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Ross: Media isn’t ignoring latest Trump/Hillary ‘revelation,’ it’s just not that interesting

Feb 16, 2022, 6:37 AM | Updated: 9:17 am

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The internet demands to know: Why is the mainstream media not telling us about that the Trump campaign was unjustly put under surveillance five years ago?

The story allegedly being covered up is about an official court filing which implies that operatives working for Hillary Clinton were responsible for feeding the CIA false information, implying some connection between the Trump campaign and Russia.

This would prove that the Russia investigation was indeed a witch hunt, just as former President Donald Trump has been claiming all along, and that Hillary Clinton was behind it.

So why isn’t the mainstream media splashing this on their front pages? My guess is that it’s because if this happened, it happened five years ago. And if Hillary Clinton is the culprit – well, she’s already been banished to Chappaqua.

My niece – who lives in Chappaqua – sees her shopping occasionally, or taking walks, but that’s about it.

But also, can we really say this story is being ignored by the mainstream media? Because , which has seven of the 10 most-watched cable news shows, and also in and  which are hardly fringe publications.

I think the real problem here is not that it’s being ignored, but that it’s just not very interesting.

Even if it’s 100% true, and even if it turns out Hillary Clinton was personally running the witch hunt, she failed. Trump’s presidency, as his supporters will tell you, was a triumph, which is why so many of them tried to extend his term. His real gripe is with Mike Pence, not Hillary.

However, I will go on the record and state that if the investigation does find that Hillary was behind the witch hunt, Trump deserves some kind of compensation.

Although I would also observe that, despite the deep hurt this must have caused, he seems to be doing pretty well. that his merchandise sales, personal appearances, and the donations collected from people who love him have made him even richer, and that he’s now raised more than a billion dollars for the Trump Media & Technology Group – which, according to its website, will be a “Uniting Force For Freedom of Expression” that will end cancel culture and stand up to Big Tech.

And, my fellow Americans, once that happens, the mainstream media will never again ignore Donald Trump, because the mainstream media will be Donald Trump.

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