Will Any Anti-Trump Story Hold Up?https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2021/06/13/will-any-antitrump-story-hold-up-n2590894No profession loves themselves like journalists love themselves. After all, they “write the first draft of history.” However, as with any writing, history gets its say as well, and story after story in that “first draft of history” is proving to be untrue. It’s enough to make you wonder if any story from the Presidency of Donald Trump will stand up to even basic scrutiny in a year?
People get things wrong – we’re people, after all, and wildly imperfect. But journalists have gotten so much wrong over the last 4 years it makes you wonder if they got anything right. You name the “scandal” some left-wing outlet reported between 2016 and today about the former President and you will see a story that not only strains credulity, but one that doesn’t stand up to basic fact-checking.
Here are a few examples of “bombshell” stories that had “the walls closing in” on Donald Trump that have completely collapsed the second anyone bothered to be the most basic of journalism on them:
Trump called dead Allied soldiers “losers.”
Russia “hacked” the 2016 election.
Trump ordered Georgia officials to “find votes.”
Hydroxychloroquine has no value and is basically poison that will kill people with COVID.
Trump ignored Russia putting bounties on US soldiers in Afghanistan.
COVID was not from a lab in Wuhan.
Trump ordered the teargassing of “peaceful protesters” so he could have a photo-op.
Trump called neo-Nazis and white supremacists “very fine people.”
Donald Trump Jr. got early access to Wikileaks emails.
Russian collusion, etc., etc.
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etc.'s. That is a very cherry-picked,
VERY partial list of the Hate-Trump lies the MSM have told about Trump from 2015 to the present.
In my small corner of the technoid universe, when I see something for the second time that is more or less identical to the first instance, I start wondering about whether it's a pattern. With MSM lies about Trump, I crossed that line in late 2015, even before I realized Trump was actually a serious candidate for the Presidency. Since then MSM Hate-Trump lies have been in the hundreds, if not thousands. Literally. A large percentage started off, "Sources close to ______ say."
