8. There never was a basis for silencing Trump, other than the one every earlier Fascist used: he was an opposing voice.
“During his presidency, they claimed that his comments were so inaccurate, and even dangerous, that he was a public menace they could not responsibly permit to use their organs to speak out…
But most of the time, Trump wasn’t being inflammatory or dangerous;
he was just telling the truth.
• Trump insisted that the COVID virus was leaked to the general public from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, while Beijing insisted it came from a bat. The issue is still unresolved, but most observers now believe Trump was right.
• After the January 6 Capitol riot, the media claimed that a Capitol police officer was killed in the melee when he was struck over the head with a fire extinguisher. Pelosi even ordered that his body lie in state underneath the Capitol Rotunda to draw attention to the violence. But the autopsy revealed that he died of a stroke that had nothing to do with the riot.
• Trump was universally mocked in the media for saying that an antimalaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, was an effective treatment for COVID. He has been proven right.
• Trump said there was no evidence he had colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. After years of investigation, special counsel Robert Mueller came to the same conclusion.
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The Washington Post reported that Trump had ordered Georgia election officials to “find evidence of fraud in the 2020 election.” Then
The Post published a correction based on a recording of the call showing that
The Post had “misquoted Trump’s comment on the call.”
It HAPPENED: Here Are Eight Fake News Narratives About Trump the Media Has Admitted Were Always Wrong
Dick Morris, “The Return”