Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. In today's political climate where the fault

lines are all too often defined by conspiracy theories, it is important to distinguish facts

from fiction and hype, reality from spin and disinformation, especially right now, today.

In light of the release of the Durham report on the disgraced ex-presidents, much hyped

investigation into the investigators who investigated the ties between the Trump campaign in Russia

and beyond. As New York Times reports today, Durham delivered a report that scolds the

FBI, but fails to live up to the expectations of supporters of Donald J. Trump that he

would uncover a politically motivated, deep state conspiracy. He charged no high level FBI

or intelligence official with a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that Hillary Clinton's

2016 presidential campaign did nothing prosecutable either. To no one's surprise, though, the disgraced

ex-president and his allies have used it as evidence of their priors in what amounts to

effectively a campaign of disinformation. Once again, from the New York Times, predictably

the report's actual content, it contained no major new revelations and it accused the FBI

of confirmation bias rather than making a more explosive conclusion of political bias,

made scant difference in parts of the political arena. Mr. Trump and many of his loyalists

issued statements treating it as vindication of their claims that the Russia inquiry

involved far more extravagant wrongdoing. In essence, the Durham report has become more

grist for the mail of right-wing disinformation and it has led to ever more wild and frankly

dangerous claims about our government and our government agencies and even our democracy.

Here's Alabama Republican Tommy Tuberville saying that the claims made in the Durham report

are supposedly so outrageous that they should lead to the end of elections and democracy. Watch.

But if people don't go to jail for this, American people should just stand up and say, listen,

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