. The depth of the evil carrying this out is for me unfathomable.
Blessings to you, good sir. Pray diligently and unremittingly.🙏
Praying in unity with you, Betsy. I am a Christian, single mother of a teen girl… wondering what future I can promise her?
I only promise her the faithfulness of our Lord and only Savior, Jesus Christ!
I apologize, JWoo. I have followed your beautiful story on the Prayer Open Thread, so I knew you were a Christian. Your daughter is so blessed you have you for her mother.
And as a mother and a grandmother as well, I, too, worry for all of mine. All we can do is trust them to God. Because the time comes when they will leave the nest, and that is hard…turning them over to a world that cares nothing for them. Here is where faith comes in, as you know. He is doing better things for them than we can hope or pray for I must believe. 🙏
Before claiming that America has died, first one needs to define “What is America?”
There is greatness in America. That greatness is not dead.
To be certain, there is significant corruption and scandal perpetrated by some but not all. The country, under the current administration led by 81 million votes POTATUS, is certainly on a downward trajectory. But it’s not dead.
A few short years ago, our country was similarly being driven on a downward trajectory. That’s when one particular successful businessman, real estate mogul, media mogul, non-politician said, “Not so fast”. He threw his big beautiful hat into the ring and said, “America is a beautiful place. It’s like no other place on earth. Let’s Make America Great Again.”
As a builder, he was able to see through the rot and determine it has “good bones” and is worth saving. He also knew no one is going to invest in or stay at your real estate if it’s infested with rats. Big task at hand but his particular set of skills made him uniquely qualified for the job.
In a few short months of campaigning, he taught us how to start to believe in ourselves again. He led with passion. He showed us it doesn’t have to be this way. To one particular group he said, “What the hell have you got to lose”. We can do better. We can get our country back to the greatness we knew and loved. More importantly we can get back to the America we want for our children. It’s not only our right, it’s our duty.
So I go back to my initial question, “What is America?” Is it a relative few dirty politicians, dirty public servants and dirty businessmen currently attempting to run our country into the ground? Or is it We The People, the 330,000,000 good citizens of the United States of America?
President Trump, our Cheerleader in Chief, showed us the way.
There’s a lot of work ahead but after the cleanup, our country is going to be the best most beautiful country, one like no one has ever seen.
We The People need to Git ‘er done, Big League!
MAGA!
As I said in another thread, MAGA M…
There is the United States…
and then there is America, all of us who are patriots and lovers of our fellow brothers and sisters. Those who work hard to support ourselves and our families and communities, those of us who worship our God and pray for His help and mercies and grace to sustain us as we reclaim what was stolen from us.
We are America.
Agree, Bets. America is not the current regime, or the corrupt governmental entities. But the people, who are united, under G-d, and love country and family.
Yes indeed. We are two separate entities. I still believe God sheds his grace on one, and the other is owned by forces not of this world.
America was murdered and true Americans are tied to a chair as a toddler plays with a gun pointed to our collective heads !
The top toddler is Biden and it spirals down from there
They aren’t going to go after the Architects of “the Insurance Policy”; McConnell and Ryan.
They aren’t even going to go after the “actives” (Rosenstien, Mueller, Comey, etc.)
So it doesn’t matter where the trial is conducted, if you don’t have the real culprits in ‘the dock’.
Or a real Federal prosecuting district attorney! Those two ingredients “real culprits” an real “prosecuting attorneys” are what was missing in the Durham fairy tale special!!!
Pretty soon Americans are going to have had enough and start dishing out justice themselves as they tire of watching all who aim to destroy us go free.
And that is the crux of the matter. No matter how good the evidence might be, Durham knew there would be no conviction in that jurisdiction.
Sadly jury’s are generally comprised of those either unable to get out of it , unemployed or stupid .
Many don’t even recover what it cost to park for the day . Just what you need people getting screwed by the state to serve on a jury
Wow very important but not enough to pay You fairly
Heck, in the county I live in, juror parking costs $5 per day and is over a block away from the courthouse!
John Adams on the Founding: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
We lost the cultural/social battle in the ’60s.
The sham trial concludes. Time to hammer down the cover on any bondo that’s left in the can.
So basically the defense has had to point out that the FBofIgnominy are the real criminals, and PDJT was completely innocent from the beginning.
What a waste of time and money.
NO entity is better at wasting time and OUR money than the U.S. Gov’mint.
Maybe not. It appears President Trump was found innocent.
Not hard when he was known innocent to all, especially to those that had to resort to lies to try to take him down.
