No, Durham Did Not ‘Distance’ Himself from Hillary-Campaign Spying Claims

Whenever evidence emerges that Democrats may have acted in a corrupt, potentially illegal manner — as it recently did when a John Durham filing disclosed that Clinton’s campaign may have recruited a tech company to spy on Donald Trump’s Internet activity in 2016 — a defensive media springs into action.

“Durham Distances Himself From Furor in Right-Wing Media Over Filing,” read a New York Times piece by Charlie Savage today. “The right-wing media quickly embraced a theory that even special counsel John Durham has distanced himself from,” wrote Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler. “In filing, Durham appears to distance himself from far-right theories” says MSNBC. “John Durham distances himself from right-wing furor,” writes Axios.

Anyway, “distanced” is the word of the day.