As jury begins deliberations today in trial of former Clinton campaign lawyer, here in chronological order are dispatches from the trial. #SussmannTrial
Prosecutors said the scheme—taking sketchy data on Donald Trump to the FBI—was meant to influence the 2016 election theepochtimes.com/clinton-campai…
FBI experts deemed the data false in less than a day, though the bureau's analysis wouldn't be revealed until years later theepochtimes.com/fbi-deemed-tru…
Rodney Joffe, one of Sussmann's clients, was a confidential FBI source in 2016, but was later terminated "for cause," according to prosecutors and the defense theepochtimes.com/technology-exe…
Laura Seago, an analyst with Fusion GPS, testified on efforts to seed stories about the same data shared with the FBI in media outlets. The effort was successful when Slate and the New York Times published articles theepochtimes.com/key-witness-te…
Marc Elias, a Clinton campaign lawyer, disclosed that the campaign learned of the Trump-Russia claims no later than August 2016, and wanted the media to report on them theepochtimes.com/clinton-campai…
The judge overseeing the case, Christopher Cooper, rejected a request for a mistrial that was predicated on some of Elias' testimony theepochtimes.com/former-clinton…
James Baker, the FBI lawyer Sussmann met with, took the stand, recounting how he briefed senior FBI officials, including then-Director James Comey, on the allegations theepochtimes.com/fbi-lawyer-say…
Knowing the Clinton campaign was behind the claims would have changed how the bureau handled them, according to Baker, now a lawyer at Twitter theepochtimes.com/fbi-lawyer-kno…
Another rejection by the judge, this time against the prosecution. Prosecutors wanted a juror whose daughter competes with Sussmann's daughter removed theepochtimes.com/judge-in-clint…
Robby Mook, the Hillary Clinton campaign manager, testified that Clinton herself was asked about the plan to give the Trump-Russia allegations to a report, and that she approved the plan theepochtimes.com/hillary-clinto…
The jury soon heard about Sussmann, being frustrated that the FBI wasn't acting as he felt it should, going to the CIA with the Trump-Russia claims theepochtimes.com/clinton-lawyer…
Ryan Gaynor, an FBI agent, recounted how bureau officials kept field agents in the dark about the Clinton connection to the claims, which centered on Trump's business allegedly having a secret backchannel with a Russian bank theepochtimes.com/fbi-kept-field…
In one of the biggest revelations of the trial, a message was shown indicating Comey and other FBI leaders were "fired up" about the claims theepochtimes.com/fbi-leaders-in…
The document memorializing the investigation into the claims, meanwhile, said the tip came from the Department of Justice. That wasn't true, an FBI agent who was involved in the probe said theepochtimes.com/department-of-…
Back to Joffe: Jared Novick, the CEO of a business on whose board Joffe sat, recounted how Joffe approached him ahead of the 2016 election and asked him to compile reports on Trump-linked individuals, including Carter Page theepochtimes.com/cyber-company-…
Jurors heard about how Sussmann gave different stories regarding whether he was acting on behalf of any clients to Baker, the FBI lawyer, and Congress theepochtimes.com/ex-clinton-law…
Cooper, the judge, struck testimony and an email that suggested the data Sussmann handed over to the FBI may have been fabricating, after the defense alleged it was "prejudicial" to the ex-Clinton lawyer theepochtimes.com/judge-strikes-…
On May 26, Sussmann chose not to testify in his own defense. His lawyers wrapped up their defense, setting the stage for closing arguments today. Jurors will then deliberate theepochtimes.com/ex-clinton-law…
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