Washington Post: Right-Wing Critics Got "Confused" In Claiming That Trump Was Riding In "The Beast," Rather Than in an SUV

Via Hey_its_Patti.

Obviously deranged, irreformable conspiracy theorist AllahPundit linked this at Hot Air.

See if you can spot the propaganda below.

Trump supporters quickly snapped back online that they'd found an obvious sign she was lying: The presidential limousine, known as "the Beast," is so heavily fortified that they argued it would be "physically impossible" for Trump to cross from the back cabin to the driver's seat.

But Trump was not riding in the limousine that day; videos show he actually rode in a Secret Service SUV, where the seats are closer together.

Even if he had ridden in the Beast, the rear and front seats have a glass window the president can lower whenever he'd like -- a detail noted even in the same infographic that Trump supporters shared as proof that Hutchinson's story couldn't be right...

Oh, Trump wasn't in The Beast that day? He was really in an SUV?

I wonder where those stupid Trumpalos got that stupid idea from!

Oh right, from Superstar Bombshell Witness Madison Cornbread herself, after having been -- we thought -- prepared and fact-checked by the All-Star Blue-Ribbon Panel we know as the January 6th Committee.

She says the vehicle Trump was in was specifically "The Beast" multiple times. These responses were elicited by Liz Cheney, who apparently prepared this witness, and could have corrected her, and could have fact-checked her story.

But she didn't. Because she knew it would collapse under the slightest pressure of inquiry.

The Washington Post also "reported" that Trump was in The Beast -- which is the Presidential limo. By saying "limo," they mean "The Beast." There is no other presidential limo except the Beast.

So Liz Cheney elicits the answer that Trump was in the Beast.

The Superstar Bombshell Witness says Trump was in the Beast.

The Washington Post reports Trump was in the Beast.

Next day, the Washington Post assigns an Own the Cons hack to say, "Ha-ha, stupid reich-wingers, where did you get the idea that Trump was ever in the Beast?"

And of course AllahPundit links this as a Huge Own.

Oh, and another place those stupid, "confused" Trumpalos might have gotten the idea that Trump was in the presidential limo, aka The Beast?

From determined, irredeemable conspiracy theorist AllahPundit himself:

You're not entitled to rely upon our statements, because they were lies from the moment we said them!

And that's the leftwing/NeverTrump position on this "The Beast" lie they cooked up.

Ha-ha! You believed us when we said it was The Beast. Boy aren't you dumb! Didn't you know we're compulsive liars, Stupid?

I'm looking for the Dan Bongino podcast where he explains the presidential limo is "The Beast," and also laughs at the name "The Beast," saying "only the media calls it that." The Secret Service just calls it "the limo."

Here's the video. Skip to 5:30.

He stresses that Tony Ornato, whom Madison Cornbread claims told her this story, could not possibly have told her this story, because no one in the Secret Service calls the limo "The Beast." This is entirely a media invention to sound in-the-know, he says. No one actually in-the-know calls it that, ever.

So an actual sworn in "witness" can screw up facts and no big deal, but internet randos had better be perfect all the time is AllahPundit's take? Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries.

Yes, but that's the Washington Post's take as well. I didn't quote this part but they then go on to quote an "anonymous" Internet commenter who says "So what?" to the idea that Trump grabbed the wheel. And they castigate that anonymous Twitter rando.

Their top party leaders and DOJ officials can lie with impunity, but our anonymous Twitter randos are under oath and under highest scrutiny at all times.

Huh. My willowed comment on the previous thread is even more appropriate here.

"This type of reporting is why I cheer every time a newspaper folds." -- Don Surber
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posted by Ace at 03:13 PM

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