So the biggest news story, of course, for the last seven days with Republicans has been
the fact that they think Hillary Clinton is totally going to prison because of what was
put into the Durham court filing last week regarding one of the Clinton campaigns lawyers,
Michael Susman, who has already been indicted last fall for allegedly lying to investigators
about whether or not he was representing a client.
So if you're not familiar with that story, of course, in the little, you know, additional
information section of the court filing Durham said that, oh, by the way, you know, you had
tech company a with executive one who was monitoring data, uh, basically monitoring
IP addresses coming to and from Trump tower and to, and from the white house beginning
in 2014, by the way, before Trump even, uh, considered running for president, really?
So yeah, they thought, oh my God, we've got the smoking gun, Hillary Clinton spy on Donald
Trump.
Then of course, as the week went on, people actually started to look at what was said
there and realize that, Nope, it's not there.
Trump called this bigger than Watergate and even suggested the death penalty for those
involved, but this isn't even close to Watergate.
It, it, it's not even remotely similar.
And we now know that at, because that is basically what Durham had to come out later in the week
and finally say, sure, he let conservative media run with that narrative for six days
before he broke his silence.
But on Thursday, Durham finally came out and this is what he said.
If third parties are members of the media have overstated understated or otherwise misinterpreted
facts contained in the government's motion, uh, that does not in any way undermine the
valid reasons for the government's inclusion of this information.
So that's a lot of fancy words, right?
To basically say, sure people are exaggerating what it was in there, but, you know, I still
wanted to put it in there anyway.
So he was kind of calling them out while at the same time, justifying why this seemingly
irrelevant piece of information was included in the filing.
And I think it was included in the filing to do exactly what it has done for the past
week.
It did not serve any relevance to what Susman has been charged with lying about whether
or not he was representing a certain client.
You know, that is the only wrongdoing he did technically before the investigation began,
Michael Susman had not done any wrongdoing.
It was done after the investigation began, where he allegedly lied to the invest.
Nobody is accused of any wrongdoing with this data monitoring, no data was scraped, no individual
messages were intercepted.
What happened was the tech company that happened to be a client of Michael Susman approached
him many years ago and said, listen, we've got data here that looks like it could be
coming from Russian cell phones tied to this a bank that may have ties to the Kremlin,
or I think it is tied to the Kremlin, whatever it is.
Uh, and so Susman says, okay, I'll look at this and I'm gonna, you know, report it cuz
I'm your lawyer.
That's what I do.
Who did the right thing.
I'm gonna try to do the right thing.
And that's that.
And of course Republicans think this means that Hillary Clinton infiltrated and sped
on Donald Trump, even though again, this began with monitoring of communications from the
white house beginning in 2014, when Barack Obama, he still had a little over two years
left in office.
So there it is.
And Durham's out there now saying, Hey, listen, I can't help.
But if they overstate what's in there, which is exactly what happened.
And Durham knew that, okay.
He absolutely had to have known that.
I know Durham has actually done some good work in the past.
Sure, absolutely.
And I have no problem with this investigation going on.
If you think there's wrongdoing, find it rooted out, prosecute it.
I have no problem with that.
Problem is the dude's been doing it for over 400 days now.
And the biggest thing he's got on anybody is because they lied to the investigators.
They haven't been able to pop them for actual crimes that were committed, uh, uh, during
the original Mueller investigation or in the origins of the Mueller investigation.
So again, had this, uh, uh, Durham investigation not taken place, none of these people would
have even come close to have committing a crime.
So it's all very weird.
It's all very stupid.
I'm fine with letting it play out because Hey, if there was wrongdoing expose it, but
if not clear the air so that we can all move on and next time you have to come out and
issue a statement calling out right wing media for lying about what you said in a court filing.
I suggest you use much stronger language, do it by the way, in an avenue that gets lots
of viewers.
So everybody knows the Republicans are lying about what just said.