{"id":53133,"date":"2022-06-02T11:24:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T18:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53133"},"modified":"2022-06-02T11:24:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T18:24:42","slug":"bill-barr-tells-fox-news-that-durhams-failure-to-railroad-clinton-lawyer-was-a-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=53133","title":{"rendered":"Bill Barr Tells Fox News that Durham’s Failure to Railroad Clinton Lawyer Was a Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News is well known as a brazenly partisan and dishonest purveyor of propaganda that exists only to serve the political interests of the Republican Party and that panders to Donald Trump and his cult disciples. It was never intended to be a legitimate “news”<\/em> enterprise, and in that respect it has lived up to its mission.<\/p>\n

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Among the skills that Fox News has honed over the years is one that facilitates turning bad news into some ludicrous reimagining of reality that better fits their preordained narratives. And on Wednesday there was a textbook example of their mastery of that method of mangling the news during an episode of Jesse Watters’ program. Watters invited Trump’s former Attorney Genuflect, Bill Barr, on for a segment of misinformation regarding the acquittal of Michael Sussmann<\/a><\/strong>, a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer who was hounded by Barr’s special counsel, John Durham.<\/p>\n

Durham\u2019s mandate was to invent legal distractions in an effort to vindicate Trump by fabricating phony charges of misconduct related to his unsavory connections to Russia. Durham never had a shred of evidence to justify his probe, which the jury recognized and quickly found Sussmann not guilty.<\/p>\n

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The typically softball interview of Barr allowed him paint a preposterous picture of the outcome of the trial. In the retelling of the story by Watters and Barr, Durham was actually victorious:<\/p>\n

Watters:<\/strong> Do you feel in any way responsible for how this Durham situation is unfolding, and are you disappointed in John Durham?
\nBarr:<\/strong> No, I\u2019m very proud of John Durham and I do take responsibility for his appointment. And I think he and his team did an exceptionally able job both seeking out very important facts and presenting a compelling case to the jury. And while he did not succeed in getting a conviction from the D.C. jury, I think he accomplished something far more important. Which is he brought out the truth in two important areas.<\/p>\n

First, I think he crystalized the central role played by the Hillary campaign in launching as a dirty trick the whole Russia-gate collusion narrative, and fanning the flames of it. And second, I think he exposed really dreadful behavior by supervisors in the senior ranks of the FBI who knowingly used this information to start an investigation of Trump, and then duped their own agents by lying to them, and refusing to tell them what the real source of that information was.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Barr: I\u2019m very proud of Durham and I do take responsibility for his appointment. pic.twitter.com\/odKy2FaqKG<\/a><\/p>\n

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n