Durham’s Biggest Challenge: The Jury

In a preview of the Michael Sussmann trial that the New York Post ran over the weekend, I summed things up with this:

It is not a new theme. The defendant in the false-statements case is a prominent Democratic lawyer, the scheme in which the alleged crime took place was concocted by the Democratic establishment, and many of the witnesses on whom Durham must rely to prove the case — some of them old friends, colleagues, and political allies of the defendant — were putting their thumbs on the scale in 2016 for the Democratic candidate.