I have said for years now that this alleged Special Prosecutor John Durham is a fake entity pushing fake news. Today’s “shocking bombshell” does absolutely nothing to change that.
Former Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook testified Friday that then-Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton approved the dissemination of materials alleging a covert communications channel between the Trump Organization and Russia’s Alfa Bank to the media, despite campaign officials not being "totally confident" in the legitimacy of the data.
Former FBI General Counsel James Baker testified Thursday that the bureau investigated the data alleging a Trump connection to the Kremlin-linked bank, and found that "there was nothing there."
During cross-examination by government prosecutor Andrew DeFillippis Friday, Mook was asked about the campaign’s understanding of the Alfa Bank allegations against Trump and whether they planned to release the data to the media.
Mook said he was first briefed about the Alfa Bank issue by campaign general counsel Marc Elias, who at the time was a partner at lawfirm Perkins Coie.
Mook testified that he was told that the data had come from "people that had expertise in this sort of matter."
He also said he discussed whether to give the information to a reporter with senior campaign officials, including campaign chairman John Podesta, senior policy advisor, now White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, and communications director Jennifer Palmieri.
"I discussed it with Hillary as well," Mook said.
"I don’t remember the substance of the conversation, but notionally, the discussion was, hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter," Mook said.
The government asked Mook if Clinton approved "the dissemination" of the data to the media.
"She agreed," Mook testified.
Mook later said he "can't recall the exact sequence of events," when asked if he shared the idea to give the Trump-Alfa Bank allegations to the media with Clinton before or after the decision was made.
"All I remember is that she agreed with the decision," Mook testified.
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Since when do we expect politicians to be honest and not lie? Lyndon B Johnson used to accuse his opponents of sexual impropriety with pigs! He didn’t order the FBI to investigate (as far as I know).
If this still is a mystery to you, I will explain it. Anyone who lives in or works in Washington is a lying, devious, scheming, treasonous, lecherous, petty, lying rat. They are the scum of the earth and nothing is beneath them.
Do you know why things like Pizzagate are just accepted as a matter of course?
Because it fits with long-established behavior patterns.
Did anyone even for one moment think Hillary was not lying?
That would be massively out-of-character.
So what?
Not even an FBI agent could be stupid enough to think Hillary was telling the truth?
Why would she tell the truth? Why would she willingly give power to people she considers inferior?
Don’t make no sense.
Anyway, this is all smoke and garbage. Never though I’d see the day come, but I gotta take the red Queen’s side on this one. As Hillary herself famously said, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”