A bad two weeks for conservative media's crusade to find Democratic scandals

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A person involved in the data analysis stated that the information collected, to his knowledge, “was nonprivate [domain name system] data from before Trump took office.” In other words: not “spying,” and also not the Trump White House.

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Analysis | A bad two weeks for conservative media’s crusade to find Democratic scandals
First, crack pipes. Now, supposed spying on Trump's White House.
4:47 AM · Feb 19, 2022

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For the second time in two weeks, the conservative media has distorted and badly stretched the available evidence as it searches for a Democratic scandal. And for the second time in two weeks, significant additional evidence rebutting its claims has been met with a large-scale shrug from the supposed scandal’s many purveyors.

Two weeks ago, it was the idea that the Biden administration was sending crack pipes to addicts across the country — a claim that the Washington Free Beacon reported had been confirmed by an anonymous administration official. The claim was stated as fact by oodles of congressional Republicans and was even the subject of newly introduced legislation.

Except it turned out the official never actually confirmed pipes were being sent as part of harm-mitigation kits, as an editor at the publication acknowledged. To this day, though, the story still says the administration official confirmed the kits “will provide pipes for users to smoke crack cocaine.”

The latest follows a strikingly similar pattern, as The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler summarizes. Special counsel John Durham had issued a filing with some intriguing allegations: that a tech executive tied to the Clinton campaign “had come to access and maintain dedicated servers for the EOP” — that is, the Executive Office of the President of the United States. Durham said access to the data had been “exploited” “for the purpose of gathering derogatory information about Donald Trump.”

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[brewens]

2. Maybe there are Obama scandals brought up sometimes, but none I ever see. I think I'd hear about

them here if anything significant came up. I'd be that last one to see it on FOX "News" or any of the other RW sources.

That says a lot. It's been all Hillary all the time lately. She wasn't president for eight years or ever. Obama must have ran a clean ship. I'm actually surprised there isn't more. A president isn't on top of everything. He must have hired clean people too.

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3. So I guess the walls aren't closing in on Hillary Clinton

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4. Democrats' fear of retribution in their hesitancy to pursue Republican criminals

Is so totally misplaced. You can't try and convict if no crimes have been committed.

Exhibit "A": The Case of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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5. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

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6. Kick and rec