Michael Sussmann has been found not guilty by the US justice system of a crime that only had one other so-called witness.
The verdict represents a setback for Durham’s work, especially since Trump supporters had looked to the probe to expose what they contend was sweeping wrongdoing by the FBI.
The trial focused on whether Sussmann, a cybersecurity attorney and former federal prosecutor, concealed from the FBI that he was representing Clinton’s campaign when he presented computer data that he said showed a possible secret backchannel between Russia-based Alfa Bank and Trump’s business company, the Trump Organization. The FBI investigated but quickly determined that there was no suspicious contact… Lawyers for Sussmann deny that he lied, saying that it was impossible to know with certainty what he told Baker since they were the only participants in the meeting and neither of them took notes…
the FBI was already investigating Russia and the Trump campaign and would have looked into the Alfa Bank data no matter the source.
Meanwhile, post-Nixon, the Republican party and their voters seem to rate their presidents based on the number of crimes that members of their mafia-like administrations have committed. Their golden boy, Ronald Reagan tops the post-Nixon list with 26 criminal indictments while Jr comes in 2nd with 17. Obama had… zero. Trump comes in at 6 criminal indictments with 28 more criminal indictments for the Russians who were helping his campaign (just because Trump outsourced his crimes to a fascist hostile intelligence agency rather than relying on his own election committee should be a sign of how much more of a criminal (and a traitor) he is, not less.