{"id":121821,"date":"2022-06-25T10:45:33","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=121821"},"modified":"2022-06-25T10:45:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T14:45:33","slug":"durham-played-you-for-a-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=121821","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Durham Played You For A Fool!<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>John Durham and Bill Barr finally ran out of the clock on Spygate. Why are you surprised?<\/h3>\n<p><!--more-->Emerald Robinson<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the summer of 2022 \u2014 and where are all those Durham indictments you were promised? And where&#8217;s that much-discussed Durham report? Do you know that you\u2019ve been played for a fool yet \u2014 or are you still watching Fox News? Maybe you need another year to figure out the entire game. Maybe you still believe Bill Barr! Didn\u2019t that legendary windbag tell us that the wheels of justice grind very slow but justice is coming?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s turn back the clock two years \u2014 in case you forgot what AG Bagpipes promised the American public.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;The attorney general is saying that Americans will recognize some names under investigation as a part of US attorney John Durham\u2019s ongoing investigation. But the attorney general is saying those names won\u2019t include Obama or Biden.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmeraldRobinson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EmeraldRobinson<\/a> reports. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uQEiENqOmD\">pic.twitter.com\/uQEiENqOmD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NEWSMAX\/status\/1270787816570511360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>Indictments are coming!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>People will know the names of these people!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Criminal prosecutions! Not just a report!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Notice that (then) AG Bill Barr promises justice for the Russia Hoax while <em>at the very same time<\/em> excluding Obama and Biden as subjects of the Durham investigation.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the moment that you should have known: <em>the fix is in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The entire \u201ctick tock\u201d narrative that followed was brought to you (mostly) by Fox News and Bill Barr.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png 1456w\" alt=\"\" width=\"606\" height=\"286\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/fbf26c58-a039-4503-a5c3-311aa6c943c3_606x286.png&quot;,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:286,&quot;width&quot;:606,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:61315,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>People ask me all the time how I knew \u2014 all the way back in the early months of 2020 \u2014 that the Durham investigation was a sham. (What do I mean by <em>a sham<\/em> \u2014you ask? I mean a counterfeit of real justice \u2014 a <em>ploy<\/em> \u2014 a ruse to mislead the public.) It wasn\u2019t because I had sources at the FBI or the DOJ. I correctly predicted the Durham investigation was a joke because the Huber investigation was a joke, and because the Hillary Clinton email investigation was a joke, and because the Huma Abedin laptop investigation was a joke, and because the Jeffrey Epstein investigation was a joke\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>I correctly predicted that the federal government doesn\u2019t really investigate itself in order to <em>successfully<\/em> prosecute Democrats. Call it Emerald\u2019s Law.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DURHAM INVESTIGATION: There hasn\u2019t been a lot of movement but reports are saying there were will most likely not be any indictment before the election. Newsmax TV\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmeraldRobinson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EmeraldRobinson<\/a> shares more details. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VlT7z8drtO\">https:\/\/t.co\/VlT7z8drtO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pAEn3T6xHg\">pic.twitter.com\/pAEn3T6xHg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NEWSMAX\/status\/1310635382321672192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The people who disagreed with me (publicly at the time) all worked at Fox News, or appeared on Fox News, or were guests on Fox News \u2014 and these people were all in the business of misleading their audience because the GOP establishment wanted its voters to be fooled. Bill Barr didn\u2019t really want to arrest or prosecute Democrats \u2014 and certainly not in 2020. After all, the GOP establishment was busy <em>collaborating with Democrats in 2020<\/em> to steal the November election from President Trump \u2014 or don\u2019t you remember?<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png 1456w\" type=\"image\/webp\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-normal\" src=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png 424w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png 848w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png 1272w, https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png 1456w\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"147\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/0a007569-4190-43d4-82d0-6bca70019de7_598x147.png&quot;,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:147,&quot;width&quot;:598,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:38835,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In other words: the Durham investigation was simply <em>the clean-up phase<\/em> of Spygate disguised as an<em> investigation of Spygate<\/em>. This was perfectly obvious at the time \u2014 and it remains obvious today. It doesn\u2019t take <em>two years<\/em> for the DOJ to prosecute its targets. You know that \u2014 right? Just ask Roger Stone. When the DOJ really wants to prosecute you, it\u2019s easy to tell because two dozen special agents in SWAT gear appear at your door in a pre-dawn raid with a CNN camera crew already stationed across the street.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just for the crime of \u201clying to Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Did you really think that John Durham need <em>two years<\/em> to bring serious indictments against the Spygate plotters? Did you really fail to notice that his low-level indictments came just as the statue of limitations expired? Or that Durham brought minimal charges that were always going to bring minimal sentences?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because John Durham was <em>the cleaner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t tell me that you actually believed that <em>one guy<\/em> at the DOJ was going to investigate how the DOJ <em>and<\/em> the FBI <em>and<\/em> the CIA were trying to sabotage President Trump all by himself? All the majors players in Spygate walked away while Durham sent you on a wild goose chase hunting for commas in charging documents \u2014 and that wild goose chase was <em>so successful in conservative media <\/em>that you\u2019re still talking about two low-level guys getting charged with process crimes <em>four years<\/em> after Durham supposedly started his investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Durham kept you <em>high on the hopium<\/em> <em>for<\/em> <em>four years<\/em>. That was his real job. He actually made you think that Spygate plotters were going to be prosecuted <em>during the Biden Administration<\/em> \u2014 or the Third Obama Administration as it should properly be called. It\u2019s almost as if you <em>somehow forgot<\/em> that Obama and Biden were the ones who met on January 5th, 2017 to conceal the Obama Administration\u2019s illegal spying on the Trump campaign (since Trump was now President-Elect) and to formally launch the Russia Hoax.