I was listening to Bongino (don't crucify me, it's 90 degrees and I'm working outside so it's more for the noise than anything else). He said that Durham was not surprised by the verdict.
Why would he not be surprised? Was it due to nepotism of the judge to Lisa Page or what? His reaction is kind of a head scratcher.
Looking for thoughts here.
He knew they excluded best evidence of the actual crime Sussman was being tried for from consideration by the jury. He's very much a man who hasn't ever tried a case he thought he even might fail on, but, the factors here are different. If you read up about the case, day to day, it was MUCH more obviously laying out the conspiracy of it all than it ever was talking about if Sussman lied or if that was material (he did and it was) but there are bigger fish to fry here. They knew they had a suck jury and a judge who should have recused and didn't. And so they used what time they had to put into the judicial record the foundations of the worst corruption and biggest conspiracy seen in our government in a long time. It's also my personal recent theory that Durham is actually aiming to clear out the corruption in the FBI as much as anything. He has before.