{"id":1763615,"date":"2022-12-05T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763615"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:17:49","slug":"time-magazine-admits-election-denier-is-a-nonsense-phrase-invented-to-smear-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/time-magazine-admits-election-denier-is-a-nonsense-phrase-invented-to-smear-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Magazine Admits \u2018Election Denier\u2019 Is A Nonsense Phrase Invented To Smear Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ftime-magazine-admits-election-denier-is-a-nonsense-phrase-invented-to-smear-republicans%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=1763615&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--><p>Time Magazine claimed that Democrat and soon-to-be House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries\u2019 refusal to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election as legitimate doesn\u2019t count as \u201celection denial\u201d because he\u2019s not a Trump-supporting Republican, in a tacit admission that \u201celection denier\u201d is a nonsense phrase that only exists to make Republicans look like \u201cthreats to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6238239\/republicans-attack-hakeem-jeffries-misleading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piece<\/a>, Time staff writer Jasmine Aguilera admitted, \u201cIn tweets, news interviews, and House hearings, Jeffries called to question the legitimacy of Trump\u2019s election.\u201d She even embedded posts from the Republican National Committee with screenshots of Jeffries\u2019 tweets saying Trump and his \u201cbuddies in the Kremlin\u201d were \u201ctrying to steal the election\u201d and that \u201chistory\u201d would \u201cnever accept\u201d Trump as a \u201clegitimate president.\u201d In another post, Jeffries said that \u201cthe more we learn about 2016 election the more ILLEGITIMATE it becomes. America deserves to know whether we have a FAKE President in the Oval Office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite including some of the very evidence showing Jeffries\u2019 election skepticism, Aguilera insisted, \u201cCalling Jeffries an \u2018election denier\u2019 is misleading and conflates different issues.\u201d Why is it misleading? Because Time wants you to associate \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/22\/the-election-denier-smear-is-the-dumbest-rhetorical-device-in-modern-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">election denialism<\/a>\u201d \u2014 a grammatically ridiculous phrase anyway, since no one is denying that an election <em>happened<\/em> \u2014 only with the right.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the magazine says, the smear exists to describe Republican Trump voters <em>only<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The term \u2018election denier\u2019 has taken on a particular meaning, however, after Trump\u2019s failed re-election campaign. The phrase has come to be associated with Republicans who claim the 2020 election was stolen from Trump, assert without evidence there was fraud in 2020 voting, and cast doubt on secure voting systems \u2014 claims that lead to the deadly January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Claims of a \u201cstolen\u201d election? Democrats like Jeffries did that in 2016. Accusations of fraud? Democrats only, you know, insisted that an entire foreign country rigged our election, based on a bogus dossier that was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/18\/spygate-101-a-primer-on-the-russia-collusion-hoaxs-years-long-plot-to-take-down-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">commissioned<\/a> by the Hillary Clinton campaign. \u201cCast doubt on secure voting systems\u201d? Yep. <\/p>\n<p>The piece says Republicans exercising their freedom of speech to raise concerns about the unprecedented administration of the 2016 election would \u201clead to the deadly January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.\u201d (Legacy media outlets love to describe the events of Jan. 6 as \u201cdeadly,\u201d to evoke the mortality rates of events such as 9\/11 or Pearl Harbor or the Civil War, all of which they\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/10\/americas-justice-system-says-jan-6-was-neither-a-terrorist-attack-nor-an-insurrection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">compared<\/a> the Capitol riot to. In reality, of the five people who died, one <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/4HtJj#selection-597.133-597.177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">died<\/a> of a heart attack, another of a stroke, and another of an accidental drug overdose. A Capitol Police officer died of stroke-related \u201cnatural causes\u201d the next day. The only participant killed by another person was a demonstrator shot to death by police.) Election protests-turned-violent are nothing new to Democrats, however; in 2016, nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/thousands-us-protest-president-elect-donald-trump\/story?id=43427653\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">demonstrations<\/a> by \u201ctens of thousands\u201d over Trump\u2019s election \u201cresulted in at least 124 arrests and reports of damage, vandalism and injuries in several locations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aguilera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If &#8216;election denier&#8217; doesn&#8217;t describe what Hakeem Jeffries and other Democrats did in 2016, then it doesn&#8217;t mean anything at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":1763618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1763615","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\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}