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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Gene Lyons

GOP can’t stop failing with conspiracy investigations

Former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr. (Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

The two most common themes of MAGA sorehead emails I received last year were the inevitability of an anti-Biden landslide in 2022 and the certainty of Hillary Clinton’s prosecution by “independent counsel” John Durham, supposedly for falsifying evidence against Donald Trump during the “Russia, Russia, Russia hoax,” as Trump styles it.

Almost needless to say, neither happened. What has taken place instead is the total collapse of Durham’s ballyhooed probe, as well as his reputation for probity and competence. Along with that of former Attorney General Bill Barr, who comes off looking like ...

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