How fake is NBC News' Antifa propaganda that Kathy Barnette marched with Proud Boys to D.C. riot?
NBC News gets **** four stars for fake news
On May 16, the day before Pennsylvania’s primary election, NBC News Correspondent Dasha Burns tweeted pictures from a video found by a known Antifa propagandist that appear to show U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette marching with Trump supporters in Washington D.C. on January 6, 2021.
Burns stated Barnette marched “alongside members of the Proud Boys who were later arrested and indicted for breaking into the building and attacking officers.” She also stated, “We have not yet found evidence that Barnette herself was involved in the breach of the Capitol.”
Multiple media outlets picked up the statement and embellished it a little more, saying Barnette marched “with” the Proud Boys.
The video from a Parler archive shows a person who looks like Barnette marching down the street surrounded by hundreds of people dressed in red, white and blue; no more than a small handful of whom are wearing the black and yellow colors of Proud Boys. None of the Proud Boys are seen interacting with Barnette or walking close enough to her to assume they are accompanying each other.
The two Proud Boys named as indicted in relation to the Capitol riot are reported to be from Oregon (not Pennsylvania) and clearly are not marching with Barnette, any more than a few dozen other people around her (vast majority of whom are not wearing Proud Boys colors or insignia.)
Burns’ report attempting to link Barnette to Proud Boys without any clear evidence and her use of the word “yet” in relation to the lack of evidence that Barnette took part in the riot, shows she is willing to help fabricate a false narrative about Barnette.
A bearded guy in a camo hat, who seems to be the closest person to the woman who looks like Barnette, though there is still no interaction seen between them in the video, is admittedly unknown by the Antifa propagandist who is serving as NBC News’ source of information. That propagandist is known for fabricating disinformation, misportraying Antifa perpetrators as victims, and misportraying Antifa’s victims as perpetrators and making other baseless accusations against them.
Even Fox News displayed the tweets from the NBC source on air when covering the story. Barnette told Bret Baier, “I was not with the Proud Boys…I have no idea who these people are…”