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"Court Filing Started a Furor in Right-Wing Outlets, but Their Narrative Is Off Track," read the New York Times headline for a story about special counsel John Durham's investigation into the FBI's ill-starred Crossfire Hurricane probe into the 2016 election.
The Durham deniers’ talking points remain gibberish. They are furiously attempting to hand-wave away the facts the special counsel has found.
WAR OVER TRUMP SPYING. Anyone who has followed political journalism for more than a minute or two could predict how some big outlets would cover the revelation that operatives connected to the Hillary Clinton campaign spied on the Trump campaign. Once legacy media journalists saw the story reported on Fox News, and especially when they saw former President Donald Trump promoting it, they immediately thought: How can we knock this down?
Maybe. The one-sided Durham filing can't be trusted, right-wing misinterpretations of that filing even less so.
Establishment media panned John Durham's court filings that alleged Hillary Clinton's campaign associates spied on Trump's presidency.