The Donald Trump Score Card

Barr made Durham a special counsel in 2020 and gave him a very broad stroke to find malfeasance within the FBI that allegedly conspired against Trump during his campaign in the 2016 election.

After producing essentially nothing, Durham shifted the narrative to Sussman in late 2021 who he says allegedly misled the FBI in 2016 and caused it material damage.

Trump was frustrated that Durham didn't publish an 'interim report' ahead of the 2020 election. The DOJ is known to not engage in such behavior because it gives the impression of trying to manipulate an election (which is what Trump wanted).

Durham's indictment against Sussman didn't come until September 2021 and, to the chagrin of Trump, it doesn't accuse the FBI of wrongdoing but rather of being a victim of an alleged wrongdoing of someone else.


A former Clinton campaign lawyer will go to trial in late spring 2022 against Trump-era prosecutor John Durham

excerpt:

"In the 27-page indictment, legal experts saw a level of detail that went beyond what was necessary to lay out a false statement charge. The charging document amounted, in the view of some experts, to a so-called "speaking indictment" designed to weave a political narrative about Democrats dishing on Trump behind the scenes in 2016."

 

So, he agreed with that chant? Sounds like it to me!

 

Trump's rioters at the Capitol behaved in a similar manner.

When they couldn't obtain what they wanted and saw their protest declining, they smashed the equipment of the news reporters and started chanting 'Hang Mike Pence' in frustration.

 

Barrasso is a Dumbasso ...

 

Toddlers need a time-out...

 

If Trump had actually attended the Capitol riot like he had said he would (instead of cowardly staying in the White House private dining room and watching it on Fox), he might have participated in the 'Hang Mike Pence' chant.

Trump's attitude conjures up images of him sitting in front of the TV and chanting 'Hang Mike Pence' along with his rioters, like watching a football game with a cheer leading squad.

 

In the mind of Barrasso, if he, Trump, and Pence didn't hear the chants of the calls for Pence's death, it's not a problem.

If anyone is after Barrasso to do harm to him, he can have great confidence in believing that no harm will come to him if he doesn't know about it.

 

Article from December 2020.


Barr Makes Durham a Special Counsel in a Bid to Entrench Scrutiny of the Russia Inquiry (Published 2020)

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"Mr. Durham never fulfilled President Trump’s and his supporters’ expectations that he would bring to light some significant wrongdoing against the president before the election. But the step appeared likely to create a headache for whoever Mr. Biden appoints as attorney general, who would take over supervision of Mr. Durham’s continuing work.

Mr. Barr also empowered Mr. Durham to hunt for crimes not only during the early stages of the Trump-Russia investigation that began in July 2016, which has been his focus, but also during the period after Mr. Mueller took over that inquiry in May 2017 — making him, in effect, a special counsel for the special counsel."

 

Archives threatened to go to Congress and Justice Department to get Trump to turn over records - CNNPolitics

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"In May 2021, the realization that important items from Trump's time in office -- including some of his correspondence with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and infamous Sharpie-altered map of Hurricane Dorian -- were not transferred to the Archives at the end of his presidency prompted NARA officials to contact Trump's team.

Longtime Archives lawyer Gary Stern first reached out to a person from the White House counsel's office who had been designated as the President Records Act point of contact about the record-keeping issue, hoping to locate the missing items and initiate their swift transfer back to NARA, said multiple sources familiar with the matter. The person had served as one of Trump's impeachment defense attorneys months earlier and, as deputy counsel, was among the White House officials typically involved in ensuring records were properly preserved during the transfer of power and Trump's departure from office.

But after an extended back and forth over several months and after multiple steps taken by Trump's team to resolve the issue, Stern sought the intervention of another Trump attorney last fall as his frustration mounted over the pace of the document turnover. A spokesperson for Trump did not return a request for comment.

In a statement on Thursday, Trump claimed the boxes that had been brought to Mar-a-Lago "contained letters, records, newspapers, magazines and various articles" that are to be featured in his presidential library "someday."

"The papers were given easily and without conflict and on a very friendly basis," he said.
One source familiar with the situation says the document turnover has "not been fully resolved" and says Trump is still in possession of documents the Archives wants. The Archives hinted at this in a statement earlier this week.

"Former President Trump's representatives have informed NARA that they are continuing to search for additional Presidential records that belong to the National Archives," the Archives said in a statement.

In a series of interviews with CNN, a half-dozen people familiar with the matter described a tense situation that took nearly eight months to resolve -- beginning with NARA's outreach in May and ending with its retrieval of the boxes from Mar-a-Lago last month."

 

Trump said Durham's name wrong in a Twitter remark on Feb 12, 2022 posted by his proxy Liz Harrington.

It's John Durham (not Robert Durham).


President Donald J. Trump:

"The latest pleading from Special Counsel Robert Durham provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection..."

 

Trump rants 'radical left Democrats' are to blame for latest Durham 'spying' claims between 2014 and 2017

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"Durham made these announcements, but it's unclear if he's presented them to a grand jury and if that grand jury has seen the evidence. In the filing, however, Durham presents no evidence, only allegations. Meeting with the CIA isn't illegal and Durham hasn't charged Joffee with anything, nor has he indicated that Joffe knew what information he had before turning it over to the authorities.

It's unclear whether Durham will be able to charge anyone with a crime for anything he claims he "found" in this new filing."

 

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-durham-spying-claims/

excerpt:

"As legal expert Marcy Wheeler explained, "the frothy right is very excited that, among the data that someone heavily involved in cybersecurity like Rodney Joffe would have ready access to, was data that included the White House. They seem less interested that, to disprove the allegations Sussmann presented, Durham effectively (in their frothy minds) conducted the same 'spying' on EOP networks of President Obama that Durham insinuates Joffe did of Trump.""

 

Case in point:


Conservative ridiculed for being triggered by scantily clad Super Bowl halftime show: 'Get off my lawn!'

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"Turning Points USA president Charlie Kirk was ridiculed online Sunday after expressing his displeasure with the Super Bowl halftime show.

Among the things that unfolded was rapper Eminem refusing to abide by the NFL's demand that he not kneel in acknowledgment of the civil disobedience protest started by former NFL player Colin Kaepernick.

But for Kirk, it was the display of scantily clad women that appeared to trigger the far-right activist.

"The NFL is now the league of sexual anarchy. This halftime show should not be allowed on television," he ranted."

 

You asked the question what held Mueller back?

My guess Alzheimer's Disease. Did you see him testify before the committee?

 

Durham is going to have difficulty proving that Sussman lied to the FBI by (allegedly) not saying that he was working on someone's behalf.

It involves a meeting that had a verbal exchange between Sussman and Baker in 2016 with no other witnesses.

Baker has said that he can't recall if Sussman said whether or not he was working on behalf of another person or group.

Even if Sussman didn't mention that he may have been working on behalf of someone at that particular meeting, it isn't necessarily proof that he lied.

In September 2021, Durham wrote a 29-page narrative indictment about this one contention point, which for other prosecutors normally would have occupied a page.

The Sussman trial will take place about 6 years after the meeting.

 

I agree the dancers should have dressed like Mormon women.

 

Charlie Kirk watching the halftime show