On Tuesday, the public learned that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes. Just a few days before that, the public learned that the “Russian Bounty” story was fake. In other words, in the span of a week, the “newspaper of record” has been exposed for grossly misleading the public about two major stories — both designed to discredit President Donald Trump.
And the mainstream press still has the audacity to label conservative news sites as unreliable?
Start with Sicknick. The New York Times was the paper that reported he’d been killed by a pro-Trump protester who threw a fire extinguisher at Sicknick during the Jan. 6 incursion into the Capitol Building. The Times claimed that, after being struck and suffering a “bloody gash on his head,” Sicknick “was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support” where he later died.
It was a horrifying story, repeated ad nauseam, that caused millions of Americans anguish, and anger, over the protests. It was proof that the “insurrectionists” were violent. It became a central fact in Trump’s second impeachment trial, with House impeachment managers saying that “the insurrectionists killed a Capitol police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher.” President Joe Biden said that Sicknick lost “his life while protecting the Capitol from a violent, riotous mob on Jan. 6, 2021.”
What did the Times base its story on? Unnamed sources, of course. There were no pictures. No videos. No on-the-record accounts. No medical examiner’s report. The story fell apart, as news emerged — no thanks to the mainstream press — that Sicknick had texted his family about being in good spirits that night. Then we learned that he’d returned to his office after the events at the Capitol, and only later went to the hospital....
The second massive fraud perpetrated by the Times involved a shocking claim that Russia was paying a bounty for any U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan and that Trump either knew or should have known about it.
A June 2020 Times story based on — you guessed it — unnamed sources, this time in the intelligence community, said that “a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops.”
Like the Sicknick hoax, every other news outlet parroted the Times. Biden himself said that the fact that Trump denied the truth of the Times’ reporting was further evidence that his “entire presidency has been a gift to Putin.” Never-Trump Republicans had a field day with the story....
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/04/21/the-new-york-times-has-just-been-caught-in-two-monstrous-lies/
And the mainstream press still has the audacity to label conservative news sites as unreliable?
Start with Sicknick. The New York Times was the paper that reported he’d been killed by a pro-Trump protester who threw a fire extinguisher at Sicknick during the Jan. 6 incursion into the Capitol Building. The Times claimed that, after being struck and suffering a “bloody gash on his head,” Sicknick “was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support” where he later died.
It was a horrifying story, repeated ad nauseam, that caused millions of Americans anguish, and anger, over the protests. It was proof that the “insurrectionists” were violent. It became a central fact in Trump’s second impeachment trial, with House impeachment managers saying that “the insurrectionists killed a Capitol police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher.” President Joe Biden said that Sicknick lost “his life while protecting the Capitol from a violent, riotous mob on Jan. 6, 2021.”
What did the Times base its story on? Unnamed sources, of course. There were no pictures. No videos. No on-the-record accounts. No medical examiner’s report. The story fell apart, as news emerged — no thanks to the mainstream press — that Sicknick had texted his family about being in good spirits that night. Then we learned that he’d returned to his office after the events at the Capitol, and only later went to the hospital....
The second massive fraud perpetrated by the Times involved a shocking claim that Russia was paying a bounty for any U.S. soldier killed in Afghanistan and that Trump either knew or should have known about it.
A June 2020 Times story based on — you guessed it — unnamed sources, this time in the intelligence community, said that “a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops.”
Like the Sicknick hoax, every other news outlet parroted the Times. Biden himself said that the fact that Trump denied the truth of the Times’ reporting was further evidence that his “entire presidency has been a gift to Putin.” Never-Trump Republicans had a field day with the story....
https://issuesinsights.com/2021/04/21/the-new-york-times-has-just-been-caught-in-two-monstrous-lies/
