Sunday, 27 October 2024

CNN After Apparent Assassination Attempt: Trump ‘Falls’ at Rally

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Despite everyone with functioning brains witnessing that an apparent assassination attempt just occurred on former President Donald Trump’s life on video, CNN instead ran a headline making it seem like he tripped. Yes, you read that right.

“Secret Service Rushes Trump Off Stage After He Falls at Rally,” read CNN’s grotesque headline after video surfaced of gunshots going off and appearing to graze Trump’s ear during a Pennsylvania campaign rally. But CNN didn’t stop there, and proceeded to run with that narrative and didn’t even mention the possibility of gun shots in the original article: “Secret Service agents rushed former President Donald Trump off the stage after he fell to the ground amid loud bangs at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.”  Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) wrote in a scathing rebuke of CNN’s coverage, “Absolute ghouls.”

In fact, CNN even had the temerity to include the gaslighting of one CNN reporter who tried to spin the shots as possible fireworks: “We heard a bunch of … loud cracking noises. At first I thought: Is that fireworks? All of a sudden everyone started screaming,’ said CNN’s Alayna Treene, who was reporting from the rally.” What’s even worse is that CNN even noted that there was “blood” on Trump’s face in its "What we're covering" section, but still couldn’t bring itself to concede that a probable assassination attempt just occurred in its initial write-up and instead downplayed it: “[D]etails on what exactly happened remain sparse.”

 

 

NBC News’ initial headline on the horrifying event was no better: “Secret Service rushes Trump offstage after popping noises heard at his Pennsylvania rally.” And over at The Associated Press, readers were left with this barking mad spin in a post on X: “BREAKING: Donald Trump has been escorted off the stage by Secret Service during a rally after loud noises ring out in the crowd.” 

 


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