Both CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today pounced on a Washington Post story which promoted an email alleging there was an “armed militia” speaking darkly of “hunting FEMA.” Both CBS and NBC connected this alleged threat to clips of Donald Trump speeches.
Washington Post reporter Brianna Sacks, whose bio proclaims she “explores how climate change is transforming the United States through violent storms, intense heat, widespread wildfires, and other forms of extreme weather,” promoted the usual Anonymous Sources making unproven claims:
Around 1 p.m. Saturday, an official with the U.S. Forest Service, which is supporting recovery efforts after Hurricane Helene along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sent an urgent message to numerous federal agencies warning that “FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and…
