Trump's new "spying" Clinton conspiracy theory dupes the media

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Amanda Marcotte
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Trump’s latest conspiracy theory, like all before, is a bucket of lies. But the mainstream media is falling back on old habits, afraid to call out the lies of the country’s most notorious liar.

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Trump's new "spying" Clinton conspiracy theory dupes the media
Headline writers won't call out Trump's lies about the "Durham report" — even as he's threatening Clinton's life
11:43 AM · Feb 16, 2022

https://www.salon.com/2022/02/16/new-spying-clinton-conspiracy-theory-is-a-success-as-cowardly-mainstream-media-confounded/

Have you heard of the latest conspiracy theory fueling the bizarre fantasy life of the right?

The liars of the right definitely think they've got a hot one with this "Durham report," an official-sounding document that Republican propagandists will have you believe "proves" Hillary Clinton was spying on Donald Trump. The "report," however, is actually just a court filing made by John Durham, a right-wing lawyer installed in the Department of Justice by Trump and then-attorney general Bill Barr for the obvious purpose of generating conspiracy theories to feed into the right-wing propaganda mill. Fox News has been humping this non-report nonstop. Trump just used it as an excuse to once again threaten Hillary Clinton's life. And unfortunately, the mainstream media is failing to push back by labeling this conspiracy theory for the bucket of nonsense that it is.

Mainstream media is letting the right's tendency to use confusing accusations and dense language scare them off of direct and clear descriptions of lies as lies. Certainly, there's woe in the future of anyone who actually tries to read this supposed "evidence" for Clinton's "spying operation." The court filing is full of techno argle-bargle that would cause the eyes of even the most enthusiastic programmer to glaze over, much less the average journalist.

The Government's evidence at trial will also establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system ("DNS&quot Internet traffic pertaining to (i) a particular healthcare provider, (ii) Trump Tower, (iii) Donald Trump's Central Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States ("EOP&quot . (Tech Executive-1's employer, Internet Company-1, had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP 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.)

So if you feel baffled, imagine how impossible it is that Donald "Maybe Inject Bleach?" Trump understood any of this language. He certainly couldn't explain why he claims this is a "scandal far greater in scope than Watergate."

Spoiler alert: It's definitely not.

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[Lovie777]

1. Never ending story . . . .

always attack HRC no matter what. At this point in time Democrats need to start billing the RNC for security cost.

[Wounded Bear]

2. When in doubt, scream "Lock her up!"

[gab13by13]

3. The right certainly controls the narrative.

The scandal behind the Trump Tower server isn't who discovered it, it's why does Trump have a secret server connected to Putin's bank?

That's the story.

[Pantagruel]

4. It's a word salad

disguised as a legal filing.