This disinfectant issue is a great way to see how the media constructs fake news.
A. Absolutely ignore their own reporting inside the press conference, where a reporter asked if he meant injecting people with disinfectant. Trump said no, he was talking about areas and surfaces, like a normal person.
B. Post on social media, get people riled up, make it a story. “Stupid Trump says inject Lysol in your body!” Blue checks go crazy with it.
C. AP creates a story about how this “disinfectant issue” is part of Trump’s anti-science agenda. (this article is linked elsewhere on FR)
D. Snopes.com posts an article “Did trump really say to inject yourself with bleach?” Rates it as true. Mentions Trump’s clarification, but says it wasn’t clear. Huh?
E. Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats repeat the talking point, giving it legitimacy.
F. The whole fake issue is now part of the national dialogue.
Even Trump himself got tangled in this when he said he later said he was being sarcastic about suggesting injecting it into people. This was an unforced error on his part, because now those of us who were defending him, using his own words in the press conference, have been sidelined. The Leftists are already lining up saying “If he didn’t say it in the presser, why is he saying he said it, even as a joke?”
The media have proven, for the millionth time, they are true enemies of the people.