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re: Judge Rules TRUMP RAPED & Defamed E. Jean Carroll -Jan Trial Will Determine Damages
TRUMP Weaponizes FBI-Russia Report, He Demanded, to Keep Fighting Election. -THAT Never Ends
A long-awaited report by Republican-appointed special counsel John Durham failed to find the “crime of the century” that Trump said targeted him at the center of the Russia investigation. But it delivered him a potential political payoff nonetheless.
AP 17 MAY 2023
An OLD and DESPERATE Man....
The 300-page conclusion to a three-year probe also dealt another blow to the Federal Bureau of Investigation over its handling of the reputation-shredding 2016 election.
Durham said that the bureau’s full-scale probe into multiple links between the Trump campaign and Russians should never have been launched, arguing that investigators “discounted or willfully ignored” information that did not support preliminary theories that there was collusion between Trump and Russia. And he called on the Justice Department to appoint an official to oversee politically sensitive probes.
But while Durham criticized confirmation bias and mistakes in the FBI, he did not unveil any new prosecutions – undermining Trump’s predictions of a sweeping purge of the bureau – and had no recommendations for further reforms in the FBI.
Still in a passage of the report that is certain to be highlighted by the former GOP president for political purposes, he argued that neither US law enforcement officials nor the intelligence community appears to have had “any actual evidence of collusion” before investigating Trump.
And the special counsel also criticized the FBI’s use of the Steele dossier, a now largely debunked document that was used by the FBI to secure surveillance warrants against a former Trump campaign adviser.
But not much of what Durham revealed on Monday was new and while it was not the complete fail that some partisan media commentators on the left claimed, it certainly lacked the kind of blockbuster indictments once predicted by the former president and his family.
Those debates aside, the polarization of American politics, everything involving Trump and the bitter aftermath of the 2016 election means that perceptions of links between his team and Russia will depend for many citizens on their ideological perspective and opinion of Trump.
Donald Trumps' Repeated Comments May Land Him in Hot Water.....
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