Trump has taken a victory lap that the Durham filing ‘proves indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied’has been slammed over the last five years by the media for ostensibly promulgating a “conspiracy theory” that Donald Trump was being spied on ahead of the 2016 presidential election. A filing from Special Counsel John Durham might now vindicate him.
In 2017, headlines such as the Los Angeles Times’ “How the phony conspiracy theory over wiretapping caught fire,” CNN’s “Birth of a conspiracy theory: How Trump’s wiretap claim got started” and the Washington Post’s “Mark Levin inspired Trump’s wiretapping conspiracy theory. Now he is turning on the president” flooded the news cycle. Levin was blamed by the media for sparking the “conspiracy theory” that Trump was spied on, which was soon followed by Trump saying “McCarthyism” was playing out in real time.
“How many phone calls of Donald Trump, if any, have been intercepted by the administration and recorded by the Obama administration?” Levin said on his radio show March 2, 2017. “This, ladies and gentlemen, is the real scandal.”
