In the 16 months since then, Durham has filed two indictments. Durham’s latest allegationsīack in October 2020, Barr tapped Durham, a Justice Department attorney, to lead an investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation that led to the Mueller report. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) On air, Sean Hannity claimed Clinton’s team “hacked into the office of the president.” Tucker Carlson said emails or text messages were “intercepted.” Maria Bartiromo insisted that “Democrat-paid operatives illegally hacked” Trump’s communications before and after he became president.Īs Watters blasted Clinton on his prime-time show, sensational chyrons decorated the screen: “Durham: Clinton Framed Trump” “Crooked Caught Red Handed” “Hillary Is The Real Insurrectionist.”Ī video Watters posted of his segment ricocheted across Facebook, where it received hundreds of thousands of views and was flagged as part of the platform’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. Rather, the Fox News article was using words from a former Trump administration official who commented for the story. The word “infiltrate” was never used in Durham’s filing.
One of the first headlines posted to Fox News’s website inaccurately declared that the Clinton campaign paid to “infiltrate” Trump’s servers. 14 focused on Hillary Clinton and special counsel John Durham’s investigation. The chyrons on “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Feb. Still, the narrative echoed elsewhere on Fox News, where talk of hacking and an offense “worse than Watergate” stretched across programs, according to TVEyes, a media monitoring service. The document never even mentioned hacking. None of what Watters said on that program about an effort to hack and frame Trump with fake evidence is borne out by Durham’s filing, which he cited. “There, her hackers planted evidence, fabricated evidence connecting Trump to Russia, then fed that doctored material to the feds and the media.” “Hillary broke into a presidential candidate’s computer server and a sitting president’s computer server, spying on them,” he went on. “Durham’s documents show that Hillary Clinton hired people who hacked into Trump’s home and office computers before and during his presidency, and planted evidence that he colluded with Russia. “If there was ever any doubt that Clinton was behind the Russia hoax, that’s officially gone,” Watters said on his prime-time show Feb. Watters claimed Durham’s work now implicates Clinton.
Special counsel Robert Mueller led the initial investigation that culminated in a report published in 2019. The filing came from special counsel John Durham, selected by former Trump Attorney General William Barr to examine the reasons for the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. 11 court filing that has attracted attention from conservative media in the week after it dropped.
The elaborate scheme Watters described is a massive distortion of a Feb. Fox News host Jesse Watters falsely accused Hillary Clinton of paying hackers to break into former President Donald Trump’s computers and plant fabricated evidence that would frame Trump for collusion with the Russian government.
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