I don’t know, the community I was following on YouTube that was purchasing the transcripts and going through them were talking about swamp corruption from the first day, back when they were doing jury review. Once the Clinton donors were allowed to stay on the jury, a lot of people thought the fix was in. From that point there started to be rumblings that the prosecution wasn’t always objecting or challenging in places where they could, and there’s still this weird element of the case where they had Sussman lying in text on the 18th, but instead charged him for the 19th, where they had no text.

By the second week I started to get the sense this trial wasn’t really about Sussman. Part of that was this idea that Sussman lied to the FBI. Part of believing that also requires you to believe that the FBI was duped, when really we know the FBI was in on it. So it felt strange to cheer for a guilty verdict which would legally confirm the FBI was duped, when I don’t think that’s what actually happened.