With Twitter doubling its character limit to 280 from 140, the establishment press can now cram twice as much fake news into a single tweet.
MSNBC’s Joy Reid did exactly that in a Saturday morning tweet by mischaracterizing the scope of the intelligence community’s assessment of “Malicious Cyber Activity” relating to the 2016 presidential election, and by falsely claiming that President Trump said that he personally believes Russian President Vladimir Putin’s contention that there was no such meddling.
Here is Joyless Joy’s tweet (HT Twitchy):
Well, ma’am, “to be clear,” it was never “17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community.” It was three or four, depending on whether one includes the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in addition to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the National Security Agency in the report-publishing group.
The New York Times and the Associated Press made that crystal clear in a “correction” and a “clarification,” respectively, the outlets issued in late June.
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