NBC's Andrea Mitchell Hypocritically Attacks WH Twitter, Falsely Claims Broke the Law #GreatAwakening
Late Monday, after the White House’s official Twitter account called out Democrats for their positions on ICE and MS-13, some members of the media went berserk at the audacity of the White House Twitter going after senators for their policy positions. NBC's Andrea Mitchell even went so far as to claim that Trump was violating the law by doing so. However, archived White House tweets from the Obama era, revealed the media's two-faced stance on these actions.
NBC News/MSNBC’s managing politics editor Dafna Linzer gushed that the White House Twitter going after senators was, “stunning:
NBC News’ correspondent Maria Shriver also called the action “unprecedented.”
While NBC's Andrea Mitchell took it a step further calling it a breach in ethics and a violation of the law:
Questionable on ethical and legal grounds to attack them from the official White House account https://t.co/nbARGvS6wA
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 2, 2018
White House official twitter account slams potential 2020 opponents over ICE FALSELY accusing @SenKamalaHarris of "supporting the animals of MS-13" and @SenWarren of "supporting criminals moving weapons, drugs and victims" across our borders. Raises questions of law and ethics
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 2, 2018
Re: White House tweets attacking Senators: Section 1352(a) of Title 31: No part of the money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall..be used directly or indirectly to pay for any .. written matter... intended or designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 2, 2018
While Mitchell's Twitter followers ate that up, critics quickly showed her how wrong she was. The Federalist’s Gabriel Malor tweeted that Mitchell’s false claims “disgusted” him, pointing out that the U.S. code she was referring to is talking specifically about financial influence:
Would it surprise anyone to know this isn't what 31 U.S.C. § 1352(a) is about? 3,000+ retweets for the lying reporter.
Sec. 1352(a) doesn't say "influence in any manner." It says influence in connection with a list of contracting and financial actions.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) July 2, 2018
https://t.co/Kn2iE2ktOr https://t.co/kSXZwWRpCg
Not only that, but the tweets certainly weren’t unprecedented. The White House’s archived Twitter account for Obama shows that the White House has definitely gone after senators on Twitter before. Fox & Friends pointed out the hypocrisy on Tuesdays show.
After reading the tweets, host Pete Hegseth mocked, “Got to be unprecedented then! Stunning that, only this White House, Steve would do that.” Fellow host Steve Doocy remarked, “Apparently there has been some sort of memory loss because this happened during the Obama administration [too],” before showing tweets from 2014 such as the one below:
There were even more that Fox didn’t show:
Instead of acting to help millions of Americans, House Republicans are suing the President today. #DoYourJobHouseGOP pic.twitter.com/vvxzFj43yo
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) July 30, 2014
Republicans in Congress are choosing tax breaks for millionaires over meals for seniors: http://t.co/DRFsn5VCG0 pic.twitter.com/8GRGVnDFp7
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) March 5, 2013
RT if you agree: It's time for Republicans in Congress to prevent terror suspects from being able to buy a gun. pic.twitter.com/4iJapwEy3L
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) December 1, 2015
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