Thread by @KingMakerFT

@HansMahncke here discusses the latest filing by Durham- a brief in opposition to Sussmann’s motion to dismiss the indictment for lack of materiality. Durham does a good job tearing apart Sussmann’s argument, including pointing out that according to the Supreme Court, materiality

is an issue for the jury. Durham describes what he intends to present to the jury to prove materiality, and the contrast between how Durham correctly views materiality and how Sussmann’s lawyers look at it could not be more stark. Sussmann wants the issue to be binary- should the

FBI investigate the Alfa Bank communications or not? That very narrow view ignores things such as credibility and motives of the source of the information. Indeed, the attitude amongst the Clinton camp conspirators was precisely that: If we can present something to the FBI that

is any way plausible about Trump and Russia doing bad things, then they HAVE to investigate, and we can add weight to our narrative by telling the press there’s an investigation, it’s that corrupt strategy that has a lot of people not sleeping very well. Here’s @HansMahncke:

https://twitter.com/hansmahncke/status/1499811724756754441