Posted on 02/16/2022 3:10:43 AM PST by Kaslin
No one can ever claim that the notion of Trump-Russia collusion and the Mueller investigation were downplayed or ignored by the press. It was the opposite. The story was enormous and incessant.
Rich Noyes of the Media Research Center found that from Jan. 20, 2017, through July 20, 2019, the evening newscasts at ABC, CBS and NBC alone devoted an astounding 2,634 minutes to the Trump-Russia narrative.
On Feb. 12, the conservative media reported a "bombshell." Well, the term "bombshell" is almost copyrighted as a journalism term for "Republican scandal deepener."
Special counsel John Durham, tasked with investigating the origins of the FBI's probe into Donald Trump and Russia, reported a client for Hillary Clinton's law firm, Perkins Coie, was monitoring internet traffic at Trump Tower, Trump's Central Park West apartment building and the Executive Office of the President. They wanted information to sell a "narrative" of Trump-Russia collusion.
ABC, CBS and NBC coverage? None. Other networks and major newspapers balked. Then they tiptoed in to deny it meant anything.
From the beginning, liberal partisans like Rep. Adam Schiff have trashed Durham's probe as "tainted" by Trump's desires for an investigation. On ABC in 2019, Schiff denounced it as automatically "illegitimate" because "when you win an election, you don't seek to just prosecute the losing side, but this is what Bill Barr is seeking to do."
Schiff spent four years prosecuting the winning side of the 2016 election. Saying a probe is "tainted" by partisan desire displays an incredible lack of introspection.
While the networks spent more than 2,600-plus minutes on the Trump-Russia narrative, they've done next to nothing on Durham. Let's review just how much coverage Durham has received from the Big Three networks since Attorney General William Barr put him on the case in the spring of 2019.
ABC gave Durham's probe nine mentions over the last two years and nine months. CBS had five. NBC had six.
Many of these were brief mentions. On ABC, they came from Republican panelists on the Sunday show "This Week." On CBS, two came in questions as Trump-hating FBI employee Peter Strzok sold his liberal-hack book on two CBS morning shows. (Has Durham contacted you? No.) On NBC, there was one question to Barr and one mention in 2021 that in his confirmation process, Attorney General Merrick Garland saw no reason to dismiss Durham.
Durham is the anti-Mueller. Nothing he finds is considered newsworthy. The media treats him as "tainted," like he's a news leper. "Unclean! Unclean!" Durham's team isn't loaded with liberal Democrats who leak juicy details to other liberal Democrats in "objective" media.
The media used the Mueller probe to constantly paint a black cloud over Trump's presidency and present it in real time as perpetually doomed -- even when it wasn't. The walls were always "closing in" because that was the song they couldn't stop singing.
To the media elite, Durham's probe is only useful to the "right-wing media wormhole." Facts don't come first. The truth isn't more important than ever.
So, just imagine we turned the Justice Department dockets around. Can you imagine what the "news" would sound like if we took all the enormous and incessant coverage of the DOJ prosecutions and Nancy Pelosi investigations of the Jan. 6 riot and awarded that to the Durham probe? And turned the Jan. 6 probes into obscurity?
The facts on media coverage (and noncoverage) demonstrate how our media elite today is a Democratic machine. That's why most Americans don't trust the "news." Like Clinton's shady lawyers, they are all about creating a partisan narrative, not reporting events "without fear or favor" as they unfold.
I still have hope that what was hidden ....will be, is being....revealed!
Durham’s motion to investigate potential conflicts of interest between Michael Sussman and his attorney, the law firm of Latham & Watkins’ core point:
<><>that Hillary’s campaign, acting through the Perkins Coie law firm, spied on Trump.
Bongino’s two main takeaways:
<><>Govt evidence will establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system (“DNS”) Internet traffic ....
<><>Internet traffic strongly implies that DNS info,sites accessed, isn’t the only info involved.
<><>Durham might show other Internet data that the Hillary camp exploited, such as emails or shared documents.
Plus....Bongino thinks the real bombshell is that Durham is warning Sussman that Latham & Watkins is a very dangerous law firm to have representing him.
RECAP
A cybersecurity firm at the center of Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe was paid nearly $20,000 by The Biden campaign.
<><>The Biden campaign paid Neustar Information Services in 2020 for accounting and compliance work, according to Federal Election Commission records.
<><>According to Durham, Neustar’s chief technology officer, Rodney Joffe, accessed sensitive web traffic data that the company maintained on behalf of the White House executive office to collect “derogatory” information about Donald Trump. Joffe allegedly provided the information to Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who in turn gave it to the CIA during a meeting in February 2017. Durham charged Sussmann in September with lying to the FBI about his investigation of Trump.
That raises the question: was the same action going on against Trump in 2020?
The Biden and Clinton campaigns are the only two presidential committees to have ever paid Neustar, according to Federal Election Commission records.
<><>Biden’s campaign paid Neustar $18,819 on Sept. 29, 2020, the records show.
<><>The Clinton campaign paid the firm $3,000 in May 2015 for mobile phone services.
<><> Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee paid $3,000 to Neustar in 2017.
Neustar executives and staffers contributed $17,906 to Biden’s campaign, FEC records show.
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If Trump is the nominee in 2024, there is only one real question for him: who will he nominate as AG? Of course, just as important is the question of who will be advising him on all such picks.
One correction.
The media elite isn’t a “Democratic” machine, it’s a “Democrat” machine . . .
I call it a demonrat mashine
The media doesn’t take Durham seriously. He’s proved them right every time.
Chicken scratch. Heavily redacted. A few emails at the end (redacted). 25 pages out of 352.
Bkmk
Thx........will chk it out later.
ABC, CBS and NBC alone devoted an astounding 2,634 minutes to the Trump-Russia narrative.
Trusting the media is like taking candy from a stranger what could go wrong.
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