Fake News: CNN Recycles False Claims in Bashing Trump’s Holocaust Speech

[Ubiquitous]

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump delivered an address at the United
States Capitol Rotunda in commemoration of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust
Remembrance Day, the day before.

It is the day on which Israel, and Jews around the world, commemorate
the victims and honor those who resisted the Nazis. The precise date
shifts every year; it is observed on the 27th of Nisan on the Hebrew
calendar, which fell on April 24 this year. (International Holocaust
Remembrance Day, January 27, was only created by the United Nations in
2005 and is less widely observed by Jewish communities.)

President Trump gave a strident address, in which he declared:

This is my pledge to you: We will confront anti-Semitism
(Applause.) We will stamp out prejudice. We will condemn
hatred. We will bear witness. And we will act. As President
of the United States, I will always stand with the Jewish
people — and I will always stand with our great friend and
partner, the State of Israel.” The speech was warmly received,
and applauded by many Jewish groups.

https://youtu.be/vhFeNG_1zqo

Yet CNN’s Dan Merica attempted to turn that positive and commendable
gesture into an opportunity to attack President Trump — and to do so
using demonstrably false claims about the administration and its staff.

The headline atop his article reads: “Trump commemorates Holocaust
after a series of missteps,” and the bulk of the article is about the
so-called “missteps,” most of which are innocent mistakes and some of
which are demonstrable lies that Merica repeats.

For example, Merica claims: “Bomb threats have been on the rise in the
United States and Canada since January, a fact some Jewish groups
attribute to Trump’s campaign and presidency” [original link].

Merica links to a CNN article from February 27, but since then it was
revealed that most of the threats came from a troubled Jewish
American-Israeli teen. The threats began under President Barack Obama,
but it was President Trump who took them seriously and helped find the
culprit by devoting law enforcement resources to the task.

Many other threats were attributed to a left-wing black former
journalist who was allegedly trying to take revenge on an ex-
girlfriend. Merida does not mention any of that.

Merica also claims:

Charges of anti-Semitism have followed Trump since the 2016
campaign, when some of his top aides — including strategist
Steve Bannon — were accused of making anti-Jewish comments
and the campaign was criticized for being slow to reject
support from David Duke, an anti-semitic [sic] politician
and former leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

That entire paragraph is false and misleading. Months before CNN’s Jake
Tapper asked Trump about Duke, Trump had already rejected Duke’s
support. And Bannon has never made antisemitic comments. Merica tries
to evade responsibility by reporting the accusation but without
reporting that it was baseless, and that every Jewish person who has
ever worked with Bannon in his long history on Wall Street, in
Hollywood, and in the media has rejected it.

The rest of Merica’s article reads as if it were written by a
Democratic Party press shop. It is fake news at its worst, and exploits
a gesture that should be above politics — remembering the Holocaust —
for the sake of scoring partisan points.

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Dems & the media want Trump to be more like Obama, but then he'd
have to audit liberals & wire tap reporters' phones.

[Rhino]

And then there's the fact that all of Trump's married children are
married to Jews and that at least some of his married daughters have
converted to Judaism. As I understand it, all or most of his
grandchildren are Jewish.

But sure, he's *still* an anti-Semite, right?

> The rest of Merica’s article reads as if it were written by a
> Democratic Party press shop. It is fake news at its worst, and exploits
> a gesture that should be above politics — remembering the Holocaust —
> for the sake of scoring partisan points.
>


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Rhino

[FPP]

On 4/25/17 10:57 PM, Ubiquitous wrote:
> On Tuesday, President Donald Trump delivered an address at the United
> States Capitol Rotunda in commemoration of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust
> Remembrance Day, the day before.
>
> It is the day on which Israel, and Jews around the world, commemorate
> the victims and honor those who resisted the Nazis. The precise date
> shifts every year; it is observed on the 27th of Nisan on the Hebrew
> calendar, which fell on April 24 this year. (International Holocaust
> Remembrance Day, January 27, was only created by the United Nations in
> 2005 and is less widely observed by Jewish communities.)

Maybe because he failed to mentioned the Jews when referencing the
Holocaust.

> President Donald Trump issued a statement on Friday’s Holocaust Remembrance Day that left some scratching their heads due to its omission of any reference to Jews.
>
> “It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, and heroes of the Holocaust,” the statement from the White House Press Office read. “It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.”
>
> The remarks immediately drew criticism from Jewish leaders, including Anti-Defamation League head Jonathan Greenblatt.

http://forward.com/fast-forward/361425/trump-doesnt-mention-jews-in-holocaust-remembrance-day-message/

Oh... and his chief advisor is an alt-right White Nationalist.
Pick one, or two.
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"I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the
Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps
themselves up in the flag." -Molly Ivins

[FPP]

I wouldn't know... but when your chief strategist is a White
Nationalist, the inference is unmistakable.