{"id":52049,"date":"2022-02-14T14:38:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52049"},"modified":"2022-08-20T11:01:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T18:01:06","slug":"trump-whines-that-the-media-didnt-fall-for-the-durham-nothingburger-about-clinton-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52049","title":{"rendered":"Trump Whines that the Media Didn’t Fall for the Durham Nothingburger About Clinton ‘Spying’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has taken a temporary leave from his obsession over having lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, a humiliation he still has not managed to get over. He is now fixated on a new obsession concerning a court filing by special counsel John Durham that Trump and his minions are misconstruing as a “bombshell”<\/em> that vindicates his prior delusional allegations that the U.S. government was spying on him<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

The definition of “bombshell”<\/em> has been watered down here to include nonsense that has no bearing on anything. Durham’s filing didn’t contain a shred of evidence of any spying, and didn’t even make that allegation. The entirety of his claim was that information about Internet IP addresses that are publicly available were shared with Hillary Clinton’s campaign. To which the media resoundingly, and appropriately, said “So what?”<\/em> The only thing of interest in the filing is that it affirmed prior reports that the IP addresses and Domain Name Servers (DNS) it referenced connected Trump’s computer communications to Russia.<\/p>\n

On Saturday Trump went ballistic over the Durham news, falsely asserting that it provided “indisputable evidence”<\/em> that he was the victim of a broad “Deep State”<\/em> government cabal to spy on him led by Hillary Clinton. He went even further to advocate the death penalty for Clinton<\/a><\/strong> and others he accused of this imaginary crime.<\/p>\n

However, given the utter lack of substance in Durham’s filing, the press took a pass. This triggered Trump to throw yet another tantrum over what he regards as the “fake news”<\/em> ignoring “the biggest story of our time.”<\/em> He released a statement<\/a> (via his Twitter ban defying spokes-shill<\/a><\/strong>) that sobbed…<\/p>\n

“Can you imagine that, what should be the biggest story of our time, bigger than Watergate, is getting absolutely no mention, ZERO, in the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC Fake News, NBC Fake News, CBS Fake News, ratings-dead CNN, and MSDNC.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes. Anyone with moderate comprehension skills can imagine that. So naturally, Trump thinks it is “a scandal, the fact that a story so big, so powerful, and so important for the future of our Nation is getting zero coverage from LameStream.”<\/em> He goes on to say that “It shows how totally corrupt and shameless the media is.”<\/em> He even reprises his death wish, saying that “the electric chair would immediately come out of retirement.”<\/em> But he closes with the following bizarre claim of victory…<\/p>\n

“The good news is, everybody is talking about not only this atrocity against our Nation, but that the press refuses to even mention the major crime that took place.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words, he doesn’t think he really needs the media because the story is on everyone’s lips even without any press coverage. So what’s he griping about? To the extent that this fictional story is being talked about, it is wholly due to the right-wing echo chamber that includes Fox News and Republican Trump-fluffers. Here a few of the tweets by Trump’s toadies trying to disseminate this dishonest “news”<\/em>:<\/p>\n