Posted on 03/16/2021 7:11:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The media conspiracy against Trump became a lot more serious on Monday when the Washington Post retracted its January story claiming that President Donald Trump had pressured Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find the fraud” in the 2020 election and said that he’d be a “national hero” if he did.
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A recording of the call definitively proved that the quotes cited by the Washington Post, and then parroted by other outlets, were never actually said by the president at all.
But, as Becket Adams explains at the Washington Examiner, “the Washington Post’s dud of a ‘bombshell’ isn’t even the most scandalous thing about this episode in media malfeasance.”
The most scandalous thing, Adams, argues, is that several different newsrooms “claimed they independently ‘confirmed’ the original ‘scoop’ with anonymous sources of their own.”
NBC News reported it “confirmed The Post’s characterization of the Dec. 23 call through a source familiar with the conversation.”
USA Today claimed a “Georgia official speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters confirmed the details of the call.”
ABC News reported: “President Donald Trump phoned a chief investigator in Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office asking the official to ‘find the fraud’ and telling this person they would be a ‘national hero’ for it, an individual familiar with the matter confirmed to ABC News.”
PBS NewsHour and CNN likewise appeared to claim they independently “confirmed” the story through their own anonymous sources.
The Washington Post claimed its quotes were confirmed by an anonymous source, and at least five major news outlets claimed to independently confirm that Trump said things he never said.
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And it means what?
RE: And it means what?
It means for one that the investigation launched by Georgia’s Secretary of State regarding Trump’s alleged demand for him to interfere and change the result of Georgia’s Presidential election was a LIE.
Media Industrial Complex
Medical Industrial Complex
Science Industrial Complex
Deep State is alive and well.
What else have they lied about all this time regarding Trump?
So what? Everyone knows that the news media is nothing more than a propaganda machine. Honest people have long acknowledged it. What’s new about this? Is anyone surprised?
RE: And it means what?
See also Post #7
The criminal investigation against Trump is based on a LIE.
CNN:
Trump pressured Georgia elections investigator to search for dishonesty in the 2020 ballots
By Jason Morris and Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN
Updated 1:41 PM ET, Mon March 15, 2021
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story, published January 9, presented paraphrasing of the President’s comments to the Georgia elections investigator as direct quotes. The story has been updated following the discovery of an audio recording of the call.
Me? Looking forward to getting a new face on the cabin and updating wiring and bath.
My joy at the moment is derived from watching all the Biden voters lose their jobs, money, freedom and liberty.
Idiots on parade. Zero sympathy. Every time I hear, “hey wait a minute, I didn’t vote for this” I smile ear to ear and chuckle a bit.
Not happy about the crisis my Country is in, but I’m not going to wring my hands over issues outside my control.
Focusing on my family and art.
PBS still has original story, no updates...................
The corrupt media is corrupt, they lie to support the Leftist agenda. The challenge is to illustrate this to the American people.
The challenge is to illustrate this to the American people.
I agree about the challenge which can be best shown in the old question: if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to here it fall, does it make a noise.
Who WROTE the fake transcript?
Well, it worked. Don’t expect this to be the end of such tactics.
Probably Lt Col. Alexander Vindman.
Thus demonstrating and proving that the old JournaList exists in another format, or under a new name.
Next required question is : " Who benefits ? "
I congratulate you on your focus. (not being snide)
It means the second & subsequent liars are all making the same mistakes.
” Who benefits ? “
He who is VERY AFRAID of Trump.
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