Media Hyped Debunked Trump Phone Log Gap as 'Worse Than Watergate'

How many times have you heard a media figure breathless blurt out that meme that has become a favorite among leftists to hype a supposed scandal by conservatives and Republicans? Of course, the media never applies it to Democrats so they can rest easy that their media allies will never declare the emails on Hunter Biden's lap to be "Worse Than Watergate!".

The latest iteration of "Worse Than Watergate" came to us this past week with stories about a supposed seven hour gap in President Donald Trump's phone record on January 6, 2021.

For what it's worth, the other half of the team, Carl Bernstein, has been outspoken in saying that Trump's attempted coup is in fact worse than Watergate.

Perhaps he should just own it and wear a "WORSE THAN WATERGATE" tattoo on his forehead. However, at least Avlon had the excuse of eagerly jumping the gun on a phone gap that was debunked on April 1.

MSNBC's legal analyst Jill Wine-Banks has no such excuse since her article, "Trump's phone log gap could be much worse than Nixon's Watergate tape erasures," was published on April 2, a full day after the April Fools Day debunking of the phone log gap story.

Trump's records gap is 25 times as long as Nixon's, but his alleged crime could be incalculably worse.

The real scandal here is why Wine-Banks allowed her story to be published AFTER the phone log gap was debunked by CNN. Was it a matter that she put a lot of work into it and was just incapable of declaring "Never mind" on all that effort? Perhaps CNN's John Avlon could put that question to her.
 

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2022/04/02/media-hyped-debunked-trump-phone-log-gap-worse-watergate