Posted on 04/13/2022 12:21:08 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann’s motion to dismiss Durham’s case was denied by a federal judge on Wednesday.
Sussmann was indicted last September for lying to the FBI.
According to the indictment, Sussmann falsely told James Baker he wasn’t doing work “for any client” when he asked for a meeting with the FBI where he presented bogus evidence the Trump Tower was secretly communicating with Kremlin-tied Alfa Bank.
The attorneys for Michael Sussmann in February requested the courts dismiss Durham’s case against him.
Sussmann’s lawyers absurdly argued that his false statement to the feds is protected under the First Amendment and made no impact on the FBI’s probe.
Durham blasted Sussmann in a new filing last month and revealed Hillary’s lawyer actually alleged Trump and his associates were using Russian-made phones in the vicinity of the White House.
US District Judge Christopher Cooper, an Obama appointee, agreed with John Durham and denied Sussmann’s motion to dismiss.
“Specifically, Sussmann allegedly told Baker that he was not attending the meeting on behalf of any client when, in fact, he had assembled and was conveying the information on behalf of two specific clients: (1) a technology-industry executive named Rodney Joffe and (2) the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign,” Cooper wrote in a 6-page opinion.
“The FBI opened an investigation based on the information Sussmann provided, but ultimately determined that there was insufficient evidence to support the existence of a communication channel between the Trump campaign and the Russian bank. Sussmann has pled not guilty to the charge and denies lying to the FBI,” the judge added.
“The court will deny the motion,” Cooper wrote.
Trial begins May 16.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
I would guess the only reason the Obama Judge sided with Durham is that the motion to dismiss was so patently, stupidly, and abjectly absurd that there was no way, shape, or form that the case could be dismissed because there isn’t a fig leaf a nanometer across to provide cover for the judge.
Otherwise, I would expect it would have been granted in a heartbeat.
Durham News.....
Brian Cates on Telegrap, Reposted by THE STORM HAS ARRIVED on Telegram.
"Michael Sussmann's motion to dismiss has been denied. The judge rejects Sussmann's argument that his lies weren't material.
They're going to trial on May 16, absent further developments (continuance, plea, etc.)
Full doc:
Scribd (https://www.scribd.com/document/569757736/67-Opinion-and-Order-Denying-Sussmann-Motion-to-Dismiss)
https://www.scribd.com/document/569757736/67-Opinion-and-Order-Denying-Sussmann-Motion-to-Dismiss
67 - Opinion and Order Denying Sussmann Motion to Dismiss
Snip....... go to link to read legal reasoning..... Cut to the chase...
....6 Supp. 2d 24, 41 (D.D.C. 1998) (declining to decide § 1001 materiality on a pretrial motion to dismiss brought by former HUD Secretary “before the Government has had the opportunity to present its evidence at trial”). Accordingly, it is hereby ORDERED that Defendant’s [39] Motion to Dismiss the Indictment is DENIED.
SO ORDERED...
Also, Sussman is probably just a fall guy and it is in the cards for him to go to trial.
Any chance at this point that he would make a deal and roll over on anyone, or is he willing to take one for the team?
“... an Obama judge siding with John Durham.”
Could it be pay-back time for all the slights Obama received from Bill and Hillary?
But the FBI/DOJ DID open investigations on other pretexts, like the Steele Dossier, to spy on Trump - and then have the headline-generating Mueller on the job for two years.
This stinks, because Sussman is a patsy and this is a whitewash operation for the FBI.
IMO there is enough money from Soros, Zuckerberg and others for him to take one for the team. A short stretch in Club Fed won't be so bad (unless he gets Epsteined).
Sadly, I have felt that all along. The Sacrificial Lamb.
All the rest will walk.
Michael Sussmann did not kill himself next month...................
Yeah, he only helped cause the entire country 4 years worth of slanderous deception. All to try to help elect a treasonous Marxist pig.
Is somebody going to fall into depression and shoot themselves with a rifle in the back of the head twice on May 15th?
Remember the trial is in our around Washington D.C. not a lot of law-and-order types living there, especially when it comes to Democrats trying to take down Trump.
Even if he gets convicted, what’s to say Biden or Kamala if she takes over pardons him.
Sussman must go to trial!!!
That means the Surrender Monkey Caucus here at Freerepublic are in high screech!
Let the pearl clutching and whining begin.
He’ll kill himself!
Even if convicted everyone will walk.
Nobody ever goes on trial - they just drag things out until no one cares about what happens.
Enjoy yourselves now Caucus members but remember this is Durham not Barr.
Federal judge commits suicide.
So,the people charged with lying to the FBI can say it’s their first amendment right.🙄
Sussmann, a real scumbag for sure. A lying scumbag. If only he could read this.
POPCORN! Get your Popcorn here! POPCORN!
Sussmann did not kill himself.
Sussmann did not kill himself.
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