Over there at The Wall Street Journal, the paper’s Kimberley Strassel, as always a superb detective of behind-the-scenes shenanigans, has dissected the recently released filing by Special Council John Durham. Her findings make plain that Durham points to the tie between all those lefty techies and the Clinton Campaign, joining forces to spread “an inference” and “narrative” in the media that tied then candidate Trump, through the Trump Organization, to Russia-based Alfa Bank. And doing it to “please certain ‘VIPs’” in the Clinton Campaign.
What Strassel also notes is that the Durham revelations that the Clinton Campaign was spying on candidate Trump and then, later, President Trump, have been ignored by the liberal media. She writes:
The press initially tried to ignore the story, then resorted to parsing the definition of ‘spying,’ justifying the accused, and trashing Mr. Durham…..The wonder is that the press and others are stepping up for another humiliation—when the disturbing actions of the creators of the Alfa narrative are already so easy to document, and in their own words.
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley, writing at Fox News, took note of this curiosity as well, headlining:
Durham probe proves some media would rather ignore a major story than expose their role in covering it up
Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation findings have the Washington media in close to a collective faint
Turley writes:
Pediatricians call it “breath-holding spells.” It is when children hold their breath when upset until they experience syncope, or passing out. The media in Washington appears close to a collective faint over the recent filings of Special Counsel John Durham. While the media has largely buried or downplayed the alarming disclosures by Durham on the origins of the Russian conspiracy claims, Durham keeps adding new details implicating top Democratic figures in what he describes as an ongoing investigation. You can only hold your breath so long and Durham shows no signs that he is done by a long shot.
The latest disclosures by Durham are difficult for many in the media to cover because they directly refute years of prior coverage. Many in the media lampooned Donald Trump for claiming the FBI and the Clinton campaign spied on Trump Tower and his campaign. Yet, we later learned that the FBI did spy on the campaign. In 2020, the media largely ignored that finding.
Turley goes on, bold print for emphasis supplied: “There is no way to cover this story without many admitting that it facilitated a false narrative created by the Clinton campaign, including attacking those who suggested that the Clinton campaign would ever engage in such disreputable conduct.”
Exactly.
Interestingly, former Hawaiian Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — a Democrat, no less — stepped forward on Fox to note the real problem here. Then she tweeted this: “Durham probe further proves that the greatest threat to our democracy is not some foreign country, but rather the Power Elite, led by the likes Hillary Clinton and her cohorts in Deep State and Mainstream Media.”
Bingo. Three cheers for Ms. Gabbard. She is exactly right.
Davis asked:
….who is trying to federalize election laws in national elections contrary to the spirit of the Constitution? Who wishes to repeal or circumvent the Electoral College? Who wishes to destroy the more than 180-year-old Senate filibuster, the over 150-year-old nine-justice Supreme Court, and the more than 60-year-old, 50-state union? Who is attacking the founding constitutional idea of two senators per state?
“Who are the real insurrectionists?”
We know the answer.