How the media created the shutdown myth
1. They took what Sarah Sanders said starting at 4:23 of the daily briefing on December 18, 2018 and told a big fat lie.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?456131-1/whi...
2. The big fat lie was:
"President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned months of strident demands for Congress to give him $5 billion for his border wall, bowing to political reality as Republicans scrambled to avoid shutting down large portions of the government this weekend.
"It was a stunning turnaround from one week ago, when Trump told Democratic congressional leaders during a bizarre on-camera sparring match that he'd be "proud" to shut down the government to get his wall money. Instead, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday, Trump does not want a shutdown and will identify "other ways" to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border."
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nation...
3. Then building on that lie they created a bigger, fatter lie:
"Trump initially threatened a shutdown if he did not receive $5 billion in funding for the wall, stating he’d be “proud” to do so in the name of border security. The White House appeared to back down from that position on Tuesday, showing support for a short-term spending measure that did not contain wall money but would have kept the government open until Feb. 8.
"On Thursday, the president changed course again, asserting that he refused to sign a funding bill that didn’t provide money for the border wall — prompting the shutdown."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20...
4. Then they capped it all off with the final lie and repeated it until the extremely gullible masses of Democrats took it as fact:
"So what caused Trump to flip back? Some have suggested that he bowed to backlash from high-profile conservative pundits — notably Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh — who lambasted the president for appearing to concede on the wall funding."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=spkc_NOzE3I&...
And there you have it.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?456131-1/whi...
2. The big fat lie was:
"President Donald Trump on Tuesday abandoned months of strident demands for Congress to give him $5 billion for his border wall, bowing to political reality as Republicans scrambled to avoid shutting down large portions of the government this weekend.
"It was a stunning turnaround from one week ago, when Trump told Democratic congressional leaders during a bizarre on-camera sparring match that he'd be "proud" to shut down the government to get his wall money. Instead, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday, Trump does not want a shutdown and will identify "other ways" to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border."
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nation...
3. Then building on that lie they created a bigger, fatter lie:
"Trump initially threatened a shutdown if he did not receive $5 billion in funding for the wall, stating he’d be “proud” to do so in the name of border security. The White House appeared to back down from that position on Tuesday, showing support for a short-term spending measure that did not contain wall money but would have kept the government open until Feb. 8.
"On Thursday, the president changed course again, asserting that he refused to sign a funding bill that didn’t provide money for the border wall — prompting the shutdown."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20...
4. Then they capped it all off with the final lie and repeated it until the extremely gullible masses of Democrats took it as fact:
"So what caused Trump to flip back? Some have suggested that he bowed to backlash from high-profile conservative pundits — notably Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh — who lambasted the president for appearing to concede on the wall funding."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=spkc_NOzE3I&...
And there you have it.
I see Ron, you'd rather post more lies than to address this one.