According to who? Durham? What a joke.
According to who? Durham? What a joke.
And an FBI lawyer pleaded guilty to a felony for forging an email used as justification for the wiretapping [2].
[0] - https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fisa-court-confirms-two-...
[1] - https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ig-report-details-signif...
[2] - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/ex-fbi-lawyer-agree...
You listening to yourself rn?
How do you know that in order to make the claim?
Here is a list: https://www.axios.com/2019/11/15/trump-associates-convicted-...
The most serious was Manafort, and it was related to his previous work in Ukraine, before he was hired by the Trump campaign. Cohen was convicted for fraud and campaign finance violations, and then Papadopoulos, Flynn, and Gates were convicted of lying to law enforcement and got slaps on the wrist.
The Mueller investigation was a complete flop, and to top it all off they deleted their own cellphone records in potential violation of federal record keeping laws.
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/doj-foia-...
That was never followed up on due to _other_ Trump admin corruption. Congratulations, they managed to cheat the rigged system. It's good to be rich and well connected if you're going to crime I guess.
Those charges aren't the end goal of a serious investigation. Papadopoulos, for example served 12 days in jail. Flynn was pardoned and served zero. They are just a pressure tactic to try to convince low-level people to provide information or testimony. The fact that they cite those convictions as crowning achievements of their investigation means that they utterly failed in accomplishing their goal.
Being pardoned by your co-conspirator doesn't exactly scream innocence.
> The fact that they cite those convictions as crowning achievements of their investigation means that they utterly failed in accomplishing their goal.
Yeah, wonder why it failed. Almost like there was a corrupt criminal with pardon powers who told everyone to lie or clam up.
And then what crimes he did find for Trump, he refused to state right out on the even dumber theory that the President is above the law.
Manafort's work in Ukraine, by the way? Doing sketchy shit on behalf of Russia there.
Definitely not suspicious that his next gig was Trump's campaign manager, working for free. What was he getting out of that again?
All his stories revolve around a single person in the Russia investigation who may have been targeted incorrectly. The rest of the investigation turned up a lot of people going to jail, but there were errors in one case.
Source[2] is about someone adding the annotation "not a source" to an email about the person (not forging an entire email out of thin air) when asked to check if that person was a source. Everyone involved believes that was an innocent error, probably summarizing the contents of the email they got back when they forwarded it to someone else. That is, A asked B to ask C if someone was a source. C emailed back to B who added the line "not a source" and forwarded it on to A. Turns out A was a source.
His sources [0] [1] explicitly says that there was no evidence it was politically motivated. The second paragraph of [1] is:
> The inspector general found no evidence that the Russia probe was launched for political reasons but did conclude that the FBI’s FISA process fell “far short of the requirement in FBI policy that they ensure that all factual statements in a FISA application are ‘scrupulously accurate,’” according to the extensive report.
I see the same argument attacking the credibility of the whistleblower who was a business partner of Hunter Biden when they received money from the Chinese energy company CEFC - "oh your whistleblower was indicted by the DOJ so he has no credibility" - well, the accusation begs the question that the Republicans are complaining about in the first place, namely why wasn't Hunter Biden similarly indicted for the same FARA violations as his business partner who's blowing the whistle on his lack of indictment? It's flawed logic. You can't cover up your crimes by arresting the criminal you did the crimes with and then saying he's got no credibility because he's a criminal.
Yep, 100%