Nets SILENT on Clinton Spying on Trump, Cover Skating Scandal Instead

After the network Sunday shows all censored the shocking revelations from special prosecutor John Durham’s investigation that the Hillary Clinton campaign spied on Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency, Monday’s network morning shows maintained the deafening silence. Instead, NBC and CBS broadcasts spent eight minutes on Russian skating at the Olympics.

The networks have so far spent zero seconds on Fox News reporting that Durham’s uncovered how “Lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to ‘infiltrate’ servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an ‘inference’ and ‘narrative’ to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia.”

Rich Noyes, then-Media Research Center Research director found that 2020 was the year:

During the President’s first year in office, one-fifth of all broadcast evening news coverage was spent on the Russia investigation, wrapping Trump in a perpetual cloud of suspicion and stealing valuable airtime away from key administration initiatives. By the time it ended in 2019, those three newscasts alone had spent an astounding 2,634 minutes on the Mueller probe, yammering endlessly about a “constitutional crisis” even as they buried crucial questions surrounding the investigation’s bias…

Just before this year’s election, declassified notes exposed the Russia collusion probe as a Hillary Clinton “plan” to distract from her e-mail server, and that President Obama was briefed on that plan. Despite having spent so much airtime on the Russia story over three years, ABC, CBS, and NBC failed to give even a second coverage of these shocking documents.

At 7:00 AM, the ET hour of Fox & Friends was filled with news and analysis. ET hour of Monday’s Fox & Friends, as part of the morning show’s extensive cover of the new Durham investigation developments, co-host Steve Doocy spoke with former Trump administration Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland on the unfolding scandal. He noted: “These were an invention and a fabrication of her campaign and internet company number one.”

McFarland declared: “They were infiltrating the Trump campaign, thinking they were going to find evidence about Russia. When they didn’t find any evidence about Russia, they made up the story anyway and then pushed it to the press.”

She later asked a question that all journalists should be asking: “I’ve got a big question about the role of Jake Sullivan played. He’s currently National Security Advisor And yet, it was he who created the fake news story that was then passed to the media. Is he ever going to be held accountable?”

Doocy demanded: “And K.T., why is Fox and The New York Post, why are those the only two spots that are  talking about this?” McFarland called out the stunning media silence:

Well, it’s because all the other media was in on the con. All of them were in it. They made Russia Russia Russia. You destroyed my career and reputation. The Mueller investigation cost me hundreds of thousands in legal fees. So the media, they don’t want to touch this because they’re complicit in it. They don’t want to have to be called before a grand jury and have to say where they got the fake story and why they continue to peddle it.

Here is a transcript of McFarland’s February 14 exchange with Doocy:

7:24 AM ET

STEVE DOOCY: John Durham’s stunning investigation revealing the Clinton campaign paid to infiltrate Trump servers while he was president and candidate to find ties linking him to Russia. The probe putting Clinton herself under scrutiny over her 2016 tweets promoting the now-debunk theory, like this one, where she insisted: “It’s time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia.” K.T. McFarland was the Deputy National Security Advisor under Donald Trump. She is also the author of Revolution. K.T., welcome to the team.

K.T. GOOD MORNING MCFARLAND Happy Valentine’s Day.

DOOCY: Indeed. So, when Hillary Clinton is tweeting, “It’s time for Donald Trump to answer these questions about the connection to Russia,” there weren’t any. That is all we know now. These were an invention, not a fabrication by her campaign or internet company number 1.

MCFARLAND: Yeah. I mean, here’s what was happening. Infiltrating Trump’s campaign and thinking that they would find proof about Russia, the infiltrators were apprehensive. When they didn’t find any evidence about Russia, they made up the story anyway and then pushed it to the press.

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DOOCY: This is a fabrication that never happened. So, it’s one of those things like why did we waste all this time? Evidently, it was a dirty trick because she was supposed winning. This would not have been possible.    

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MCFARLAND: I’ve got a big question about the role of Jake Sullivan played. He currently serves as the National Security Advisor. The guy who’s in charge of dealing with the Afghan withdrawal, with the negotiations with the Chinese, the with the impending crisis with Ukraine. He was, however, the man who created the fake news story and pushed it to press. Will he be held responsible?

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DOOCY: K.T. is Fox’s answer to why Fox is and The New York Post, why are those the only two spots that are  talking about this?

MCFARLAND: Well, it’s because all the other media was in on the con. All of them were in it. They made Russia Russia Russia. They destroyed my career and my reputation. The Mueller investigation cost me hundreds of thousands in legal fees. So the media, they don’t want to touch this because they’re complicit in it. They don’t want to have to be called before a grand jury and have to say where they got the fake story and why they continue to peddle it.

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