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Hillary Biden Democrat and Woke scams not faring too well lately...


https://www.theepochtimes.com/florida-lawmaker-says-disney-stepped-in-quicksand-and-made-a-drastic-unforced-error_4381529.html



Key Player In Ex-Clinton Lawyer’s Trial Intends To Plead The Fifth

https://www.theepochtimes.com/john-durham-ex-clinton-lawyer-allegedly-lied-to-fbi-in-writing_4384038.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21576906-sussman-lawyers-motion
https://www.theepochtimes.com/durham-filing-detailing-spying-on-trump-white-house-raises-national-security-implications_4278116.html
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21576905-durham-team-motion

A former technology executive who helped spy on the White House
intends to invoke his right against self-incrimination if he is called
to testify during the upcoming trial of a lawyer who represented
Hillary Clinton’s campaign during the 2016 election, according to
court documents.
Michael Sussman in an undated interview. (CNN/Screenshot via NTD)

Michael Sussman, the lawyer, is set to go on trial for allegedly lying
to the FBI.

Sussman was representing Rodney Joffe, a tech executive, when he went
to the FBI and handed over three white papers that contained
unsubstantiated allegations against then-candidate Donald Trump,
Clinton’s rival in the presidential race, according to U.S.
prosecutors.

Sussman says he gave the information to the FBI as a concerned citizen
and the parties he was representing at the time are not relevant.

If Joffe were to testify during the trial, he would “offer critical
exculpatory testimony,” Sussman’s lawyers said in one of the new
filings. Among the angles would be that “Mr. Sussmann and Mr. Joffe
agreed that information should be conveyed to the FBI and to
Agency-2,” believed to be the CIA, “to help the government, not to
benefit Mr. Joffe.”

But Joffe plans on invoking his rights under the Fifth Amendment if
called to testify because prosecutors say he remains the subject of an
investigation.

Steven Tyrell, representing Joffe, said in a letter just made public
that he spoke with Andrew DeFilippis, a prosecutor on Special Counsel
John Durham’s team, on March 31 after receiving a subpoena for Joffe
to testify.

After receiving confirmation Joffe remains under investigation, Tyrell
asked for more details.

“Rather than provide any additional information to aid in our
assessment of the risk of prosecution, Mr. DeFilippis stated that in
his view, Mr. Joffe’s status in the investigation was sufficient to
establish a good faith basis to invoke the privilege against
self-incrimination. Mr. DeFilippis further stated that OSC did not
want to get into any more detail, and presumed that Latham would
understand if Mr. Joffe decided to invoke,” Tyrell said in the letter,
which was sent to Sussman’s lawyers at Latham & Watkins.

Sussman’s lawyers alleged that Durham’s team is “manufacturing
incredible claims of continuing criminal liability” to force Joffe to
not testify, alleging it is “simply inconceivable that Mr. Joffe faces
any real continuing criminal exposure in connection with the special
counsel’s investigation.”

According to earlier filings, Joffe was part of a scheme to spy on the
White House before and after Trump became president. Joffe’s
spokesperson has described him as “an apolitical Internet security
expert with decades of service to the U.S. government who has never
worked for a political party, and who legally provided access” to data
to the White House.

Since Sussman also plans to invoke his Fifth Amendment right during
trial, Joffe remains the only available witness regarding the
relationship between himself and Sussman, the defendant’s lawyers
assert.

They’re asking the court to dismiss the case unless prosecutors agree
to grant Joffe immunity, which would enable him to testify without
fear of repercussions.

In a filing from Durham’s team, prosecutors said Sussman assembled and
conveyed allegations regarding Trump to the FBI on behalf of both
Joffe and Clinton’s campaign, citing billing records, conversations,
and other evidence. One nexus is a law firm, Perkins Coie, which was
paid by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee
during the election, with evidence showing Joffe met with former
Perkins lawyer Marc Elias multiple times.

Emails that Durham’s team is seeking to introduce during the trial
would show Sussman, Joffe, and the campaign “were ‘acting in concert
toward a common goal,’ namely, the goal of assembling and
disseminating the Russian Bank-1 allegations and other derogatory
information about Trump and his associates to the media and the U.S.
government,” the special prosecutor’s office said. One email would
show Joffe saying he was offered the top cybersecurity job in the
White House if Democrats won the election.