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-Land of the Free

New York Times reporter deletes tweet calling Trump supporters 'enemies of the state'

2021-07-29

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[NYPOST] A New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
news hound deleted a tweet that called supporters of former President Trump "enemies of the state," following a viral blowback online.

"Today’s #January6SelectCommittiee underscores the America’s current essential natsec dilemma: Work to combat legitimate national security threats now entails calling a current politician’s supporters enemies of the state," Katie Benner posted Tuesday morning, according to a screenshot shared by Fox News.

"As Americans, we believe that state power should not be used to work against a political figure or a political party. But what happens if a politician seems to threaten the state? If the politician continues to do so out of office and his entire party supports that threat?," the thread reportedly continued.

The DOJ scribe then suggested that since Congress left the investigation into the Republican’s alleged collusion with Russia and two impeachments "unresolved," politicians could not be trusted to probe the deadly riot at the Capitol.

"That leaves it up to voters, making even more essential free, fair access to the polls," Benner wrote.

About eight hours later, the tweet and its thread were deleted and referenced by a post by Benner that read: "I deleted unclearly worded tweets regarding the Jan 6. committee hearing."

Benner did not further clarify why she deleted the tweet, or if she did so at the newspaper’s demand.

Her comments were slammed by critics, including prominent journalists and politicians.

"That’s the best summary of the Biden Admin’s domestic national security strategy I’ve ever read," Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks tweeted.

"This is a news hound — not an op-ed writer — saying this," journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote.

"The fixation on 1/6 is about exactly this: classifying Trump supporters as Enemies of the State for political gain & Security State power."

Posted by:Fred

#5 ^ I wonder how much the CCP paid Bloomberg to take her under his wing. Or did they blackmail him?

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-07-29 12:35

#4 ^ So when she submitted her resume to the New York Times they thought she was just the kind of propagandist they want, huh?

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-07-29 12:33

#3 The Last Refuge has a much darker take:
Katie Benner (pictured left) used to write freelance for the Beijing Review, China’s only National news magazine in English, published by the Chinese Communist Party-owned China International Publishing Group.

Benner joined the New York Times in 2015 after her initial work at the communist propaganda outlet. The CCP-controlled Beijing Review was designated by the U.S. State Department in 2020 as a “foreign mission” of China. So Ms. Benner was an operative, an embed, of the Chinese Communist Party propaganda machine.

Departing Beijing and landing in San Francisco (fall of 2014), Katie Benner embedded into MSM via Bloomberg as a technology reporter. Then, she jumped over to the New York Times (June 2015), again focusing on the Tech sector…. and then for some unknown reason, the tech expertise was dropped, and she took on a new role reporting on U.S. Department of Justice issues.

SUMMARY – Ms. Katie Benner appears to be a Chinese Communist Party operative who worked through the U.S. media system as a journalist, eventually into the New York Times, weaving her way through the organization to a place where she focuses on national security issues within the DOJ…. and then, unfortunately for her CCP handlers, Ms. Benner triggered her CCP tradecraft motivation a little too openly on Twitter and did not clear the blast zone.

Posted by: Snomoth Whereling9836 2021-07-29 08:57

#2

NYT's Reporter .....need we say more?

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-07-29 08:09

#1 They consider themselves the State. The Party and State are one.

Everything in the Party, Nothing outside the Party, Nothing against the Party. - Benito Mussolini

Posted by: Procopius2k 2021-07-29 06:47

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