Shortly after Michael Sussmann was acquitted by a DC jury of lying to the FBI, I was on the phone with Donald Trump who lamented the verdict. The former President believes the jury was stacked with liberal activists and, indeed, there is evidence that four jurors have aggressively supported the Democratic Party.
Sussmann is suspected of feeding the FBI phony information on behalf of Hillary Clinton's campaign that linked candidate Trump to a corrupt Russian bank. That allegedly happened in the fall of 2020, shortly before the presidential vote.
Special Counsel John Durham has made it clear he believes the Clinton campaign and Hillary herself contrived the ruse and Sussmann was the messenger.
The problem is that former FBI counsel James Baker, Durham's star witness, has made contradictory statements about Sussmann under oath. Presto, reasonable doubt, and acquittal. Durham should have foreseen that major problem.
The key to the truth is who is paying Sussmann's lead attorney, Sean Berkowitz. He is very expensive. His firm Latham-Watkins is very expensive. I estimate Sussmann's legal bills to be close to one million dollars.
So who's picking up the tab?
I don't know and, of course, Sussmann is not going to tell us.
What I do know is this whole thing is dirty, top to bottom. Durham knows exactly what happened in one of the most corrupt campaign tricks in history.
But he can't prove it.
See you later for the No Spin News.
