I am so sick and tired of the craven attempts of the Trump-haters to slander President Trump as a ‘Nazi supporter.’ Or Hitler.
It’s an absurd, false accusation – a blood libel – and it demeans and trivializes the entire horrendous history of the Holocaust.
CNN failed to correct, retract, or apologize for its repeated false reports in recent weeks that President Donald Trump had referred to neo-Nazis as “very fine people” in his remarks about the Charlottesville, Virginia, riot in 2017.
But on Tuesday, CNN linked to its own report at the time that reported, accurately, that Trump had used “very fine people” to refer to protesters for and against the removal of a historic statue, not to neo-Nazis.
The context was a CNN report Tuesday about a new book about the Trump administration that claims Ivanka Trump stood up for her father against then-economic adviser Gary Cohn over the Charlottesville conference….
CNN covered the Times report, and referred to the book’s claims throughout the day on Tuesday. Notably, in CNN’s article about the book, the network linked to its own coverage of the Charlottesville conference. The article, “Trump says both sides to blame amid Charlottesville backlash,” written by Dan Merica and published on August 16, 2017, leaves no doubt about what Trump meant when he used the phrase “very fine people”:
Trump said there were some “very bad people” on both sides, but that there was some who came out to protest the removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue who were “fine people…..
CNN’s own contemporaneous reporting contradicts what many of its main news anchors, contributors, and reporters — including Chris Cuomo, Anderson Cooper, Jim Acosta, April Ryan, and others — have claimed recently: namely, that Trump suggested “there are very fine people in the Nazis,” in Acosta’s words.
CNN has even edited video of Trump’s press conference deceptively to present a claim that its own coverage disproves.
Pollak: CNN’s Chris Cuomo Uses Deceptive Edit to Boost Charlottesville Hoax
CNN promotes the sort of fake news that serves to inflame hatred against decent people. Everybody knows the president didn’t say the white supremacists (or, by association, the Antifa thugs) were “fine people”, yet CNN keeps repeating the slander, with the end result being that it becomes socially acceptable to trash anyone who isn’t on board with the proper political dogma as a Nazi. One might hope the latest blatant examples of fake news — the Covington incident and that Smollett hoax, not to mention the true news of the scandals surrounding the Democrat leaders in Virginia — would give everyone pause to consider the extent to which the public is being manipulated by evil counselors. But I don’t see it happening.