THE MORNING RANT: A Journalist at the Associated Press Who Has Been Flagged as a Possible White Supremacist Tried to Smear Pete Hegseth

The propaganda media and its left-wing allies in the government’s bureaucratic leviathan have been colluding in recent years to smear conservatives with “accusations” or “allegations” of illicit behavior in their past, for the purpose of disqualifying the target from public office. Actual charges rarely ever result, because the allegations are not provable, and quite often completely false. But the smear remains, because the allegations are usually not disprovable either.

Be it Brett Kavanaugh being accused of rape, or all the ridiculous “Russia collusion” allegations that were promoted against Trump and his team, reputational destruction of the left’s political enemies through smears and slander is a weapon of choice right now. And with President-elect Trump rolling out a list of appointees who aim to dismantle the bureaucratic left, the allegations from the left’s smear machine are ramping up.

Tara Copp, a journalist at the Associated Press just showed her religious ignorance, anti-Christian bigotry, and malicious lack of decency, by writing a story accusing Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth of being a white supremacist for having religious tattoos, including one reading “Deus Vult,” a Latin phrase meaning “God wills it” that has been used by defenders of Christianity for over 900 years, and for having a tattoo of the Jerusalem Cross, which is a venerated Christian religious icon.

Copp’s piece, ‘’Trump Pentagon pick had been flagged by fellow service member as possible ‘Insider Threat’” is so despicable that I will not link it. The piece matter-of-factly asserts that Hegseth has white supremacist tattoos and a variety of beliefs that are associated with white supremacy. She also accuses the military of being riddled with white supremacists. The basis for this slander is a letter from one ignorant individual in the DC National Guard – ONE – accusing Hegseth of having a racist tattoo.

The good news is that the smear campaign of the propaganda media no longer works. They have ramped up the hyperbole to an extent that they have completely defanged the true awfulness of the words they use to slander conservatives.

Also, if just one person’s accusation of white supremacy is all it takes to have a reputation besmirched, then AP journalist Tara Copp has a problem. Christopher Rufo is a highly accomplished reformer who is also a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. In response to Ms. Copp’s hit piece on Pete Hegseth, Mr. Rufo wrote, ”Wow: Journalist Tara Copp was flagged as a possible white supremacist because "AP" could mean "Aryan Power," according to a tendentious and partisan distortion of the facts. This is seriously concerning.”

That is how this game needs to be played. Ms. Copp must now prove that she is not a white supremacist, and so long as she is employed by the AP, with its possible Aryan ties, it is reasonable to assume that Ms. Copp might hold vile, racist beliefs.

By the way, this is the Jerusalem Cross that the bigots at AP find so offensive.

The Jerusalem Cross is also used as the flag of the Republic of Georgia in eastern Europe.

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posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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