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What The Washington Post Did to Trump Should Brand Them As Enemies of the People

Matt Vespa
Matt Vespa  |  Mar 16, 2021
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We all know the media is biased. Even liberals know the media is biased, though they complain about it in another way. Progressives often slammed MSNBC for their bias against Bernie Sanders, which is why the campaign and its supporters reportedly favored Fox News for their coverage of the Vermont senator in that regard. The irony, I know. It’s not insane to say that the media’s bias, boldness in showing it, and their utter disregard for simple things, like getting a story right, have suffered since Hillary Clinton’s defeat in 2016. The latest scandal that should engulf The Washington Post only shows why the chant "CNN sucks" is still fresh and why the moniker "enemy of the people" sticks to the media establishment. They are enemies of America.

They’ve been saying the quiet parts out loud for eons now. Ever since Trump won in 2016, the media has done everything they can to attack the former president. They peddled a total lie, the Russian collusion myth, for three years, which has to be one of the biggest journalistic failures in recent memory. Folks, let’s not forget that they couldn’t get simple things right here when covering the Trump White House. A simple photo op that featured Trump feeding koi fish in Japan was bungled. Fish feeding couldn’t even be reported accurately. When the president visited China, CNN was aghast that he was the first president not to take questions from the press, except that he wasn’t. Obama did the exact same thing. How easily do these morons forget, huh?

As for the Russian collusion hoax, there were multiple nothing burgers. The Steele Dossier, which set off the fiasco, was uncorroborated garbage and classic Russian disinformation that the liberal media disseminated. They took the bait, despite the actual project being Democrat-funded. Yes, let’s not forget that the Hillary Clinton campaign hired ex-MI6 agent Chris Steele to find dirt on Trump and ended up being taken for a ride by Kremlin sources. One CNN "bombshell" about a donor giving Trump and his inner circle early access codes to a trove of documents from the DNC hack obtained by Wikileaks was blown up because the network couldn’t read the timestamps on emails properly; the information was already public. The Russian meeting in Trump Tower that sources said Michael Cohen, Trump’s former personal lawyer-turned-rat, knew about died a painful death when the source was outed as Lanny Davis, a former Clinton advisor and lawyer for Cohen when he decided to turn against Trump. Oh, and Davis basically retracted everything he said. Again, like so many Trump-Russia stories, there was no evidence to support the initial claim.

All of this was to build an impeachment case against the president. This was the long paper trail Democrats planned to use until Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report laid it out pretty clearly that there was no Russian collusion. There was no evidence to suggest it because it never happened. So, onward to the Ukraine quid pro quo scheme, which was even shoddier.

And now, long after the 2020 election, the infamous "find the fraud" story printed by The Washington Post during the chaotic period after Election Day is now exposed as a total fraud—two months later. If it weren’t for an open records request, which found the actual call in a trash folder, we probably would have never known about this scheme. Here’s what Katie wrote yesterday on this story:

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President Donald Trump's December 2020 phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his chief investigator Frances Watkins. The paper originally claimed Trump "pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction" and said the investigator needed to "find the votes." Now the paper says those "precise words" weren't used, and quotes were "misattributed" to Trump.

I’m sorry, come again—this was all fake?

Correction: Two months after publication of this story, the Georgia secretary of state released an audio recording of President Donald Trump’s December phone call with the state’s top elections investigator. The recording revealed that The Post misquoted Trump’s comments on the call, based on information provided by a source. Trump did not tell the investigator to “find the fraud” or say she would be “a national hero” if she did so. Instead, Trump urged the investigator to scrutinize ballots in Fulton County, Ga., asserting she would find “dishonesty” there. He also told her that she had “the most important job in the country right now.” A story about the recording can be found here. The headline and text of this story have been corrected to remove quotes misattributed to Trump.

This is fake news. They did it again…because they know they can get away with it. Meanwhile, if you dare criticize the liberal media clowns who peddle this fabulist trash, you’re slammed for being a serial online harasser. How dare you challenge the media? Well, you people have been dead wrong for years.

The hatred channeled against Trump by the media was so out of control, they made up stuff for years, with no accountability, no pushback, and they were rewarded by helping deny him a second term and indirectly disenfranchising tens of millions of American voters. They worked hard to fix the game to help their Democratic overlords. These people are no better than communications operatives for the DNC, which is why everything they report should be brutally scrutinized because it’s probably false, especially if it’s about Trump. The media has lied for years. Now, they’re doing it to help fix elections. We’re seriously living under the umbrella of quasi-state media, aren’t we? If not, we’re heading that way.