Durham Accused Of Stoking Trumpy Conspiracy Theories In Blistering Counterattack By Target Of His Probe | Talking Points Memo

Special counsel John Durham is using court filings to spread conspiracy theories about the 2016 election, attorneys for defendant Michael Sussmann said in a late Monday court filing.


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Lock him (Durham) up.

This looks like malice, rather than incompetence, as he’s found jack. Merrick the Mild needs to deep six his ā€œprobeā€ or insert it somewhere else.

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Durham is clearly angling for the AG position in a future MAGA administration. What a hack.

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Is there a statute of limitations on fishing expeditions like this?

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Why is this nonsense still being reported? Hasn’t this gone on quite long enough? Are these nimrods that desperate for financial support that they have to dredge up seven-year-old nonsense?

Hell, at least the stuff on TFG is somewhat current…

@murgatroid

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Durham’s is a political operation, foreshadowing how in any future GOP administration, the sole function of law will be maintaining their political power.

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If this guy is operating within the current DOJ, then it needs to get shut down already.

If they ever win again (G-d and Greyhound help us), then they can re-open the investigation, but they need to stop wasting resources on this crap.

And no, I don’t care about the optics on such an effort of shutting it down.

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Madison Avenue could have done better.
But the overall purposes have been served for the GOP

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What is this clown even investigating…? he must be exhausting tinfoil supplies at a dizzying pace.

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What a lot of people don’t understand is that such claims are only that and nothing more.
They are alleged claims and have to be proven in court. (IANAL)

There’s a need to back off and ask: what is Durham’s proof? He need not present it unless and until he gets to court with it.

Given the media firestorm, and the ramifications of what Durham is alleging, he’d best come out with the proof, or back off.

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ā€œDurham Accused Of Stoking Trumpy Conspiracy Theories.ā€

I think he went just a tad too far when his court filings included ā€œJewish space lasersā€, ā€œJFK in disguiseā€, and ā€œthe Gazpachoā€.

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Like that matters…

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Indeed, it doesn’t matter currently because it’s given Fox and Trump their talking points.

However, it will matter later in court. Durham had better be damn well sure of all this, back off his claims, or provide appropriate clarification. If not, I’d say his law license could be in jeopardy at some point down the road.

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I agree he’d need proof if this was ever going to court but it’s not. It would have to go through a grand jury first. So he’d have to present his evidence to them and that isn’t going to happen. I don’t think there is a grand jury empanelled for this ā€˜investigation.’

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Durham has, quite arguably, crossed several ethical & legal procedure boundaries… and not just inadvertent transgressions - they lean way over onto into the direction of malicious and intentional .

It is time for Durham to ā€œfigurativelyā€ get his smarmy partisan dishonest ass kicked!
They say it is all fun and games until somebody loses an eye…
… well … it time for Durham to audition for the role of Pirate!

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Ha! Cry moar, lib! Durham is showing how to make the country stronger by helping to eliminate wrong-think, and show everyone how unproductive it is to criticize Dear Maximum Orange Diaper Stain.

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God it is impossible to keep up with the mad universe that exists only in the minds of the nutty GQP conspiracy theorists.

And Durham is somebody that lives off our tax dollars.

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At the rate he’s going, maybe we’ll see a grand jury empaneled on this investigation.

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Nah, Durham’s face-planting just fine on his own.

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