{"id":1299780,"date":"2022-02-15T14:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299780"},"modified":"2022-02-15T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T19:08:36","slug":"donald-trump-press-refusing-to-cover-alleged-spying-the-beginning-of-communism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-press-refusing-to-cover-alleged-spying-the-beginning-of-communism\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump: Press Refusing to Cover Alleged Spying the &#039;Beginning of Communism&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdonald-trump-press-refusing-to-cover-alleged-spying-the-beginning-of-communism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1299780&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Trump-on-telephone-facing-camera-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former President Donald Trump expressed his shock and disgust that the media refused to cover news developments about failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton\u2019s alleged attempt to spy on him and his campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat to me is the beginning of communism that\u2019s how it all starts. That is the beginning of communism,\u201d Trump said in an interview with Michael Savage on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Special counsel John Durham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/12\/trump-reacts-to-john-durham-spying-allegations-bigger-than-watergate\/\">filed<\/a> a motion in federal court last Friday as part of the prosecution of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, charged with lying to the FBI about participating in the effort to smear Trump and his associates of \u201ccolluding\u201d with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Sussmann is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/12\/trump-reacts-to-john-durham-spying-allegations-bigger-than-watergate\/\">accused<\/a> of sharing data with federal law enforcement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/14\/politics\/durham-sussmann-filing\/index.html\">claiming<\/a> that Trump and\/or his associates were using Russian-made cell phones near the White House. Sussmann is also accused of making false statements to the FBI about sharing data he said linked the Trump organization to a Russian bank, which was used by the Clinton campaign to claim Trump ties to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe press is, I guess, afraid, you\u2019ll tell me, afraid or they\u2019re just bad news or they\u2019re communists and they don\u2019t want to write about it,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Trump said the evidence proved that what the Clinton campaign did to him was \u201cworse than Watergate,\u201d where Nixon\u2019s associates broke into the office of the Democrat National Committee during the 1972 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were infiltrating the Oval Office,\u201d Trump said, suggesting that it was a level of treason that used to be punished by death \u2014 though thus far, the surveillance has only been reported to cover the Executive Office of the Presidency in general. \u201cThat would be punishable in the most stringent way and you know what that means, in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He raised the alarm that the press refused to even cover the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second biggest scandal is the fact that the newspapers agree that it\u2019s the biggest, but they refuse to write about it because what happened to this country is so bad,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the media blackout over the weekend, Trump celebrated the fact that other news outlets were focused on the story and that the details were spreading across the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe good news is that people are seeing it,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>After Trump complained broadly that the media was trying to ignore the story, CNN, the <em>New York Times<\/em>, and The <em>Washington Post<\/em> published stories reporting some details of the story, while some even tried to downplay the claims behind the court filing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump expressed his shock and disgust that the media refused to cover news developments about failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton\u2019s alleged attempt to spy on him and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}