Former president Donald Trump’s latest claim to have been spied on by someone directed by or associated with Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign has found a welcome reception in conservative media, but experts say the former president’s basis for making such claims is as detached from reality as his previous attempts to cloak himself in a mantle of victimhood.
Banned from Twitter, the twice-impeached former president has since Saturday issued a succession of emailed statements reacting to a court filing from the office of John Durham, formerly the US Attorney for Connecticut, and currently a special counsel charged with the authority “to broadly examin[e] the government's collection of intelligence involving the Trump campaign's interactions with Russians” during the 2016 election.
