CNN's Jake Tapper and Evan Perez discuss the Durham Report, which suggested no new charges, despite determining that the FBI and DOJ should never have initiated their investigation into Donald Trump, which falsely accused the former President of being a Russian agent:

"The report is now here. It has dropped, and it might not have produced everything of what some Republicans hoped for. It is, regardless, devastating to the FBI. And to a degree, it does exonerate Donald Trump."

"The bottom line finding from John Durham's four-year investigation is that the FBI moved very quickly to investigate these allegations of connections of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia and that they did so by ignoring a lot of evidence that would have led them to drop that all together...

What he finds is that there wasn't enough there to support the FBI's decision to open a full-blown investigation of the Trump-Russia ties back in 2016.

He writes here he says that it seems highly likely that, at a minimum, confirmation bias played a significant role in the FBI's acceptance of extraordinarily serious allegations derived from uncorroborated information that had not been subjected to the typical exacting analysis that the FBI usually uses.

He goes on to say that the FBI discounted or willfully ignored material information that did not support the narrative of a collusive relationship between Trump and Russia.

There was a lot of very sharp criticism here of the former FBI leadership, James Comey and Andy McCabe, who were running the FBI and who oversaw a lot of these have a lot of the steps that the report goes into, Jake, but as you pointed out, bottom line, there are no additional charges....

A couple quotes here from Durham's report... we conclude that the Justice Department and FBI failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law."

https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1658220063936356352

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With the horrific exposure of the Durham Report along with the team removed from the Hunter Biden IRS case, it is important to keep up with critical global financial events in the world.

Argentina is in acute financial trouble, again.

The Argentinian Central Bank is raising its benchmark rate by 600 basis points to 97%.

Previously, Argentina has defaulted on IMF loan repayments, and is currently looking for support from the IMF (again) as well as BRICS.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/argentina-hike-rates-bid-stem-153459314.html

HOLY SHIT!

After Kyiv just got bombarded with air-strikes US Patriot systems were unable to intercept, Zelensky and Putin agree to meet with African Leaders in separate meetings to discuss a peace plan!

Zelensky knows he is dead if he returns to Ukraine.

John Kirby meltdown in 3…2…1…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12090289/amp/Putin-Zelensky-agree-meet-African-leaders-discuss-peace-plan.html

NEW - Infection with common cold coronaviruses can trigger broad cross-immunity against COVID, research by the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany finds.

https://idw-online.de/de/news814454

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Kari Lake eviscerated Piers Morgan in the rest of this interview and perfectly explains why the media uses these fake investigations to turn the people against Trump.
"I do hope he picks somebody who the media fears more than they fear him. He's the one man fighting for us and they have been gunning for him since day one, the media has been lying about him since day one with bogus phony stories. They recognize that he's the one man that's standing in that gap to protect the people of America.
I think what the (investigations) does is it allows you to say what you just said...Keep this in the media. We can talk about all this and it keeps it out their as a reminder to people, to try to turn them against Trump. They are not going to be turned against Trump. The people who hate Trump, the globalists, he's got the right kind of enemies."

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Tracy Beanz and Emerald Robinson: The Latest on Kari Lake’s Election Legal Battle

https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/05/15/tracy-beanz-and-emerald-robinson-the-latest-on-kari-lakes-election-legal-battle/

I’m actually more optimistic about Abe Hamadeh’s election challenge than I am Kari Lake’s. Abe Hamadeh is represented by Jennifer Wright, former head of the Election Integrity Unit who is seasoned in this exact thing.

They’ve put together a strong case that thousands of provisional ballots were illegally discounted. Hamadeh only needs to prove 280 legal votes were not counted and that is enough to change the election outcome.

Hamadeh’s argument is simple, and if he’s granted a new trial and an inspection of the provisional ballots, he could easily meet the “clear and convincing” burden of proof.

On the other hand, I’m going to be honest with you, and I said this the day the AZ Supreme Court gave their ruling… Kari’s task of meeting Judge Thompson’s “clear and convincing” standard regarding signature matching is going to be unbelievably difficult.

She must prove that the signature verifiers conducted no signature matching whatsoever on at least 18,000 ballots. That’s near impossible when there will obviously be a rebuttal from Hobbs’ team claiming they did SOME form of signature verification. That apparently will be enough to sway the judge to rule in favor of the defendant (Hobbs).

Even a full inspection of mail in ballot envelopes won’t sway this judge because theres almost no way to make a “clear and convincing” argument regarding mail in ballot signature matching. One person could say they match, and another could say they don’t.

Given that the judge has already dismissed this count before, and recently dismissed the L&A count which would prove that the machines were intentionally manipulated, I’d say he’s not interested in hearing actual evidence of fraud.

On top of that, he also said that he’s inclined to view the evidence in favor of the defendant, so I’d say outlook not so good for Kari. Unfortunately.