Like the Jussie Smollett hoax, here was a story that was too good for some dishonest journalists to pass up.
Nazis! At a conservative event! What a boffo story!
But this morning one the hosts for the ABC show was forced to issue a correction after Turning Point USA's lawyers issued a cease-and-desist letter.
"We wanna make clear that these demonstrators were gathered outside the event and that they were not invited or endorsed by Turning Point USA."
The View, or its staff, didn't do its job of--wait for it--by investigating the story before airing it. As the old saying goes in the honest days of journalism, "If your mother says she loves you--check it out."
In my opinion, and Dan Bongino brought this up in his podcast Monday, the Nazi "protest" at the Turning Point event, what occurred in Florida seems eerily similar to the attempt to recreate the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last year as Republican gubernatorial candidate, Glenn Youngkin, campaigned there last fall. The Lincoln Project, an anti-Donald Trump group, later claimed responsibility for the stunt.
Fox News' Outnumber has their take here.
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