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==Trial==

==Trial==

While it was expected that special counsel John Durham would challenge the official media and establishment narrative that the Trump-Russia investigation was properly predicated and carried out, it is Sussmann who challenged that narrative.  Durham made it clear from day one of the trial that he would run with the opposite narrative, that the FBI was a victim. In essence, Durham forced Sussmann’s team to attack the FBI in order to exonerate their client.  In possibly the biggest bombshell, Sussmann’s team revealed an internal FBI text message that proved that the FBI leadership under [[James Comey]] was vigorously pushing the Trump-Russia collusion hoax despite the flimsiness of the evidence.  It is the first public acknowledgment backed by documentary evidence that FBI leadership was focused on taking out Trump.  Andrew McCarthy noted that the FBI ignored Sussmann's lies to get their hands on Trump.<ref>https://nypost.com/2022/05/26/fbi-ignored-lies-to-get-their-hands-on-trump/</ref>  FBI headquarters officials fully realized they were acting on highly political information and took steps to conceal that fact.

While it was expected that special counsel John Durham would challenge the official media and establishment narrative that the Trump-Russia investigation was properly predicated and carried out, it is Sussmann who challenged that narrative.  Durham made it clear from day one of the trial that he would run with the opposite narrative, that the FBI was a victim. In essence, Durham forced Sussmann’s team to attack the FBI in order to exonerate their client.  In possibly the biggest bombshell, Sussmann’s team revealed an internal FBI text message that proved that the FBI leadership under [[James Comey]] was vigorously pushing the Trump-Russia collusion hoax despite the flimsiness of the evidence.  It is the first public acknowledgment backed by documentary evidence that FBI leadership was focused on taking out Trump.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/new-internal-fbi-text-message-reveals-fbi-leaderships-desire-to-get-trump-truth-over-news_4492007.html</ref> Andrew McCarthy noted that the FBI ignored Sussmann's lies to get their hands on Trump.<ref>https://nypost.com/2022/05/26/fbi-ignored-lies-to-get-their-hands-on-trump/</ref>  FBI headquarters officials fully realized they were acting on highly political information and took steps to conceal that fact.

First, a decision was made to treat Sussmann, the source, as a confidential informant. This was not done to protect Sussmann’s security. It was done to protect the FBI’s reputation. The informant pretext enabled headquarters to conceal Sussmann’s identity from the line agents in Chicago who were tasked to assess the Alfa-Bank information.  As good investigators, the agents wanted to know the source of the information so they could assess the purveyor’s motive and thus the data’s likely reliability. They were frustrated and annoyed that headquarters would not identify the source and allow him to be interviewed.  If they had been told Sussmann was behind the data, they would instantly have known that the information was political. As it was, they quickly concluded that the information was nonsense, that it did not come close to establishing a Trump-Kremlin communications channel, and that it probably came from someone with an anti-Trump agenda.  

First, a decision was made to treat Sussmann, the source, as a confidential informant. This was not done to protect Sussmann’s security. It was done to protect the FBI’s reputation. The informant pretext enabled headquarters to conceal Sussmann’s identity from the line agents in Chicago who were tasked to assess the Alfa-Bank information.  As good investigators, the agents wanted to know the source of the information so they could assess the purveyor’s motive and thus the data’s likely reliability. They were frustrated and annoyed that headquarters would not identify the source and allow him to be interviewed.  If they had been told Sussmann was behind the data, they would instantly have known that the information was political. As it was, they quickly concluded that the information was nonsense, that it did not come close to establishing a Trump-Kremlin communications channel, and that it probably came from someone with an anti-Trump agenda.