The folks at CNN and MSNBC must have shown up early to yesterday’s morning meeting to discuss how they plan to NOT cover the release of Special Counsel John Durham report that shows Trump was spied on long after he took office.
How could they? The major nets have spent the last several years painting Trump as a paranoid lunatic for claiming that he was being spied on. Now that Durham’s federal filing confirms as much, the MSM is dumbstruck on how to proceed. Especially CNN since they received high ratings during the Trump years with biased reporting aimed at tarnishing voters’ views on Trump.
Durham’s filings are more damning than we could have imagined:
“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 says.
Durham filed a motion on Feb. 11 focused on potential conflicts of interest related to the representation of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman, who has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent. Sussman has pleaded not guilty.
The indictment against Sussman says he told then-FBI General Counsel James Baker in September 2016, less than two months before the 2016 presidential election, that he was not doing work “for any client” when he requested and held a meeting in which he presented “purported data and ‘white papers’ that allegedly demonstrated a covert communications channel” between the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, which has ties to the Kremlin.
But Durham’s filing on Feb. 11, in a section titled “Factual Background,” reveals that Sussman “had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1) at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign.”
Durham’s filing said Sussman’s “billing records reflect” that he “repeatedly billed the Clinton Campaign for his work on the Russian Bank-1 allegations.”
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Durham states that the internet company that Tech Executive-1 worked for “had come to access and maintain dedicated servers” for the Executive Office of the President as “part of a sensitive arrangement whereby it provided DNS resolution services to the EOP.”
“Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited this arrangement by mining the EOP’s DNS traffic and other data for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump,” Durham states.”
Some Democrats knew this already. They didn’t call it out. They let it go. https://t.co/cbT5YjMsoL
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) February 12, 2022
I wish I could join everyone in saying that Trump gets the last laugh, again, but this time I’m not so sure. Democrats, alongside the nets, were successful enough in sewing doubt in the American public that it landed us all with Biden.
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.