PBS Host Spread Disinfo to Shift Blame for Gaza Genocide from Biden-Harris to Trump

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Aug. 21, 2024

PBS News host Judy Woodruff on Wednesday admitted she spread disinformation by falsely claiming that former President Donald Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to approve a peace deal in order to hurt the Harris campaign.

"I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS News special on Monday night about the ongoing cease fire talks in the Middle East," Woodruff wrote on X. "As I said, this was not based on my original reporting; I was referring to reports I had read, in Axios and Reuters, about former President Trump having spoken to the Israeli Prime Minister. In the live TV moment, I repeated the story because I hadn't seen later reporting that both sides denied it. This was a mistake and I apologize for it."


This was a rather remarkable and quite clever attempt to shift the blame for the Gaza Genocide away from Biden-Harris and onto Trump and it was spread to millions of people all over social media.


Even in her "apology," Woodruff is still lying by claiming she was just repeating what she read on Axios and Reuters.

The reports actually said the opposite of what Woodruff claimed, as Reuters reported on Aug 14: "One source told Axios Trump's call was intended to encourage Netanyahu to take the deal, but stressed he did not know if this is indeed what the former president told Netanyahu."



Mediaite has more:
On Wednesday, The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office fired back, telling The Jerusalem Post that Woodruff’s statements are a “complete lie.”

Her comments come amid last week’s reports from Axios and Reuters of conversations between Trump and Netanyahu.

Sources for Axios claimed Trump encouraged Netanyahu to take a ceasefire deal via a phone call on August 14. By the following day, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office had released a statement that there was no such discussion between Trump and Netanyahu.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, August 15, Trump told reporters he’d encouraged Netanyahu to end the war, but he criticized the terms of the proposed ceasefire.

“He knows what he’s doing, I did encourage him to get this over with,” Trump said. “It has to get over with fast — get your victory and get it over with. It has to stop, the killing has to stop.”

At a rally later that day, he added, “From the start, Harris has worked to tie Israel’s hand behind its back, demanding an immediate ceasefire, always demanding ceasefire,” which he said “would only give Hamas time to regroup and launch a new October 7 style attack.”

Since Woodruff’s statements at the DNC, many commentators on X, formerly Twitter, have encouraged an investigation into Trump, claiming any such call encouraging Netanyahu to delay a ceasefire deal could be a violation of the Logan Act, a law enacted in 1799 that makes it illegal for private citizens to negotiate on behalf of the U.S. with foreign governments.
Woodruff's false claim came as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spread the lie before the DNC that Harris was "working tirelessly for a ceasefire."

Harris's campaign made a TikTok out of AOC's disinformation to deceive their followers at the same time that her "Jewish outreach chief" and other allies were busy telling the Israeli media that she's going to do everything the Jewish state demands.

As a result of this disinformation campaign, Harris is somehow managing to run as a pro-peace candidate while actively aiding a genocide.

None of the pro-Harris accounts who spread the lie are even bothering to correct it.

This post from MeidasTouch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski has over 10 million views:


He hid the replies asking him for a source.



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Odds are we're going to hear people repeating this BS all the way up to Election Day.

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