Media and the Democrats have been quick to term questioning the 2020 election as “the big lie.”

The narrative is that any questioning is evil and anti-democracy.

So The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway just did a great tweet thread about how truly hypocritical this all is given what the Democrats and some of the media have done for the past four years.

When the media and other prominent Democrats all the way up to Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter spent four years hysterically repeating that Donald Trump was a traitor who colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election, we didn't call that a "big lie." Why is that?

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 16, 2021

Hillary Clinton has not stopped questioning the 2016 election. She even made a lot of incredible false claims, including the whopper that “the Russians were in the county election systems of every county in Florida.”

While many are familiar with Hillary Clinton’s claims constantly questioning President Donald Trump’s legitimacy, many others including Jimmy Carter did, as well. “I think a full investigation would show that Trump didn’t actually win the election in 2016. He lost the election, and he was put into office because the Russians interfered on his behalf,” Carter said in 2019.

That lie was used to win multiple elections. It *dominated* news, with daily updates suggesting it was somehow true. It was used to bully weak Republicans away from an agenda. And for telling the lie, the media gave itself many awards. But for some reason it wasn’t called a lie.

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 16, 2021

Indeed. Many Democrats believe it to this day. Many don’t understand the involvement of the Democrats and Clinton team in paying for the Steele dossier (through the cut-out of a law firm) that helped spread some of this misinformation.

But in an election when media invented fake stories (Afghan bounties, Aisne Marne), suppressed real ones (Biden family corruption), pushed fake polls, unprecedented tech censorship silenced opposition, and there was a “revolution” in voting, you can have no questions? Convenient!

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 16, 2021

While the story about the Afghan bounties went everywhere, the debunking of it didn’t get the same coverage. The NY Post story about an email indicating Joe Biden may have met with one of Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates after he claimed he knew nothing about his son’s business was blocked on Twitter in October, at a critical time just before the election. Twitter later admitted it was a mistake to block the URL. Funny how those mistakes only tend to work in one way.

I don’t recall the corrupt media demanding every Democrat denounce Nancy Pelosi for this tweet, or calling it a big lie. In fact, they agreed with it and helped her push her claim of a “hijacked election” for *years.* https://t.co/mm1uCTl2eq pic.twitter.com/IvkMtc1FIs

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) May 16, 2021

It's true. She said that. Some Democrats, media defenders today suggest they didn't really mean it back then — they weren't *really* claiming the 2016 election was illegitimate. Not like Trump! But the record is what it is.https://t.co/FiVNSGVNdZ

— Byron York (@ByronYork) May 17, 2021

Talk about a big lie.