Firearms Owners Against Crime
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A bombshell report from Fox News that “Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe met with Special Counsel John Durham on more than one occasion and told him there was evidence in intelligence to support the indictments of ‘multiple people’ in his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe,” is rivaled only by the apparent news blackout on the report by liberal media.
The Fox News revelations include a report that attorneys for the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016 “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, a filing from Special Counsel John Durham says.”
The reports also say Ratliffe “had also declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed then-President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s purported ‘proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.”
But none of this information appears to be surfacing anywhere else because of what seems to be a news blackout by establishment media that had accepted the now-debunked Trump-Russia conspiracy throughout his presidency. This is the same establishment media that routinely ignores pro-Second Amendment issues and downplays any incidents in which legally-armed private citizens intervene to stop violent crime.
As noted by one Fox story, “Durham has indicted three people as part of his investigation: Igor Danchenko on Nov. 4, 2021, Kevin Clinesmith in August 2020, and Michael Sussmann in September 2021.’ Later in the same article, Fox says ‘Durham’s filing said Sussmann’s ‘billing records reflect’ that he ‘repeatedly billed the Clinton Campaign for his work on the Russian Bank-1 allegations.’”
Coincidentally, Clinton, Obama, and Obama’s then-Vice President Joe Biden are all career anti-gunners. Biden used the St. Valentine’s Day observance to call for congressional action on his gun control agenda, in remarks about the fourth anniversary of the tragic shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. That incident claimed 17 lives, including 14 students and three adults. The killer finally admitted guilt last October and is now in prison.
Appearing on Fox Monday morning, former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland accused the establishment media of being “in on it,” regarding the lack of coverage about the new Durham report. She asserted the media was “complicit” in spreading what Fox calls “a false narrative.”
“Well, because all the other media was in on the con,” McFarland said, “they were all in on it. They were the ones that did Russia, Russia, Russia. I mean, they destroyed my career, my reputation, cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees with the Mueller investigation. 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.”
By no small coincidence, gun rights activists continually complain about the one-sided coverage the same media seems to give the Second Amendment issue. Among the many concerns firearms owners have is that the media has literally adopted the gun control vocabulary, referring to gun prohibition organizations as “gun safety groups,” and identifying “gun control” efforts as “gun reform” or “gun safety.”
Perhaps not surprisingly, Trump’s reaction to the new Durham revelations was blunt. Fox reported Trump said Durham’s new information “provides indisputable evidence that my campaign and presidency were spied on by operatives paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign in an effort to develop a completely fabricated connection to Russia.”
Trump will be recalled as the only president in recent memory to routinely mention the need to protect the Second Amendment during his speeches around the country, and even during State of the Union reports to Congress. He will also be remembered as having brought back some semblance of balance to the federal courts by appointing conservative judges to fill court vacancies, including three spots on the U.S. Supreme Court, which last November heard arguments in a Second Amendment case for the first time in more than a decade.
Trump also had this observation about the new Durham bombshell report: “This is a scandal far greater in scope and magnitude than Watergate and those who were involved in and knew about this spying operation should be subject to criminal prosecution.”