https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/what-brian-williams-has-lied-about-2015-2%3famp
Brian Williams has quickly plummeted to a low point in his career.
Williams, who anchored "NBC Nightly News" until he received a six-month suspension last week, went from being the 23rd-most-trusted person in America a little over a week ago to falling to the 835th spot.
Some NBC insiders have speculated that Williams will not be able to come back from the scandal that has engulfed him since he admitted to embellishing a story from his coverage of the Iraq invasion in 2003.
Williams recounted the story several times over the past 12 years, exaggerating his role in the incident over time. Most recently, he said he was traveling in a helicopter that was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, but after a veteran involved in the event questioned his story, Williams admitted he was actually riding in another helicopter that was about 30 minutes behind the one that was hit.
NBC launched an internal investigation, and since then other possible exaggerations have surfaced. Here are three other stories in which Williams is suspected of stretching the truth:
Williams has said on television multiple times that he flew into Baghdad with the Navy's SEAL Team Six, which was responsible for carrying out the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, about three days after the US invaded Iraq, according to The Huffington Post. He has also said he received a SEAL's knife and a piece of the helicopter from the bin Laden raid as gifts.
As far as The Huffington Post could tell, Williams started telling these stories only in 2011, the year bin Laden was killed. Williams reported from the Baghdad airport on April 9, 2003, more than three days after the invasion of Iraq, but he didn't mention going anywhere with SEAL Team Six, possibly because he was told not to discuss their activities.
Sources who talked to The Huffington Post said these stories seemed implausible, with US Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw saying the organization did not "embed journalists with this or any other unit that conducts counter-terrorism missions."
NBC has not confirmed whether Williams' stories about SEAL Team Six are accurate.
Williams said in 2008 that he "was at the Brandenburg Gate the night the wall came down," but that is most likely an exaggeration, as CNN reports.
Although Williams was in Berlin in 1989 to report on the fall of the Berlin Wall for WCBS-TV in New York, Tom Brokaw was the only American anchorman to report live from the scene the night the wall actually fell on November 9, CNN notes.
Williams has said publicly that he didn't arrive at the wall until 12 hours after Brokaw, but it seems as if in some retellings of the story he has misspoken about when he actually arrived on the scene.
Williams says he met St. John Paul II when the pope spoke at Catholic University's Washington, D.C., campus in 1979, according to CNN. While delivering the commencement address at Catholic University in 2004, Williams recalled the moment he "shook hands with the holy father" during the pope's visit to campus.
Soon after John Paul died in 2005, however, Williams provided a more elaborate account of this meeting while on air:
"I was a student at Catholic University, and over the course of two hours, chatted up a Secret Service agent who told me that the pope would be coming our way ... I positioned myself and held out my hand and said, 'Welcome to Catholic University, holy father.' And he embraced my hand with both of his, made the sign of the cross, and said a blessing to me."
When recounting the incident to Esquire later that same year, Williams never mentioned the presence of a Secret Service agent.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-51125898
https://www.google.com/amp/s/arizonadailyindependent.com/2020/08/30/203782/
Since many have asked, I wanted to update you about what happened as we left the President’s amazing acceptance speech at the White House. I’ve included a couple of positive photos that I hope you will enjoy as well as links to tweets and stories to go a bit more in-depth on various subject discussed here.
Large groups of domestic bullies bent on terrorizing attendees (just as they’ve terrorized our cities and harmed innocent people) were waiting for guests at all exits as we left the White House grounds.
As we were leaving the South Lawn Thursday night, Secret Service directed us out via 17th street versus 15th Street. Why? The “protestors” were so out of control on 15th street they feared for our safety. The “peaceful protesters” had a guillotine and were bashing a Trump mannequin among other things.
Protesters put a guillotine in front of the White House with a doll resembling President Trump in it, as the president prepared to deliver his speech to accept the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday evening. https://t.co/hpvmgIrwq9
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 28, 2020
THIS is why Trump will win.pic.twitter.com/ndr5DezBuy
— thebradfordfile™ (@thebradfordfile) August 28, 2020
We couldn’t see any evidence that they were interested in peacefully protesting for social or racial justice on Thursday night. If that truly is what BLM is fighting for, they have a very odd way of trying to achieve it. And allowing Antifa thugs to be a part of their efforts is unconscionable.
