As I reported earlier, we saw some hoax-making going on in real-time as the Biden campaign, Democrats, and the media all jumped in to spread the false story about what former President Donald Trump said about a "bloodbath."
We are witnessing the invention of the "bloodbath" hoax in real-time
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 17, 2024
Unfortunately for them, we have 𝕏
Media narrative: Full context: pic.twitter.com/jaYDvtGomn
Trump was warning that if Biden won, it would be a "bloodbath" for the auto industry because of Biden's bad policies. In other words, not something anyone would want. Yet the left and their operatives in the media painted it in their headlines as Trump saying there would be a "bloodbath" if Biden won, without any context. Some even claimed he was promising violence when he wasn't, and nothing he said was a threat.
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Then, even after they were getting called out on the hoax, you still had Trump haters pushing the fiction that though Trump was talking about cars and the auto industry, this still must somehow be a hidden call for violence or that the use of the term "bloodbath" was somehow violent rhetoric (even though Trump was obviously arguing against the economic harm that this would do to the industry and America).
What matters is that he consistently uses apocalyptic and violent language in an indiscriminate fashion as a result of his psychopathy and correlative authoritarian tendencies, and because he’s just plain evil. 4/x
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) March 17, 2024
Nope. Respectfully, I’m not lying. The definition of the word bloodbath: an extremely violent event in which a large number of people are killed.
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) March 17, 2024
He used the word bloodbath on purpose. He used the word bloodbath to incite violence. Have a nice Sunday. https://t.co/CXPnCy4WDO
No, it's not the truth if you're leaving out the context of what was being said. And then when you get the context, claiming it must be violent anyway is just nonsense. If Trump breathes, somehow they will declare it evil.
Bloodbath is commonly used for economic disaster and all kinds of things that have nothing to do with violence. Again to pretend otherwise is not being straight.
Media lies to the public every day.
— Daniel Baldwin (@baldwin_daniel_) March 17, 2024
President Trump told Ohioans the car industry would face a bloodbath if Biden wins reelection.
That’s a fact. Biden’s EV mandate will kill American auto-manufacturing.
Merriam-Webster even notes bloodbath means “a major economic disaster.” pic.twitter.com/TygMiQTssY
Is it though? You absolute bell-endpic.twitter.com/bWwDLJwG4Q
— Magical Trevor (Meme TV) (@MagaMemeWizard) March 17, 2024
But the Biden campaign communications director doubled down on the smear on Jen Psaki's MSNBC show. He claimed Trump was endorsing political violence. Not only did he push the bloodbath smear, but even as they created this new hoax, they tried to defend it by invoking the debunked Charlottesville falsehood about "fine people."
Biden Communications Director Michael Tyler goes on the show of (former) Biden Press Sec Psaki to spew disinformation:
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 17, 2024
Tyler says Trump's bloodbath remark was an "endorsement of political violence"
(He was talking about the auto industry)
Tyler backs up this hoax with the… pic.twitter.com/5PCSmTEoFs
Tyler claimed that Trump said there were "very fine people on both sides." That has been long debunked, as Trump explicitly said he was not talking about the Neo-Nazis, who he said should be "condemned utterly." Again, the context was clear. But they didn't care about that. But it's not surprising that Tyler says this since this hoax/falsehood is central to Joe Biden's claim of why he ran for office in 2020, and he repeats this ruse even today at events. It just shows how dishonest they are that they push the new hoax with the old.
But if they think that just using the term "bloodbath" is somehow evil, violent rhetoric, they need to go after Joe Biden then.
Whoops pic.twitter.com/yzmMYKePJv
— Omar (@tarblooders10) March 17, 2024
“What we can’t let happen is let this primary become a negative bloodbath,” Biden told more than 100 donors gathered at a private residence in Bethesda, Maryland. “I know I’m going to get a lot of suggestions on how to respond to what I suspect will be an increasingly negative campaign that the Bernie brothers will run.
Whoops, so let's apply the same rule here -- Joe Biden just threatened political violence, by their standards.
Of course, he wasn't being violent any more than Trump was.
How ridiculous are they? But they just keep proving how desperate they are.
Update: This story has been revised to clarify that Michael Tyler is the Biden campaign's communication director.
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