News Remember Trump’s John Durham investigation? Turns out it was complete BS

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WelshBloke

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So the Qult is now spinning this as "It was never about the convictions, it was about getting the FBI exposed in court. Now the real purges can start. Mission accomplished! Military was always the only way"

They STILL think "the plan" is working and the military is going to take over the government.
You have to remember that "they" are a couple of morbidly obese guys surrounded by piss bottles frantically making a lot of noise on the internet because no one listens to them in the real world.
What we need to do is educate people into A) not listening to idiots with too much time that they spend all day on youtube, and B) actually calling people stupid for having stupid opinions. Yeah you can have whatever opinion you want but I shouldnt need to worry about being polite and not calling you a fucking idiot. Your opinion is your sign saying "This is me, judge me on this."
 
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HomerJS

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So Trump ordered his DOJ to dig up dirt on the FBI investigating the Russia connection. Didn't find it but found financial dirt on Trump himself.

In the article it chronicles after all their other accusations failed they pivoted back to Hillary Clinton being behind it and that was a dud as well. Here's one of our resident Trump lapdogs Taj predicting Hillary will be found guilty

Once again like all his other claims the only thing that happened was Trump thrusted his dick in Taj's ass yet again. (metaphorically speaking)

This is not a call out but a response to his previous post.
 

HomerJS

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Here's Taj pinning his hopes in the word of Jonathan Turley on the voracity of the Durham investigation.
Hey Taj, how does it feel being made a fool of yet again by your God, Trump??
 
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MrSquished

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Here's Taj pinning his hopes in the word of Jonathan Turley on the voracity of the Durham investigation.
Hey Taj, how does it feel being made a fool of yet again by your God, Trump??

I'm pretty sure Taj doesn't have the things we humans call feelings.
 
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sactoking

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Not 100% accurate but essentially the people tasked with investigating the people who investigated the Russian collusion were only able to try to scare something up by colluding with Russians?
 

HomerJS

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Let's not forget about the White House ordering the DOJ to attack his political opponents.

The same thing they accused Democrats of doing. Once again, projection
 
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Linux23

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So Trump ordered his DOJ to dig up dirt on the FBI investigating the Russia connection. Didn't find it but found financial dirt on Trump himself.

In the article it chronicles after all their other accusations failed they pivoted back to Hillary Clinton being behind it and that was a dud as well. Here's one of our resident Trump lapdogs Taj predicting Hillary will be found guilty

Once again like all his other claims the only thing that happened was Trump thrusted his dick in Taj's ass yet again. (metaphorically speaking)

This is not a call out but a response to his previous post.
His little anus hole is shaped like a tiny little mushroom 🍄. LoL lolol 😂
 

alien42

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Oh it gets better (worse):

(Gifted article)

Interviews by The Times with more than a dozen current and former officials have revealed an array of previously unreported episodes that show how the Durham inquiry became roiled by internal dissent and ethical disputes as it went unsuccessfully down one path after another even as Mr. Trump and Mr. Barr promoted a misleading narrative of its progress.

- Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham never disclosed that their inquiry expanded in the fall of 2019, based on a tip from Italian officials, to include a criminal investigation into suspicious financial dealings related to Mr. Trump.
- Mr. Durham used Russian intelligence memos — suspected by other U.S. officials of containing disinformation — to gain access to emails of an aide to George Soros, the financier and philanthropist who is a favorite target of the American right and Russian state media. Mr. Durham used grand jury powers to keep pursuing the emails even after a judge twice rejected his request for access to them. The emails yielded no evidence that Mr. Durham has cited in any case he pursued.
- In May 2019, soon after giving Mr. Durham his assignment, Mr. Barr summoned the head of the National Security Agency, Paul M. Nakasone, to his office. In front of several aides, Mr. Barr demanded that the N.S.A. cooperate with the Durham inquiry…repeating a sexual vulgarity, he warned that if the N.S.A. wronged him by not doing all it could to help Mr. Durham, Mr. Barr would do the same to the agency.
- Mr. Durham’s team spent long hours combing the C.I.A.’s files but found no way to support the allegation. Mr. Barr and Mr. Durham traveled abroad together to press British and Italian officials to reveal everything their agencies had gleaned about the Trump campaign and relayed to the United States, but both allied governments denied they had done any such thing. Top British intelligence officials expressed indignation to their U.S. counterparts about the accusation, three former U.S. officials said.
- Mr. Durham and Mr. Barr had not yet given up when a new problem arose: In early December, the Justice Department’s independent inspector general, Michael E. Horowitz, completed his own report on the origins of the Russia investigation…Mr. Horowitz found no evidence that F.B.I. actions were politically motivated. And he concluded that the investigation’s basis — an Australian diplomat’s tip that a Trump campaign adviser had seemed to disclose advance knowledge that Russia would release hacked Democratic emails — had been sufficient to lawfully open it.
- Minutes before the inspector general’s report went online, Mr. Barr issued a statement contradicting Mr. Horowitz’s major finding, declaring that the F.B.I. opened the investigation “on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient.” He would later tell Fox News that the investigation began “without any basis,” as if the diplomat’s tip never happened.
- By summer 2020, it was clear that the hunt for evidence supporting Mr. Barr’s hunch about intelligence abuses had failed. But he waited until after the 2020 election to publicly concede that there had turned out to be no sign of “foreign government activity” and that the C.I.A. had “stayed in its lane” after all.



Ahem…..HAHAHAHAHHAHABAHAHAAHAAA

wow, there is soooooo much in that article. this also stands out to me...

"Stymied by the decision not to issue an interim Durham report, John Ratcliffe, Mr. Trump’s national intelligence director, tried another way to inject some of the same information into the campaign.

Over the objections of Gina Haspel, the C.I.A. director, Mr. Ratcliffe declassified nearly 1,000 pages of intelligence material before the election for Mr. Durham to use. Notably, in that fight, Mr. Barr sided with Ms. Haspel on one matter that is said to be particularly sensitive and that remained classified, according to two people familiar with the dispute."
 

hal2kilo

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Here's Taj pinning his hopes in the word of Jonathan Turley on the voracity of the Durham investigation.
Hey Taj, how does it feel being made a fool of yet again by your God, Trump??
Turley, yet another example of people who completely lost the facade of objectively, when Trump showed up on the scene. Keith! Do you know what happened to Turley?
 
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trenchfoot

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The Italian government gave us the intel on Trump. Even if not in the report we could ask them. I know Biden won’t do it for the sake of “unity”

Hopefully the senate will investigate


"Unity". That word is meaningless to the Repubs so it always made me turn my head from side to side whenever it's decided that "for the sake of unity" the nation should turn the other cheek whenever the Repubs humiliate themselves when their schemes and plots backfire in their faces. Can't say what the benefit/liability ratio is with treating the Repubs that way but it seems to me doing that just emboldens and motivates them to defy the Rule of Law ever more egregiously than before because they are virtually being held blameless for their shenanigans so what's to stop them?
 

trenchfoot

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Moral of the story: Go fuck around with our security agencies and see what happens. That article will never make it to the shores of Trumplandia. If anything the twisted version of it will have the conservative viewer asking for the disbandment of the FBI and replaced with their trusted Nazi Militia under the direction of Ron DeSantis.
 

iRONic

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Moral of the story: Go fuck around with our security agencies and see what happens. That article will never make it to the shores of Trumplandia. If anything the twisted version of it will have the conservative viewer asking for the disbandment of the FBI and replaced with their trusted Nazi Militia under the direction of Ron DeSantis.
Gym Jordan tried to pull those very same mental gymnastics on Chuck Todd Sunday morning on MTP.

smfh