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PAPA TRUMP CLEARED: How LYIN’ @NYTimes, WaPo, @VICE & @BoingBoing Smeared Donald’s Dad Fred As KKK Klan RioterOctober 21, 2016 by Charles C. JohnsonWritten and researched by Ren Jander.It was a sensational story — perhaps dark fairytale is more accurate — started by the technology blog Boing Boing, wherein Donald Trump‘s father, Fred Trump, became the subject of intense media speculation as to whether his being charged for failure to disperse from a “Klan Parade” — as the event was grossly mislabeled — suggested he was a Klan member.In casting aspersions that were soon to be carried by media titans such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, Boing Boing cited exactly one inconclusive news article from the NY Times of June 1, 1927. They offered no further research to clarify the situation and lock down all the facts before planting the suggestion that Fred Trump may have been a full fledged, card-carrying, robe/hood wearing Klan racist. And the mainstream media then followed right in their footsteps, further smearing Fred Trump, and by implication, his son.Continued: http://gotnews.com/papa-trump-cleared-how-lyin-nytimes-wapo-vice-boingboing-smeared-fred-trump-kkk/
Johnson thrust himself into the middle of Mississippi's tense political dispute earlier this month when he reported on Stevie Fielder, a self-proclaimed minister who claimed that Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-MS) campaign bribed black voters in the Republican runoff against tea party challenger Chris McDaniel.Fielder was paid by Johnson for the story, which was strongly disputed by the Cochran campaign. Jim Hood, Mississippi's Democratic attorney general, said Wednesday that his office is investigating whether or not Johnson paid Fielder to make a deliberately false claim.Fielder, who's already changed his story previously, "admitted he got paid $2,000 to lie," according to Hood. Although it's not a crime to pay someone to make a false statement, Hood's office is looking into the source of the funds.
