former CIA director and NewsGuard advisor yesterday seemingly promoted the execution of former President Donald Trump on Twitter.
A Washington Post “exclusive” released Aug. 11 speculated that the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Fla., estate to locate alleged missing nuclear documents. NBC News’ presidential historian Michael Beschloss tweeted shortly after the “exclusive” was released that the “Rosenbergs were convicted for giving U.S. nuclear secrets to Moscow, and were executed June 1953.”
Michael Hayden (Retired Gen.) quote-tweeted Beschloss’s post with the comment, “Sounds about right.”
Washington Examiner Jerry Dunleavy is a reporter for the Justice Department blastedHayden and Beschloss are being criticized for their flirtations with the death of a former president.
“NBD just a former NSA & CIA Director (who also was among the dozens of ex-intel officials who signed the infamous October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop letter) out here suggesting that Trump should be executed,” Dunleavy tweeted.
Hayden is listed as an “advisor” for leftist online “credibility” arbiter NewsGuard.
It sounds about right. https://t.co/hJCjxhN2BQ
— Gen Michael Hayden (@GenMhayden) August 12, 2022
This former CIA director is known for his insanity. In October 2020, Hayden was on CNN and went on an emotional tirade against President Donald Trump. In 2018, Hayden compared the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy regarding illegal immigration to the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz.
NewsGuard claims to give news outlets and websites red or green ratings based on the supposed “credibility” of the sites’ content. MRC Free Speech America found repeatedly that NewsGuard serves only as a seal of approval for leftist media.
In February, NewsGuard co-CEO Steven Brill painted his company as a sort of white knight that can save impressionable dupes from repeating another Jan. 6 “insurrection,” and asserted Fox News and OANN traffic in conspiracy theories. “Imagine if we watched the Moon Landing,” Brill opined. “Today, you would have, whether it was Fox or OANN or something like that, they would say, ‘It is a fraud. Biden did not really achieve that.’”
Brill also became notorious for calling the now-verified Hunter Biden laptop scandal a “hoax” even as his firm doled out perfect 100/100 scores to liberal media outlets that tried to cast the whole story as Russian disinformation.
An MRC study found that outlets classified as “left” or “lean left” by AllSides received an average NewsGuard score of 93/100. Sites considered “right” or “lean right” by AllSides had an average NewsGuard rating of 66/100. NewsGuard has rated many Chinese state media outlets better than U.S media outlets OANN and Newsmax, as well as LifeNews.
MRC Free Speech America reached Out to NewsGuard, but was not able to get a response by the time this article was published.
Conservatives under attack. For more information, contact NewsGuard General Manager Matt Skibinski matt.skibinski@newsguardtech.com and demand the firm release a statement on Hayden’s sordid tweet seemingly promoting the execution of a former president.
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