It was last September when Twitchy spotted some movement in the John Durham investigation — Durham wanted to indict Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman for lying to the FBI about the Trump Organization’s supposed secret “backchannel” to the Russian Alfa Bank. Sussman is now on trial, and as we reported Friday, prosecutors entered into evidence Hillary Clinton’s tweet about Alfa Bank, which was accompanied by a press release from her campaign promoting the hoax.
Earlier today, Elon Musk asked in response to a tweet from Margot Cleveland why ABC News was ignoring the Sussman trial and her campaign manager Robby Mook’s admission in court that Clinton herself gave the green light to the hoax. Musk said Friday that he’d only heard about the Sussman story a month ago and was “blown away.”
I guarantee that @elonmusk tweeting about Sussmann is the first time the vast majority of people on this website have ever heard of him, and probably John Durham as well. Twitter has been suppressing tweets about the trial all week.
— Shem Horne (@Shem_Infinite) May 20, 2022
I only heard about it last month and was blown away
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 20, 2022
Published in Oct. 2018 by @epochtimes and @themarketswork, this infographic 👇 remains the most comprehensive overview to date. https://t.co/qnoFdm0WGu pic.twitter.com/YX8BajIM54
— Jan Jekielek (@JanJekielek) May 20, 2022
Spygate?
Confusing-gate, more like it!
Bottom line: A prominent lawyer working for the Clinton campaign fabricated Russia-Trump collusion using a retired MI6 spy & some actual Russians. This is not ok!
There may have been actual Russian interference, but still the above is not cool.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 21, 2022
Not cool at all. Hans Mahncke prefers to call it Simple-gate:
Simple-gate:
Feb 2016: Clinton campaign hatches plan to vilify Trump with fake collusion allegations
Apr 2016: Fake Alfa collusion data assembled
May 2016: Steele hired to assemble fake collusion stories
Jul 2016: Steele stories given to FBI
Sep 2016: Alfa data given to FBI https://t.co/ljFlrznUoA
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) May 21, 2022
"On or about September 19, 2016, FBI received a referral of information from US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, detailing an unusally configured email server in Pennsylvania belonging to the TRUMP ORGANIZATION"
Sep 19, 2016 was the day when Sussmann took the exact same info to the FBI.🤔 https://t.co/NbOaetieiK
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) May 21, 2022
Huh.
One should never underestimate the importantce of coining an easily understood neologism. "Simplegate" is one of them, IMO.
It was not a complicated fraud run by sophisticated fraudsters; just a brazen scam run by craven fools. https://t.co/2PC65fwTNw
— The Silly Skeptic (@master_skeptic) May 21, 2022
As to why ABC News is ignoring the story:
Perhaps it's because ABC's @mattmosk (now at CBS) colluded with the Clinton campaign to set up an innocent American @SergeiMillian with a fake interview. A short clip from the never aired interview was shown on ABC. A few hours later the same clip appeared in a Hillary attack ad. https://t.co/VBKMANZyi1 pic.twitter.com/3Jfjhymytw
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) May 21, 2022
“On July 27, 2016, an ABC News reporter emailed one of the Fusion GPS co-founders concerning an individual who was then President of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce (“Chamber President-1”), stating, in part, “making arrangements to interview [Chamber President-1]. We should chat.”
Again, even that isn’t that confusing. Why would ABC News cover the Sussman trial if they don’t have to? Simple.
September 22:
The man who could be your next president may be deeply indebted to another country. Do you trust him to run ours? pic.twitter.com/5TU9olTqd5
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 22, 2016
Hoax.
Related:
Here’s the disinformation-laden Hillary Clinton tweet admitted as evidence in Sussmann trial (not that Twitter or journos will care) https://t.co/e9WxHfcv7F
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) May 21, 2022
