deliberately inconsistent? Like maybe he had some gaps in memory because he didn't want Sussman to get into trouble, because Michael Sussman is (as he admits below) "his friend"? inconsistent in whether Sussman had in fact represented that he was acting on his own. Let me interrupt to point out that the only witness to the fact that Sussman represented that he was not working for any client, but was only a concerned citizen bringing a tip to the FBI out of his own sense of conscience, was James Baker.Īnd James Baker had been. Regardless of what the jury decides regarding Sussmann, the combined record of the Steele dossier and the Alfa Bank claim makes the FBI look like an unindicted co-conspirator. And both the Steele dossier and the Alfa Bank claim was pushed to friends in the FBI. The Clinton campaign similarly pushed the infamous Steele dossier into the news, too, after secretly helping to fund it. They were right: Slate quickly ran it, and then Clinton and one of her aides, Jake Sullivan (now President Biden's national security adviser), released statements expressing alarm about the claim as if it were news to them. Yes, as mentioned earlier, the jury was stacked with literal Hillary Clinton donors who no doubt realized that Hillary herself would be in legal peril if one of her underlings were convicted of a felony while acting as her minion.Īnd one of the jurors was Sussman's daughter's crew team-mate, which the Democrat judge said "Seems fine to me" about.īut, as Jonathan Turley points out, Sussman was acquitted because he had friends in high places - the 7th floor of the FBI headquarters, to be specific.ĭuring the trial, Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias and campaign manager Robby Mook both said the campaign trusted the media to push the story. The Morning Rant: The US Forest Service Started the New Mexico Fires Which Were Blamed on Climate ChangeĪnd Because the FBI Colluded With Sussman From the Beginning. Update: Jury Was Stacked with Literal Hillary Clinton Donors, One AOC Donor, and a Woman Who Was on the Same Crew Team as Michael Sussman's Daughter
Surprise: DC Jury Acquits Michael Sussman
Nearly a Month After the Supreme Court Leak, Investigators Are Finally Asking for Clerks' Phone Records, and to Sign Affidavits The Daily Beast Apologizes to the Computer Shop Owner Who Drew Attention to Hunter Biden's AIDS Laptop Let the Pre-Criminations Begin: NBC "News" Interviews White House Staffers and Discovers That Joe Biden Is a Very Cranky Old Man Who's Blaming His Staff For His Disastrous First (and Only) Term YouTube Responds By Giving Him a Rinky-Dink One Week Suspension Leftist Jagoff Ethan Klein Urges His Millions of Listeners to "Bomb" the NRA Convention Sussman Was Acquitted Because of a Partisan DC Jury.Īnd Because the FBI Colluded With Sussman From the Beginning.