Special Counsel John Durham (R-Conn.), 71, handed over 81,000 pages to evidence to indicted former U.S. Atty. Michael Sussmann, who worked for the law firm of Perkins Cole who hired former British spy, MI6 agent Christopher Steele who wrote the now infamous-and-discredited Steele Dossier. Hillary campaign advisor Marc Elias worked for Washington’s Perkins Cole law firm who paid, on behalf of the Hillary campaign, Steele to concoct a fake dossier based on pure speculation and fabrication, unverified salacious things about former President Donald Trump, all to help her win the 2016 presidential election. Durham indicted Sussmannn for supplying the FBI disinformation about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia’s Alfa Bank which he claimed bribed 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin while he was deputy mayor of Moscow over 25-years-ago.
Durham indicted Sussman for lying to the FBI that he didn’t work for any “client” when delivering fake information about Trump’s alleged ties to Russia’s Alfa Bank. Sussmann denied that he had any relationship to any client, despite evidence showing that he worked for Perkins Cole who, in turn, worked closely with Glen Simpson’s opposition research firm FusionGPS. Durham’s indictment shows that Sussmann denied working on behalf of any client when, in fact, he worked for Perkins Cole providing services to the Hillary campaign and Democratic National Committee [DNC]. Sussmann has denied Durham’s charges, as expected, but the facts speak for themselves, showing he worked on behalf of the Hillary campaign, something he denied to the FBI. Durham has worked methodically for two years to get to the bottom of the Russian hoax that plagued Trump’s presidency for his four years in office.
No one in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives wants to discredit Durham’s work more that House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Schiff did everything possible to promote the Russian hoax, touting everything in the Steele Dossier and work of 78-year-old former Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Schiff claimed on many occasions he had personal evidence linking Trump to the Russian government. Mueller spent 22-months and some $40 million investigation Trump, finding that neither Trump nor anyone in the 2016 presidential campaign had ties to Russia. Yet Schiff put all his eggs into the Russian basket, hoping Mueller would find Trump guilty-as-charged. When Mueller cleared Trump March 23, 2019, Schiff and his Democrat colleagues were fit-to-be-tied. Schiff has an ax to grind, insisting the Steele’s dossier was factual.
Steele admitted in a court proceeding involving two Russian businessmen in London, that he deleted all the underlying sources to the Steele Dossier, admitting that he concocted the content, something Schiff wants to suppress. Steele said today that he wasn’t worried about a possible Durham indictment, despite the fact that he has no supporting documents to back up his wild claims about Trump. Former FBI Director James Comey and Mueller knew that the allegations for Russian collusion were based on Steele’s Dossier, having zero credibility and no facts. Yet Democrats like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif. and Schiff put all their trust in Steele because they wanted to prove, at all costs, that Trump was guilty of Russian collusion. Schiff recently said that Mueller’s cognitive impairments prevented his doing his job as Speicial Counsel, indicting Trump.
Now Schiff says that Mueller’s conclusions clearing Trump of Russian collusion cannot be trusted because he has cognitive impairments. Schiff is furious with 68-yar-old Atty. Gen. Merrick Garland for not following up, like the House, with pursuing criminal indictments against Trump for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Nine House Impeachment managers couldn’t convince the U.S. Senate that Trump played an active role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Democrats could not prove their case in Trump’s Senate Trial but now puts the former president in double-jeopardy, with all the fake news networks blaming Trump for orchestrating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Schiff has become obsessed with forcing Trump’s former campaign strategist Stephen Bannon for ignoring a House subpoena. Bannon was fired Aug. 18, 2917, having nothing to do with the controversial former adviser.
Durham couldn’t deliver his indictments on Trump’s timetable, before the 2020 election to help him win a second term. But regardless of Durham’s indictments, it’s not likely to have save Trump for a second term. By the time the election rolled around, the press had so demonized Trump, the public had already made up its mind to deny him a second term. Whether Durhan’s next indictments helps Republicans in the 2020 is doubtful. Indicting Sussmann diverts attention away from FBI’s active conspiracy to prevent Trump from becoming president in 2016. Schiff has put all his hope in con artists like Christopher Steele, whose Dossier was bought-and-paid for by the Hillary campaign with only one goal: Defeating Trump in 2016. If Durham’s indictment of Sussmann sticks, then he’ll most like charge Steele for duping the FBI to advance Hillary’s political agenda
About the Author.
John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