When can we blow up and defund the Democrat FIB? White Supremacists are more dangerous than the Mexican drug cartels and inner city gangs? More dangerous than an open southern border?
Justice is a joke in this country.
The DOJ successfully prosecuting someone for providing lies solicited and knowingly promulgated by the FBI wouldn’t be justice anyway.
There is no justice in this country for those who deserve it because the injustice department and the judicial system in this country are the criminals.
And if they aren’t, the Feebs will be looking for a piece of the action.
See Nassar for example.
I dont even pay attention anymore..I have never held my breath, I would have been dead in Nov 2020.
We all died a little in Nov 2020
Indeed, I still feel it, and it got worse on J6.
“So if we pay you $200,000 or say, $1 million (not a bribe), would that help you to verify the lies that we, the FBI, planted in the Media?
Wink, wink, nod, nod, say no more, say no more.
Many would lie for less than $1 million.
The MSM spin should be amazing either way – to protect the FBI, while implying it proves Trump’s guilt!
Lotsa bodies suggest you aren’t.
The elephant in the room . . .
Clarence Thomas must be getting ulcers everyday, watching the relentless dismantling and reframing that’s going on.
Not a day passes without ‘fundamental change’ everywhere you look.
Permanent immunity for Danchenko (double jeopardy) and discrediting the evidence in the public perception. The evidence isn’t good enough to convict so it much be weak will be the perception by the ignorant public.
Comey is having lunch with Mueller and Barr at their favorite country club in DC. All are smiling without a care in the world.
Let me know when someone goes to prison for pulling the greatest con job in politics I have ever seen!
I hear Hell is going to freeze over…
But I hear they all have incredible “tell all” book deals.
And pensions.
Yeah, he’s bumbling his way through a back-door exoneration of the whole lot of them.
I am sure Durham is compromised as are most people in DC of some import.
During the Kavanaugh circus is occurred to me the reason the the left had their hair on fire about him was because there WAS NOTHING IN HIS PAST to hold vs him. The soy boy is a boy scout (that will prove a disappointment to our side in the coming decades), but a honest to God boy scout nonetheless.
The FBI does the background checks on everyone that is anyone and by now the Hoover dirt library must be the size of a large bank vault. This explains (to me, anyway) how so many good people we send to Congress turn to the dark side so quickly. Who among us has no secrets they want kept secret?
I am of the opinion Garland wouldn’t allow Durham to do what needs to be done, but that message was sent to him in a much more discrete and threatening manner.
He has exposed what he could via Sussmann filings and via his exams this wk of the FBI agents.
A coward but I don’t doubt for a minute he would have been stripped of his pension if he had crossed the Uniparty. He will retire when his report is submitted and perhaps write a book to be published posthumously .
U.S. Weapons and Marshal Skills used against American Citizens.
The government has a long history of hiring criminals. Typically, their skills were used against other nations. Example: counterfeiting foreign currency.
Now the government hires Danchenko, but instead of using his skills against other nations. He is told to use his skills against an American citizen. Not just any American citizen, but the American president.
“As part of Operation Enormoz (“enormous”), Soviet agents recruited American and British spies who were committed communists, including several scientists at the Los Alamos laboratory. The extent of Soviet nuclear espionage was unknown until after the war, when the United States and Britain succeeded in deciphering the code used in Soviet telegraphs. Because the decryption project, known as Venona, remained classified until 1995, evidence from it couldn’t be used in court, allowing many suspected spies to escape prosecution.”
It seems that a form of pardon is being used to the benefit of Danchenko and his handlers.
This form of pardon covertly appoints a cooperative prosecutor and/or judge with a jury pool favoring the defendant, avoiding a charge of sedition for those involved.
Remember, classified material was removed from the American President’s office. And, Danchenko was part of that same team by helping to keep the FISA documents in play.
The amount of corruption in America is beyond belief. It is wishful thinking that the swamp will be drained at the ballot box.
There are thousands of corrupt civil servants, both Democrat and Republican, whose daily mission is to promote corruption and profit from doing so. And most will never be found.
Can we send a request for refund to Durham’s offices? Or has he already closed up shop and skedaddled?
He would’ve had to start in order to finish.
Essentially we have corrupt prosecutors trying to convict their own criminal associates to cover for the corrupt institutions I.e., the DOJ and FBI, by whom they are employed. Talk about the fifth level of hell….
And speaking of hell, besides “jerking off” the judicial system all day what do these people do for a living?
The MSM narrative engineers will spin this. Headline: Jury finds that the person responsible for the dossier documenting Trump’s collusion with Russia did not lie.
Win or lose, heads or tails, Orange Man Bad.
