The Sunday Debunk, Vol 2.
I'll debunk the biggest CNN articles of the week while giving you a lesson in persuasion.
It’s Sunday, which means its time to clean up all the filth the media vomited up this week. This week’s Sunday Debunk features the January 6 hearings. I’ll point out the persuasion propaganda CNN is using to create and
Let’s get to it!
Takeaways from the January 6 hearings day 8
This story is a case study in how CNN manufacturers fake news and controls narrative.
This piece uses two persuasion techniques.
The first takeaway CNN talks about in this piece is “Trump chose not to act”.
This uses the classic “think past the sale” persuasion technique. The sale is that January 6 was such a horrific event that it required Trump to act. But, CNN can no longer make that case after these congressional hearings, as they have made it obvious J6 was nothing more than a protest that sought election transparency and an audit...led by a viking horn guy. Therefore, they try to get you to think past sale by adjusting the narrative from “January 6 was an insurrection” to “Trump chose not to act”. They can no longer make the case it was an insurrection. The only thing left for the Democrats is to try and get you to show that Trump chose not to act- which would follow the premise that January 6 was an insurrection that demanded presidential action.
Take a look at how they do it below:
Trump chose not to act
The committee used Thursday’s hearing to show how Trump not only failed to act, but chose not to as he watched the violent assault on the US Capitol unfold.
Several witnesses with first-hand knowledge of what was happening inside the White House on January 6 told the committee that Trump did not place a single call to any of his law enforcement or national security officials as the Capitol attack was unfolding, according to previously unseen video testimony played during Thursday’s hearing.
The panel said it “confirmed in numerous interviews with senior law enforcement and military leaders, Vice President Mike Pence’s staff, and DC government officials: None of them – not one – heard from President Trump that day,” Luria said.
The committee used that testimony to make the case that Trump’s refusal to intervene amounted to a dereliction of duty.
Former officials who were with Trump as he watched the riot unfold on television, including then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump’s body man Nick Luna, told the committee they had no knowledge of the former President making a single call to the heads of various agencies who could have responded to the violence, including the secretary of defense or attorney general.
Clever, right? CNN does this all the time. The January 6 hearings have blown up in the face of Democrats. Their only play left is to morph the insurrection narrative into one built on the premise Trump failed to act.
Remember: a protest where Capitol police hold doors open for protesters - where protesters leave voluntarily after they’ve taken enough selfies - does not require action from a president.
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