by Jeff Childers
This Reuters headline was already remarkable but it still managed to bury the lede:
I will now repost the entire Reuters article about this massive scandal that should, in sane world, rock the federal government to its core. You ready? Here it is, the whole thing:
That’s it! That’s the entire article. Not a single reaction quote from anybody. Nor any details, nothing about who said what, not even a snarky comment saying reporters tried to get a comment from anyone.
This is what passes for journalism in the age of corporate media.
The headline should have been something more like, “Secret Service LIED About Denying Trump More Protection.” Instead, the crack journalists at Reuters deployed the gentle euphemism, “this is a reversal from earlier statements by the agency.”
A reversal? A ‘reversal’ is when, under withering emotional manipulation, you give in and let the kids get toppings on their ice cream. It’s not a ‘reversal’ when you find seven crumpled candy wrappers under your teenager’s bed right after they loudly protested having no idea who cleaned out the pantry.
In technical terms, psychologists call that getting caught lying.
The New York Times’s article was a bit better. The Times, at least, reported the previous strong denials that, in Secretary Mayorkas’s own words, were “irresponsible” and “unequivocally false:”
But yesterday, under pressure, Secret Service Spokesman Guglielmi admitted that the “baseless” claims were not, after all, quite so baseless, nor were they exactly “irresponsible.” As it happens, President Trump has requested more security the entire time he’s been out of office:
Finally, to its credit, the Times article recapped the three biggest unanswered questions hanging over the rally field:
So many questions! And so few answers.
Yesterday, video emerged of President Trump asking a delicate question of his own in an interview with Fox’s Jesse Waters: why didn’t the Secret Service simply ask him to hold off starting the rally for a few minutes until they could find Thomas Crooks?
CLIP: Trump begins asking questions (0:40).
“Nobody said there was a problem,” the President explained, “and I would’ve waited for 15 minutes, 20 minutes. I think that was a mistake.”
Great question.
The FBI’s silence is deafening. The nation’s top law enforcement agency, tasked with getting to the bottom of what happened (or didn’t happen) in Butler County, has not updated its investigation website for the Trump Assassination Attempt since last Sunday. No updates. Zero, zip, nada. In fact, there are only three updates total on that web page — about the most important investigation in the FBI’s modern history.
Maybe the CrowdStrike crash took down the FBI? Anyway, in the New York Times’ article about the Secret Services’ stunning ‘reversal,’ the paper noted the agency has never held a press conference to answer questions about its failure to protect the former President — even though the Butler Police Department did, and even though that underfunded agency currently has no police chief:
I’m only a lawyer, not a public relations expert, but it seems to me that the FBI and the Secret Service should hold daily joint press briefings to provide ongoing public updates about the investigation. This isn’t like they are investigating a Mexican opioid ring or a wayward Chinese spy balloon. This time, they can’t hide behind the old “ongoing investigation” excuse for long.
If you were trying to paint a picture of agencies locking down and covering up, the FBI and the Secret Service couldn’t possibly being doing a better job of that.
We can no longer trust anything at face value that comes out of the government or the media. That, for this country, is absolutely pathetic.
This is what happens when there is no accountability and everyone knows it.
This merely further emphasizes the chaos and disarray of the regime formerly known as the Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden regime. Nobody knows anything, nobody DOES anything. It just lumbers along, paid handsomely by the taxpayers, under its own impetus, undirected and unfocused. It’ll only get worse now.
Bongino said to wait until the whistleblowers start coming out because it would blow this wide open and it did. Maybe Commielaharris can get to the bottom of it since Pervy waved the white flag.