Commentary

I’ve been critical of Durham’s plodding pace during this probe but he does seem to be finally rounding up people and putting them in positions from which they can’t escape.”

That remark by Stephen Kruiser of PJ Media petty well sums up my feeling regarding Special Counsel John Durham’s effort to nail those responsible for the Russian collusion hoax hanging over President Trump for four years.

But the headline on his piece, “Will Hillary Clinton Ever Take the Fall for Being Pure Evil?” is the big question.  I have previously written that I doubted she would be seriously charged with anything, but in the end, I wanted there to be no doubt that she knowingly approved the lie.  A lie that cost us $32 million dollars for the Mueller investigation.

The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal is seemingly convinced with its headline, “Hillary Clinton Did It,” but just doesn’t see Hillary in a perp-walk to prison.

In federal court Friday, however, her campaign manager Robby Mook testified that she “approved it” – the plan to tie Trump to Russia’s Alpha Bank.

As Durham peels back the hoax onion, a number of names surface as participants. In addition to Michael Sussman, lawyer Mark Elias, and Mook, Hillary’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri, campaign manager John Podesta, and policy advisor Jake Sullivan (now Biden’s national security advisor), all had a hand in this dirtiest of dirty tricks.

While Palmieri and Podesta had connections with leftist media outlets, just days before the 2016 election, it was Sullivan, who tipped off Slate about the possible link between Trump and Moscow.

Sussman arranged the meeting with FBI general counsel James Baker on the precept that he merely wanted to help the bureau and was not meeting on behalf of a client. One report indicated that Baker was surprised that Sussman had his private phone number.

After listening to Sussman’s assertion of a Trump-Russia connection, he quickly briefed legal colleague Trisha Anderson and Bill Priestap, head of the FBI’s counterintelligence division.  It led to informing James Comey and Andrew McCabe, who leaped on the potential of it to sink Trump.

While Mook’s testimony involving Clinton in the scandal was referred to as a “bombshell” by those witnessing the proceedings, the humiliated media on the left, taken-in by the hoax over four years, is not reporting it.

Meanwhile, the leak-proof Durham investigation continues with the careful processing of evidence that will hopefully, someday, result in a full accountability.

You have heard, I’m sure, that the jury has a few Clinton supporters.  It would be difficult to have a jury in Washington DC without.  I have to believe the jury will be honest.

Optimism and patience are virtues I find difficult to endure.

FLASHBACK:  If you have doubts about the intensity of Durham’s pursuit of justice, even of FBI agents, recall that it was Durham who indicted Special Agent John Connolly, of the FBI’s Boston Field Office, for corruption as an organized crime informant. 

Connolly was leaking information to his own informants that resulted in the killing of three witnesses, of taking bribes, and tipping off James “Whitey” Bulger, the head of a powerful crime family in Boston, enabling him to flee in 1994.

In 2002, Connelly began serving a 10-year term in a federal prison before serving additional time in a Florida prison for murder.  He received a medical release last year at age 81.

Bulger was captured in California in 2011, and died in 2018.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America