Former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann is a privileged, politically connected attorney who lied to the FBI as part of a “bigger plan” to smear Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 presidential election because Sussmann thought laws did not apply to him, a federal prosecutor charged in her opening statement at his trial Tuesday. “The evidence will show this is a case about privilege,” Deborah Brittain Shaw, a prosecutor working on John Durham’s special counsel team, told jurors in federal court in Washington, DC. “Privilege of a lawyer who thought he could lie to the FBI without consequence,” she continued, adding that Sussmann was a powerful, well-connected attorney who thought “normal rules didn’t apply” to him.
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