From left: President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.Photo: Getty (2)
Hillary Clintonis hitting back atDonald Trumpand Fox News for promoting what she called a “fake scandal.”
“Trump & Fox are desperately spinning up a fake scandal to distract from his real ones. So it’s a day that ends in Y,“Clinton tweeted Wednesday, referring to the so-called “Durham Report.” “The more his misdeeds are exposed, the more they lie.”
Clinton included a link to aVanity Fairarticlethat she called “a good debunking of their latest nonsense” and invited followers “interested in reality” to give it a read.
Durham is prosecuting lawyer Michael Sussmann, who has ties to the Democratic Party and Clinton’s 2016 campaign, for allegedly making a false statement to the FBI during a 2016 meeting about Trump’s possible links to Russia,The New York Times reports.
Sussmann has pleaded not guilty in the case and denied any wrongdoing,according toThe Hill.
Durham alleges that the executive — who reports have identified asRodney Joffe— “exploited his access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data” to “mine” for information that would “establish ‘an inference’ and ‘narrative’ tying then-candidate Trump to Russia,” the filing states.
The filing also claims Durham has evidence that Joffe exploited access to White House and Trump Tower data “for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.”
Based on the filing,Fox News reportedthat the Clinton campaign “paid” a technology company to “infiltrate” servers at Trump Tower and the White House.
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His former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows also weighed in on Durham’s filing.
“They didn’t just spy on Donald Trump’s campaign. They spied on Donald Trump as sitting President of the United States,” hewrote on Twitter. “It was all even worse than we thought.”
In a separate tweet, Meadows denounced what he considers the media’s unfair treatment of Durham’s filing.
“Virtually every baseless Russian collusion allegation against Trump got printed and aired for 4 years. But today there’s a fraction of coverage on actual evidence in a Durham indictment pointing to spying on candidate and President Trump,“he wrote.
But there’s a good reason that most media outlets — Fox News aside — are “debunking” claims of spying, to use Clinton’s term.
Futhermore, “the filing never said the White House data that came under scrutiny was from the Trump era,” theTimesreport adds, citing an expert who said the data came from the presidency ofBarack Obama.
A spokesperson for Joffe told theTimesthe allegations in Durham’s filing are untrue, emphasizing that he was a non-political actor who was granted lawful access to data based on contracts in order to keep an eye out for security breaches and other threats.
source: people.com
