Reuters’ Saturday story, headlined “Reuters: The Future of the Internet” drew the ire and skepticism of conservatives to Twitter. “Group of anti-Trump Republicans was behind tiki torches in Virginia campaign.” The Republican stunt of tiki torch-bearing Trumpers standing before Glenn Youngkin’s bus on Friday was not a Republican one.
The first paragraph of Kanishka Singh’s story is worse: “A small group of Republican critics of Donald Trump, the former U.S. President claimed responsibility on Friday for a demonstration in the Virginia governor’s campaign that recalled an infamous 2017 rally in the state.”
These photos ignore the fact that Trump supporters were actually Virginia Democrats. Furthermore, the Lincoln Project’s principals reject the Republican Party.
Their website doesn’t identify as Republican: “The Lincoln Project launched with two stated objectives. First, to defeat Donald Trump at his polling booth. The second was to ensure Trumpism failed alongside him.” The Washington Free Beacon has reported extensive financial and operational ties with the Democrats.
Plus! Fox News reported that the Lincoln Project spent almost $300,000. “Records provided by the Virginia Public Access Project show $17,100 being spent on pro-McAuliffe efforts and just over $280,000 on anti-Youngkin efforts.”
Unsurprisingly, the Reuters reporter also typically mangled Trump from Charlottesville, saying he was “criticized for initially saying there were ‘fine people on both sides’ of the dispute between neo-Nazis and their opponents at the rally,” ignoring that not everyone who came to protest the removal of Confederate statues was a Nazi, and that the president clarified to reporters he wasn’t praising Nazis.
The story only mentioned Democrats rejecting the stunt and they weren’t as passionately pushing for it on Twitter on Friday.
You can find the tweet news bar at “What’s Happening,” They pulled off the same feat with an AP article. It was full of liberal-media spins, but no Republican tweets.
It didn’t mention “anti-Trump Republicans”, but it also did not identify the false torchbearers as Virginia Democrats. The AP article then filled the story with Democrats condemning this stunt, without even mentioning how they promoted it until exposed.
This was a deplorable Democrat-spinning practice. The Washington Post reported that the Lincoln Project organized the stunt. Anti-Trump Republican Group“
The Guardian made the Virginia-Democrat fraudsters “members of the Lincoln Project.” It was headlined “Lincoln Project members dress as white supremacists during Virginia GOP event.” The claim was “Members” of the Anti-Trump Republican Group stood in front of Youngkin’s campaign bus on Friday wearing white shirts, khaki pants and sunglasses.”
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