According to a recent filing by Special Counsel John Durham, it turns out Trump was being spied on after all — both as a candidate in 2016 and as President of the United States — by operatives paid by Clinton campaign associates. In addition to being an explosive revelation in its own right, this is also very embarrassing news for the media, who have repeated endlessly that nobody spied on the Trump campaign.

The media’s dismissive approach to Trump’s spying allegations endured throughout his presidency. Whenever the issue was brought up on liberal TV networks, it elicited little more than eye-rolling and derision.

Durham’s latest filing alleges that a tech firm paid by a Clinton campaign lawyer infiltrated the servers of Trump’s private properties, and later the Executive Office of the President. They then monitored all web traffic in an attempt to establish a link between Trump and Russia, according to Durham.

Lesley Stahl’s 2020 interview with Trump on CBS’s 60 Minutes is a perfect example of the media’s refusal even to entertain the spying accusations:

DONALD TRUMP: They spied on my campaign.
LESLEY STAHL: There is no real evidence of that.
TRUMP: Of course there is, it’s all over the place.
STAHL: No.
TRUMP: Lesley, they spied on my campaign, and they got caught.
STAHL: Can I say something? You know, this is 60 Minutes and we can’t put on things we can’t verify.