House Republicans looked ridiculous yesterday by trying to exploit John Durham's failed investigation, but as stevebenen writes, the special counsel himself fared even worse.
explained yesterday, this connection “is one of the most serious and still not fully explained components of the Trump-Russia scandal. It belies all the claims of Trump and his crowd that the Russia investigation was nothing but a hoax orchestrated by a nefarious den of anti-Trump vipers within the law enforcement and national security communities.”
And yet, when asked about this yesterday, Durham couldn’t answer questions about this key detail, and suggested he was unaware of it.[Durham] seems to have become so hopelessly brain-poisoned by Fox News he has lost all touch with facts outside the Republican information bubble. More specifically, Durham seemed to be unaware of the major factual elements of the alliance between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Democrats specifically asked the former special counsel about details uncovered by the Mueller investigation — a probe Durham just spent several years scrutinizing. And yet, in response to multiple lines of inquiry, Durham freely admitted that he was clueless about the revelations. This didn’t do his partisan allies any favors: The man Republicans saw as a hero, discrediting the Trump/Russia scandal and the investigation of it, seemed wholly unaware of the controversy’s key elements.It’s why Chait, it helps contextualize the larger problem: “If you’re not aware of the major evidence of the alliance between Trump and Russia that was unfolding largely in secret, then of course you would assume the FBI investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia was a witch hunt.
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