Durham Debunks “Hillary Spied On Trump” Claims

The New York Times reports:

John H. Durham, the Trump-era special counsel scrutinizing the investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, distanced himself on Thursday from false reports by right-wing news outlets that a motion he recently filed said Hillary Clinton’s campaign had paid to spy on Trump White House servers.

He said he had “valid and straightforward reasons” for including the information in the Feb. 11 filing that set off the firestorm, while disavowing responsibility for how certain news outlets had interpreted and portrayed it.

“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,” he wrote.

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I’m sure right wing media will correct the record and apologize. Lol https://t.co/cQBtC753v3

— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) February 18, 2022

Trump & Fox are desperately spinning up a fake scandal to distract from his real ones. So it’s a day that ends in Y.

The more his misdeeds are exposed, the more they lie.

For those interested in reality, here’s a good debunking of their latest nonsense.https://t.co/iYY8Uxuogx

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 16, 2022

Special Counsel John Durham himself has dismissed Fox News misleading reports about his court filing https://t.co/pNTumf4Nxc

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 18, 2022