https://conservativeinstitute.org/conservative-news/media-ignoring-durham-filing.htmSpecial Counsel John Durham dropped the biggest bombshell of them all in an otherwise mundane legal filing Friday by revealing that former President Donald Trump was indeed spied on, both as a candidate and as president, by individuals and groups associated with the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton campaign.
For Americans who only get their news from mainstream media outlets, however, they likely haven’t even heard about it, much less been clued in on the damning details, as all of the major outlets have either avoided the story, given it scant passing mention, or actively sought to discredit and downplay it, Fox News reported.
According to Mollie Hemingway, senior editor of The Federalist, that underwhelming reaction from the media is due to the fact that those same outlets were complicit with, if not active participants in, promoting and spreading the blatantly false narrative of collusion between Trump and Russia.
Damning revelations from Durham
First, for a thorough analysis of the latest Durham filing, we turn to Hemingway’s The Federalist for an accurate account of what the mainstream media has studiously sought to avoid covering.
In sum, without getting too deep into the weeds, the 12-page filing revealed that a tech executive, his company, and a team of researchers were granted sensitive access to government servers for the president’s office — as well as Trump Tower and Trump’s NYC apartment building — and then “mined” those servers in search of “derogatory information” about Trump.
Per Durham, the team was tasked to exploit that access in order to “mine Internet data to establish ‘an inference’ and ‘narrative’ tying then-candidate Trump to Russia,” ostensibly so the tech executive could “please certain ‘VIPs,’ referring to individuals with the Clinton Campaign” and other groups or individuals involved in the hoax.
Media complicit in effort to falsely frame Trump
On Monday, Hemingway, a Fox News contributor, appeared on “Outnumbered” and took the mainstream media to task for failing to fully report on the Durham filing that, for all intents and purposes, exposed that the entire Trump-Russia narrative was false and cooked up on behalf of the Clinton campaign.
“You had unsubstantiated sources who were making anonymously based claims that would lead the news for weeks at a time,” Hemingway said. “But when you have an actual indictment, an actual court filing with proof and evidence of how bad this scandal is, the corrupt media are curiously silent, and they’re silent because they’re complicit.”
“They were part of this hoax,” she continued. “They were part of the refusal to accept the 2016 election results, to refuse to accept who the Republican nominee was, and they caused so much damage. And they continue to cause damage to the country by that refusal to deal with the reality that people had elected Donald Trump.”
“We already knew there was spying,” Hemingway emphasized. “That emails and other things had been surveilled by the government against the Trump people. But we thought that mostly happened prior to when he was elected, or that it was people close to him.”
“This latest news shows that that surveillance was continuing through the Clinton campaign and through these corrupt relationships while he was president, and that is undoubtedly not just a massive scandal, but the biggest political story we’ve had in a generation,” she said.
Hemingway added, “And the failure of these other media outlets to cover it is only a reflection of their own complicity in the corruption of the regime and how they will do whatever it takes to control and keep power.”