As RedState reported earlier today, a major story that was used to bludgeon President Donald Trump prior to his election died a brutal death today. The supposed undemocratic, human rights-abusing (at least according to the media) clearing of Lafayette Square last year turns out to have been nothing of the sort.

And the source for the news comes from the most unlikely of places. Here’s Ken Dilanian, otherwise known as “Fusion Ken,” belatedly having to admit the entire narrative was fake news.

WATCH the pure pain and disappoint as NBC's Ken Dilanian has to admit that the decision by Park Police to clear LaFayette Square of BLM protesters on June 1, 2020 was *NOT* so Trump could go to St. John's: "A narrative we thought we knew is not the reality." (1/) pic.twitter.com/KWtp4O5Aet

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) June 9, 2021

Now, the receipts have come due and I’m here to facilitate the airing of grievances. Let’s start with current President Joe Biden.

He's using the American military against the American people.

He tear-gassed peaceful protesters and fired rubber bullets.

For a photo.

For our children, for the very soul of our country, we must defeat him. But I mean it when I say this: we can only do it together. https://t.co/G1yE67q9Nz

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) June 2, 2020

That’s gonna be a big nope. Biden, as he did throughout much of the 2020 campaign, was lying and simply did not have the facts when he made his tortured post about “peaceful protesters” (they had literally burned a church the night before).

Here’s a litany of other figures, many of which have continually pushed fake Trump stories over the years, who also set their hair on fire over something that didn’t even happen.

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— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) June 9, 2021

Video timeline of Trump’s St. John’s church photo op and Lafayette Square crackdown – The Washington Post https://t.co/fSq1NWPcSY

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 9, 2020

And no receipts post would be complete without David French making an idiot of himself again.

This, from the @washingtonpost, is an extraordinary piece of journalism. It's a video timeline of the federal law enforcement attack on peaceful protesters at Lafayette Square. This is how the Trump administration violently cleared the path for a photo op: https://t.co/vJyDe8Xx6L

— David French (@DavidAFrench) June 9, 2020

These mouth-breathers were so desperate to paint Trump as some kind of fascist that they refused to accept the official account at the time. Instead, the spun tails of Trump sitting at his desk telling the park police to beat up protesters or something. That wasn’t true, and now this IG report proves it wasn’t true. Where are the apologies? I won’t hold my breath.

Of course, this is just one in a long line of Trump stories that have crashed and burned well after the fact. Why was this news not released prior to the election? I think we know why.