From the right: John Durham Has Already Won
When Special Counsel John Durham steps into court Monday, argues Kimberley A. Strassel at The Wall Street Journal, he’ll have “already won.” The first Russiagate trial, of Clinton World lawyer Michael Sussman, will “put every sleazy collusion player in the hot seat, with ramifications beyond the courtroom”: Marc Elias, Igor Danchenko, Christopher Steele, even Robby
Mook. And though “many conservatives remain frustrated” about the lack of “conspiracy charges,” such cases are “hard to prove” and “a court loss would make it easier for the press to cast the entire effort as debunked.” So “the narrow prosecution of the little-known Mr. Sussmann has allowed for a focus on the bigger story . . . the continuing tale of one of the dirtiest tricks in modern US history.”