Less than a year after former President Donald Trump left office, it turns out a lot of the narratives pushed by corporate media and politicians have turned out to be exactly what Trump said they were: “fake news.”
Here are some of the biggest anti-Trump theories, debunked.
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Trump ordered protesters to be tear-gassed for a photo-op
“Just an unbelievable use of military and police force to clear out Lafayette Park of protesters for a photo op at St John’s Episcopal Church,” CNN’s Chief Domestic Correspondent Jim Acosta tweeted on June 1, 2020.
“He’s using the American military against the American people,” Biden tweeted in part. (FULL QUOTE WITHIN)
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The ‘lab leak’ theory was a conspiracy
Trump frequently mentioned the coronavirus could have possibly escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, with other politicians echoing similar statements. The theory has recently been returned to credibility, prompting a flurry of corrections.
Media outlets originally crushed the theory, labeling it a “conspiracy” and “debunked.” CNN ran a headline that “Trump contradicts US intel community by claiming he’s seen evidence coronavirus originated in Chinese lab.”
The Washington Post ran a story titled, “Was the new coronavirus accidentally released from a Wuhan lab? It’s doubtful.” Another story was titled “President Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continue to push unsubstantiated Wuhan lab theory on novel coronavirus origins.”
The Post’s Senior Reporter Aaron Blake recently admitted, however, that “mainstream media overcorrected when it came to one particular theory from Trump and his allies: that the coronavirus emanated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, rather than naturally.”
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Trump ignored Russian bounties on US soldiers
Biden slammed Trump for allegedly doing nothing about allegations that Russia put bounties on the heads of American troops.
“Not only has he failed to sanction or impose any kind of consequences on Russia for this egregious violation of International law, Donald Trump has continued his embarrassing campaign of deference and debasing himself before Vladimir Putin,” Biden said, according to The New York Times, which first reported the story.
Vice President Kamala Harris also pushed the story in October. (LET'S SEE HOW YOU DO WITH PUTIN - I HEARD HE'S A KILLER)
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Trump told Georgia officials to ‘find the fraud’
The Washington Post was forced to issue a lengthy correction in March that Trump did not tell Chief Investigator of Georgia’s Secretary of State Office Frances Watson to “find the fraud” and told her she would be “a national here” if she did.
“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 Post said. “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 investigate to ‘find the fraud’ or say that she would be ‘a national hero’ if she did so.”
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Trump said white supremacists were ‘fine people’
Biden launched his presidential campaign in 2019 with a video that mischaracterized comments made by Trump in which he allegedly said there were “fine people” on both sides at the deadly Charlottesville rally. CNN commentator Keith Boykin claimed later that Trump had a “long history of inciting his supporters to violence,” claiming he “saw it with the 2017 Charlottesville march of ‘very fine people.'”
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Trump referred to illegal immigrants as ‘animals’
In 2018 Trump referred to members of the deadly and notorious MS-13 gang as “animals.”
“We have people coming into the country … You wouldn’t believe how bad these people are. These aren’t people. These are animals,” Trump said when asked by someone about MS-13.
Schumer criticized the comments, saying “when all of our great-great-grandparents came to America they weren’t ‘animals,’ and these people aren’t either.” Democratic Nevada Sen. Cortez Masto said Trump was attacking immigrants more generally.
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Trump ‘flat-out lied’ when he said his campaign was wiretapped
CNN reported in 2017 that Trump “flat-out lied” when he claimed the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower before his presidential victory, with CNN citing the Justice Department for proof.
“Trump, for his part, has offered zero evidence to back up his initial claim because, as we now know conclusively, there was no evidence. To sump up: The current President of the United States flat-out lied about the then-sitting president issuing a wiretap of his campaign headquarters.”
The outlet issued a correction two years later and confirmed that former campaign manager Paul Manafort was wiretapped under a secret court order before and after the election. CNN noted their original report was contradictory, however. Manafort did have an office in Trump Tower, though it’s unclear whether the surveillance took place there, CNN reported.
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Trump removed MLK Jr. bust
Just hours into Trump’s presidency, TIME White House Correspondent Zeke Miller reported Trump removed the bust of Martin Luther King Jr., out of the Oval Office. Turns out the bust was “obscured by a door and an agent.” Miller subsequently issued numerous apologies for the error.
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