Today, a DC jury packed with Democrat donors and friends acquitted Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann. The judge and jury were stacked and, I suspect it took the jury longer to choose a foremen than a verdict. As Law Professor Turley put it “You could not come up with a worse jury” for the prosecution.
This was expected but it is interesting how brazen they were, not even pretending to deliberate. Drawing a jury pool from a city that voted 98% for Hillary Clinton and for Democrats is an example of futility. A DC jury also acquitted, Gregg Craig of the same charge.
Prominent Washington lawyer Greg Craig was found not guilty of lying to the Justice Department about work he did for the government of Ukraine in a case that arose from the special counsel’s Russia investigation and that centered on the lucrative world of foreign lobbying.
The jury deliberated for less than a day before clearing Craig, a White House counsel in the Obama administration, of a single count of making false statements to federal investigators.
Paul Manafort was convicted of the same charge by a DC jury. Almost identical facts, by the way.
Nick Sandman wisely filed his defamation lawsuit in Kentucky where he lives. There is no way a DC jury would have found in his favor. His MAGA hat would have been enough to doom his chances.