Yes, #FakeNews got Trump elected. But not how you think https://t.co/mjRCuWORXS
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 20, 2016
There are dozens of examples, the most obvious being Islam and terrorism.
In the days after a self-declared jihadi slaughtered 49 people in a self-described mission for ISIS at the Pulse night club ("I pledge allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may Allah protect him, on behalf of the Islamic State"), I could hear my talk-radio callers turning into Trump supporters before my eyes … er "ears."
As the media twisted themselves into knots to present an utterly-false story line about a self-hating gay man, Donald Trump was attacked for tweeting out almost immediately that it was a "radical Islamic terror." Being Trump, he did so in a self-congratulatory way that was off-putting to many, but he was also attacked for stating the obvious about the deadliest Islamist attack on US soil since 9/11.
But as obnoxious as Trump's tweet may seem, compare it to Hillary Clinton's in the wake of the Paris attack months earlier: "Muslims … have nothing to do whatsoever with terrorism."
Many Americans thought to themselves "Trump may be a kook … but he's never said anything that stupid!"
