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”
NPR: “Peaceful Protesters Tear-Gassed To Clear Way For Trump Church Photo-Op” npr.org/2020/06/01/867…
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” vox.com/policy-and-pol…
And here's WaPo with another doozy archived below: “How the Trump administration has tried to explain clearing protesters from Lafayette Square” archive.is/Fksyn#selectio…
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.” speaker.gov/newsroom/6120-1
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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This story isn’t getting nearly enough notice: after months of holier than thou appeal to respecting elections and the democratic process, Pelosi is planning to strip a Republican rep of her victory *certified by the courts* and hand it to a Dem. #IA02
The irony is the left has harassed and cancelled any law firm with even a flimsy connection to Trump’s election lawsuits. dailysignal.com/2021/02/04/law…
But the Dem lawyer here, Marc Elias, represents virtually the entire Dem establishment.
By their own logic, they’re ALL complicit
.@TheDemocrats and @JoeBiden, your attorney, Marc Elias is currently fighting to overturn a certified election in Iowa just because a Republican won.
“documents that appear to have been hacked from Mr. Broidy’s personal email have been passed in recent days to several journalists at multiple news organizations, inc. The New York Times.”
May 18, 2015: “Clinton Friend’s Memos on Libya Draw Scrutiny to Politics and Business,” based on Sidney Blumenthal’s hacked emails. nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/…
A bunch of NYT staff and woke Twitter libs are whining that the Times ran an op-ed from a U.S. Senator, in which he argued a popular viewpoint held by 58% of Americans.
Here’s a thread of all the dictators and murderers NYT has published without a peep from their staff.
Recap Tayyip Erdogan, the President of Turkey.
A month earlier, Erdogan had been named the number one jailer of journalists for the third straight year. abcnews.go.com/International/…
Sirajuddin Haqqani, one of the leaders of the Taliban.
Among his many, many crimes, Haqqani once held hostage *a New York Times journalist* nymag.com/news/media/576…