While speaking at Turning Point USA’s High School Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions joined in a chant of “lock her up,” presumably directed at two-time failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. (RELATED: Trump Asked About Russian Election Interference – Replies ‘Where Is the Server?’).
At least, that’s what the mainstream media wants you to believe.
Tuesday morning, Dafna Linzer, managing editor of politics for NBC News and MSNBC, tweeted that “The attorney general of the united states [sic] just joined a chant of ‘lock her up’ at an event in DC.”
The attorney general of the united states just joined a chant of “lock her up” at an event in DC.
— Dafna Linzer (@DafnaLinzer) July 24, 2018
That was the entire tweet. No clarification as to what the event was or what had actually transpired.
A few minutes later, MSNBC journalist Katy Tur quoted Linzer’s tweet, adding that Sessions had “ample opportunity on the 2016 trail” to lock up Clinton.
Beyond the top law enforcement officer of US chanting to lock up a (never charged) political rival of the President, why now?
He had ample opportunity on the 2016 trail. https://t.co/lHwZKokc8k— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) July 24, 2018
However, as with most things reported by MSNBC, it was fake news. Video of the address reveals that Sessions did not, in fact, join in the chant. He simply repeated what the students were saying, as if in realization, and had a bit of a chuckle. Watch below.
Here’s the video. Note he does not chant. But thank you Katy Tur for your stunning and brave firefighting
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) July 24, 2018
As you can clearly see, Sessions didn’t chant anything. Indeed, even staunch liberals called Tur out for her misleading tweet.
Er, I’m not defending Jeff Sessions because, of you know, his entire history in public, but I don’t think it’s accurate to qualify this as “joining in the chant.”https://t.co/nHzANCDlH9
— Jake (@JakeVK) July 24, 2018
Of course, @JakeVK then went on to suggest how Tur should have framed the narrative against Sessions:
Reframe the narrative: As the top law enforcement individual in the country, Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not stop the kids from chanting this abhorrent chant but chuckled to himself before continuing with his partisan red meat of a speech.
— Jake (@JakeVK) July 24, 2018
Just unreal. Conservatives are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Meanwhile, Clinton continues to get away with things that would have landed anyone else behind bars.
