Durham Would Use a Big Scheme to Prove a Modest Crime

Was lying to the FBI part of a conspiracy to defraud the government into promoting the Trump-Russia hoax to help Hillary win?

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Left: U.S. Attorney John Durham. Right: Michael Sussmann on C-SPAN in 2016.

United States Attorney’s Office, District of Connecticut/Wikimedia; Screenshot via C-SPAN

Democratic lawyer Michael Sussmann is a lone defendant charged in a single count with a narrow crime. More important, though, he was a participant in a “joint venture” to get Hillary Clinton elected president by deceptive means. That is the theme of Special Counsel John Durham’s court filing this past weekend. Prosecutors plan to make it the theme of their case against Sussmann, whose trial is set to begin on May 16.

That is, the prosecutors will make it their theme if Judge Casey Cooper allows it. That is no sure thing.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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