FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR Ari Fleischer had some choice words for The New York Times on Saturday after the hallowed newspaper failed to report the news of the week, to wit, that Hillary Clinton not only was aware of the dirty tricks campaign against her political opponent for president, Donald Trump, but ordered it to proceed. While this is something most of us really knew already, the John Durham prosecution of Clinton attorney, Michael Sussmann of Perkins Coie, has established it as fact at this point.
Fleischer tweeted, “Today’s NYT has no story about Hillary Clinton authoriziung a dirty tricks campaign about false allegations of Trump collusion with Russia. This is a perfect example of why the MSM is in denial and decline.” He then showed a screenshot of a web search of “Hillary Clinton Robby Mook” which showed no results as evidence of this egregious oversight. “There are stories about the 1/6 investigation, abortion, Ginni Thomas [wife of Justice Clarence Thomas] and the decline of the Bush family [after a speech by former president George W. Bush], but not a word about one of the worst, most damaging dirty tricks that helped launch three years of bitter animosity,” he observed. (Brackets mine.)
Fleischer had every reason to gripe because on Friday, after being called to testify for the prosecution, Mook swore that in 2016, Clinton had signed off on the dissemination to the media of allegations of covert communication channels between the Trump Organization and the Kremlin via Russia’s Alfa Bank. She spread the malicious and erroneous information despite her own campaign officials not being confident in the legitimacy of the information, Mook added.
On Wednesday, Sussmann colleague and Clinton Campaign General Counsel, Marc Elias, also testified he was told by Sussmann about the claims and he then shared the info with others in the campaign in Aug. of 2016. Elias thought a news report about it would “benefit the campaign.”
Billing records introduced into evidence show Sussmann billed the campaign for thousands of dollars for “confidential meetings” with Elias and others starting in late July of 2016 through mid-August. Sussmann handed over the info purporting to link Trump with Alfa Bank to FBI lawyer James Baker on Sept. 19, 2016, shortly before the election.
The FBI quickly concluded the story was unsupported and the C.I.A. determined the claims were not “technically plausible,” but the MSM circulated the story widely nonetheless after Clinton Campaign shenanigans.
Funny how that works…
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