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The liberal media seem to think that just because Trump-supporting insurrectionists laid siege to the Capitol building on Wednesday, that they can just make up whatever facts they wanted to push their narrative. Thus was the case Thursday when ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News pushed the bogus claim that D.C. area law enforcement went lighter on the Trump supporters than they did with Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
It was a baseless accusation that they were more than eager to jump into. “The double standard? Tonight, why the former first lady is posing the question, what if these rioters looked different. As President-elect Biden points out Black Lives Matter protestors were met with extreme force this summer,” announced CBS anchor Norah O’Donnell in the opening tease.
CBS Evening News was arguably the worst. The broadcast featured political correspondent Ed O’Keefe working as a Biden spin artist. “During the siege, he said his own granddaughter texted him a photo from last summer of a large deployment of armed military personnel guarding the Lincoln Memorial during racial justice protests,” he touted, speaking of President-elect Biden’s Thursday address.
The problem? The photo of D.C. National Guard troops O’Keefe and CBS highlighted showed them standing there with NO weapons. In fact, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) had ordered them not to carry weapons. The other key facture O’Keefe omitted was how they were only called in two days after BLM started to burn parts of the city, including a church across from the White House.
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