Do you remember when Bill Barr told you that John Durham was conducting an investigation and you actually believed it? That seems so long ago that it might as well be an ice age — you know, that bygone era when the credibility of our federal law enforcement agencies still existed. My calendar disagreed with my feelings though. It was only 13 months ago that the much-hyped investigation into Spygate finally became absurd when Attorney General Bill Barr let it be known that his special agent John Durham would not be able to finish his alleged investigation (subsequently downgraded very slyly to a book report) before the 2020 election. No indictments! No prosecutions! No kidding! This news landed like a grenade among Trump supporters who had been promised that heads would roll every night for two years on conservative cable news.
The entire thing had been a ruse: a sham investigation to cover up the most extraordinary conspiracy in American history. President Trump himself was incredulous. He called in to Rush Limbaugh’s radio the very same day the news broke and proceeded to blast Bill Barr and the DOJ to an audience of about 50 million listeners. "It's a disgrace” and “an embarrassment” the President said, almost in disbelief. Then he offered this summary judgment on his own federal law enforcement officials: “we don't have people who can do anything."
The day before, in another interview, President Trump had been even more specific about Durham’s sham investigation. "It's 24 years of putting radical liberals in there [the DOJ] and also Trump haters. They put Bush people in there. Frankly the Bush people, some of these losers who used to work for Bush, are worse than the Obama people." The President of the United States let it be known that the FBI and the DOJ were covering for corrupt people like the Clintons. ”If we lose this election, it all goes away” he said finally. Did he mean the Durham investigation or the concept of equal justice in America? Maybe both.
