Amirite to be floored??
The Associated Press put out a story (no timeline, but byline Michael Balsamo) with the title “Trump decries FBI probe of supporters surrounding Biden bus”
OK, fine, that he did.
And the article quotes Trump, and describes the situation in Texas in which now the FBI is investigating the incident in which a “caravan” of Trump supporters harassed a Biden campaign bus.
The article also goes on to mention that the FBI has no comment on Trump’s tweet, a quote by Joe Biden that nothing like this has ever happened before, similar events in NJ and NY, and a quote from Gilberto Hinojosa, Texas Democratic chairperson, ““Voting is the only thing that matters right now.”
But then at the end, there’s a bizarre little Trump campaign nugget lobbed in…
Trump’s tweet on Sunday underscored the larger effort by the Trump administration to spotlight and crack down on protest-related violence, especially in cities run by Democratic mayors in an effort to showcase what Trump says is his law-and-order prowess. Trump has derided protesters and played up the violence around protests, though the majority of them have been peaceful.
Just HOW does Trump’s tweet underscore an effort to CRACK DOWN on protest, but to INCITE it??
The article ends up with a statement about 300+ cases the DOJ is taking against protests in “Democratic cities” and does acknowledge that according to documents the people charged are not part of any “highly organized extremist groups.”
So...WTF is going on with the AP that they would gaslight like this?
And although many media markets now also call Tuesday’s races, the gold standard is still the AP.