{"id":1493333,"date":"2022-05-26T14:44:52","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T18:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493333"},"modified":"2022-05-26T14:45:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T18:45:01","slug":"fact-checker-says-jack-posobiec-wasnt-detained-at-wef-despite-video-clearly-showing-him-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checker-says-jack-posobiec-wasnt-detained-at-wef-despite-video-clearly-showing-him-detained\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Checker Says Jack Posobiec Wasn\u2019t Detained at WEF Despite Video Clearly Showing Him Detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-checker-says-jack-posobiec-wasnt-detained-at-wef-despite-video-clearly-showing-him-detained%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1493333&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">A<\/span>fter Human Events reporter Jack Posobiec was detained on video in Davos while covering the World Economic Forum, Politifact\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2022\/may\/25\/donald-trump-jr\/jack-posobiec-was-not-arrested-or-detained-davos\/\">Monique Curet<\/a> swooped in to warn us against believing our lying eyes. \u201cNo, Jack Posobiec was not arrested or detained in Davos,\u201d she boldly declared.<\/p>\n<p>Curet seems to have chosen to jump together two claims in this fact check (that Posobiec was detained *and* arrested) so that when she\u2019s called out on her claim that\u2019s obviously false (that Posobiec wasn\u2019t detained), she can fall back on what\u2019s correct (that Posobiec was not arrested).But Posobiec never claimed to have been arrested, and Curet\u2019s justification for fact checking this claim is because she\u2019s specifically fact checking Donald Trump Jr.\u2019s characterization of events, that \u201cAmerican journalist Jack Posobiec was \u2018arrested at World Economic Forum,&#8217;\u201d and linked to a video where Trump Jr. never says Posobiec was arrested at the WEF, only that he was briefly detained.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Donald Trump Jr. talks about Posobiec\u2019s detainment, and text at the top of the video reads in bold \u201cSHOCK: American Journalist Detained at World Economic Forum.\u201d The confusion seems to be that whoever manages Trump Jr.\u2019s Facebook page incorrectly captioned the video \u201cAmerican Journalist Arrested at World Economic Forum\u201d (in the description box), but again, Trump Jr. never says he was arrested in the actual video.<\/p>\n<p>Posobiec\u2019s detainment was captured on video by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnonNews14\">Savannah Hernandez<\/a>, who asked the police detaining him what he had had done.<\/p>\n<p>To quote the relevant part of the video, where it\u2019s made clear that Posobiec can\u2019t leave:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Savannah: He\u2019s surrounded right now, is he allowed to leave the area?<\/p>\n<p>Woman With Police: We\u2019re just making a normal police control. Because, you know, it\u2019s WEF, everything is very sensitive<\/p>\n<p>Savannah: Is there any reason he in particular was targeted?<\/p>\n<p>Woman: Uh, there is a reason, because we have to have a reason to control a person<\/p>\n<p>Savannah: What was the reason? What was he doing?<\/p>\n<p>Woman: I don\u2019t have to tell you\u2026 Why\u2026 why are you asking me that?<\/p>\n<p>Savannah: Because there\u2019s many journalists here, and I want to know why he specifically is being detained.<\/p>\n<p>Woman: There is a reason, but everything is clear now, and we\u2019re about to leave in just a few seconds. OK? Um, yeah, can you please now\u2026 can I ask you to delete *video ends*<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of note, the woman in the video with the WEF police seems to use the word \u201ccontrol\u201d when she means of \u201cdetain\u201d or \u201cstop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So how did PolitiFact come to their conclusion that this never happened? By asking the police who detained Posobiec for their account and then printing it: \u201cPosobiec was neither arrested nor detained in Davos, police said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n<p>And since that\u2019s the conclusion they want, they just ran with it, and rated it \u201cfalse\u201d that Posobiec was detained and arrested (even though no one actually said he was).<\/p>\n<p>Posobiec fired back after PolitFact\u2019s article went live: \u201cMy crew and myself were detained by heavily-armed officers, searched, fully frisked one by one, and not allowed to leave for over an hour. We have this on video. You are liars.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My crew and myself were detained by heavily-armed officers, searched, fully frisked one by one, and not allowed to leave for over an hour. We have this on video. You are liars.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WEF Detainee Poso (@JackPosobiec) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1529542780472676352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was detained like this by police in Kiev in 2013. When they refuse to give you back your ID, and let you move along freely, you are in fact being detained. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitiFact?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PolitiFact<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2nQJAH4jEf\">https:\/\/t.co\/2nQJAH4jEf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 R.J. Kassam (@RaheemKassam) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaheemKassam\/status\/1529556788282105859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And the video backs up his account, not theirs.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder they wanted the footage deleted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matt Palumbo is the author of\u00a0<i data-stringify-type=\"italic\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/posthillpress.com\/book\/man-behind-the-curtain-inside-the-secret-network-of-george-soros\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros<\/a><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss The Dan Bongino Show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Human Events reporter Jack Posobiec was detained on video in Davos while covering the World Economic Forum, Politifact\u2019s Monique Curet swooped in to warn us against believing our lying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1894302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}