CNN staffers work hard to downplay the 2016 spying scandal

Published August 14, 2020 9:29pm ET



At CNN, black is white, up is down, and the important thing is not the political scandal of the decade, but that President Trump may be wrong about something.

“We caught Joe Biden, President Obama, the whole group,” the president told reporters this week. “You can look at Brennan and Comey and Clapper and the whole group. We caught them spying on our campaign. This was an illegal act like no other illegal act. This was treason. This was at the highest level of treason.”

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