Following the FBI raid of Donald Trump’s Florida home, some people on the left have decided that the word “raid” is too harsh and makes them sound like the authoritarians they are, so they want to change it.
Changing language to change the perception of reality is something the left is doing with increasing regularity. They just did it with “recession.”
MSNBC host and former Kamala Harris staffer Symone Sanders was one of the early adopters here.
FOX News reports:
Kamala Harris aide-turned-MSNBC host pleads: Don’t call FBI Mar-a-Lago search ‘a raid’Former Kamala Harris aide Symone Sanders, now an MSNBC weekend host, pleaded with people to stop calling the FBI search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence a “raid” on Tuesday.”Please folks stop calling it a ‘raid,’” she tweeted, later responding to critics in amusement.Those words may have been directed at her fellow MSNBC hosts and producers, who used the “raid” language on the air often Monday evening.”The FBI raided Donald Trump’s Florida home today on the 48th anniversary, today is the 48th anniversary of the day that Republican president Richard Nixon announced that he was resigning the presidency,” anchor Lawrence O’Donnell said Monday.Even former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo raised eyebrows on Twitter when he called on the Justice Department to justify the “raid” or else jeopardize other investigations like the one into the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.MSNBC seemed to change tacks on Tuesday, with more hosts and reporters quoting Trump’s “raid” language but mostly describing it as a search instead.”Already the former president has called it a raid. And the veteran FBI officials telling us it’s more of a simple search, which is something they do routinely,” reporter Kerry Sanders said on Tuesday.
See her tweet below:
Other people on the left picked up on this:
This has gotten some unsurprising responses:
The bottom line is that this was a raid, and none of the left’s attempts to redefine it will change that.
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