John Durham's "bombshell" distraction

[kentuck]

Nothing distracts Republicans like the mention of Hillary Clinton.

It appears that John Durham is ready to complete his questionable "investigation" that has now taken longer than the initial Mueller investigation he was charged to investigate.

Why now?

Republicans need a distraction from the Arizona "audit" that has been ordered by a judge to be made public.

They need a distraction from the election debacle that just happened in California.

They need a distraction from the Insurrection of January 6th.

They need a distraction from their long list of crimes against the American people.

They need a distraction from their unpopular windmill attack upon the Covid vaccine.

So, this is the perfect time for John Durham to indict a former lawyer for the Clinton Foundation for maybe lying to the FBI?

That is close enough to Hillary Clinton to draw their attention away from the myriad of scandals that now embrace their Party.

Nothing can distract them like Hillary.

[Kaleva]

1. They seem to be already pretty distracted from all you mentioned

Dictator Biden's evil plan to jab all Patriots' with the deadly vaccine consumes them. There's also the blatant theft of the California recall election.

[calimary]

2. Good grief they're rattled by her!

The effect that one strong, brilliant, and effective woman can have …

What was so doggone threatening about her?

And they’re STILL rattled by her. What does THAT tell you?

[Scrivener7]

6. Lady parts are really, really scary to them. That shounds like a joke, but it isn't.

The idea of women in power brings them to their knees. Much like the idea of brown in power.

Because it means their mediocre selves don't get to rule over everyone anymore.

All that we are seeing today is terror over that fact.

[Harker]

8. The good news is that we're resplendent with strong, brilliant, effective women. n/t

[pwb]

3. I think we know the game with them now.

Many use to fall for the diversions. Now we know where to look. When a puke says look over here, look over there?

[gab13by13]

4. Merrick Garland let the case proceed,

he could have shut it down which means;

1. There is a case, not earth shattering, but a case.
2. Garland is going out of his way to not be accused of being partisan.

[jrthin]

5. A thought: sometimes, when one goes out of their

way to not be accused of being partisan, justice escapes.

[Scrivener7]

7. I really hope he is busy with other things. It would be great to see evidence of that.

[2Gingersnaps]

12. Garland should save the time and energy wasted on expecting reason from that crowd.

Just as Brett Kavanaugh will always be the drunken perv the FBI received 4500 tips on and did not investigate, who committed perjury to get on the Supreme Court, and Amy Coney Barrett is a Talibangelical-Garland will always be the guy Obama nominated and never got a hearing because dirty deeds are OKIYAAR.

The pretzel logic compares to the idea that the FBI, neutered by tRump, infiltrated and false flagged those true Red patriots on January 6. That's what "Justice" (under Barr) gets for getting in bed with Proud Boys and Oaf Keepers.

[lagomorph777]

27. Bingo. Bi/non-partisanship is killing America. We need to knock it off; the other party will never

be bipartisan.

[EleanorR]

34. He did and now Durham looks like a clown

Imagine if Garland had shut it down, the conspiracy theories that would have flown. Even the MSM would have jumped on that one.

Love this analogy btw.

Link to tweet

[bucolic_frolic]

9. This suggests the Durham investigation has political undertones

As usual, Republican operatives hiding in plain sight and puffing their chest the whole catwalk

[malaise]

10. Not distracting me

Just BS

[kentuck]

13. The sad souls do not realize the extent they are being manipulated.

Even to their death.

[CaptainTruth]

24. Very true. I've started using that fact when talking to Reich wingers.

Debating their insane points is usually a waste of time, I've found it better to focus on the big picture, ask if they understand why they believe what they believe, ask if they realize they are being manipulated by rich & powerful forces, told what to believe, brainwashed even, purely for the benefit of the rich & powerful who are just using them for their own gain.

For example, why do you believe Hillary is a criminal? Do you believe it because you have first-hand knowledge of crimes she committed, you were in the room when it happened & you witnessed it? Or do you believe it because rich & powerful people who control the media told you to believe it, & you went along with it & let them use you?

It doesn't always work but I've seen a few light bulbs go on, a few people realize that the only reason they believe Reich Wing BS is because the Reich Wing BS Machine tells them that's what they should believe. A few "wow, I never thought about it that way" moments. Moreover, it's the TRUTH, so I'll never stop saying it.

[Ford_Prefect]

14. I believe someone pointed out that they were running out of time to file so this was the

case they thought they could prove. I saw somewhere that it is a very narrow and technical interpretation of the law and the evidence. If that is true I suspect that it will not stand judicial review or cross examination for very long.

Not that the MSM will draw that distinction clearly nor point out the flaws in legal reasoning underlying the case. Anything which can be made to appear to be a scandal with a Clinton name involved is worth hours of obsessive reiteration and 14 variations on the same headline.

[kentuck]

15. The statute of limitations is running out..

I heard in a report.

