WaPo finally admits they lied
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The Washington Post, owned by Jeff Bezos, has finally admitted that they told the world a lie.
You may remember back that before 6 Jan 2021, they reported that " an anonymous source, familiar with the call" said that Trump called Frances Watson in Dec 2020, told her to find the fraud and that she would be a national hero.
Frances Watson is Georgia's (US State) top election fraud investigator and works for the GA Sec of State.
The "anonymous source, familiar with the call" clearly lied and it can be proven now that the audio of the call has been released.
Liberal MSM ran this story, without verifying any of it, and just simply used the WaPo as their source.
MSM loves to use "anonymous source, familiar with......"
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"What the new recording does not do is present a substantively different picture of what Trump was up to on that call than the Post’s original story. Trump, though, is savvy about the fact that most people will only vaguely remember the details, will mix the Raffensperger and Watson calls up, and will see reports of a correction regarding Trump’s Georgia phone call. Those sympathetic to Trump or skeptical of the media will wonder if he got a bad rap regarding that larger story. He did not."
https://www.vox.com/2021/3/16/22333805/washington-post-correction-trump-georgia
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Vox isn't a very good source either, since they also pushed the same lie about the call.
Their excuse of innocence is that they just repeated what WaPo said.
Maybe the "anonymous source, familiar with the call" should be outed since he/she/it has shown that their word is shit.
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Media Scandal Getting INSANE, Georgia Official LIED And Tried Deleting Evidence Trump Story Was FAKE
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@raphjd said in WaPo finally admits they lied:
Media Scandal Getting INSANE, Georgia Official LIED And Tried Deleting Evidence Trump Story Was FAKE
Ummm.... and youtube is a good news source?
Just saying - if you're source shaming, you should maybe also cleanup your OWN house!
FWIW: The "reporter" here got it wrong... the audio recording that was found in the trash WAS of Trump asking someone to "find the fraud" - and it was in the trash.
THINK PEOPLE! Georgia isn't some liberal bastion - nearly ALL of the people in the GA Secretary of State's office are Republicans! That state, until last November, was as RED as Alabama!
The poor lady in the SoS office got a call from the FRIGGIN PRESIDENT! She's actually REQUIRED to record phone conversations (part of being accountable working in a state office like the SoS office!)... so even if it's something she COULD turn off, WHY WOULD SHE! This is her, sweet little Ga peach worker, on the phone with the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! This is a keeper!
But then, oh wait, this recording could get HIM into a lot of trouble... better throw it away... except that she's a sweet little Ga peach and doesn't know you have to EMPTY the trash folder for the file to be ACTUALLY deleted...
I did like one thing your source said: (paraphrasing) "Why would the liberal media make up stupid stuff that Trump says! He does it to himself!"
I will also admit that the WaPo author was "weak" on his sources... it was a guy who heard from a guy... except that, while that was the original source, it was also CORROBORATED!
If I hear from my neighbor that his neighbor (on the other side) is being robbed, and I call the cops - and they catch the guy robbing the house! The fact that I heard about it secondhand shouldn't alter the fact (or the charges) that they robber was robbing!
Then again, if the cops went blasting into that house with a SWAT team and helicopter support and so on - because I said I had heard that another house was being robbed, that'd be different - they didn't have "sufficient evidence" to go in "guns blazing" -- but they didn't need that evidence to stop by and make sure everything was OK - only to find the robber en flagrante dilecto.
So, getting back to the WaPo story - they ran it early - before the recording was found... bad WaPo... not their first offense, and not their last... other media outlets have done the same, or worse, (including Fox)... it usually depends on the source!
Still, the story shouldn't be how we learned about it - the story should be that Trump called MULTIPLE PEOPLE in the Ga SoS office trying to sweet-talk himself into getting votes!
In reality, this should show you JUST HOW RED GEORGIA was thought to be! It wasn't supposed to be CLOSE there! Losing GA would be like finding out your OWN MOTHER didn't vote for you! Hard to swallow, to be sure!
But since we're talking about Election Stealing now - can we talk about the Dems trying to steal that IA-2 seat?
ICYMI: the final tally had the (R) candidate ahead by 6 votes... yup, just SIX votes. But wait, the IA State Elections Office had disallowed 22 (yup, just 22) votes for different reasons - but invalid votes under IA State law!
... and now the Dems want to have the US House declare the (D) candidate the winner, saying those 22 votes should have counted (they would sway the results!).
IMHO, in the US, States make their own voting laws - within broadly defined limits applied nationally (like the minimum voting age of 18). It is not up to the Federal Government ITSELF to decide who wins elections, it's up to the States to certify their elections - and once certified, a winner is a winner! Even if decided by a COIN FLIP! (Presumably becase the "certified" vote was tied!)
Leave it to the Democrats to have a moral high ground and then squander it foolishly!
POT .... meet my buddy KETTLE!
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