Earth to Brian Stelter, Oliver Darcy, Scott Nover, Brian Steinberg, and the rest of the so-called media reporting class: Where are you on this act of media intimidation?
Goodman explained the Free Beacon’s initial reporting from a day earlier:
The Free Beacon broke the news on Monday that El-Sayed told staffers he wanted to avoid making a public statement about the assassination of Khamenei because “there are a lot of people in Dearborn who are sad” about the late Iranian dictator’s death. The story was based on audio from a private campaign strategy call obtained by the Free Beacon.
In a statement “[n]early 12 hours after the story broke,” Goodman explained, “El-Sayed released a statement calling the Free Beacon a ‘rightwing news outlet’ that ‘may have illegally and unethically obtained’ the audio recording.”
She added that the El-Sayed campaign laundered a statement through a D.C.-based lawyer to state “the ‘campaign is considering legal options against the individual’ who took the recording.”
Notably, El-Sayed also said in the recording — which was of a campaign brainstorming session — said he would pivot from the Iran war to arguing it was a decision by the “pedophile president” to distract from the Epstein files.
To see Goodman’s full story, click here.
