'Let Me Just Correct You': Leftist Reporter Fact-Checked Live in White House Briefing
Facts And Fact Checking,White House,Liberal Media Bias,Immigration,Border Crisis
April Ryan, the White House correspondent for theGrio, has not been known to leave her personal political opinions at the door of the White House briefing room. Ryan again made this abundantly clear on Thursday when she decided to engage in the spreading of literal disinformation about a previous hoax amplified by the Biden administration.
With Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas attempting to spin Biden's border crisis as a success โ the border is "not open," he insisted again โ Ryan asked a question about the massive surge of illegal immigrants amassing at and crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
"The southern border is not just Mexicans, it's Haitians, its Africans," Ryan said. "Especially as we saw with that issue with the Haitians being whipped with the reins on the horses," she continued before being cut off by Mayorkas.
"Let me just correct you right there because, actually, the investigation concluded that the whipping did not occur," Mayorkas explained in what may have been his only truthful comment of Thursday's White House press briefing.
"I'm sorry, I saw it differently," Ryan retorted, apparently doubting the Biden administration's own conclusion. "They were whipped with something from the horse, reins from the horse," she continued, maybe
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