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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Durham's flop is only the latest of many Trump coverup failures
TFG was elected by Putin whch is why TFG is so scared of Putin. TFG's ego cannot accept the fact that without Putin, TFG would had loss in 2016 and so is trying to cover up the fact that TFG is Putin puppet
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Crucially, this was the culmination of years of efforts by Trump, his allies and members of the Republican Party to cast doubt on the seriousness of the Russia scandal. Heres a partial list:
But the long-held dream of Trump and his allies to erase the enormous significance and depravity of the Russiagate scandal stands as decidedly unfulfilled. And thus it will likely remain.
Even before the 2016 election, then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) warned Democrats against organizing a bipartisan statement decrying Russian interference, vowing to cast it as unacceptable partisan politics.
Just before release of the Mueller report, Barr pre-spun the contents in a profoundly misleading way designed to make its conclusions appear far less serious.
In 2019, when a Justice Department inspector general investigation revealed significant errors and omissions in the FBIs original applications for surveillance authority, Republicans widely distorted the truth about the findings, claiming this showed much more serious problems with the origins of the Russia probe.
During the 2020 election, Trumps homeland security chief intervened to slow the release of an intelligence report raising alarms about another possible round of Russian electoral interference on Trumps behalf.
When intelligence agencies briefed members of both parties about this specter of Russian interference, this enraged Trump, who could conceive of this only as an effort to harm him politically.
In some ways, that campaign was successful. Trump pardoned a long list of cronies with ties to the Russia scandal (Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos). And every Republican is pretty much required to say its no big deal if a hostile foreign power helps a presidential candidate get elected, provided that candidate is a Republican.
But the long-held dream of Trump and his allies to erase the enormous significance and depravity of the Russiagate scandal stands as decidedly unfulfilled. And thus it will likely remain.
TFG's attempt to cover up the fact that TFG is Putin's Puppet have failed. History will label TFG as both a failure and the danges of letting a foriegn naiton control our election
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John Durham's flop is only the latest of many Trump coverup failures (Original Post)
LetMyPeopleVote
Jun 2022
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Trump Prosecutor humiliated as jury acquits Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann in sham case
LetMyPeopleVote
Jun 2022
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LetMyPeopleVote
(144,884 posts)1. Trump Prosecutor humiliated as jury acquits Clinton lawyer Michael Sussmann in sham case
callous taoboy
(4,583 posts)2. Can Sussmann sue for damages?
Sounds like he took a reputational and financial hit.
msfiddlestix
(7,270 posts)3. same queztion I have...
but it wouldn't surprise me to hear opinions asserting it would be a huge financial burden...
kentuck
(111,049 posts)4. Durham's investigation was a creation of Trump and Barr...
Trump has always been worried that his Russian connections would be exposed and this was his response to cover it up. Barr was involved up to his crooked eyeballs.