Hinderaker: Looks Like A… Mistrial, To Me…

I’ve just been made aware, by the excellent EW, that USDC Judge Cooper, in the Sussmann trial, had specifically forbidden the Durham team from reading the HRC material Hinderaker crowed about, last night. [Hinderaker chirped “Guilty, Guilty… Guilty!” or some such.]

The ruling saying it was both hearsay, and unduly prejudicial (not probabtive)… was not ten minutes before Team Durham had a witness read the whole thing into the record, unredacted.

And Judge Cooper had, a few weeks earlier, entered a formal written order excluding it.

The idea here… is that it was… intentional by Team Durham, and clearly prejudicial, since the jury is not sequestered — and thus may well be grounds for a mistrial. It in fact establishes that, for good reason, Trump’s campaign ties to Alfa Bank were being investigated by law enforcement — for corruption BY TRUMP. Not not not HRC.

[Of course, neither HRC or Trump is on trial here. But Durham just put Trump’s role in the Russian influence on 2016 directly into evidence — intending to smear Sussmann by association — but likely imploding his own case, by violating two specific orders of the judge trying the case.]

Good work, Johnny! — “Doin’ a heckuva’ job, Brownie!” You frothy far right idiots have undone whatever it was that Durham thought he had (likely illicitly) achieved, here.

H I L A R I O U S.

Say goodnight to your would-be “Watergate by analogy” wet-dreams.