Lack of Journalistic integrity and truth will re-elect Trump

John Durham’s Report and a Presidency in Crisis

The press covers its eyes about Joe Biden and helps re-elect Donald Trump

By By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. Wall Street Journal

If there wasn’t a “Clinton plan”—the phrase used 65 times in Monday’s published report by Justice Department special counsel John Durham—to tar then-rival Donald Trump as a Russian agent, there may have been a plan about what to say if anybody asked if there was a Clinton plan.

“Ridiculous” was the word used by campaign chairman John Podesta when interviewed by the special counsel. “Ridiculous,” said foreign-policy adviser Jake Sullivan. Mrs. Clinton at least mixed it up, calling the notion of a deliberate smear campaign “very sad” and a “rabbit hole.”

For a plan that didn’t exist, it was remarkably effective. The Steele dossier was a tissue of lies made up by a Clinton-paid investigator who “simply fabricated” sources and information. The Alfa Bank allegation, the Yotaphone allegation—don’t ask—were inventions promoted by a Democratic lawyer who claimed his clients were an amalgam of “Gilligan’s Island” actors residing at EPA headquarters.

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