Remember John Durham? Well, He’s Still Around with His Biggest Case Yet.

Remember John Durham? He was the well-regarded United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut who was appointed Special Counsel by Trump’s Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of the Russian conspiracy hoax that plagued the first three years of the Trump administration.

The hoax was created by Hillary Clinton and her campaign operatives during the 2016 presidential campaign. Using law firms and opposition research firms to keep her hands clean, Hillary created a fake dossier alleging that Trump was being blackmailed by Vladimir Putin using hotel room videotapes and other evidence showing Trump with hookers.

There was also an allegation that the Trump Organization servers in the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York were in constant contact with Alfa Bank, which is one of the largest banks in Russia and controlled by oligarch friends of Putin.

The dossier itself was written by a now-discredited MI6 spy named Christopher Steele. He was the head of station in Moscow for the British intelligence service but had moved back to London and gone into consulting when Hillary’s henchmen hired him. Steele had the chops to make the dossier look like an actual intelligence product when, in fact, it was filled with lies. (By the way, it’s not unusual for real spies to produce lies; it’s want they do).

The dossier was shopped around Washington agencies before the election, but there were few takers. Nevertheless, it was leaked in early 2017 after Trump had won the election.

Now, the purpose of the dossier was changed. It was no longer to defeat Trump (he won anyway). It was designed to blame Russia for Hillary’s loss (she’s still not over it) and to tie Trump’s hands as his administration was just beginning. In that, the dossier worked brilliantly for three years.

The Mueller investigation showed the dossier was a hoax after two years, but the media kept the story alive for another year until a new hoax involving Ukraine and Biden could be ginned-up to impeach Trump. In the end, Trump lost the 2020 election in part because of the persistent battering he took on the Russia and Ukraine hoaxes (not to mention the decline of U.S. foreign policy as a result).

Durham was appointed by Barr to get to the bottom of the Russia hoax and see if any crimes were committed. Durham got one conviction on a plea deal with an FBI agent who admitted forging a document. He then indicted two other Hillary accomplices, but both defendants were acquitted at trial. This was no doubt in part because both trials were held in Washington DC where the residents voted 90% for Hillary and Joe Biden.

It’s almost impossible to select a fair-minded jury in DC, but that’s where Durham is stuck because the activities took place in DC. Many citizens had given up on Durham and moved on. But he’s back.

As described in this article, Durham is planning to bring a wide-ranging conspiracy case involving many defendants and alleging a broad and ongoing scheme to rig the 2016 election. He had some new smoking-gun evidence. A conspiracy case can be easier to prove because there are far more defendants and its routine to plea bargain with some defendants in order to get cooperation against the others.

This will be happening at the same time that Trump is on trial in New York and as the 2024 election is getting more intense. It’s an interesting turn of events. Some cases just never die.

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