{"id":443862,"date":"2021-04-22T22:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=443862"},"modified":"2021-04-22T22:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T02:05:55","slug":"michigan-democrat-governor-gretchen-whitmer-caught-allegedly-making-false-statements-about-travels-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-democrat-governor-gretchen-whitmer-caught-allegedly-making-false-statements-about-travels-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer Caught Allegedly Making False Statements About Travels: Report"},"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%2Fmichigan-democrat-governor-gretchen-whitmer-caught-allegedly-making-false-statements-about-travels-report%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=443862&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3395.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer was allegedly caught making false statements in a recent interview where she claimed that she was \u201chere in town the whole time\u201d despite having recently traveled to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer made the claims during a podcast appearance with MIRS News host Kyle Melinn on April 12, a week before news broke that Whitmer had traveled to Florida in March. Fox News went as far as to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/michigan-gretchen-whitmer-florida-travel-lie-in-town-whole-time\">say<\/a> that Whiter had \u201clied\u201d about her travels.<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer had the following interaction with Melinn roughly 25 minutes into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/site\/EpisodeDownload\/PB1007985GK3VG\">podcast<\/a> [<strong>Emphasis added<\/strong>]:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"43\">\n<p><em>MELINN: All right, so this was spring break, so I was able to get a few days off. Were you able to get a few days off? Have you had any days off for the last year? That\u2019s the question I want to know, it seems like you\u2019ve been on for an entire year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WHITMER: Yeah, like most people on my team, we\u2019ve been working 14 months without much of a break. Um, my, my daughter had spring break. Um, I didn\u2019t do much of anything, you saw me, <strong>I was here in town the whole time<\/strong>, but, um, you know, it\u2019s, the weather\u2019s getting nicer, so I\u2019m moving some of my zoom calls outside, that\u2019s the most exciting, ah, development. [nervous laughter]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>MELINN: If you could\u2019ve gone anywhere for spring break, where would you have gone?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>WHITMER: Oh gosh, I don\u2019t know. I haven\u2019t really thought about it. I, you know I, my last, my first big trip as governor, ah, and <strong>the last trip I\u2019ve taken was to Israel<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>News broke last week that Whitmer traveled to Florida, supposedly to visit her father. Her office seemed to confirm a report from MIRS News that she had traveled to Florida before later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrat-gov-gretchen-whitmer-traveled-to-florida-before-expressing-concern-about-traveling-to-fl\">walking it back<\/a> and saying that they were not going to comment on where she went.<\/p>\n<p>However, Whitmer\u2019s office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/general-news-health-government-and-politics-florida-pandemics-2c103ee2532fc1339075472ab1a925c2\">confirmed<\/a> the news the following day, and Whitmer apparently sought to downplay her travels by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/whitmer-defends-trip-to-florida-despite-travel-warning-i-wasnt-partying-in-miami\">saying<\/a> it was only a \u201ctwo-day trip\u201d and she \u201cwasn\u2019t partying in Miami.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue is not that Gov. Whitmer visited her father, it\u2019s that she lied about it and continues to hide key facts,\u201d said Ted Goodman, Communications Director of the Michigan Republican Party. \u201cIt\u2019s also hypocritical as Michiganders were denied the same opportunity through her rules that locked people from visiting their loved ones in hospitals and nursing homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer was allegedly caught making false statements in a recent interview where she claimed that she was \u201chere in town the whole time\u201d despite having recently &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276531,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3395.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer Caught Allegedly Making False Statements About Travels: Report","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3395.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer Caught Allegedly Making False Statements About Travels: Report","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443862","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}