{"id":15028,"date":"2022-06-02T11:16:52","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T15:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crankers.com\/?p=15028"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:41:55","slug":"bill-barr-dirty-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/bill-barr-dirty-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Barr seemed quiet before, issues statement on John Durham, claims &#8216;crooked collusion&#8217; was &#8216;dirty trick&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable\">Former Attorney General Bill Barr was speaking on &#8220;Jesse Watters Primetime&#8221; and suggested that he was happy with, and proud of, the work completed by Special Prosecutor John Durham, even though the D.C. jury found former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann not guilty of lying to the FBI in September 2016. Barr said claimed this was nothing but a &#8216;dirty trick&#8217; by the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH Bill Barr say it on video:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bill Barr: Russia collusion narrative was a &#039;dirty trick&#039; from Clinton campaign\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mqc7gFI5ZdQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">BILL BARR <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/bill-barr-russia-collusion-john-durham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a><strong>:<\/strong> &#8220;<i>No, I\u2019m very proud of John Durham. And I do take responsibility for his appointment. I think he and his team did an exceptionally able job both digging out very important facts and presenting a compelling case to the jury. And the fact that he \u2014 while he did not succeed in getting a conviction from the <\/i><i>D.C. jury,<\/i><i> I think he accomplished something far more important, which is he brought out the truth in two important areas. First I think he crystallized the central role played by the Hillary campaign in launching, as a dirty trick, the whole <\/i><i>Russia gate collusion narrative<\/i><i> and fanning the flames of it.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>And, second, I think he exposed really dreadful behavior by the supervisors and the FBI, the <\/i><i>senior ranks of the FBI<\/i><i>, who knowingly used this information to start an investigation of Trump and then duped their own agents by lying to them and refusing to tell them what the real source of that information was. And that was appalling.&#8221;<\/i><br \/>\nA jury found <a href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/clinton-campaign-lawyer-not-guilty\/\">Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman not guilty<\/a> of making a false statement to the FBI back in September of 2016 when he claimed he wasn\u2019t working on behalf of any clients while he tried to bring information that suggested a covert communication was going on between the Trump Organization and the Alfa Bank of Russia.<br \/>\nThe jury could be considered questionable because one juror had a child that played on the same sports team as Sussmann\u2019s child, as reported by Fox News.<br \/>\nThis was a two week trial and only spent a day on deliberations to find Sussmann not guilty on the charges brought forth by Special Counsel John Durham, suggesting that Durham\u2019s team had not proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Sussmann was lying about not working with anyone, or that he was working on Hillary Clinton\u2019s behalf during her failed run for president against Donald Trump.<br \/>\nSussman had showed up with at least two thumb drives of data and a \u201cwhite paper\u201d that accused Donald Trump of having a connection with Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cSussmann was charged with one count of making a false statement to the FBI during his meeting with then-FBI General Counsel James Baker on Sept. 19, 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann issued the following statement, claiming he was falsely accused:<br \/>\n\u201cI told the truth to the FBI, and the Jury clearly recognized this in their unanimous verdict today\u2026 I\u2019m grateful to the members of the jury for their careful thoughtful service. Despite being falsely accused I believe that Justice ultimately prevailed in my case. As you can imagine this has been a difficult year for my family and me. But right now we are grateful for the love and support of so many during this ordeal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General Bill Barr was speaking on &#8220;Jesse Watters Primetime&#8221; and suggested that he was happy with, and proud of, the work completed by Special Prosecutor John Durham, even though the D.C. jury found former Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann not guilty of lying to the FBI in September 2016. Barr said claimed this &#8230; <a title=\"Bill Barr seemed quiet before, issues statement on John Durham, claims &#8216;crooked collusion&#8217; was &#8216;dirty trick&#8217;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/bill-barr-dirty-trick\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bill Barr seemed quiet before, issues statement on John Durham, claims &#8216;crooked collusion&#8217; was &#8216;dirty trick&#8217;\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15029,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}