A reporter for Mic tweeted what could be the biggest piece of fake news yet. Fox News reports:
Mic reporter Emily Singer has apologized after mistakenly claiming Tuesday that alleged Russian agent Maria Butina was among a group photographed in the Oval Office in 2017. The woman in the photo turned out to be a National Security Council staffer.
Butina, 29, was arrested Sunday on a charge of conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of the Russian government, according to court papers unsealed in Washington. She made her initial court appearance Monday afternoon, and was ordered held pending a hearing set for Wednesday.
Singer’s now-deleted tweet featured an image of Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov’s group visiting Trump in the Oval Office in May 2017 with the caption, “I thought this was a photoshop, but it’s not. This is Maria Butina – arrested for being a Russian spy – in the Oval Office with Trump.”
The tweet was shared thousands of times before Singer realized that the woman in the photo is not a Russian spy.
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1019212838148231169
This is how desperate the media to prove a “collusion” case.
The so called “fake news photo-shopped” picture of Trump with the Russian spies in the Oval Office was officially released by Russian media because American media was not allowed in the event but with the passage of time it seems now possible to deny the obvious so the alt-right lying machine cranks up producing this story.
Notice that the reporter APOLOGIZED! I have NEVER seen a report of anyone retracting a fake news story about Hillary or Obama. Once the fact checks show that the story is totally fake point by point, it gets repeated month after month, year after year. It’s just like Trump being surprised that Russians actually were behind the cyber attack on the US when he was shown the evidence before he was even inaugurated. He STILL says it might have been someone else. He isn’t listening when the source has been identified again and again by the best cyber security agents with the latest tech for identifying the source of the hacks. I didn’t know that he was more knowledgeable in internet software than the best experts in the DOJ. I know that he says he is smarter than any general and braver than any policeman (would take on school shooters alone and bare handed).
Fake news, FBI liars, political Rino’s, Incoherent Demojerks and Illegals commiting crimes, left wing circuit court judges obstructing….all this piled on President Trump, the man has to be built of Iron… When does he sleep, he has so many haters, that repeat the same crap everyday… This man will go down in history as great, we can’t allow them to beat him. He is worth two terms, plus.
Eat crow you bitch!!!
And hold the Hollandaise sauce!
I do suppose that most do not know, but the majority of persons at any Embassy for any country are spies especially the ones who accompany the ambassador.
That is exactly why so much fuss was made about Trump allowing a Russian photographer in the oval office when the Russian ambassador was there for a meeting right after Trump fired Comey.
Yep – even our embassies are full of spies. Our largest embassy is in Baghdad. Before that, our largest (and still second largest) Embassy was in Yerevan, Armenia. Think that over!
Surprise, Surprise!! It did what leftist bitches do. It lied.
The liberal media has breast feed on Hillary for so long they don’t realize she isn’t producing milk any longer.
Was Emily Singer’s tweet a mistake?
She knew it was fake, but she also knew it would get all over and be believed by a bunch of idiots. Then she could retract it, but most of the idiots would not get the retraction.
Hardly “the biggest liberal media lie yet” — just another routine, shoot-from-the-lip, reckless grasp at anything that might damage Trump politically. It turned out to be Bull$h!t? Oh well, ho hum…
The problem I have with fake news is, how many voters out there read and believe the lie, and then vote based on the lie without ever learning the truth. Obviously I cannot determine whether my supposition is accurate, but the possibility concerns me.
I used to think that Democrats AND Republicans both love the country and are concerned about it’s future have different ways of getting there. I no longer do. Democrats, in my humble opinion, are only concerned with remaining in power any way they can even if it’s through lying. The ones on the far left are worse. They wish to eventually see a socialist/communist society without borders. The illegal immigrants they support are considered potential voters.
If they ever succeed, this country will fail miserably and will no longer be a place that most of us will want to live.
Everything you said above…I agree with you 100%.
Only thing they’ll succeed in doing is starting a 2nd civil war
If the liberals are the communist ones, why does Trump cozy up to the communists and despots and do his best to piss off our democratic allies? Plus the comment about “staying in power.” The Republicans control the Presidency, the Congress and, soon, the Supreme Court.
This fake news was a mistake that was apologized for. I heard about it as an apology before I even heard about the mistake. I doubt I would have heard about it at all if not for the retraction and the huge publicity given the story by the people protesting it.
I don’t know any liberals personally that want an open border or that “love” criminals like Trump makes a point to tell every visiting dignitary. If someone says they want the best possible way to secure the border which is not a new wall, they are called out as people that support open borders. That’s not true. What about LEGAL immigrants? There seems to be a big war on legal immigrants. Look up the stats on the richest men in America today on the Forbes 400. 10% are immigrants that created a huge number of jobs. Google and E*Bay are 2 examples of companies founded by immigrants. The Chobani Yogurt story is inspiring. It would be as fair for me to say that conservatives hate ALL immigrants as it is for people to say that all liberals want open borders.
I was so sick of many e-mails I received from Democrats that I received before the Presidential election. Now I’ve found out that they were sent to me by bots unleashed on this country by Russians assigned to do so by Putin. Anytime you hear anything that you find deeply disturbing, try running it through Snopes.com. And I just checked Snopes out — fact checked the fact checkers. They get accused of bias from both sides depending on whose claims get dismissed, modified, or supported. The thing you don’t have to pass through Snopes is when the President goes on record on TV and says opposite things on different days — sometimes on the same day. A simple one was his promise that he wouldn’t golf even one day of his Presidency because he found it so offensive that Obama golfed. He never paid to silence stories about affairs … oh, he meant to say that he had someone else pay the people then paid them back. In big things, in small things, he lies every day. His clips are online. Why people have to blind themselves to it, I can’t understand.
You just cannot believe anything they say. They do not confirm anything, they just publish. This is why they are worthless, irrelevant, liberal, and fake.
The image shows him cozy and smiling with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in 2009 over coffee and donuts, just one year after the Russian strongman tried to meddle in the 2008 presidential election
Yes shows Chuckie Schumer having coffee and donuts with Putin.
Cozy, Da Tovarisch!
It was Chuck Schumer in that coffee and donut photo, not Trump.
Not sure why anyone even bothers to listen to that Leftist nonsense. Credibility rating of zero after all the outright lies. Wise up.
Reality is the Liberals cannot find anything going wrong from Trump presidency. So the must lie! I guess they learned this trait from Obama as Obama lacked ability to tell the truth.
Then why did top officials from Trump’s campaign already plead guilty? Why does Trump’s own lawyer admit that he did things that are illegal and says that it’s okay because a President can’t be held accountable for his crimes anyway.
Ooops wrong again; shame nobody cares. All you have to do is air it and the damage is done. Really should make them prove anything before putting in print.
It never ends with these liberal fake news bastards!
Emily Singer is definitely a member of the Fake News Media, whose lies ran half-way around the world. An Apology seems irrelevant now, because the evil Lies have already spread in another attempt to denigrate the Duly Elected President of the USA. How Long will this WITCH-HUNT continue to destroy innocent lives?
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Really?