Special Counsel John Durham’s Final Report To Be Released At 4 P.M. ET – TPM – Talking Points Memo

John Durham, the special counsel who has spent five years on a bogus search for wrongdoing in the Trump-Russia investigation, will release his report his afternoon.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1457687

What’s the under/over it “finds” nothing?

It finds nothing but makes it sound otherwise?

It actually finds something substantive?

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To no one’s surprise, he didn’t have the mother wit to just slink away quietly and hope everybody just sort of forgot about him. Obscurity is now his best-case scenario.

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A reminder how much of a bad faith failure the Durham investigation has been (gift article):

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html?unlocked_article_code=LWj1zHKy0SyVOnVmHGZZTBnPygUVC4mFJQPhm0RZpCXGpdV3vDiDYid7xsrDLY-To5f4cMM0-B8u-yv9xY4KJu4KRt2qVA3tGfRwGyKoRM-E22QVAnU6PT3qmK657XbvxhZlnJIrxD-8n7P5wyn36R1DJ5v_cj2MXu6tNcTeyyWMBWGA8Tuv398Vw1moh4iUu__phmh0LB7Oyfy_y2ZflwNUk-oTISc419fQE0f5YCI9mwfJGjGDiQeKrEEh5fttx6Gp2enYskSvXfPfbKaGPBXpx9OhEf9O61EmIGrD-xl3GUeZfw1bMKw93xGcTdxZyFrbzwz14qWLLNFasCcPN-gLg_bN-w&smid=url-share

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Dear John -

You failed. Fuck off and flee my life forever.

Never yours,

Everyone

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Oh, many allegations, inferences, sly innuendos, false statements…but zero indictments, eh?

John, you were an unwitting pawn in the hands of many R’s.

And you fell for it! Dumbshit!

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This should be good…

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Yawn.

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John Durham was supposedly a fairly well-respected, “straight shooter”-type within the DOJ until now. Why would he want to flush his entire reputation and legacy down the toilet with this garbage “report” that concludes that the Trump-Russia probe should not have been opened, but offers no evidence whatsoever that it was some conspiratorial effort to gin up a fake investigation against Trump? That’s what Republicans like James Comer do. Trump and his circle, particularly his campaign advisor Paul Manafort, were up to their fucking eyeballs in hinky shit with the Russians that had to be investigated. If there was no there there, why was Trump so eager to shut the investigation down? Why not just shrug and say “sure, look at whatever you want. We’ve got nothing to hide.” Instead, as Mueller wrote, he obstructed at every turn and was desperate to make the investigation go away. Some day, I suppose, we’ll know why.

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That’s the winner!!!
Oh, and Hunter Bidens laptop

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All I can think of when I see this clown’s picture:

Expert textpert choking smokers,
Don’t you think the joker laughs at you?
See how they smile like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied.
I’m crying.

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Why in hell is this even news, let alone breaking news?

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I mustache the question…

Was this just some BS investigation without a whisker of validity?

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No doubt this is the best report Trump money can buy.

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I know… shocker, republican publicity hobby horse was all BS…

Haha

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Nothing to see here, folks, move along. His conclusions match up with trump’s, i.e. they’re picking on me again.

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image

I haven’t seen that much beard since the Schlapps attended that backyard barbeque at the Pences.

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Can we please all agree just to call him “Fur Face”? Easier to remember that way.

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Noting that this all has to do with the “Steele dossier” which was originally commissioned by Ted Cruz, think of all to “P” jokes we would have missed but for said dossier. That is the real question is do the jokes make the rest of this worth it?

My favorite, what is the difference between a chickpea and a garbanzo bean?

Donald Trump never had a garbanzo bean on his face.

I am here all week and try the veal.

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