https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2020/05/05/special-report-eight-worst-fake-news-stories-trump-years



7.  Blaming Trump for Racist Mass Killings: Grotesquely seeking to exploit horrific tragedies for political advantage, some in the media actually accused the President of inspiring or otherwise supporting brutal mass killings in 2019. "The President needs to at some point look in the mirror and understand that the rhetoric.... give permission to the most craziest people in America," ABC's Matthew Dowd charged after a synagogue shooting that left eleven dead in April of that year.

After a horrible shooting in El Paso, Texas in which the gunman singled out Latinos, killing 23, TV viewers once again heard journalists aim the blame at President Trump. "If you're a white supremacist, you find the President's words possibly inspirational, possibly comforting," CNN's Nia Malika Henderson claimed on August 5. A few hours later, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace falsely stated: "You now have a President, as you said, talking about exterminating Latinos."

Those seeking to blame Trump personally for the evil acts of others found support in a March 2019 Washington Post analysis that claimed, according to the headline, that "counties that hosted a 2016 Trump rally saw a 226 percent increase in hate crimes." The problem: a pair of Harvard researchers trying to duplicate the study found political rallies had no effect on hate crimes. In fact, using the same methodology would actually show "Clinton rallies contribute to an even greater increase in hate incidents than Trump rallies." Oops.


8. The Coronavirus "Hoax" Hoax: As the coronavirus spread in the U.S., so too did the fake news that President Trump had called the disease a "hoax," when in reality he used those words to talk about Democrats' attempt to exploit the crisis. The butchering of reality began just a couple of hours after the President spoke at a February 28 political rally, with Politico's bogus headline: "Trump rallies his base to treat coronavirus as a 'hoax.'" That earned Politico a "false" rating from CheckYourFact.com the next day. The left-leaning fact-checker Snopes.com soon agreed, writing on March 2: "Despite creating some confusion with his remarks, Trump did not call the coronavirus itself a hoax."



But those pesky facts wouldn't stop some in the liberal media from pushing the phony version they preferred. On March 11, MSNBC's Joy Reid misled viewers when she claimed "the Trump administration has struggled to present a coherent and unified message about the coronavirus outbreak, careening from downplaying it, with Trump tossing it off as a political hoax, to just seemingly scrambling."

Three days later, CNN's Boris Sanchez wrongly claimed the President has "suggested that this coronavirus epidemic — pandemic is a hoax perpetrated by Democrats."

As late as April 7, NBC's Tom Costello even bungled the liberal media's fantasy version of what Trump supposedly said. Talking about a memo written by White House advisor Peter Navarro, Costello asserted: "He wrote that, again, on January 29, at the time that the President was suggesting this was all a hoax." Actually, that would have been a month before the President said the words that have been so dishonestly distorted.

I wish someone would bring some charges against them---slander, libel, lies, defamation of character....   It's not like there aren't plenty of them.