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By Sister Toldjah. Media: Redstate

As RedState readers are well aware, it's a prerequisite at this point for reporters in the mainstream media to have the ability to straight-up gaslight, and that goes double in a crucial election year when a political figure on their team is either in trouble with voters or otherwise desperately needs their help. We saw it often, for instance, during the Antifa/Black Lives Matter-led riots in the summer of 2020, where terms like "peaceful protesters" and "mostly peaceful protests" were used even when the backdrop for those news reports told us a much different story. This was one of their more infamous moments: MSNBC, as noted above, was right in the thick of it at the time, and unfortunately, they are still at it to this day, though the subject matter has (slightly) changed. It all started when a clip of former President Donald Trump speaking at the Turning Point USA town hall Thursday in Arizona began making the rounds on the Twitter/X machine. In it, the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee talked about the rampant crime sprees we've seen take place in Democrat-run, soft-on-crime states like California where stores are hit by flash mobs who ransack them and run out with bags full of merch - and with no one stopping them in the process. This prompted MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle, a noted Democrat apologist, to declare that such stories weren't true: While I don't know of any stories involving air conditioner looting specifically, there are plenty more out there involving other types of looting, which was of course Trump's actual point. Ruhle got fact-checked pretty quickly: And there's so much more from where that came. Unfortunately, we're going to see a heckuva a lot more of this - both the crime sprees and the press gaslighting - the closer we get to Election Day. Because Joe Biden has a swing state problem and black/Hispanic voter problems that seem to be getting worse with each passing day. The only way that can change is with the help of the Usual Suspects in the mainstream media - just as they did in 2020.