The Biggest Hoaxes of the Trump Era That Have Gone Up in Smoke 2021 was a tough year for the main-stream media. With Donald Trump out of office, its 24/7 manufactured outrage over every action he took was no longer a viable playbook for driving ratings. But the real blow to the liberal news machine was the dismantling of the narratives that had for so long shaped their coverage of seemingly every major news event. Stories that were promoted and emphasized as absolute fact were revealed to be at best a biased version of the truth, and at worst utter fabrications. Here’s a look back at just a few of the great-est liberal media hoaxes that were exposed as bunk in 2021. The Steele Dossier as Verified Fact and Donald Trump as a Russian Agent The first stop on our “greatest hoaxes” tour is not only one of the greatest media manipulations of the Trump era but possibly one of the greatest attempts at inducing mass hysteria in history. For almost five years, the media relentlessly promoted the claim that the 2016 election was The Lab Leak Theory rigged by Russian agents in direct Was Just a “Right-Wing collusion with the Trump campaign. Conspiracy” and a Those theories were in large part “Trump Lie” derived from the “Steele dossier,” a supposed treasure trove of informa-When President Trump and several congressional Republicans first began tion linking Trump to the Kremlin. voicing the possibility in the spring continued on page 38 The liberal media pushed the dossier relentlessly. Now, with bombshell indictments, Special Counsel John Durham has revealed that the dossier is nothing but a compilation of unver-ified rumors and outright lies. What’s more, high-ranking members of the Clinton campaign knew this — as did the media — and they pushed the hoax anyway. 36 • AMAC Magazine
AMAC Magazine January/February 2022: Page 36
