On Thursday, January 2, Fox News reported at 10:43 a.m. ET that the truck involved in the New Orleans NYE massacre had crossed the U.S.-Mexico border at Eagle Pass, Texas, two days before the attack..Donald T***** made his first statement about the attack just five minutes after Fox News’ initial report, enhancing the lie by connecting the attack to illegal immigration. Soon after, Fox edited their report to refer only to the truck, not the suspect. Then at 11:55 a.m. ET, Fox retracted its story entirely; none of it was true.
T****, however, has not retracted his lie connecting the New Orleans attack to illegal immigration even after the killer was identified as a native-born US citizen. In fact, he has doubled down on his initial lie despite all evidence to the contrary, claiming that the attack proved his assertions about criminals entering the country were correct. Based on eight years of witnessing the same, this what we can expect going forward: Lie after lie after unfounded conspiratorial lie from the right wing media. These lies are then reposted by the president, who doubles down on and enhances them with his own lies. He retracts nothing.
This round of untruths and lies will fade into the background as the sequence repeats itself over and over again. And because his MAGA followers do not challenge what he says, even in the rare cases like this one where the truth is affirmed by traditional media, the lies told by the Donald T**** become part of the mainstream consciousness. The New York Times reported that T**** told over 30,000 lies over the course of his first presidency. History suggests that lies told in this one will not be widely corrected by any media, if they are corrected at all. In most cases, nothing will ever be set straight. No lie will be taken back. No truths will ever be confirmed.
For the next four years our country will be plagued and its course determined by lies told by its president. This is both foreseeable and should be unacceptable. There is only one appropriate response. Only one way to challenge the neverending lies told by Donald T****. Only one path forward.
RESIST
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