Clinton calls Durham claims she ‘spied’ on Trump ‘nonsense’ and insists it’s a ‘fake scandal’
Hillary Clinton calls John Durham claims that she ‘spied’ on Trump ‘nonsense’ and claims the ex-President and media are trying to ‘spin up a fake scandal to distract from his real ones’
Hillary Clinton finally responded Wednesday to findings she spied on Trump She claims the Special Counsel’s revelations are a ‘desperate’, ‘fake scandal’ The former candidate refused to answer shouted questions about the Durham report when confronted by a DailyMail.com reporter in New York on TuesdayThe White House is also stonewalling questions on the matter, instead referring reporters to the Justice DepartmentRepublicans are claiming the revelations prove Democrats are willing to do anything to win elections – including break the law
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Hillary Clinton finally responded on Wednesday to the recent revelations that she hired people to spy onD Donald Trump, calling it ‘desperate’ and a ‘fake scandal.’
‘Trump & Fox are desperately spinning up a fake scandal to distract from his real ones. So it’s a day that ends in Y,’ the former presidential candidate tweeted.
‘The more his misdeeds are exposed, the more they lie,’ Clinton added. ‘For those interested in reality, here’s a good debunking of their latest nonsense.’
She then linked to a Vanity Fair column filed under ‘conspiracy theories’ and titled: ‘You’ll never believe it but Hillary Clinton did not, in fact, spy on Trump’s White House.’
Clinton’s response comes after she refused to answer DailyMail.com’s questions on Tuesday about Special Counsel John Durham’s finding that allege her allies spied on the Trump campaign.
Clinton and her daughter Chelsea emerged from a Filipino restaurant in Queens after approximately three hours during which they appeared to be filming on Tuesday.
Exclusive pictures and video obtained by DailyMail.com show a stone-faced Clinton silently waving away repeated questions of whether she spied on Trump.
She refused to say when or if she planned to comment.
The White House is still deferring any questions relating to the latest findings to the Department of Justice after it was revealed Clinton paid to try and find a link between Trump and Russia.
‘I would point you – any questions about this – to the Department of Justice,’ President Joe Biden’s Press Secretary Jen Psaki said during her briefing Wednesday.
Hillary Clinton refused to answer shouted questions on Tuesday about the Durham report. At approximately 3:40 PM Clinton (pictured) waved off questions from a DailyMail.com reporter as she left a Queens restaurant with daughter Chelsea
When pushed on if ‘monitoring internet traffic’ could be defined as spying, as detailed in Special Counsel John Durham’s report, Psaki repeated her direction for reporters to take questions to the Justice Department.
Republicans are renewing their attacks against the Democrat-led Russia probe into Trump’s campaign connections following Durham’s filing last week.
They claim the latest bombshell proves Democrats will do anything to win – including illegal acts – and are demanding probes into Representative Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler so they are held accountable for being ‘complacent’ in Clinton’s spying.
Durham’s report alleged that Clinton did pay to have Trump Tower and White House servers hacked to create a fake scandal despite her lawyer Michael Sussmann telling federal officers that he was not hired by anyone specific to find the connections.
Representative Pat Fallon told Newsmax on Wednesday: ‘This will put the final nail in the Clinton candidacy coffin – once and for all.’
‘We an be sure that Hillary Clinton will be flippant about it,’ the Texas Representative said to the conservative news outlet. ‘This is a real issue. I think this is literally going to sink the Clinton political machine once and for all.’
Press Secretary Jen Psaki continues to refuse to comment on the latest revelations, referring reporters to the Justice Department for any questions relation to Durham’s report – even though there are allegations that Biden knew about the claims when he was still vice president
Arizona Representative Andy Biggs sent out a statement Wednesday saying: ‘Durham’s recent revelations show what we knew all along – Hillary Clinton and her Democrat cronies actively spied on President Trump. No American should accept that a presidential candidate engaged in criminal activity and created a false scandal about their opponent to win an election.’
‘These accusations beg the question, what else will Democrats do to win an election?’ Biggs posed.
‘Hillary Clinton and the corrupt actors involved in this scheme should be prosecuted. And the media should uphold their duty and responsibility to report the truth.’
Republicans are blaming media, as well as Democrats, for allowing the truth to go uncovered until now.
‘For years the media parroted the Democrat narrative about Russia collusion. And now as we’re learning, week after week, that was a complete lie,’ Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott said on Tuesday.
‘The latest with the Durham report is that the Clinton campaign – the same group that fear mongered this Russian collusion – actually spied on the President of the United States,’ he added. ‘They spied on the President of the United States! They spied and they lied.’
‘We need accountability. We need accountability for the Clinton campaign, we need accountability for Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler because they were complicit in this,’ Scott said. ‘So the media needs to start doing their job, talk about exactly what’s coming out and hold these people accountable. On top of that, the Attorney General [Merrick] Garland – he needs to be out there making sure that Durham has all the resources he needs to do a thorough investigation.’
Trump era Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe said this week that then-Vice President Joe Biden and President at the time Barack Obama knew Clinton’s 2016 campaign was trying to hack into Trump’s servers to ‘fabricate’ links to the Kremlin.
He also said Durham has ‘enough evidence’ to indict ‘multiple people’.
Clinton allegedly approved in the 2016 election ‘a plan concerning U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server,’ according to a CIA Counterintelligence Operational Lead (CIOL) first revealed when a heavily-redacted version became declassified in October 2020.
The filing notes that ‘On or about October 12, 2018, Law Firm-1 issued a statement to multiple media outlets in which the firm stated, in part: ‘When Sussmann met with [the FBI General Counsel] on behalf of a client, it was not connected to the firm’s representation of the Hillary Clinton Campaign, the DNC or any Political Law Group client.’
It also says that the ‘then-Managing Partner of Law Firm-1 wrote a letter to the editor of a major newspaper in which he asserted, in part, ‘Mr. Sussmann’s meeting with the FBI General Counsel James Baker was on behalf of a client with no connections to either the Clinton campaign, the DNC or any other Political Law Group client.’
Durham’s filings now reveal that Clinton’s campaign did hire Sussman and that he lied to federal officers. He has pleaded not guilty.
