Durham’s filings prove Trump was right
The comeback of Nixon 'dirty tricks'
By Cal Thomas - - Wednesday, February 16, 2022
OPINION:
“Dirty tricks” was a term used to describe the behavior of operatives within the Nixon administration to smear the reputations of opponents and undermine the appeal of certain politicians. Fifty years ago, these dirty tricks included a false allegation that Sen. Henry “Scoop” Jackson had fathered an illegitimate child with a 17-year-old girl and the break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, when Nixon aides and operatives attempted to find materials the Nixon team could use against his perceived “enemies.”
Dirty tricks are not to be confused with negative campaigning, which at least has some component of truth, but a filing by special counsel John Durham that alleges the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton paid a technology company to “infiltrate” or “spy” — the word former President Donald Trump uses — on his presidential campaign and later while he was president, goes beyond dirty tricks into the illegal.
In a court filing, Mr. Durham alleges the purpose behind Russian “collusion” allegations was to establish a “narrative” between then-Republican presidential candidate Trump and Russia.
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On Tuesday, The New York Times published a story about the Durham report on its website but seemed to dismiss it as “old news,” a familiar tactic often used when it reported on the various Clinton scandals.____________
The Times and Washington Post won Pulitzer Prizes for basically repeating Democrat talking points. The prizes should be returned, and the newspapers penalized by not allowing them to apply for another one for at least 10 years.