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Originally Posted by detbuch
Your above verbiage of "facts" is a 2019 version. Different facts (such as Wray's agreeing that Carter was illegally surveiled) have been uncovered since then. And more are being uncovered by Durham.
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So far Durham has not amounted to #^&#^&#^&#^&.
After years he has come up with a couple of indictments focused on peripheral characters flubbing details that would not have altered the main focus of the Russia investigation.
Congress referred two of Trump’s sons, his top political adviser, one of his top national security advisers, and one of his top campaign officials to DOJ for criminal prosecution for perjury and making false statements under 18 USC §1001.
And the DOJ? Under Trump Attorney General Bill Barr’s watchful eye, ignored all of these referrals.
Congress had evidence that Hope Hicks, Trump’s closest aide, had also lied. There was evidence of lies from Trump lawyer Michael Cohen—who later revealed he’d been instructed to lie by Trump lawyers—and even Trump himself, who gave written answers to Mueller.
The DOJ did nothing.
When the DOJ did act, longtime Trump friend and adviser Roger Stone received major criminal convictions—which Trump immediately annulled via commutation and pardon.
Convictions for lying by 2016 Trump campaign manager and thirty-year acquaintance Paul Manafort—who was under contract with a Kremlin agent to advance Vladimir Putin’s interests in the U.S. when he secretly delivered proprietary targeting data to Russian intelligence during the 2016 campaign? These too were soon obliterated by a Trump pardon. Did Jared Kushner need some rewarding for lying to Congress and Mueller on his father-in-law’s behalf? Sure he did—so Trump pardoned Kushner’s dad, Charles.
All the while the Trump DOJ sat by, lied to by everyone in the Trump's entourage and without any consequence whatsoever. It took no action to protect the rule of law.
But there was one exception to all of this prosecutorial ignorance, with Trump breathing down Barr’s neck he installed Durham as a Special Counsel to hold Trump’s enemies to account in a way that no ally of Trump ever had been.