Laura Hollis’ July 4 WorldNetDaily column is unironically headlined “Declare your independence from propaganda and lies!” — apparently oblivious to the fact that WND is largely known for publishing propaganda and lies. Hollis furthered her failure by complaining that “So much of what has been told to the American public over the past few years has been exposed as propaganda and deceit, utilized for political gain,” going on to cite alleged “debunked claims, once touted as gospel.” Let’s review a few of those.
“Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.” No, he didn’t. Claims of “collusion” were part of a political hit job unlawfully funded by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The Democratic Party knew it, and the FBI certainly knew it, since they lied to a federal court to unlawfully obtain warrants to spy on Trump, his campaign and his administration after he won. The three-year, $30 million-plus “investigation” was a sham to cover up these unlawful activities and public lies – which is why it produced ZERO evidence of “collusion.”
In fact, the Trump campaign met dozens of times with Russian operatives and then-campaign manager Paul Manafort gave internal polling information to another Russian operative — which runs counter to Hollis’ claim of “ZERO evidence” — and a government watchdog agreed that an investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia was justified.
“COVID-19 started in a wet market.” No, it didn’t. COVID-19 most likely leaked from the virology lab in Wuhan, China, where “gain of function” research (seeking ways to make bat viruses jump to other species, including humans) – funded at least in part by the United States – was taking place under inadequate safety protocols; a fact our own State Department warned of years before the pandemic.
A deliberate lab leak has not been proven, despite Hollis’ suggestion.
“The COVID-19 ‘vaccines’ prevent contraction and transmission of the disease.” No, they didn’t.
Yes, they did. Early vaccines became less effective as the virus mutated, requiring reformulation of the vaccine.
“The COVID-19 ‘vaccines’ are safe.” No, they aren’t. There have been thousands upon thousands of documented ill effects caused by the shots, including myocarditis and death. In an article published last month in Forensic Science International, researchers who studied hundreds of deaths that followed within two weeks of a COVID-19 shot concluded that “there is a high likelihood of a causal link between COVID-19 vaccines and death.”
As we documented, the research article to which Hollis is referring — co-written by anti-vaxxers and misinformers like Peter McCullough and Harvey Risch and was originally published last year on a preprint server for a different journal, then quickly retracted due to flaws in its methodology. The same study resurfaced earlier this year at Forensic Science International, which retracted it last month due to numerous factors including “errors, misrepresentation, and lack of factual support for the conclusions.”
“The material on Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian misinformation.” False. The information on presidential son Hunter Biden’s laptop showing salacious, sexually explicit and illegal behavior was absolutely authentic, and both our government and the media knew it and suppressed it to help Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Hollis memory-holes the fact that the New York Post provided no independent verification at the time it reported its story, the absence of which let people to reasonably dismiss the laptop as the biased product of a right-wing, pro-Trump rag.
Hollis then engaged in her own pro-Trump propaganda:
Trump was not a dictator in 2017, nor would he be in 2025. To the contrary, it is this administration that has punched fist-sized holes in the Constitution and the rule of law, imprisoning Americans without due process, prosecuting legitimately peaceful protesters, targeting Catholics, censoring truthful information and using the legal system to cripple, bankrupt, prosecute and potentially imprison Biden’s political opponent, Trump.
Nor does the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Trump v. United States portend the horrors that politicians, media personalities and Hollywood celebrities have parroted.
The court’s decision states only that the president is immune from criminal prosecution for acts that are within his or her “official duties”; the office’s “core constitutional powers.”
Those powers are set forth in Article II of the U.S. Constitution.
Hollis missed the part where Trump has been spouting increasingly authoritarian rhetoric and declared he would be a dictator on “day one” if elected (he claimed it would only be on day one, but what dictator has even willingly relinquished such power?).
Hollis concluded: “This Fourth of July, declare your independence from information manipulation and start questioning what you’re being told. The truth is there – and increasingly obvious – if you’re just willing to see it.” We’ve shown Hollis the truth about the lies she has been peddling, but is she willing to see it?