Remember that story about the Durham filing suggesting the Clinton campaign paid for "spying" on Trump communications before and after the presidency?
CNN and its co-conspirators morphed that into fake news. Here's how....
CNN and its co-conspirators morphed that into fake news. Here's how....
First, they debunk the claim the Clinton campaign paid for the data. The data was free. They don't mention that Clinton paid lawyers to go get the data to frame Trump (per Durham). That seems important.
Then CNN claims the data all came from before the Trump era. They don't tell you their "debunk" is irrelevant to the story because no one involved in framing Trump (allegedly) cared if the data was accurate. They only cared if it got the job done.
CNN never debunks the Durham claim that the Clinton campaign used fake data, obtained via their paid lawyers, to frame Trump and change the course of American politics. Some might call it an insurrection.
CNN and the NYTs also try the "it is old news" trick in which they prove there was a prior story on the topic (there was) but of course the prior story did not include all the good stuff we know now, such as Durham's allegations in the filing. But the reader will not know that.
It is remarkable and scary to watch the Fake News Industry effectively kill the first real "Worse than Watergate" story of the modern era. And they did it right in front of us. Successfully.
Update: We are asked to believe the Clinton campaign lawyer asked and received only Obama era data when his entire purpose was to frame Trump.
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