Was John Durham Chopped Liver? -- Digby

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2025/12/29/was-john-durham-chopped-liver/

More vengeance on the menu:

For months, MAGA insiders and pundits have hinted that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is preparing a vast grand jury investigation against an expansive list of President Donald Trump's enemies.

Located in the Trump-friendly Southern District of Florida, the investigation would pursue former intelligence and law enforcement officials who had allegedly conspired over the past decade to prevent Trump from exercising his constitutional and federal rights.

Among its top targets would be officials who scrutinized the 2016 Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia and who brought charges against the president for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and hoard classified documents.

Or so MAGA insiders claimed. But hard evidence was scant.

Now, Attorney General Pam Bondi has all but confirmed the existence of the conspiracy probe, pulling back the curtain on the potential next stage in Trump's campaign of retribution against anyone who has stood in his way.

In comments Sunday evening to conservative commentator John Solomon, Bondi said U.S. attorneys and federal agents were investigating Obama-Biden era officials at her direction in an ongoing election-meddling conspiracy. She framed the probe as part of nationwide investigation into the "weaponization of government," a popular GOP allegation.

Those officials, Bondi asserted, had protected Democrats like Hunter Biden and Hillary Clinton from criminal investigations "while pursuing conservatives for their beliefs, using legal process and operations that were excessive."

"This is a ten-year stain on the country committed by high-ranking officials against the American people," the attorney general claimed.

John Durham traveled all over the world looking for evidence of this exact alleged crime. He ended up prosecuting two low level operatives and lost both cases. So Trump needs his henchmen to "find the evidence so he can jail all of Obama and Biden's staffers. Good luck.

This is really crazy but I can't say I'm surprised. At this point, pursuing Trump's enemies is pretty much all the Justice Department is doing.

I don't think it will be possible to call them off of this and not just because Trump demands it. They believe it because to not believe it would shatter their fragile reality. I think we'll be living with these people's delusions for a generation.

The full Democracy Docket piece is worth a read:
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/attorney-general-pam-bondi-conspiracy-investigation-trump-enemies/.

[The Roux Comes First]

1. No, We're Well Past "Finding" Evidence - This is Full-blown Manufacturing of Evidence

Since none of the prior hyper-vigorous "finding" exercises, including Durham's, succeeded in finding anything of consequence, while of course there is a multitude of actual evidence of collusion with the russian kleptocracy, criminal theft of government documents, and voter fraud perpetrated by trump's empowered quislings (and plenty more).

[exboyfil]

2. What is the statute of limitations?

[UTUSN]

3. K&R