{"id":1484149,"date":"2022-05-19T10:46:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484149"},"modified":"2022-05-19T10:46:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T14:46:32","slug":"democrats-high-powered-attorney-marc-elias-testifies-in-sussmann-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-high-powered-attorney-marc-elias-testifies-in-sussmann-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 High-Powered Attorney Marc Elias Testifies In Sussmann Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-high-powered-attorney-marc-elias-testifies-in-sussmann-trial%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1484149&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Marc-Elias.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>High-powered Democratic attorney Marc Elias took the stand in the government\u2019s case against cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann is on trial for allegedly lying to the FBI about his motivations for passing severely flawed data on to the law enforcement agency purporting to show a connection between the Trump Organization and Russia\u2019s Alfa Bank. Sussmann\u2019s case is the first courtroom test of special counsel John Durham\u2019s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy that undermined the 2016 election and hounded former President Donald Trump well into his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Elias is a former partner of the Democratic-linked law firm Perkins Coie and oversaw Sussmann\u2019s work for Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign. Elias also hired Fusion GPS, the original propagators of the infamous Steele dossier, as consultants in Perkins\u2019 work with the Clinton campaign. In practice, Fusion conducted opposition research on Trump and his associates, a description that Elias said he would not \u201cquibble\u201d with during testimony, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/marc-elias-testifies-about-fusion-gpss-trump-russia-dirt-digging-in-sussmann-case\">The Washington Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Elias criticized Trump over his past comments on Russia, and Elias hit former FBI Director James Comey for \u201cputting the thumb on the scale\u201d of the 2016 election in a way that benefited Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Christopher Cooper has instructed jurors to disregard their feelings one way or the other over Trump and Clinton and stick to the facts of the case. Prosecutors have asked jurors to look at the evidence and not allow their political biases to shade their judgment.<\/p>\n<p>Elias called Trump \u201ca bully\u201d who used the legal system and the threat of lawsuits to intimidate others. The Democratic-linked attorney smacked Trump over his response to the Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was clearly an attempt by Russia to ruin the one clean shot that candidates get to talk to the American public,\u201d Elias said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/18\/politics\/marc-elias-clinton-durham-sussman\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. \u201cAnd instead of doing what any decent human being would do, and condemn it, Donald Trump said, \u2018I hope Russia is listening and will find the 30,000 Hillary Clinton emails \u2026 and release them.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elias also hit Comey and claimed that the FBI was not \u201cparticularly helpful\u201d in investigating Russian attacks against the DNC during the 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI, for a variety of reasons, was not going to do anything to stop these bad things from happening,\u201d Elias said. \u201cJames Comey had taken public stances around that time period that were, in my view, unfair, and putting the thumb on the scale against Secretary Clinton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The jurors in the case were picked out of the deep blue neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. During jury selection earlier this week, numerous members of the jury pool, some of whom were picked to serve on the jury itself, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/sussmann-jury-selected-as-durham-makes-rare-appearance\">expressed<\/a> support for Clinton and disdain for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>While Elias appeared more inclined to support Sussmann, Durham\u2019s team was able to use the attorney to enter into evidence a litany of records of meetings, emails, and billing statements showing Perkins and Fusion\u2019s work on the Alfa Bank claims on behalf of the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-powered Democratic attorney Marc Elias took the stand in the government\u2019s case against cybersecurity attorney Michael Sussmann on Wednesday.Sussmann is on trial for allegedly lying to the FBI about his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1484165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1484165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}