He has to spend money on lawyers. He dared do something they are sure was in opposition to Dear Leader.

It’s not about winning. It’s about harassment.

It is all time consuming, costly and dangerous.

and expense of responding. It's as bogus as the Comey and James cases, and with the same objective.

Mueller actually indicted several people, who took a plea or were found guilty including Manaford. Even though hidden by Barr's lies, the conclusion seemed to be there was ample evidence that Russia did interfere against HRC for Trump, but it was not clear they had enough proof that Trump colluded. (Note the latter was when he was President - so it is a pretty damning report, much of which was not made public.)

For Brennan in 2016, it would have been negligent to NOT pursue foreign interference. Not to mention, the Obama administration tried to make a bipartisan joint statement on intelligence with the Republicans, but McConnell refused. The statement put out before the election carefully limited itself to Russian interference, not collusion with Trump and his campaign.

If anything, a case could be made that the Obama administration was extremely careful in not accusing Trump before the election. This even as Manford was doing some pretty suspicious stuff. The campaign also was involved with Cambridge Analytics using Facebook data and some of that data was rumored to have sent to Russia. If so, that data may have helped the troll farm target people on Facebook with lies.

Why are they not taking these obviously bullshit indictment pro bono and arguing the merits and seeking redress from Trump's incompetent and clearly JV-level DOJ?

I don't get it. These cases are so flimsy and full of shit that I could likely defend myself against them and win a dismissal on the merits...

Anyhow, ACLU handles cases on behalf of people who have no resources that involve public defense, and prisoners' rights; they don't handle direct criminal defense cases for individuals.

They can only take so many cases.

yeah, discovery could potentially be wild

Link to tweet

unless future justice cannon hears the case.

Could call in some favors.