{"id":56922,"date":"2023-05-16T11:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56922"},"modified":"2023-05-16T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T22:52:10","slug":"trump-and-fox-news-freak-out-after-durham-report-turns-out-to-be-another-gop-nothingburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56922","title":{"rendered":"Trump (and Fox News) FREAK OUT After Durham Report Turns Out to Be Another GOP Nothingburger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prior to losing his job as Attorney General due to Donald Trump losing his reelection bid to President Biden, Bill Barr appointed a fellow right-wing shill, John Durham, to conduct a contrived investigation of the investigators who proved that Trump had numerous unsavory associations with Russians trying to interfere with the U.S. election. Unlike Durham’s fakery, Trump’s Russian connections are actually very well documented<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Now, after four years, and millions of wasted taxpayer dollars, Durham has finally issued his conclusions in a 300 page report that is little more than the sort of ultra-conservative opinions posted by the partisan Republican press. It is more clear than ever that Durham’s mission was to manufacture fake scandals in order to discredit the legitimate investigations into Trump\u2019s myriad criminal activities.<\/p>\n

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In the hours since the Durham report was released, Trump has been desperately trying to shape a wholly false narrative that Durham actually exonerated him. Trump was up until after 2:00am frantically posting 27 hysterical comments on his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, claiming vindication. Then he was up at 6:00am to post 24 more.<\/p>\n

That’s 51 posts, mostly of links to congressional and media Trump-fluffers. Among them were five videos from Fox News (which he said “sucks”<\/em> earlier the same day), alleging totally unsupported assertions that the Justice Department and the FBI engaged in “domestic terrorism”<\/em> and “election fraud,”<\/em> and should be defunded. So much for the GOP backing law enforcement.<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: Jim Jordan Tells Fox News that He\u2019ll Explore Defunding the Police Due to the Trump Indictment<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among Trump’s frenzied outbursts in response to the Durham Nothingburger were these classic commentaries that are emblematic of his derangement…<\/p>\n

“WOW! After extensive research, Special Counsel John Durham concludes the FBI never should have launched the Trump-Russia Probe! In other words, the American Public was scammed, just as it is being scammed right now by those who don\u2019t want to see GREATNESS for AMERICA! “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“The Durham Report spells out in great detail the Democrat Hoax that was perpetrated upon me and the American people. This is 2020 Presidential Election Fraud, just like ‘stuffing’ the ballot boxes, only more so. This totally illegal act had a huge impact on the Election. With an honest Media, we are looking at the Crime of the Century!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“JACK SMITH AND THE SPECIAL PERSECUTORS OFFICE ARE PLAYING THE SAME GAMES WITH ELECTION INTERFERENCE AND FAKE PROSECUTIONS AS JAMES COMEY, ONLY FAR MORE OBVIOUS. THE DOJ MUST END THIS CHARADE RIGHT NOW, AND THAT GOES TO THEIR USE OF D.A.\u2019s & A.G\u2019s IN ATLANTA & NEW YORK. MAGA!!!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“THEY ARE SCUM, LIKE COCKROACHES ALL OVER WASHINGTON, D.C. Congratulations to John Durham on a Report that is being praised for its quality, importance, and professionalism, by friend and foe alike!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump’s feeble attempt to connect the Durham report to the special counsel probe by Jack Smith, and the ongoing investigations of his criminal activities by prosecutors in Atlanta and New York, is particularly comical. Those investigations – that are examining Trump’s financial fraud, his election interference, the January 6th insurrection, and his theft and hoarding of classified documents – are getting closer to producing indictments than Durham ever dreamed. And they are driving him crazy(er).<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Trump Warns of \u2018Death and Destruction\u2019 if He is Indicted for Crimes that He Actually Committed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

FOR THE RECORD:<\/strong> Donald Trump and his Republican Party cult claimed for years that Durham would expose the “Crime of the Century”<\/em> and finally prove that the investigations of Trump were a \u201choax.\u201d<\/em> They insisted that Durham would secure convictions of everyone from Hillary Clinton, to Barack Obama, to James Comey, and the rest of the evil Democratic cabal that they imagined were conspiring against Dear Leader Trump.<\/p>\n

The crux of the conclusions by Durham state simply that “the [Justice] Department and the FBI failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law.”<\/em> But Durham also noted that his own report, “does not recommend any wholesale changes in the guidelines and policies that the Department and the FBI now have in place to ensure proper conduct and accountability in how counterintelligence activities are carried out.”<\/em> So what exactly was the point?<\/p>\n

The only two cases that Durham brought to trial were low-level politicos, and resulted in acquittals for both. Contrast that with the probe by special counsel Robert Mueller<\/a><\/strong> that took only 22 months and resulted in 34 indictments and eight convictions, including some MAGA big shots like Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Rick Gates, and Michael Cohen, along with numerous Russian confederates.<\/p>\n

What’s more, in 2019, the Senate Intelligence Committee, which at the time had a Republican chairman, produced a bipartisan report<\/a><\/strong> that came to very different conclusion than Durham, saying that…<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump campaign\u2019s interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a \u201cgrave\u201d counterintelligence threat [\u2026] it detailed how associates of Donald Trump had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin\u2019s help.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, nothing in Trump’s tantrums bear any resemblance to reality. Durham couldn’t even support his own conclusions with facts that would warrant indictments or corrective actions. No one but Trump’s sycophantic cultists praise the report for its quality. But that won’t stop Trump, Fox News, and other propaganda peddlers from pushing their factless views and outright lies.<\/p>\n

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