.. And that pretty much sums it up , Maquis .
Yippers, I think this one’s a keeper.
If Danchenko isn’t convicted and thrown into prison with a long sentence, Brittney Griner will miss another chance of a prisoner swap with the Russians.
What a crock of …..
Justice delayed is justice denied – our ancestors knew this millennia ago.
You need not lie to people to deceive them: just reveal the facts so slowly that the thread of truth becomes impossible to follow.
Leftists are certain they heard on cable TV, somewhere, years ago, that somebody had all the evidence against Trump. The name slips their minds. And the details they can’t coherently describe will become known when what’s his name speaks up.
The same logic that drives UFO believers to urge the release of all the secret files about Roswell. The primary belief system becomes not a faith in little green men, but a faith in those pesky, elusive files.
” Hillary Clinton lawyers providing the defense for Danchenko” says it all. Danchenko has dirt on Hillary.
“You didn’t check your common sense at the courthouse door,” prosecutor Michael Keilty said. “You need to use it.”
Oh, you don’t want us to do that. Because we’d back a trash truck up the Feddle Courthouse and haul ALL of you away.
Hmmmm, so the DOJ that uses the lies to their benefit and then try to prosecute the Russian liar….what was it Schumer said about 6 ways to Sunday, again?
Man, I wouldn’t be anywhere near any of these actors for the foreseeable future.
We’re all this stuck on the same planet are we not?
Yes, we are. However, I would not want to be within, say, a 50-100 radius of these people…..
Agreed, however, it’s their reach that most concerns me.
I would not be surprised if one of the jurors is named “(Leonid) Daniel Chenkow”. Heck with all the typical jurors in DC who are 90% liberal Government drones, good luck with the verdict.
SO if this investigation is concluded is it safe to let the unclassified Crossfire Hurricane documents be published?
I will go ahead and say it. I win this thread for being first to notice its our old friend Vindman coming down those stairs with Danchenko. I’m having a rough day, I need a win.
Resemblance, but I don’t think that’s him. Hope your day goes better, though. 😉
Agreed, this guy lacks girth, but hoping for our brother to have a better day!
I got the impression the fbi was on trial here.
The FIBs surveilled many, many, many innocent citizen’s based on lies, not to mention all of them were their political opposition, including the President of the United States and they apparently still are.
These people would not know the Constitution or the law if it slapped them in the face and gave them a big TRUMPian kiss.
I laugh when they talk about how citizen TRUMP used to donate to the DIMs.
Yeah, and he donated to Rs, Indies and others too. What’s your point?!
Everyone liked him before he decided to go for the job they might want, but would never be qualified for like him. You all were just using him for the $$$ and the famed name, that HE made famous through decades of careful branding. What, you didn’t get none while the gettin’ was good? No big check selfies with you and TRUMP?
It is kinda’ funny how he went from handing out his own cash, and now to handing out yours through a PAC. A never ending ca$h flow, mainly for the media and political conSultant$ and $uch. It’$ a cottage indu$try with mega cottage$.
And they are jealous of that success too. He is taking $$$ and power away from “them” that they consider “theirs”.
He was a paid informant, he was trying to help the FBI! Ugg, so infuriating. But a pretty damn good argument by the defense. Sussman 2.0 – the FBI knew he was lying so it can’t be a lie. The major flaw of the Durhamn theory in trying to protect Muh institutions. Simply demonstrate to jury the obvious, the FBI was in on it.
Yeah, but he’s smothering any chance of the truth being presented by smothering a peripheral actor with a weak sauce prosecution.
DOJ equivalent of a Congressional Investigate to Exonerate ploy.
Doesn’t matter what the verdict is. The DoJ gets what they want from the trial and that is the investigation into Trump was in good faith based on a lie. The Clintons get what they want because they’re off the hook since Danchenko was the go-between to the FBI. And the swamp gets what they with the Mara Lago documents now moot. (Was in coincidence the raid happened just before the trial?)
So many criminals running free.
So many innocents in government gulags.
What does this all amount to?
Durham blasted the FBI for its handling of Danchenko and its entire Russia collusion probe ; that FBI had a “certain mindset” … ‘clearly’ didn’t do things as it should have. How/what ‘should have’?
The judge in this case told Durham to end his criticism of FBI and proceed with concluding his closing argument.
That’s it? FBI got just a wrist slap?
FBI wasn’t on trial here. Should have been, but they weren’t so judge was correct IMO.
Well, he still gets his win via the old “I tried” routine.
