Liberal media is revving up its bias against Republican lawmakers as the 2024 election gets near. It will stop at nothing to bring down the red wave across the country— even claiming to “fact check” a debunked story.
Left-wing KSDK reporter Mark Maxwell ran a piece about Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), supposedly “fact-checking” the senator’s involvement with Army negotiations to secure funding for military housing.
However, Maxwell’s piece has one issue. He failed to contact the Army and the military base itself.
Instead, Maxwell’s cited so-called “source” was a political opponent of Hawley’s— who was not present during negotiations with the Army. He also said in a previous article that he wants to see Hawley lose his re-election.
Hawley took to social media to dismiss and criticize the fact-check, calling it "categorically false” and slamming the piece as “fake news at its dishonest worst.” He shared a letter from the Secretary of the Army explaining that it "worked closely" with Hawley to "develop the unprecedented recapitalization effort" to provide new military housing.
This is absolutely, categorically false. There was no “vote.” The Army agreed to devote nearly $100 million to Ft. Leonard Wood after direct negotiations with me. As the Secretary of the Army says in the letter below. Fake news at its dishonest worst https://t.co/2PUcF4CNAr pic.twitter.com/OFqnSwfukL
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) September 28, 2024
Mark Maxwell, fired from his last job with NexStar for unethical behavior, wants “evidence” I secured funds for new homes at Ft. Leonard Wood. Here you go. Letter from Army Secretary acknowledging working “closely with you…to develop this unprecedented recapitalization effort” pic.twitter.com/XOh0OBzSra
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) September 27, 2024
Abigail Jackson, Hawley’s communications director, also called out Maxwell for not using actual evidence to support his claims.
Insane dishonesty from KSDK. Millions of dollars in funding were negotiated directly with the Army by Josh. The funding he secured was not part of any vote. We gave KSDK all this information and they refused to include it or reach out to any legit sources to confirm. https://t.co/CssH03rV89
— Abigail Jackson 🇺🇸 (@abigailmarone) September 28, 2024
According to emails that Townhall reviewed, evidence provides proof that the Army and Hawley spoke about military housing during a phone call and that the Army followed up to put the deal the senator negotiated in writing. The deal secured $91.4 million in funding for new military housing.
Maxwell was the same reporter who had a liberal meltdown when tweeted angrily by Elon Musk and then claimed he was "drunk" while on the job.
LOL: Senator @HawleyMO confronts left wing reporter who had an VERY public meltdown about @elonmusk.
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) March 17, 2023
"You also said that you didn't necessarily do any of this sober...I hope you do our interview sober!" pic.twitter.com/jOwyFbtAma