Somewhat to their credit, the Poodles looked into it; debunked it fairly quickly, and shit-canned it.
But of course DumFux News jumped into it up to their smelly armpits, and they've been flashing it in their chyron for days.
Now Mr Durham is out in public telling people his report says nothing that most of us didn't already know, and that the reaction to it has been overblown.
(per NYT): “What Trump and some news outlets are saying is wrong. The cybersecurity researchers were investigating malware in the White House, not spying on the Trump campaign, and to our knowledge all of the data they used was ... from before Trump took office.”
Even though it doesn't have any staying power in the real world where people have living thinking brains, it still sticks in part and in places - even here in the real world - because that's how this propaganda shit works.
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And now, John Durham is walking it back. The special prosecutor appointed by Trump Attorney General Bill Barr to investigate the “deep state” “conspiracy” “against” “Donald Trump” (yes, all of those phrases deserve ironic quote marks) released a court filing Thursday that included this sentence: “If third parties or members of the media have overstated, understated, or otherwise misinterpreted facts contained in the Government’s Motion, that does not in any way undermine the valid reasons for the Government’s inclusion of this information.”
Translation: Fox News and the rest of the right-wing media, not to mention Trump himself and his Republican cultists, are out of their minds.
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And remember, the rubes eat it up when it splashes into view, and then conveniently ignore the corrections and retractions - which the wingnut media folks bury in the Metro Section next to the ads for minority-owned businesses.
You just have to get it out there and it'll be in the air - like smog - for a very long time.
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