Harold Hutchison writes for the Daily Caller about a new White House initiative.
The White House debuted a new page on its website Friday aimed at lambasting media outlets over “fake news” coverage of Trump administration actions.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the new website with a Friday post on X. “The Trump @WhiteHouse is holding the Fake News accountable like never before,” she said.
The website, at the time of publication, lists CBS News, The Boston Globe, and The Independent as the “Offenders of the Week” for their supposedly biased coverage of Trump calling out a video by the “Seditious Six” congressional Democrats who apparently sought to undermine the military’s chain of command if so-called “illegal” orders were issued.
Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin and five other congressional Democrats who served in military or intelligence agencies appeared in a Nov. 18 video urging members of those services to disregard supposedly “illegal” orders issued by President Donald Trump.
The White House website claims the outlets failed to include context and misrepresented Trump’s calls for accountability over the video, which he said was trying to induce insubordination among military personnel.
“The media misrepresented President Trump’s call for Members of Congress to be held accountable for inciting sedition by saying that he called for their “execution,’” the site stated.
“The Democrats and Fake News Media subversively implied that President Trump had issued illegal orders to service members,” the site adds. “Every order President Trump has issued has been lawful. It is dangerous for sitting Members of Congress to incite insubordination in the United States’ [sic] military, and President Trump called for them to be held accountable.”
The site also includes a “Hall of Shame” listing other media outlets whose reporting the White House considered to suffer from a range of deficiencies such as “left-wing lunacy,” “mischaracterization,” “circular reporting,” “bias,” and “false claims.” Among outlets listed in the “Hall of Shame” are MS NOW (formerly known as MSNBC), CNN, The Washington Post, CBS News, The New York Times, and USA Today.
