Spygate is unravelling

[Svartalf]

Yeah, I mistook the writer...

[Brian Peacock]

I think that was Jeffrey Dahmer.

[Svartalf]

no, I think it was one Roy Lewis... but I'll know tomorrow if I manage to find the damn book

[L'Emmerdeur]

Interesting. Durham is looking less like a straight-shooter and more like a partisan hack.

'John Durham Just Made False Statements to Congress'

John Durham—the special counsel who was appointed by then-Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the FBI’s investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal and who utterly failed to produce evidence it was a hoax—testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday. In doing so, he made false statements to Congress.

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During his turn to question Durham, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) asked Durham about the infamous meeting held in Trump Tower on June 9, 2016, when Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort—three of Trump’s top campaign advisers—sat down with an emissary of the Russian government whom they were told had dirt on Hillary Clinton to share. An email sent to Trump Jr. from a business associate that set up this session informed the candidate’s son that this meeting was part of a secret Russian scheme to help Trump’s campaign. Durham dismissed the matter, remarking, “People get phone calls all the time from individuals who claim to have information like that.”

This meeting signaled to Moscow that the Trump camp was receptive to Russian endeavors to intervene in the election to boost Trump’s chances, and Schiff expressed surprise that Durham found it insignificant. “Are you really trying to diminish the importance of what happened here?” he asked.

Durham answered: “The more complete story is that they met, and it was a ruse, and they didn’t talk about Mrs. Clinton.”

That is not true.

The report produced by special counsel Robert Mueller notes that the Russian emissary, a lawyer named Natalia Veselnitskaya, did discuss Clinton: “Participants agreed that Veselnitskaya stated that the Ziff brothers [an American family investment firm] had broken Russian laws and had donated their profits to the DNC or the Clinton Campaign. She asserted that the Ziff brothers had engaged in tax evasion and money laundering in both the United States and Russia.” (There was no evidence that Ziff Brothers Investments had engaged in wrongdoing.)

The Mueller report points out that Trump Jr. zeroed in on this: “Trump Jr. asked follow-up questions about how the alleged payments could be tied specifically to the Clinton Campaign, but Veselnitskaya indicated that she could not trace the money once it entered the United States.” The report quotes a participant in the meeting recalling “that Trump Jr. asked what they [the Russians] have on Clinton.”

Durham’s characterization of the meeting—that it had nothing to do with Clinton—lined up with what the Trump camp first claimed when the meeting was revealed a year afterward, in 2017. At that time, Trump Jr. issued a false statement dictated by his father that insisted the conversation had focused “primarily” on the adoption of Russian children by Americans. That was a phony cover story. Later on, when more information came out, even the elder Trump conceded that the point of the meeting was to gather negative information on Clinton from a foreign adversary. “This was a meeting to get information on an opponent,” Trump said. Yet years later, Durham was still pushing the original disinformation about the meeting propagated by Trump and his allies.

On the other hand, the sleazoid Matt Gaetz accuses Durham of being 'part of the cover-up,' so not a great day for him.

[L'Emmerdeur]

It seems the world will have to wait till Trump gets his slimy arse back in the White House to see Obama and his associates brought to justice for the unforgivable things they did. All hail Dear Leader! Orange man good!!!

[Cunt]

Obama and his associates brought to justice for the unforgivable things they did.

Which ones?
Droning US citizens?
Suspicious death of house chef?
Wearing a tan suit?
Being ignorant of spying on his opponents campaign?
Treating his brother as a pariah?

ETA - wait - I know - you must have been referring to barking about rising sea levels and global warming, then buying waterfront to make fun of the rubes after

[rasetsu]

It's getting a little hot in here.