Media Claims That Wind Made Trump's Border Wall Fall Over. But As Usual There’s More To The Story.
Article by Ryan Saavedra, January 30, 2020, DailyWire
"Far-left news organizations reported on Wednesday that high winds blew over a small segment of President Donald Trump’s border wall that was under construction on the southern border near Mexicali in an apparent attempt to embarrass the president but the claim was misleading.
The [progressive] far-left publications — CNN, NBC News, HuffPost [AOL News], NowThis, and AJ+ (Al Jazeera) — published the following headlines or comments in tweets:
CNN: Portion of U.S. border wall in California falls over in high winds and lands on Mexican side
NBC News: Portions of California border wall wilt and fall into Mexico after high winds
HuffPost: 'Trump’s signature border wall fell over in Mexico from high winds a day after he boasted about the strength of his barrier.'
AJ+ (Al Jazeera): Part of President Trump’s proposed border wall fell over because of high winds.
NowThis: 'Strong gusts of wind knocked over new sections of Trump’s border wall into Mexico.'
The claims were misleading because a small portion of the wall blew over because the concrete had just been poured and it did not have time to set in and harden.
[However] Washington Post border reporter Nick Miroff noted that misleading claims and specifically called out CNN’s coverage of the incident, writing on Twitter:
'I get the urge to dunk on the border wall, but this is misleading. The panels that fell over in the wind were not anchored yet. You can clearly see that in the photo. And adjacent sections did NOT fall, likely because the concrete base had time to harden.'
The video, [shown in the Daily Wire article], was aggregated by far-left activist Antonio Arellano, who has a history of promoting falsehoods on the platform regarding border and immigration related issues.
'When mother nature says ‘¡Chinga tu muro!' Arellano wrote. 'Newly installed panels from the U.S. border wall fell over in high winds, landing on trees on the Mexican side of the border per @CNN.'
Translated into English, ¡Chinga tu muro! means, 'F*** your wall!'"
Above article by Ryan Saavedra, January 30, 2020, DailyWire
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TKS for the heads up to Peggy Of WNC.