<\/p>\n<p>So the joke is on <em>you<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As I said on Twitter at the time: \u201cAt the current rate of speed that Durham\u2019s investigation moves, we can expect the guilty to be prosecuted sometime during the second Hunter Biden administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the giant red flags about the Durham investigation f<em>rom the very beginning<\/em> was that he allowed Democrat super-attorney (and 2016 Hillary Clinton general counsel) Marc Elias to run around <em>for years <\/em>interfering in our elections. Durham even allowed the Democrats\u2019 \u201cdirty-ops-org-disguised-as-a-law-firm\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perkinscoie.com\/en\/news-insights\/perkins-coie-and-its-political-law-group-announce-the-formation-of-the-independent-firm-elias-law-group-llp.html\" rel=\"\">Perkins-Coie to separate itself legally from Elias<\/a> just <em>three weeks<\/em> before he charged their employee Michael Sussmann! Elias was so certain that Durham was a nothing-burger that he even took over the Black Lives Matter corporate franchise while Durham was still investigating!<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s that for justice?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84fdfdc1-92db-41e6-bcdf-ee2768eba3e2_1234x834.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84fdfdc1-92db-41e6-bcdf-ee2768eba3e2_1234x834.png 424w, 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\/><\/picture><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>You should also notice by now that Democrats never have to play stupid games like \u201ctick tock trust the plan\u201d because they\u2019re too busy <em>actually<\/em> fabricating evidence, planting false media stories, and falsely prosecuting Trump officials like General Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and Paul Manafort.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re too busy getting simpletons like (then) AG Jeff Sessions to recuse himself in order to bring down the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51788061-c368-4dec-9bb6-1bb664183669_603x416.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><picture><source 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data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/51788061-c368-4dec-9bb6-1bb664183669_603x416.png&quot;,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:416,&quot;width&quot;:603,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:89894,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" \/><\/picture><\/a><figcaption class=\"image-caption\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>In fact, the Spygate plotters (Obama, Biden, Rice) are currently in control of the White House \u2014 in case you hadn\u2019t noticed. How\u2019s that for <em>getting away with it<\/em>? Sure, Durham made a valiant attempt to transfer the blame for the whole scandal onto Hillary Clinton and her campaign aides \u2014 but Hillary Clinton wasn\u2019t meeting with James Comey about the Russia Hoax in the White House and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/CFH%20Timeline%20w%20Updates%2020201203%20(FINAL).pdf\" rel=\"\">texting Peter Strozk and Lisa Page<\/a> was she?<\/p>\n<p>Durham even tried to get the American public to believe that the FBI and the CIA had <em>somehow been fooled<\/em> <em>by Hillary Clinton<\/em> into investigating Trump. That\u2019s right: the FBI and the CIA <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/20\/clinton-lawyer-shopped-phony-trump-russia-data-to-cia-in-17-witnesses\/\" rel=\"\">claimed to be innocent rubes<\/a> who were deliberately led astray by Lady Macbeth. Spygate was reduced to something about the Alfa Bank, and whether Michael Sussmann told the FBI that he represented a client when he dropped off \u201cinformation\u201d on thumb drives at Langley seemingly three days a week in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The Sussmann media coverage was <em>absurd<\/em> from the start \u2014 but every conservative media outlet on Earth <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/20\/clinton-lawyer-shopped-phony-trump-russia-data-to-cia-in-17-witnesses\/\" rel=\"\">ran these stupidities<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/sussmann-billed-clinton-campaign-for-thumb-drives-he-gave-to-fbi-pushing-alfa-bank-allegations\" rel=\"\">a straight face<\/a> in 2022. There were moments during the trial of Michael Sussmann when it was easy to believe that Sussmann\u2019s case had more to do with Perkins Coie billing the Clinton campaign for two thumb drives \u2014 rather than, you know, <em>participating in a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the sitting President<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what happens when you reduce a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the sitting President into a single charge of lying to the FBI.<em> The elephant in the room transforms into a fly, and then the fly gets swatted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Durham\u2019s job was to <em>run out the clock<\/em> during the Trump Administration \u2014 he was there to protect Obama and Biden and the national security state from any accountability. Think about it. Why did you trust Durham at all? You trusted John Durham because you were told to trust him by Bill Barr \u2014 and the same people who told you to trust Barr were the ones who told you to trust Rod Rosenstein. Before that, you were told that Matt Whitaker was riding to the rescue. Do you even remember being told to trust John Huber? And who can forget trusting Jeff Sessions?<\/p>\n<p>Do you see where this is going?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s ask a different question: why do you need to trust anybody? The Left burns down <em>entire cities <\/em>in coordinated riots to achieve its political objectives. The Left tries to assassinate a conservative Supreme Court justice to stop anti-abortion legislation <em>right after <\/em>forcing a liberal Supreme Court justice into retirement in order to install an even more left-wing justice. The Left, in other words, <em>trusts nobody<\/em> because it only cares about <em>results.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, you were told: <em>sit back and watch the show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>You were told: <em>trust the plan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The question is: why were you dumb enough to believe Durham in the first place?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/emeralddb3.substack.com\/p\/durham-played-you-for-a-fool?utm_source=email\">https:\/\/emeralddb3.substack.com\/p\/durham-played-you-for-a-fool?utm_source=email<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Durham and Bill Barr finally ran out of the clock on Spygate. Why are you surprised?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}