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Andrew Paul

The new Hillary Clinton 'hacking' scandal is absolute garbage. Again.

Rightwing media and MAGA cultists are livid again about Hillary Clinton operatives reportedly hacking Trump campaign communications in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, because time is truly a flat circle from which none of us can escape alive.

The latest mashup of both ignorant and willfully misleading claims spread by Fox News and affiliates all stems from the recent court filings of John Durham, who served as a Trump-appointed special counsel to probe the Russian election interference inquiry (an investigator of the investigation, basically). Long story short: two techies arguably used their completely legal access to DNS logs to pass information to the CIA regarding suspicious Russian-made phone activity near locations related to the Trump campaign.

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