Hillary Clinton’s 2024 presidential campaign imperiled by yet another totally not fake scandal absolutely not made up by the GOP scream machine
In case you don’t want to get out of the boat, here’s a nice summary from Hayes Brown:
As with so many of the conspiracy theories centered on Clinton, not much roots the right-wing hype to reality. In this case, Clinton’s enemies are harping on a document special counsel John Durham filed in court last week, related to the disturbingly weak charges he’s brought against a former Clinton campaign lawyer named Michael Sussmann. Trump’s Justice Department asked Durham to investigate the origins of the investigation into the Trump campaign by special counsel Robert Mueller, which hasn’t turned up the conspiracy against Trump that his supporters believe exists. . . .
Durham’s filing doesn’t leave the impression that this was any kind of “wiretap,” as Trump had claimed, or hacking to “infiltrate” his campaign, as Fox News’ headline put it. Even former Trump appointee John Ratcliffe had to admit on Fox News that there was nothing really illegal about how that data was obtained.
Nor is there any real connection to Clinton herself or her campaign, not in the Sussmann indictment nor in last week’s filing. Instead, it’s former Trump lackey Kash Patel, not Durham, who made that baseless claim to Fox News. Patel also issued a statement using the word “infiltrate,” which has become key to the current freakout.
In true postmodernist style, the “Russia Hoax” is itself a massive hoax. The Russia Hoax Hoax claims that the mountains of evidence that the Trump campaign at the very least encouraged the Russian regime to interfere in the 2016 presidential election in Trump’s favor don’t exist, and therefore any discussion of that inconvenient truth is just all part of an ongoing deplorable plot to frame the kindest, most trustworthy, and deeply religious leader who absolutely did not have his henchmen nail my head to a coffee table no matter what the so-called video appears to show.
The sooner people fully accept the fact that the right wing in this country is sealed in a permanent bubble of rage-filled delusion, and that epistemic penetration of that bubble is about as likely as a fundamentalist preacher suddenly confessing to his congregation that his newly announced witch hunt (not a metaphor; see video) is actually just a kind of performance art, specifically the kind that historically ends up getting lots of innocent people killed, the better.