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The Danchenko Acquittal Does Not End the Probe Into the Trump-Russia Scam
pjmedia.com ^ | 10/18/2022 | VICTORIA TAFT

Posted on 10/19/2022 9:56:38 AM PDT by bitt

Igor Danchenko, a former Brookings Institution employee and one-time suspected Russian spy, has been acquitted of four charges of lying to the FBI about his sources for the fraudulent Steele Dossier. The ragtag collection of memos, fabulist brainstorming, and fake news about peeing Russian hookers was used to frame Donald Trump as a Russian asset.

The report caused great division among the Republicans in the 2016 election. It teed up the years-long Mueller investigation, which was more about dirtying up Trump for the 2020 election than seeking the truth. Evidence and testimony in Danchenko’s trial make plain how the Russian collusion investigation was more cover-up than investigation. Hillary Clinton’s campaign got the Trump-is-a-Russian-spy fake news rolling, but it bears noting that she was the one relying on Russian assets to do her dirty work.

This case likely ends the active special counsel investigation into the origins of the fake Russia collusion narrative seized upon by its authors and disseminators: anti-Trump apparatchiks in the FBI, the CIA, the Democrat Party, and their willing handmaidens in the Fourth Estate. Special counsel John Durham is widely expected to put all of his findings — and they are damning — into a report whose ending likely was punctuated by Tuesday’s verdict.

The Virginia jury returned not-guilty verdicts in the four-count indictment of giving materially false information to the FBI about the sources of the bogus dossier after getting the case late Monday.

Don’t be misled. Durham used what he believed were the best legal arguments available to him to highlight the obvious attempt by the FBI to pursue a case it knew was bogus, while simultaneously keeping the veneer of protecting that thoroughly discredited institution.

In closing arguments on Monday, the special counsel posed “possible options on the FBI’s botching of the Trump-Russia investigation,

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: acquittal; danchenko
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1 posted on 10/19/2022 9:56:38 AM PDT by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 10/19/2022 9:56:52 AM PDT by bitt (<IMG SRC=' 'width=50%>)
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correct ... it is a stepping stone to the next higher level ...


3 posted on 10/19/2022 10:00:22 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: bitt

DC courts are not going to convict anyone associated with The Swamp.


4 posted on 10/19/2022 10:01:02 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.for corruptiion)
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To: bitt

“This oversight may be the purview of a committee established by the Church Committee, the permanent Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.”

HAHAHAHAHAHA

That committee is only going to protect their masters in the alphabet agencies. They will do absolutely nothing to hold them accountable.


5 posted on 10/19/2022 10:03:32 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: OrioleFan
DC courts are not going to convict anyone associated with The Swamp.

☝🏼 This. Right here.

6 posted on 10/19/2022 10:04:06 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: bitt

And by 2037, we can be assured that accountability will prevail.


7 posted on 10/19/2022 10:04:28 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them)
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To: Boogieman

“They will do absolutely nothing to hold them accountable.”
We’ve crossed the Rubicon.


8 posted on 10/19/2022 10:07:41 AM PDT by griswold3 (There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs. – Thomas Sowell)
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Does Strzok look worried - out attacking Trump and Republicans on TV?

This is over, It’s safely over with the statute of limitations.

A report is still pending. Stern words.


9 posted on 10/19/2022 10:14:06 AM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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To: bitt

GRINER....


10 posted on 10/19/2022 10:19:18 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: bankwalker
...it is a stepping stone to the next higher level...

...of acquittals.

11 posted on 10/19/2022 10:23:29 AM PDT by Common Sense 101
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To: OrioleFan
DC courts are not going to convict anyone associated with The Swamp.

Alexandria, but close enough.

12 posted on 10/19/2022 10:25:24 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: OrioleFan
DC courts are not going to convict anyone associated with The Swamp.

Alexandria, but close enough.

13 posted on 10/19/2022 10:30:04 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: bitt

It doesn’t end the probe? That’s right. It ended before it began.


14 posted on 10/19/2022 10:31:21 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: bitt

They can keep probing, they never find anything and they never prosecute anyone meaningful. Kabuki theater.


15 posted on 10/19/2022 10:35:03 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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More Kabuki Theater to come.

And all that happens is that some lawyers on ‘both sides’ get richer.


16 posted on 10/19/2022 10:35:42 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: 1Old Pro

You beat me by 39 seconds.


17 posted on 10/19/2022 10:37:45 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: bitt

I’m sure a Soros operative was passing out paychecks to all the jury members as the courtroom cleared with a card attached that said... “WELL DONE COMRADES” ...


18 posted on 10/19/2022 10:38:42 AM PDT by Bellagio
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To: bitt

It has been well noted that a jury will not convict a liar for the crime of providing the bait that the FBI was shopping for.


19 posted on 10/19/2022 10:39:17 AM PDT by G Larry (Population Control means Killing Billions, not "limiting growth".)
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To: bitt

The problem is that Durham was prosecuting the wrong people. He was prosecuting the people who interacted with the FBI when he should have been prosecuting the people who work for the FBI. He’s a member of the Deep State.


20 posted on 10/19/2022 10:40:27 AM PDT by Brilliant
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