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May 18, 2023 2 tweets 1 min read Read on X
With the release of the Durham Report, the media went into total spin mode. However, the Washington Post (which won the Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Russian collusion) set a new level of denial with a column by Philip Bump...jonathanturley.org/2023/05/18/wai…
...Bump not only quotes Hillary Clinton on how the allegations against her campaign is possible "Russian disinformation," Bump actually makes one last pitch that there might have been Russian collusion after all.

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