ICYMI – When Hillary Clinton tapped out a tweet in the heat of battle, a week before the 2016 election, she never thought it might come back to haunt her. It has. How did Clinton find out that Donald Trump allegedly had a secret server communicating privately with a “Putin-tied Russian bank?” John Durham knows how she found out and that scares the whole swamp.
Hillary knew then
Hillary Clinton tried to convince the world she knew things about Donald Trump’s connections with Russia. The same ones that the CIA, the FBI, even Robert Mueller all know were a badly botched frame job.
John Durham can’t wait to use her tweet in court to “show the existence of the defendant’s attorney-client relationship with the Clinton Campaign, which is directly relevant to the false statement charge.” Whether the tweet is true or not doesn’t matter a bit to John Durham.
The special prosecutor argues in his most recent motion that the tweet Hillary tapped out “should not be considered inadmissible hearsay because ‘it is not being offered for its truth.’”
It's time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia. https://t.co/D8oSmyVAR4 pic.twitter.com/07dRyEmPjX
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) October 31, 2016
He just needs to show she was in the loop. Lawyers for the defendant and more lawyers for half the big-name Democrats in D.C. are popping up out of the woodwork to scream bloody murder. The judge will probably allow it.
According to the panic stricken Democrats, Michael Sussmann didn’t write the tweet for Hillary. He had no part of it and would have been horrified if he knew she was going to do it. They say that it’s “irrelevant, prejudicial, and would only confuse and distract the jury from the single false statement charge it must decide.” Durham and his team are ready for that.
The judge should be able to see that Sussmann “communicated with the media and provided them with the [Alfa-Bank] data and allegations.” He also “told Clinton campaign general counsel Marc Elias about it.” Where else would Clinton come up with the idea?
Potential media coverage
As spelled out in Hillary horrifying detail, Durham argues that Elias “communicated with the Clinton Campaign’s leadership about potential media coverage of these issues.” The tweet proves it.
“Clinton’s tweet, along with other evidence to be presented at the trial,” will prove Sussmann and other Clinton operatives spent their work days “assembling and disseminating the [Alfa-Bank] allegations and other derogatory information about Trump and his associates to the media and the U.S. government.”
That, Durham concludes, “constitutes a joint venture” and pretty much works out to some serious charges for Hillary, someday. There’s no doubt in the mind of any beltway pundit that “Sussmann’s trial could very well implicate other Clinton agents beyond himself.”
At least, that’s how CNN sees it. Exactly who gets splattered when the tweet hits the fan has yet to be seen.
