In the least surprising news you’ll hear all week, the media was once again completely wrong on a story of national significance they’re now completely ignoring.
In the light of recent revelations from Special Counsel John Durham proving Trump was right about being spied on, footage of a 2020 interview Donald Trump did on 60 Minutes has resurfaced (among others). In a clip of the exchange (which 60 Minutes uploaded to their YouTube channel with the title “President Trump repeats unsupported claim about spying”), Trump says “They [the Clinton campaign] spied on my campaign” before being cut off by host Lesley Stahl.
“There’s no real evidence of that” she interjected.
“Of course there is” Trump said.
“Lesley, they spied on my campaign and they got caught.
“This is 60 Minutes. We canât put on [TV] things we canât verify” she continued.
“You won’t put it on because it’s bad for Biden,” Trump fired back.
Watch below:
Thanks to Durham, we now know that Trump was right all along.
As Fox News reported over the weekend:
Lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to “infiltrate” servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an “inference” and “narrative” to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia, a filing from Special Counsel John Durham says.
Durham filed a motion on Feb. 11 focused on potential conflicts of interest related to the representation of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who has been charged with making a false statement to a federal agent.
Sussmann had denied doing work “for any client” in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, but:
Durham’s filing in a section titled “Factual Background” reveals that Sussmann “had assembled and conveyed the allegations to the FBI on behalf of at least two specific clients, including a technology executive (Tech Executive 1) at a U.S.-based internet company (Internet Company 1) and the Clinton campaign.” Durhamâs filing said Sussmannâs “billing records reflect” that he “repeatedly billed the Clinton Campaign for his work on the Russian Bank-1 allegations.”
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Durham also writes that during Sussmann’s trial, the government will establish that among the Internet data Tech Executive-1 and his associates exploited was domain name system (DNS) internet traffic pertaining to “(i) a particular healthcare provider, (ii) Trump Tower, (iii) Donald Trump’s Central Park West apartment building, and (iv) the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP).”
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In Sussmann’s meeting with the second U.S. government agency, Durham says he “provided data which he claimed reflected purportedly suspicious DNS lookups by these entities of internet protocol (IP) addresses affiliated with a Russian mobile phone provider,” and claimed that the lookups “demonstrated Trump and/or his associates were using supposedly rare, Russian-made wireless phones in the vicinity of the White House and other locations.”
Hillary Clinton pushed the bogus story she helped create just days before losing the presidential election:
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. pic.twitter.com/8f8n9xMzUU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) November 1, 2016
Not only did Trump’s opponents surveil internet traffic at Trump Tower, they also then fed disinformation to intelligence agencies while he was president, according to Durham.
Of course, this isn’t really “news” for most of us – it’s confirmation of what we already knew.
Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