Should have been yet the institutions were on trial alongside Danchenko. Durham recognizing in closing arguments that “the FBI mishandled the investigation at issue” .. the institutions rightly suffered. Danchenko eventual ‘not guilty’ will have him spared. Is there ANY reasonable doubt as to the FBI’s incompetence – and guilt?
I guess we’ll see if Virginia’s judge and jury are as corruptible as D.C.’s
“At this point what difference does it make…”
For almost three years AFTER the FBI and DOJ learned that the Russian Collusion Dossier was a hoax in January 2017 because the guy who wrote it told them and that the Secret Russian Cellphone in Trump Tower was a hoax because the CIA told them the FBI and DOJ continued to try and FRAME THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES for a crime that, they knew, never even happened! For this act of sedation and treason DURHAM has found not a single FBI or DOJ official responsible?????
“For this act of sedation and treason DURHAM has found not a single FBI or DOJ official responsible?????”
Correct.
As for the nation: stick a fork in it – it is done.
There is only one viable option at this point: States where sanity and integrity still prevail need to begin the process of gaining (or regaining) their independence, to assert their right to self-determination, to remove themselves/ourselves from the criminal cabal that is ruling over all of us. The Texas Nationalist Movement is leading that effort in Texas.
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#NationalDivorce
You are correct Sir!
I appreciate the information that Durham has uncovered but the lack of prosecutions for all the scumbags at FBI and DOJ including Mueller who were involved in the smear job on Pres. Trump is infuriating. I guess when Durham is done we will find via a report why no charges were filed against so many. Who was supervising these scum informants at the FBI? Thus far there has been zero accountability for this.
Pull the string and it unravels all the way to Obama. It needs to happen but it won’t. Obama Corp created a crime syndicate which is the fourth branch.
“Thus far there has been zero accountability for this.”
Nor will there be. Team Hell will be in the Stanley Cup finals before anyone of consequence is called to account for these outrages.
This show trial isn’t worth wasting much time on
I’d argue against any talented and moral young American to join the feds. They are largely corrupt cowards, with the exception of Steven Friend and other whistleblowers…..
I’d be embarassed if a fed was my neighbors, churchmen or if their kids went to school w mine.
But Durham isn’t done.
Correct. He has a few million in
bribesbook sales to collect by a from a ghost written bookDon’t count on me to buy a copy of Durham’s book. I already know enough about Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller Probe, thanks to Sundance.
It is Sundance, who should write a book about the FBI/CIA/DNC/HRC roles in spying on President Trump. He did the real research work and compiled all the information and connected the dots, better than any other journalist or investigator that I have seen.
Absolutely.
A tome by Sundance on this matter would be definitive.
Every leftist parasite leaves me needing a shower every time I hear them speak.
Like the prosecutor that hid evidence clearing a man charged with murder after he served 15 years for a life sentence . When it was proven he hid that evidence and railroaded this poor guy from his beautiful country home in retirement OH WELL …
May all corrupt individuals rot in hell
DC, including the federal government apparatus and the corrupt DC federal judiciary must be broken down, split up, and moved to other areas of the country. So much power and corruption in one central location is deadly for our freedom.
pathetic is the deep state
If for nothing else, the key unioarty rino crats have been exposed for We The People to See and Witness first hand!!
President Trump has fought these traitors every step of the way exposing each and everyone of them!!
Whe the republicans take back the government- Beijing Mitch McConnell and spineless Kevin McCarthy and their supporters need to be removed along with Rona romney McDaniel and uncle Mitty the sellout!!
There needs to be real fighters heading the judiciary committees by the republicans and we know who they all are!!
The j6 committee members, every single one of them, need to be pursued with a vingence along with the doj and fbi as well as the rest of the entire intelligence community!! They all need to be purged!!
The Clinton’s think that they got away with murder thru their treason but I personally do not believe that!!
And no scans isna bin oscummer and his entire former administration need to be hounded as well with an undying and unrelenting vengeance!!
The fat lady has not yet sang her last solo nor is it all over until it is all over!!
Look at what the Saudi’s have done to the American deep state by cutting oil production and thumbing their noses at the joebama traitors!!
Oscummer has been dead quiet because he and Michael have been exposed for the slimey scum ridden traitors that they are!!
The real long arm of the law will go after the joebama’s, the oscummers, the Clinton’s, the bushes and carter at some point in time in the future!!
Didn’t the Beatles have a hit song titled “instant karma will get you”??!!
The whole deepstate and its players have been exposed!! Now poetic justice comes at the date, time and manner of the choosing by the global “patriots” !!
Big tech is already starting to be flushed down the bowl with the rest of the sh*t and crud!!