By EUGENE DANIELS and GARRETT ROSS
05/31/2022 01:41 PM EDT
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BULLETIN — MICHAEL SUSSMANN, a lawyer for HILLARY CLINTON’s 2016 campaign, was acquitted of charges of lying to the FBI in its probe of DONALD TRUMP’s ties to Russia. It’s a big setback for Trump-era special counsel JOHN DURHAM, in what was his first courtroom test.
Our colleague Josh Gerstein has more: “It’s unclear how the high-profile courtroom setback will impact Durham’s ongoing probe or his ability to bring future charges in his broad investigation into the origins of the FBI’s Trump-Russia probe. … Senior Justice Department officials have been vague about what level of supervision is in place over Durham’s probe, which former Attorney General BILL BARR gave special-counsel status a few weeks before the 2020 election.”
TRUMP BLAMES GEORGIA PRIMARY BLOWOUT ON FRAUD — Trump blasted out an email to his supporters this morning with a link to an article falsely claiming Georgia Gov. BRIAN KEMP’s recent victory over Trump-backed challenger DAVID PERDUE in the Republican primary was the result of voter fraud.
A reminder: Kemp won the race by more than 50 points, consistently led in polling and his margin grew as the primary neared. He had the benefit of being a popular incumbent who found the Republican sweet spot of keeping his public criticisms of Trump to basically zero while abstaining from endorsing Trump’s lies about the 2020...
A senior Iranian official has slammed the United Arab Emirates for being an aggressor, not merely a supporter of aggression, stating that the UAE cannot hide its aggressive nature and role behind ...