[Ford_Prefect]

16. My personal impression is that they know it won't fly but they can drag it out for weeks.

They'll make it appear to be much more important than it is by suggesting this is only the tip of the iceberg in Hillary's campaign and that other aspects have been hidden from view by nefarious means or "Deep State" agents.

This was never about provable legal questions. Rather like the Benghazi committee it was put up to cast suspicion on Democrats and distract from genuine claims made about Republicans, Trump, and their campaign activities.

[kentuck]

17. I agree.

It will probably be one of the major topics on Tucker and Hannity tonight?

[Ford_Prefect]

21. According to a CNN interview this morning Jeffrey Toobin said the whole premise is BS.

Everyone at the FBI and DOJ knew that Sussman represented the Clinton Campaign. Basically he came to speak to the top lawyer at FBI, Jim Baker, to tell him about something he thought they should know about and may wish to investigate: A technical back channel between a Trump campaign server and a Russian Bank. It was a voluntary contact between legal professionals on a potential point of investigation, not a sworn deposition under oath.

After 5 years this seems a very empty nothing to offer up.

[Budi]

29. Durham was confident Trump would again be President in 2020

Things shifted with his manufactured case the day Biden was sworn into Office & without Trump's DOJ, he's stuck with it.

Did Durham think that with a damning case invoking the Clinton name, that Trump may appoint HIM AG?

Durham was merely preparing an offering to mob boss Trump for a reward.
AG John Durham, perhaps?

[Ford_Prefect]

30. Grifters gotta grift I guess.

[Budi]

31. Imagine the dominoe effect of panic when the House re-convened, on Jan 6th, to secure Biden's win.

Republican & foreign allies who believed they'd covered every possibility to hold the power of the WH, had somehow failed.

The end of American Democracy was within an inch of their reach, that is until Speaker Pelosi called the House back in session, just hours after the threat within our Capitol to secure the election vote for Joe Biden.

Imagine the panic, rage, blame & absolute disbelief that ran down like dominoes, thru the RW channels that night.

Nooooooo!!!

[Ford_Prefect]

32. I agree that must have been a shock to their hopes and distorted dreams of power.

However, they seem to have regrouped fast enough. Their sort never plans for failure, they merely adjust their sights to other targets. I guess that's the kind of power the dark money crowd really has.

[Budi]

33. Yup. They were all crappin their pants at the thought of being the ONE GUY who botched their One Job

....that doomed the perfect plan.

Up the chain of command, people were called upon to "Fking FIX IT!!" "Think Fast, Just FIX IT!!"

If those private conversations that night could be revealed, we'd be riveted. I'm betting their were mob level threats, loud verbal face-to-face beat downs, a hand to a throat rage and enough swear words to cause a quake.

Wonder if any of that inner circle's phone convos/texts were picked up by our foreign allies' surveillance?

[CaptainTruth]

25. I think it ends this Sunday, that's 2-3 days.

[BioProfRP]

18. Don't forget the looming expiration of the statute of limitations

It seems that this weekend Durham was facing the 5 year deadline on the statute of limitation to make any charges.

That likely motivated the timing as much as anything.

[Budi]

20. This. Yes.

Garland may know Durham has no case.
So Prove it Mr Durham, please proceed.


"Durham's been laughed out of the headquarters of just about every intelligence agency in Europe. He is a literal laughing stock and this @perkinscoieLLP 'indictment' reflects that"

[UCmeNdc]

19. "In that conversation, he says, I'm not representing a client generally,"

"In that conversation, he says, I'm not representing a client generally," he continued. "Specifically I'm just sort of reporting this. That's what's alleged. There are no notes of this conversation; there is -- this is a five-year-old conversation and in Baker's report to his colleague, the colleague writes down, everyone knows that Susman's firm represents the Clinton campaign, so there was no mystery about who Sussman was or where Sussman was coming from. So the idea that this was some lie that changed the FBI and changed their investigation just seems deeply bizarre to me, if this statement was ever said at all because there are no notes."


https://www.rawstory.com/john-durham-2655054134/

[Evolve Dammit]

22. It's a blind rage hatred of the Clintons going back to the 90's, fomented by hate radio largely. n/t

[SayItLoud]

23. All true BUT:

They're indicting and WE ARE NOT.

Individual1 = nada
Obstruction of justice = nada

____________(fill in the blank on any of a dozen items) = NADA

#TFG and the crime family has been and is above the law. We are too focused on the big bad disgusting GQPers and the clock is ticking on statute of limitations, "I'm running for potus and this is a political witch hunt"....bla bla bla.

[onenote]

26. It took Durham over two years.

Patience, grasshopper.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

28. This is a really stupid indictment

Link to tweet

[halfulglas]

35. Nothingburger.

It's going nowhere after the indictment but I suspect DOJ under present administration didn't want to actively stop it because there would be subsequent cries of partisan coverup (like the past 5 years weren't partisan). Durham didn't want to admit the last 2 years of his life were for nothing. The horror!

[FakeNoose]

36. Rush Limbaugh made his whole career out of Hillary distractions

If there is a hell I hope that sick fuck is burning in it.