They also want to punish anyone who served in the Trump administration and, to another extent, the 45th president’s supporters.
On Thursday, in what was the most recent and possibly the most extreme example, Randall Lane, Forbes’ chief content officer, announced that Forbes Media was “holding those who lied for Trump accountable” in what he called “a truth reckoning.”
Lane claimed that the media group was taking this unusual action in response to the mob attack on Capitol Hill late Wednesday afternoon, which resulted in two deaths — a Capitol Police officer and a female U.S. Air Force veteran who was protesting that day.
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Lane claimed that the president’s “lies-upon-lies, repeated frequently and fervently, provided the kindling, the spark, the gasoline” that led to the charge.
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PLane then singles out five senior White House officials, whom he portrayed as “the people paid by the People to inform the People.”
He named former White House press secretaries Sean Spicer, currently co-host of Newsmax TV’s “Spicer & Co.”, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and Stephanie Grisham, as well as current spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany. Lane also named Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to the president.
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“Don’t let the chronic liars cash in on their dishonesty," he said.
He saw that previous White House spokesmen have received millions in royalties from book deals after they left, adding that “Trump’s liars don’t merit that same golden parachute.”
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Acting more like a Mafia don than a media official, Lane then threatened future employers: “Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie.”
His tiny, 600-word rhetoric is filled with hyperbole and downright distortions of fact.
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PLane uses the word “lie,” “lies,” “liar” or “lied” nine times in his article— three times in the first paragraph alone.
There’s no citation to the fact that it was the previous president, not Trump, who was given PolitiFact’s “Lie of the Year.”
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Nor does he recognize the daily claims for nearly four years on corporate media and by Democrats favoring the Russian collusion hoax.
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Forbes wasn’t the first to threaten future employers of Trump White House staffers.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez implied shortly after the November election that someone should begin collecting a list of Trump White House staffers.
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"Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future?" The New York Democrat asked.
"I foresee a decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future."
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