5 Media Lies About The Latest Special Counsel Revelations
The Durham deniers’ talking points remain gibberish. They are furiously attempting to hand-wave away the facts the special counsel has found.
The Durham deniers’ talking points remain gibberish. They are furiously attempting to hand-wave away the facts the special counsel has found.
thefederalist.com
18 Feb 2022 ~~ By Margot Cleveland
One week ago today, Special Counsel John Durham filed a motion in the government’s criminal case against former Hillary Clinton campaign attorney Michael Sussmann. That motion, in requesting the court obtain Sussmann’s waiver of any conflicts of interest held by his lawyers on the record, provided in excruciating detail the factual basis for the purported conflicts.
In doing so, it
revealed that “enemies of Donald Trump surveilled the internet traffic at Trump Tower, at his New York City apartment building, and later at the executive office of the president of the United States, then fed disinformation about that traffic to intelligence agencies hoping to frame Trump as a Russia-connected stooge.”
While earlier filings by Durham had
revealed equally explosive facts, this time the special counsel’s motion generated enough attention that #Durham began to trend on Twitter. Not since the special counsel’s office indicted Sussmann in September 2021 for lying to the FBI’s former general counsel, James Baker, has the Durham investigation forced itself into the legacy press’ purview.
Rather than report on the latest developments, the corrupt media spun Friday’s filing as a big nothingburger, while parading several false narratives—just as it
did when news of the indictment of the Clinton campaign’s lawyer broke.
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1. It’s Just Those Crazy Right-Wingers
In his opening salvo in the Sussmann counter-offensive, Savage began his New York Times column by noting that Durham’s Friday night filing “set off a furor among right-wing outlets about purported spying on former President Donald J. Trump.”
2. Pay No Attention to the Facts Behind the Filing
The second narrative pushed by Savage and then quickly parroted by his ilk is that the facts behind Durham’s most recent court filing are too dense for readers to bother using their brainpower to decipher. Yes, I am serious.
3. There Was No ‘Infiltration,’ So There Is No Story
A third counter pushed in response to Durham’s Friday court filing focused on Fox News’ coverage and its opener that read, “Lawyers for the
Clinton campaign paid a technology company to ‘infiltrate’ servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the
White House, in order to establish an ‘inference’ and ‘narrative’ to bring to government agencies linking
Donald Trump to
Russia, a filing from Special Counsel
John Durham found.”
4. But Trump Wasn’t Even President Yet
The next narrative launched to minimize the significance of the revelations contained in Durham’s motion focused on the data Sussmann presented to the CIA purporting to show “that Russian-made smartphones, called YotaPhones, had been connecting to networks at Trump Tower and the White House, among other places.”
5. It’s Old News
The fifth response, which Savage again initiated, ran that the “news” was “old news.”
Commentary:
Weird how reporters assume it is their job to protect Progressive Maoist/DSA Democrats, Hillary and Joey Xi.
Journalism school taught them well in Progressive Maoist ideology of the Left?
They continue to cover for the PM/DSA Dems and the majority of them never had a good word for Trump.