Rightwingers fell for the hoax

Politico this morning reported this:

ALBANY, N.Y. — The state Attorney General’s Office said Friday it is looking into reports that a nonprofit organization in the Hudson Valley erroneously claimed that homeless veterans placed in hotels were kicked out last week by migrants bused there from New York City.

The accusation that about 20 veterans were tossed from a Newburgh hotel in Orange County to make way for the asylum-seekers drew national headlines and broad condemnation. But the claims soon began to unravel when the hotel showed proof that it was not housing homeless veterans and that no one was displaced when the migrants arrived.

Sharon Toney-Finch, a disabled veteran who founded the Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, said she was misguided in her initial understanding that veterans under her group’s care were moved from the hotel.

“For us not to confirm where they were kicked out of or removed from, that was YIT’s fault,” she said

The situation also ensnared the local Assemblymember Brian Maher (R-Orange County) who railed against the alleged displacement of veterans after he said he believed Toney-Finch’s story that he said was backed up by hotel receipts she showed him from people who stayed at the Crossroads Hotel. But he told the Times Union in Albany on Thursday that he was tricked, saying he was “devastated and disheartened.”
 

Fox News Stoked Outrage Over Migrants Displacing Homeless Vets. It Was a Hoax.

Fox News and the rest of right-wing media went wild for a week over a now-debunked story about New York hotels booting homeless vets to accommodate asylum seekers.

The story had all the hallmarks of fueling the maximum amount of right-wing outrage. With migrants being bused into New York City amid an immigration surge at the southern border, upstate New York hotels had supposedly kicked out homeless veterans in order to make room for the influx of asylum seekers.

After right-wing tabloid The New York Post published the sensational report last Friday, Fox News and Newsmax ran wild with it, devoting dozens of segments (and countless online articles) to the indignation of “people who served our country and need a little boost” getting displaced by “illegals,” all while “these hotels are selling their soul for a check.”

Turns out, however, the whole story was made up.

The whole saga kicked off when the Post reported that 20 “struggling homeless veterans” were booted from hotels so their rooms could be given to incoming migrants. According to Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, the nonprofit group that works on temporarily housing the vets, the ex-military members had been told by the New York hotels that they needed to vacate and move elsewhere.
Cool, so all the homeless in NY are in free hotels and not on the streets.
 

Fox News Stoked Outrage Over Migrants Displacing Homeless Vets. It Was a Hoax.

Fox News and the rest of right-wing media went wild for a week over a now-debunked story about New York hotels booting homeless vets to accommodate asylum seekers.

The story had all the hallmarks of fueling the maximum amount of right-wing outrage. With migrants being bused into New York City amid an immigration surge at the southern border, upstate New York hotels had supposedly kicked out homeless veterans in order to make room for the influx of asylum seekers.

After right-wing tabloid The New York Post published the sensational report last Friday, Fox News and Newsmax ran wild with it, devoting dozens of segments (and countless online articles) to the indignation of “people who served our country and need a little boost” getting displaced by “illegals,” all while “these hotels are selling their soul for a check.”

Turns out, however, the whole story was made up.

The whole saga kicked off when the Post reported that 20 “struggling homeless veterans” were booted from hotels so their rooms could be given to incoming migrants. According to Yerik Israel Toney Foundation, the nonprofit group that works on temporarily housing the vets, the ex-military members had been told by the New York hotels that they needed to vacate and move elsewhere.
We listened to liars from the left telling God and everybody in the world that Trump was a traitor for contacting Russia to give him negative spy findings on Hillary Rodham Clinton. That was a lie repeated 50 times a day on 300 different Television stations across this great country. Democrats use omerta to cover their stinkin' butts. Republicans don't, and we are also not appreciating the recent revelation that 280,000 of us who defend Trump online were targeted by orders from the Democrat deep state to the FBI insiders who did the bidding of Hillary Clinton for dirt, Nancy Pelosi for illegal advantage behaviors, Maxine Waters for location, location, location of Trump Staffers to stalk and harrass other government employees who served in the executive branch, and not the legislative branch. that pisses the hell all over the Constitution, and Republicans are not going to take it anymore..
 
Biden is giving them free lodging, free food, free medical care, free education, free....
All while democrats whine about McCarthy cutting off SS...
The House should say no negotations until the boarder is closed and funding for illegals is 1 plane ticket out of tge US.
 
The Mayor of NY City announced on Friday 'half of the hotels in NY City' are filled with ilegal, negatively impacting tourism and the economy.

Is this a hoax? Was he exaggerating?
This is surreal. We are slowly turning our major cities into third world shitholes. Only the poverty here will slowly expand outward.
 

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