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The corporate media is taking flak for setting off a panic on social media after an unofficial CBS News television pool falsely reported ambulances accompanied by United States Secret Service (USSS) leaving President-elect Donald J. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence. In reality, the emergency vehicles and USSS presence were part of Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s motorcade.
“The press has set up a fake, unofficial “pool” because they want to feel important about themselves,” Steven Cheung, the incoming Trump White House Communications Director, wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). He continued: “In this case, some idiot at CBS overreacted and set off the fire alarm for no reason thinking they were going to get the scoop of a lifetime.”
“F*cking dummy,” Cheung added.
The press has set up a fake, unofficial “pool” because they want to feel important about themselves. In this case, some idiot at CBS overreacted and set off the fire alarm for no reason thinking they were going to get the scoop of a lifetime.
Fucking dummy. https://t.co/iEuYUQ8E58
— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung) November 21, 2024
Andrew Feinberg, a reporter for The Independent, a leftist news site based in the United Kingdom, set off the initial media panic. At 4:16 PM, Feinberg posted on X, citing the unofficial CBS News pool: “NOW: Per pool, 2 ambulances and several vans that appeared full of @SecretService have left Mar-a-Lago in the last few minutes.” Almost 30 minutes later, Feinberg clarified that the report was a false alarm but offered no other details.
The National Pulse’s Editor-in-Chief, Raheem Kassam, was the first to report that the fake CBS News pool’s claim regarding an emergency at Mar-a-Lago was incorrect. “This is NOT an official pool report, I am told by Trump world sources. This is some recently invented CBS pool that they made up for themselves,” Kassam wrote on X at 4:38 PM, continuing: “It’s not reliable. A separate source tells me there’s nothing out of the ordinary going on.”
This is NOT an official pool report, I am told by Trump world sources. This is some recently invented CBS pool that they made up for themselves. It’s not reliable. A separate source tells me there’s nothing out of the ordinary going on. https://t.co/TeD3m7hqpO
— Raheem. (@RaheemKassam) November 21, 2024
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