This is not about whether I like Trump or not, and I am no fan. This is about scheming dishonesty and journalistic malpractice and I despise that more than Trump. At The Hill there is an article by Lisa Hagen titled
Trump orders Secret Service to remove black students from rally
It reads
Donald Trump ordered Secret Service agents to remove a number of black students from his Georgia rally on Monday evening, according to The Des Moines Register.
Before Trump spoke in Valdosta, Ga., about 30 black students who were quietly standing on the top of the bleachers were told to leave the GOP front-runner’s event.
Why were they removed? They weren’t invited.
“We didn’t plan to do anything,” said Tahjila Davis, a 19-year-old Valdosta State University student who was removed. “They said, ‘This is Trump’s property; it’s a private event.’ But I paid my tuition to be here.”
Now review Hagen’s words again:
Donald Trump ordered Secret Service agents to remove a number of black students from his Georgia rally on Monday evening, according to The Des Moines Register.
Let’s go to the linked article. What does it say about who ordered the removal of the students?
There are different accounts of who made the decision to eject approximately 30 black students who say they were standing silently at the top of the bleachers at Donald Trump’s rally here Monday evening.
None are directly attributed to Trump himself, but there’s more to this.
USA Today revised the story. HuffPo quotes the earlier version, seeking to make it a racial event:
“I think we got kicked out because we’re a group of black people,” a tearful student said in a video posted by USA Today. “I guess … they’re afraid we’re going to say something or do something. But we just really wanted to watch the rally. To get kicked out because we’re a group of black people … shows you how racist our own school is.”
And that was the goal all along. They didn’t plan to just watch the rally.
The young people said they had planned to sit in silent protest…
So they say. That’s not “just watching.” Poor things were “visibly upset” that they were asked to leave from an event to which they were not invited.
“We didn’t plan to do anything,” said a tearful Tahjila Davis, a 19-year-old mass media major, who was in the group of Valdosta State University students, many of whom were wearing all black, that was removed.
Adds the Valdosta police chief:
“What I resent is now some of these folks are going around saying it was a black issue. That’s total nonsense,” he said. “I personally asked why were these folks told to leave and the reason was: they were being disruptive. The Trump staff said they were using profanity. The F-bomb is one word that was used. You can’t be in there using profanity. That violates Georgia law.”
This was a set-up from the beginning. The Hill played right into the hands of the students and went so far as to make the false assertion that it was Trump himself who ordered the kids out. Huffington Post did what it does best- ignore the facts. This was an event designed to make Trump look like a racist- that was the goal all along. But it was not a racial thing. Trump’s staff had rented the venue and was entitled to determine who could be there. The only victim here is the truth.
Trump is a bellicose bully, but this kind of mendacity is only going to make him stronger and bolster his support.
Image via Jennifer Jacobs, USA Today
The Hill wasn’t the only outlet to promote the phony racist angle. Over Mediaite, this was the title of their contribution:
Trump’s Security Escorted a Group of Black Students From a Rally for No Discernible Reason
It was click bait for the brain dead.
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