As we left the property, we faced a rowdy, yelling, jumping mob. They yelled “f*ck you, you are f*cking stupid, chanted “shame shame shame,” threw scooters & trash at people, said we deserved death by guillotine, blocked the walking path by continuing to ride and stop their bikes in front of people to harass them, they rode their scooters close to use to call us names based on the color of our skin and their assumptions about our politics.
The world saw how they surrounded, intimidated, and assaulted Sen. Rand Paul and his wife. We saw how other couples were harassed and intimidated. As the only woman in our group, I also had different, sexual-assault type of barbs and threats thrown my way in addition to the hate we all got because we are Republicans and support President Donald J. Trump.
Thanks to all who have expressed their concern to me and @RandPaul. I wrote this account of our experience. https://t.co/LpbzNghKId
— Kelley Paul (@KelleyAshbyPaul) August 28, 2020
Man and his wife leaving White House get mobbed on their way back to their hotel by livid protesters. pic.twitter.com/qnpPTfReS3
— Phillip Nieto (@nieto_phillip) August 28, 2020
The Black Lives Matter mob in Washington DC is harassing people leaving the RNC convention. pic.twitter.com/FqY1Wq6NSt
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 28, 2020
We appreciated the police presence in DC on Thursday night. It is appalling to see the way these brave men and women are treated – being spit upon, having their faces and ears yelled into sometimes with a bullhorn, being pelted by projectiles and incendiary devices, being shoved, pushed, and baited while remaining strong and professional. Democrat mayors allow the people who work for them and their cities to be placed in danger because of the political decisions that are made in protected offices far from the mayhem.
Though we were verbally harassed and physically intimidated for the majority of the 1.5 mile walk that I did in heels (tripled because of road closures, blockades, and blood-thirsty mobs), we made it safely back to our hotel unscathed. And now Mike and I are more determined than ever to re-elect President Trump and Republicans all the way down the ballot. Seeing Democrat rule up close and personal is a powerful motivator!
The people mobbing us emanated hate and vitriol. Burning flags, bringing guillotines, feeling empowered by the Democrat “leaders” who have egged them on and the media who have belittled police and called riots “peaceful protests” when anyone with a brain can tell that looting, burning, scribbling hate-filled, anti-American/anti-police graffiti, and outright anarchy are not peaceful civil disobedience. ENOUGH.
This movement is terrorizing America as a means to force us to cower and comply. It’s an attempt to harass, intimidate, and implement mob rule. The problem is – they don’t seem to know WHAT they want. They’ve become the monsters they claim to hate.
The Left cries out that our country has a systemic racism issue: that many Americans automatically react, respond, and/or treat people differently because of the color of their skin. How does assaulting, intimidating, terrorizing and harassing people or destroying cities and suburbs help us stop race-based hate? IT DOESN’T!
We have work to do. The Left should call out the rioting & violence for what it is. The “leaders” in Democrat-run cities that have been taken over by Antifa and BLM across the country must stop the madness and get the help they need from the Federal government. People inciting others to “get strapped” and “burn this s**t down” while calling to “rip Trump out of that office over there, pull him out of that s**t; we ain’t about waiting for the next fu**ing election, we about going over and getting that mother fu**er”” & “it’s time for revolution” should be investigated by the Secret Service.
THIS is beyond protected speech. THIS is a direct threat on President @realDonaldTrump’s life by militant #ANTIFA/ #BLM revolutionaries. pic.twitter.com/pbHziws14l
— Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) August 29, 2020
Nitty: “We’ve got to vote Trump out of office… this is the revolution.”
Ingraham: “They’re being pretty explicit. They want a revolution, burn it all down.” pic.twitter.com/dY2dQWYFBj
— MaC 🎙💊#TheBestIsYetToCome (@RedPillMaC) August 29, 2020
America is a country of law and order – we are not a country where citizens cower in fear of the people who believe they are above the law, empowered by their political affiliation with the Democrats and their hatred of our exceptional nation. It’s up to us to stand tall, to remain sane, to act professionally and peacefully, to expose the lies of the Left and the media, and to lead our country through this tumultuous time so we remain the shining city that is essential to our world! #MAGA
