EMBARRASSING: Conservatives Blast CBS News for Tweet Blaming ‘Ukraine Crisis’ for Inflation

Twitter’s conservative influencers decimated CBS News because they tried to convince Americans that the current geopolitical crisis, in Ukraine, is behind skyrocketing U.S. Inflation.

CBS News tweeted out a story on Feb. 22 with the caption, “The U.S. economy has been hit with increased gas prices, inflation, and supply-chain issues due to the Ukraine crisis.” The ridiculous story, headlined “How the Ukraine crisis is already hitting Americans’ wallets,” was just as absurd in its manipulation: “Although many Americans may prefer that the U.S. stay out of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the brewing violence and political fallout are already hurting their wallets.” Conservative influencers saw through the blatant propaganda almost immediately and excoriated CBS News for it on Twitter. Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization, Donald Trump Jr., called CBS News’s Ukraine cover story “brazen insanity” and Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) asked Twitter to label CBS News’s tweet as “misinformation.”

Some also pointed to Biden’s leftist energy policies and hypocrisy in using the Ukraine crisis to cover up his own failures. Embarrassingly, CBS News’s tweet got heavily ratioed for spewing such transparent misinformation with a whopping 37,000 comments and only 5,576 likes at time of publication.

The Daily Wire’s most famous conservative commentator, Matt Walsh, didn’t mince words about CBS News’s narrative-twisting to protect Biden. He tweeted: “These kinds of headlines aren’t doing much to allay suspicions that Biden is involving us in the Ukraine situation so that he can blame it for all of the problems that we already had[.]”) 

These kinds of headlines aren’t doing much to allay suspicions that Biden is involving us in the Ukraine situation so that he can blame it for all of the problems that we already had https://t.co/pTo52IvQBy

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) February 23, 2022

YouTuber Lauren Chen mocked CBS News for casting blame for bad policies here at home on the Ukraine crisis: “That time I forgot to do my homework in 8th grade was also due to the current situation in Ukraine[.]”) 

That time I forgot to do my homework in 8th grade was also due to the current situation in Ukraine https://t.co/uNa9LLHyf4

— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) February 23, 2022

Human Events Daily Jack Posobiec respondedThe St. Louis Federal Reserve provided a graph that showed gas prices starting in July 2021 through now. Posobiec observed at the bottom right that Ukraine’s crisis started in this year after the rise of gas prices. 

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— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) February 23, 2022

 Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) petitioned Twitter to stop CBS News from posting “misinformation”: “@TwitterThis tweet needs to be labelled. @CBSNewsMisinformation. Due to the terrible economic policy of the Biden Administration, increased gas prices, inflation and supply-chain problems already exist.”

.@Twitter, I need you to label this tweet from @CBSNews as misinformation. Increased gas prices, inflation, and supply-chain issues already exist because of terrible economic policy from the Biden Administration. https://t.co/xMSn9itDEQ

— Byron Donalds (@ByronDonalds) February 23, 2022

Donald Trump Jr. was also the Executive Vice President for Trump Organization. He criticized CBS News for propagandism. stating: “They’re really trying to do this aren’t they? This is amazing. This is the kind of insanity that Democrats need to cover their tracks. I’m not sure if this makes me happy or sad. Due to the 2 weeks of violence in Ukraine, we have been facing many problems over the past year.

They’re really trying to do this aren’t they? I mean it’s incredible. I don’t know whether to be upset or impressed with the level of brazen insanity it takes to try to pull this off to run cover for Democrats.
Two weeks of chaos in Ukraine has caused us to have problems for over a year! https://t.co/tIdDTezdoI

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 23, 2022

Conservatives under attack Contact CBS News at (212) 975-3247 and demand it stop covering for the Biden Administration’s disastrous energy policy and gaslighting Americans on high gas prices, inflation, and supply-chain issues.