Thanks to today’s IG report, we now know that last year’s Lafayette Park fiasco not caused by Trump.
Every single outlet botched the story. Facts were irrelevant because it confirmed their priors and the narrative of their furious readers was not to be questioned.
A thread:
This NYT headline is a flat-out lie. Where's the correction?
“Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church”
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There were *five* NYT reporters on this story. FIVE. And they all got it wrong.
"When history is remembered..." LOL
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Tax-payer funded BS
NPR: “Peaceful Protesters Tear-Gassed To Clear Way For Trump Church Photo-Op”
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A handy explainer on this media's failure here would be nice, Vox.
Vox: “Officers fire tear gas on peaceful protesters to clear the way for Trump’s photo op”
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And here's WaPo with another doozy archived below: “How the Trump administration has tried to explain clearing protesters from Lafayette Square”
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They actually updated this piece just last week and STILL managed to get it wrong washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/…
Of course, It wasn’t just the media:
Joe Biden: “Peaceful protesters [were] dispersed by the order of the president from the doorstep of the people’s house, the White House — using tear gas and flash grenades — in order to stage a photo op at a noble church…”
Pelosi and Schumer: “Tear-gassing peaceful protestors without provocation just so that the President could pose for photos outside a church dishonors every value that faith teaches us.”
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Tammy Duckworth: “Donald Trump trampled the First Amendment rights of Americans to peaceably assemble for a redress of grievances… threatening military force and imprisonment against Americans exercising their Constitutional rights is not Presidential, it’s tin-pot dictatorial.”
Canadian journo: "We saw protesters tear-gassed yesterday to make way for a presidential photo-op. I'd like to ask you what you think aboot that?”
Trudeau: "We all watch in horror and consternation what's going on in the United States”
There's so many examples it's not worth going through them all. Liberals and the media lied about what happened that day. Don’t hold your breath for any apologies, but keep that in mind the next time they have anonymous sources and “insiders” trashing a conservative.
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