EXPLAINER: How the latest Trump-Russia filing generated buzz

 

February 16, 2022



WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest filing from special counsel John Durham in his investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe has been seized on by the conservative media and Donald Trump himself as vindication of the former president's oft-repeated claims that he was "spied" on.

One headline said Durham had alleged that the campaign of Hillary Clinton paid to "infiltrate" servers at Trump Tower and the White House — though that verb is not used in the filing — and Trump suggested that Democrats had been caught "illegally spying" in a scandal worse than Watergate.

Neither claim is exact...



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