If you voted Democrat, you believed this hoax. American Bloodbath At a rally in March, then-candidate Donald TrumpdiscussedChina’s plan to manufacture cars in Mexico and then sell them across the southern border, which would have decimated U.S. auto workers. He issued a drastic warning using the rather apt word “bloodbath” that liberal corporate media took way out of context. “We’re going to put a 100 percent tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys — if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it. It’s going to be a bloodbath for the country,” he said. In the next 24 hours, Politico, Mediaite, MSNBC, NPR,The New York Times, and others all ran disingenuous headlines, while liberal pundits pretended that Trump was calling for a wave of political violence if he lost. If you voted Democrat, you believed this hoax. The Gold Stars Grimace Trump visited Arlington National Cemetery in August to honor the 13 soldiers killed during the Biden administration’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan three years prior. Kamala Harris, her campaign and liberal media attempted to make Trump’s appearance a massive political scandal, with the vice president leading the charge. “As Vice President, I have had the privilege of visiting Arlington National Cemetery several times. It is a solemn place; a place where we come together to honor American heroes who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service of this nation. It is not a place for politics,” Harris said. She also went on tospread more hoaxesthat Trump disparaged fallen vets and called them “suckers” and “losers.” “This is nothing new from Donald Trump. This is a man who has called our fallen service members ‘suckers’ and ‘losers’ and disparaged Medal of Honor recipients. A man who, during a previous visit to the cemetery, reportedly said of fallen service members, ‘I don’t get it. What was in it for them?'” However, eight Gold Star familiesspoke out against Harris, and said that they invited Trump to the ceremony. They also noted that Harris had never reached out to them since they lost their children in Kabul in 2021. If you voted Democrat, you believed this hoax. A Taste Of Her Own Medicine Trumpset the media into a fit of rage-filled dishonestyafter he said on Halloween that war hawk Liz Cheney should get a taste of her own medicine. “I think it hurts Kamala a lot actually, [Cheney’s] a deranged person, but the reason she couldn’t stand me is that she always wanted to go to war with people. I don’t want to go to war,” Trump said of Kamala Harris’s choice to campaign with Cheney. “She wanted to go — she wanted to stay in Syria. I took them out. She wanted to stay in Iraq. I took them out. I mean, if it were up to her, we’d be in 50 different countries. She’s a radical war hawk.” “Let’s put her with a rifle, standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let’s see how she feels about it … when the guns are trained on her face,” Trump said. “You know, they’re all war hawks when they’re sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, ‘Gee, let’s send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy.'” CountlesspunditsandoutletsportrayedTrump’s common-sense remark as a call for Cheney to face a firing squad. If you voted Democrat, you believed this hoax. The Unsurprising October Surprise The Atlantic and its editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg,publishedwhat they thought would be a devastating ‘October Surprise’ against Trump, rife with salacious details and comparison of the now-president-elect to Adolf Hitler. Among other things, the report alleged that Trump disparaged a military veteran and her family members while refusing to pay for her funeral even though he promised to do so. The catch? The veteran’s sister and various Trump officials who were firsthand witnesses came forward immediately following the story’s publication todispute it as false. If you voted Democrat, you believed this hoax. Hidin’ Biden The worst hoax of 2024 dwarfs the others mentioned above, due to its scope and the harm it dealt to the country:the bald-faced liethat President Joe Biden was mentally and physically sharp enough to serve as commander in chief. The White House pumped out propaganda that Biden was fit as a fiddle, and the media — knowingly —parroted the liesbecause it was an election year and they did not want Trump to win.