The most outrageous hoax yet shows no lie is too lazy for America’s propaganda press.
One of the most powerful and corrupt players in American politics is spreading a sensational lie to manipulate voters four days before the final day of voting in the 2024 presidential election. The lie is that Donald Trump threatened to execute dynastic war hawk Liz Cheney by firing squad, and the culprit is America’s propaganda press.
Anyone who watches the clip of what Trump said will discern that he was obviously suggesting Cheney pick up a rifle and join the thousands of young Americans she’s sent overseas to fight in forever wars. Anyone who interprets it differently is either lying or so stupid he should take a lifelong vow of silence starting today.
“She’s a radical war hawk,” Trump said of Cheney on Thursday night. “Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, OK? Let’s see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Oh gee … let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.’”
Cheney, beside herself at the thought of having to do what she asks young American men and women to do, ripped the first half of Trump’s comment from its context and claimed Trump had “threaten[ed]” her “with death.”
The corporate media didn’t issue one of their infamous “fact” “checks” or call Cheney out for her disinformation. They quickly joined in on the lie that Trump had “fantasized” about putting Cheney in front of a firing squad.
What happened to Democrats’ concerns about disinformation being a threat to democracy? Aren’t they worried that these lies will reach low-information voters, and that those voters will vote based on a false info operation?