Vincent J. Curtis
14 Sept 20
Most Canadians don't follow American media closely. They tend to hate Trump because of all the evil things they hear about him for the media they do follow. Below is an example of fake news from a rather well-known Canadian writer.
Warren Kinsella asks, “Has Donald Trump finally been tripped up?” Kinsella falsely said, “American media, including Trump-friendly Fox News, report he referred to U.S. soldiers as ‘suckers’ and ‘losers.’” In addition, the editorial cartoon depicts Trump saying the same thing about the 190,000 Americans who died of the Wuhan virus.
All this is fake. Clever, but fake news. Let’s disregard the pathetic taunt that Fox News is Trump-friendly, shall we? The original fake story appeared in Atlantic Magazine, alleging that Trump, while in Paris, didn’t want to visit his second American graveyard that day and disparaged the servicemen of World War I. The Atlantic story was anonymously sourced. The disparaging business was refuted by no fewer than 25 people on the record, included John Bolton, Trump’s National Security Advisor at the time.
American media did not report such and so about Trump, they reported that Atlantic Magazine reported such and so about Trump. Important difference in credibility.
With this hate-Trump story floundering, a second anonymously sourced story was concocted that Trump said the same thing about Vietnam veterans at Arlington cemetery, Trump has disparaged the Vietnam War, but never its veterans, and this item of fake news survives only in the hate-Trump fever swamps (Admittedly, a very large place.)
Trump supporters have heard so much fake news about him – starting with Russia collusion – that the MSM, CNN, MSDNC, have no credibility any more.
Kinsella’s statement is deceptive, fake news.
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