Moments after Special Counsel John Durham was handed a major setback on Tuesday when a federal jury found Clinton-linked lawyer Michael Sussmann not guilty, multiple Fox News personalities accused the D.C.-based jurors of not giving prosecutors a “fair shake” due to political bias.
Sussmann was indicted in September 20221 on a single count of “willfully and knowingly” lying to a federal agent. The case centered on a 2016 meeting Sussmann had with the FBI over allegations that there was secret communication between a Russia-linked bank and the Trump Organization. Sussmann, who also represented Hillary Clinton’s campaign at the time, was accused of not telling the feds of his Democratic Party connections during the conversation.
Right-wing media and Trump allies had hoped that the Sussmann case would be the centerpiece of Durham’s investigation into Robert Mueller’s probe of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. (And pushed misleading claims about Durham’s investigation in the process.) Throughout the two-week trial, prosecutors argued that Sussmann had “a license to lie” in a last-minute effort by the Clinton campaign to tip the election with false claims about Trump-Russia collusion.
The jury, however, rejected the prosecution’s argument and apparently accepted the defense’s claims that Durham was basically trying to turn one brief meeting into a “giant political conspiracy theory.” Needless to say, Fox News was not pleased with the verdict and went...
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