Dear Dan,
One side says the Durham report proves that the “conspiracy theories” are true. The other side says the Durham report is a “nothing burger.”  I decided to read it for myself rather than rely on Jake Tapper or Fox News.

From the executive summary at the beginning:

"These examples are also markedly different from the FBI' s actions
with respect to other highly significant intelligence it received from a trusted foreign source
pointing to a Clinton campaign plan to vilify Trump by tying him to Vladimir Putin so as to
divert attention from her own concerns relating to her use of a private email server. Unlike the
FBI's opening of a full investigation of unknown members of the Trump campaign based on raw,
uncorroborated information, in this separate matter involving a purported Clinton campaign plan,
the FBI never opened any type of inquiry, issued any taskings, employed any analytical
personnel, or produced any analytical products in connection with the information. This lack of
action was despite the fact that the significance of the Clinton plan intelligence was such as to
have prompted the Director of the CIA to brief the President, Vice President, Attorney General,
Director of the FBI, and other senior government officials about its content within days of its
receipt. It was also of enough importance for the CIA to send a formal written referral
memorandum to Director Corney and the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's
Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strzok, for their consideration and action."

It would appear that the FBI had become corrupted and that the FBI’s actions/inactions convey biased actions in favor of the Clinton campaign.  And the media were all complicit.  Some even received a Pulitzer for reporting that has since been proven bogus.

If you want to have a real conversation, then you have to look at the facts. I am willing to do that and to entertain anybody who wants to go beyond name calling, distraction, and denial.  And this is the reason why the base of Trump’s current campaign are now so committed and distrustful, so immune to reason. Trump and his base is a monster that the left leaning bureaucrats and media created. Trump’s base now points to people like Schiff who declared he had physical proof that Trump colluded, and the congress controlled by them went on to impeach Trump based on what? Their hatre—and the determination to obstruct Trump and prevent him from governing. It was NOT a peaceful transition of power; it was an insurgency. 

I do not want Trump to run again, but he is. I do not want him to win the nomination. He went off the rails after years of opposition.  He lost it in the 2020 election, and I don’t just mean the election.  He is stuck in time, traumatized and likely narcissistically wounded to the point where he has to prove he was right about the election. He lost the election. But given what happened from 2016 and beyond, I think the whole country lost ground, lost trust in government, and now is wandering in a wilderness.

Phil
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