{"id":45785,"date":"2022-05-26T08:33:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45785"},"modified":"2022-05-26T08:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T12:33:27","slug":"if-you-believe-this-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=45785","title":{"rendered":"If You Believe This…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday, The Washington Times<\/a> posted an article ‘explaining’ how a \u201ctypo\u201d in an email led investigators in 2016 to believe that false allegations linking former President Trump to Russia\u2019s Alfa Bank<\/a> came from the Department of Justice rather than from Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann.<\/p>\n

The article quotes testimony from the trial of Michael Sussmann.<\/p>\n

FBI<\/strong><\/a> Agent Curtis Heide<\/a>, who along with agent Allison Sands authored the internal communication, said the inaccuracy, sent out just weeks before the 2016 election, was simply a mistake.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe may have conflated the Office of the General Counsel and the Justice Department<\/a>,\u201d Mr. Heide<\/a> said on the witness stand. \u201cI don\u2019t know how that information got in there.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Monday, jurors in the criminal trial of Mr. Sussmann were shown the electronic communication sent in September 2016 by top bureau officials to field agents marking the opening of the case. The communication said the investigation was based on a \u201creferral\u201d from the Justice Department<\/a>, rather than a tip from Mr. Sussmann.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Tuesday, John Hinderaker at Power Line Blog<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n

I was skeptical that the Sussman prosecution would tell us much that is new, but some significant nuggets have come out. Like this one<\/a>: \u201cFBI brass were \u2018fired up\u2019 about now-debunked Trump-Russia ties.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

FBI leaders, including then-Director James Comey, were \u201cfired up\u201d about a potential connection between the Trump campaign and Russia \u2014 which ultimately was proven false, text messages and court testimony revealed Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On Sept. 21, 2016, two days after Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann gave then-FBI General Counsel James Baker info about a supposed digital back channel between the Trump Organization and Moscow-based Alfa Bank, agent Joe Pientka texted colleague Curtis Heide: \u201cPeople on 7th floor to include Director are fired up about this server.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

So there was zero evidence of any connection between presidential candidate Donald Trump and the Alfa Bank, or any other Russians of note, and all one of Hillary Clinton\u2019s lawyers had to do was waltz into the Bureau with some fabricated \u201cdata\u201d and FBI Director James Comey and others were \u201cfired up.\u201d The lust to defeat the interloper Trump and elect Hillary Clinton is palpable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a shame that they were not nearly so ‘fired up’ over the security problems involved in Hillary Clinton’s secret server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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