Right-wing media is excited that the Durham investigation has finally issued a reportfor them to be excited about. And just like with Hunter Biden’s laptop and crime in the Biden family, the headline is more exciting than the actual details.

John Durham has issued a 306-page report that says the Russia investigation, known as “Crossfire Hurricane,” never should have happened in the first place. Seriously? This is more like a Fox News segment than a Special Counsel report. If anything, the John Durham investigation never should have happened.

The Durham investigation was created by pressure from Donald Trump when he was president (sic). Trump tweeted there needed to be an investigation into the Russia investigation. The idea was to prove that Crossfire Hurricane, which was NOT an investigation into Trump but into his campaign staffers’ links with Russian officials and spies that began during the 2016 presidential campaign, and the Mueller investigation were a deep-state conspiratorial plots against Donald Trump. Facing pressure from Trump, Attorney General William Barr created an investigation in April 2019, into the “witch hunt” and “Russia hoax” and selected U.S. Attorney John Durham to lead it. The goal, Barr claimed, was to determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was “lawful and appropriate.”

In an interview with Fox News in April 2020, Barr said of the Russia investigation, “The evidence shows that we are not dealing with just mistakes or sloppiness. There is something far more troubling here.” Trump and his supporters believed the Durham investigation would lead to prison sentences for the former directors of the FBI and CIA, James Comey and John Brennan, and Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, President Biden, and maybe also Robert Mueller, Sean Penn, Robert DeNiro, Kathy Griffin, and Randy Rainbow.

This investigation was a sham from its inception.

It was only created to discredit the investigations and facts about Trump’s links to Russia. Durham was compromised from the start since he was a United States Attorney appointed by Donald Trump who was selected for this investigation by an Attorney General appointed by Donald Trump after he promised on Fox News that he’d use the AG job to protect Trump if he ever got it (he did). If there was an investigation of this investigation of an investigation, it would determine this investigation never should have happened. It was a waste of time and money.

And knowing he was running out of time, William Barr secretly appointed John Durham as a Special Counsel after the investigation had failed to find any real dirt or deep state plot, and in order for the investigation to carry on after the Trump administration (sic) was over and be a pesty buzzing fly around the Biden administration. This is actual weaponization of the Justice Department.

Durham’s report finds “confirmation bias” because a “lack of analytical rigor” was used in creating the investigation into Trump and Russia. It didn’t find any “political bias.” He reported that the investigation into Trump and Russia never should have happened. I call bullshit.

There had to be an investigation into Trump and Russia. Donald Trump was supported by Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign. Russia operated an election interference campaign on social media to help elect Trump. Trump hired staffers with deep connections to Russia, not just the coffee boy but his campaign manager (who he later pardoned after he was indicted). He repeated Russian talking points at rallies. He defended Vladimir Putin’s murdering of journalists, The same day he publicly said, “Russia, if you’re listening,” asking them to hack into the Democratic Party’s presidential campaign, Russia started doing as he asked.

Next, he started reading the hacking results at campaign rallies. He hosted Russians in Trump Tower, his campaign headquarters, for the purpose of collecting dirt on Hillary Clinton, his opponent. After the election, Jared Kushner attempted to create a back channel in order to communicate with Russia without the CIA’s knowledge. Trump hired General Michael Flynn as his National Security Adviser, who only lasted about three weeks because he lied about his connections to Russia. Trump asked James Comey, the director of the FBI to kill an investigation into Flynn and his connections to Russia. When Comey declined, Trump fired him.

Then, Trump invited Russian government officials into the Oval Office, handed them classified information, and bragged that he killed the Russia investigation by firing Comey. Because of that, his Attorney General at that time, Jeff Sessions, appointed Robert Mueller to investigate Trump and his connections to Russia. Then, Trump fired Jeff Sessions. Later at a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump took the Russian president’s side over that of U.S. intelligence regarding Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Trump destroyed the translator’s notes from his private meeting with Putin. At another summit, he had an unplanned meeting with Putin without any other American present.

So, how do you not investigate that?

The Mueller investigation produced 37 indictments. The Durham investigation only produced one guilty plea by an FBI lawyer who had doctored an email requesting a wiretap renewal. That guilty plea resulted in probation, not prison time.

Donald Trump “truthed, “WOW! After extensive research, Special Counsel John Durham concludes the FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia Probe! In other words, the American Public was scammed, just as it is being scammed right now by those who don’t want to see GREATNESS for AMERICA!”

No, a scam is when you charge taxpayers nearly $7 million on a b.s. investigation that only produces one probation and zero changes within the FBI or Justice Department.

Tom Fitton, a Trump ally and the leader of the conservative group Judicial Watch, and a believer that the Russia investigation was a deep state plot by Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other Democrats, was disappointed in the Durham Report. He said, “Durham let down the American people with few and failed prosecutions. Never in American history has so much government corruption faced so little accountability.”

But Durham was set up for failure because no laws were broken and there wasn’t a “deep state conspiracy” to frame Trump. There was way less evidence to create this sham investigation than there was to create Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller investigation.

Aitan Goelman, the lawyer for former FBI agent Peter Strzok said that while the special counsel accused the F.B.I. of “confirmation bias,” it was John Durham who spent four years trying to find support for a preformed belief about the Russia investigation.

Goelman said, “In fact, it is Mr. Durham’s investigation that was politically motivated, a direct consequence of former President Trump’s weaponization of the Department of Justice, an effort that unanimous juries in each of Mr. Durham’s trials soundly rejected.”

Durham spent close to four years and nearly $7 million looking for a witch hunt and he came up empty. The Durham investigation was just more Trump fuckery and his report proves it. The report doesn’t even point out that any laws were broken and doesn’t recommend any prosecutions.

The Durham investigation is over, but Trump f—ery will remain for decades to come.

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