It Used to Be, the Dirt You Dug Up on People Was Real
By Debra J. Saunders
Wednesday, 16 February 2022 04:08 PM
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"Court Filing Started a Furor in Right-Wing Outlets, but Their Narrative Is Off Track," read The New York Times headline for a story about special counsel John Durham's investigation into the FBI's ill-starred Crossfire Hurricane probe into the 2016 election.
An alternative headline would be: "Don't Read This. It's Too Complicated."
Subhead: "You might get a headache."
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"Their own tech experts have told them that. They just want to create an 'inference' of wrongdoing."
"That's the drill," the former Trump staffer added. "Generate fake opposition research, give it to the FBI without Hillary's fingerprints on it, then tip off the dutiful press to write stories about it so you can tweet it out." Which is exactly what Clinton and her then-campaign foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan did.
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I'm old enough to remember when opposition research involved digging up actual dirt on candidates.
Sussmann and company didn't have to make up dirt on Trump, but they did it anyway.
That's who they are.
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