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JimLur .. Fox News' Latest Conspiracy Theory About Trump's Wiretapping Lie Started With Gateway Pundit

Research ››› March 7, 2017 12:19 PM EST ››› ALEX KAPLAN

Seeking to defend President Donald Trump’s baseless claim that former President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, pro-Trump fringe right-wing blog Gateway Pundit falsely claimed that Hillary Clinton knew -- and tweeted about -- the wiretapping a week before the election. The claim, which spread among fake news purveyors and made its way to Fox News, mischaracterized Clinton’s tweet, which was actually about a Slate article discussing supposed connections between a Trump server and a Russian bank.

Trump Baselessly Accused Obama Of Wiretapping Trump Tower

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Clinton’s Tweet Referred To A Slate Article About Supposed Connections Between A Trump Server And A Russian Bank

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Slate: “Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?” A few hours before the Clinton tweet, Slate had published an article headlined “Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?” The article claimed that computer scientists found “a sustained relationship between a server registered to the Trump Organization and two servers registered to an entity called Alfa Bank,” a Russian bank. The author, Franklin Foer, later wrote an article acknowledging criticism of the article’s premise.
[Slate, 10/31/16 .. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html .,
11/2/16] .. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/11/the_trump_server_evaluating_new_evidence_and_countertheories.html

Fake News Purveyors Ran With Gateway Pundit’s False Conspiracy Theory

https://mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/07/fox-news-latest-conspiracy-theory-about-trumps-wiretapping-lie-started-gateway-pundit/215582

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