Posted on 07/14/2024 6:10:59 AM PDT by ransomnote
CNN and the Washington Post are facing backlash for publishing misleading headlines downplaying the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at his Saturday rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“Trump rushed off stage after loud noises at rally,” read the front page of the Washington Post, shortly after the former president flinched and bled from his ear after gunshots rang out around 6:10 p.m.
Footage of Trump being escorted away by U.S. Secret Service officials while triumphantly pumping his fist in the air immediately went viral on social media:
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Even with several firsthand witnesses corroborating that gunshots were heard, and a Secret Service agent was heard saying that the “shooter is down,” the Jeff Bezos-owned outlet refused to update its headline to reflect these details for over an hour.
CNN’s version of the story was even worse, with “Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally.”
Many social media users reacted poorly to both headlines, calling out the media giants for portraying the situation as less dangerous than it was.
“Even in a horrifying moment such as this they just can’t help themselves,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) reacted:
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5’5 female pictured just before she pushed the 6’ male (photo right) out of the way. She’s got this!
Faux’s Breem was going with firecrackers ... but she said it was hard to tell what was happening (did she think it was a Christmas Party?)
More about the shooter...
https://www.caclubindia.com/assets/thomas-crooks/
The shooter dead. not for the faint hearts.
https://x.com/gotrice2024/status/1812308528775803314
Anyone remember 9/11? Anyone remember the singing and dancing in the streets of Janin by “palestinians”?
Had the hired killer not missed the MSM would have been openly celebrating. Openly? Of course. ‘Cause with BeijingBiden retained in the WHouse who would bother going after them?
“President JFK killed by communist Oswald”
Lol.
When the shots rang out at Dealey Plaza dozens of witnesses heard shots whizzing over their heads and past their ears.
When the shooting stopped they turned around and ran up the grassy knoll to confront the shooters.
They were greeted by men in suits who said they were Secret Service and showed Secret Service IDs to the citizens. The Secret Service men explained: “Everything is under control up here. This is a secure area.”
We now know there were no Secret Service agents at the top of the grassy knoll that day.
The Deep State plays dirty.
Don’t be duped by their magic tricks.
[‘Loud Noises,’ Trump ‘Falls’: CNN, WaPo Downplay Assassination Attempt]
I could see being cautious if that went up thirty seconds after the shooting. Any later and it’s just the Post being @ssholes.
Yeah, I caught the early dismissals - “Trump has minor injury at rally”, that sort of thing. The spin machine was embarrassingly visible from the git-go, were the people in it capable of embarrassment.
The moment America went sharply left.
As soon as it happened I pulled up CNN in a window and kept refreshing to see how their story evolved. Sort of like the initial chaotic coverage of 9/11 exhausting innocuous theories first before finally stating it was nefarious.
I think both titles were printed INSTEAD of anything that mentioned shooting. So ‘Trump falls’ was supposed to hide the fact that someone shot at him. THey’d like to pretend Trump just stumbled like Biden, instead of being shot at like JFK and Reagan.
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