Fox Contributor Walks Back Fake Story Of Trampled Protestor

By Ed Scarce — February 20, 2022

Sara Carter, the self-proclaimed award-winning journalist seems to tweet a lot of rightwing fantasy that inevitably never happened. This is just another example. Ted Cruz even got in on ~~her~~ the act, as he often does.

Source: Daily Beast

Fox News contributor Sara Carter has walked back her entirely fictitious claim about a woman dying after being trampled by a Canadian authority on horseback amid ongoing trucker-led protests.

While the claim wasn’t accurate, the tweet was red-meat for her over 1.3 million conservative Twitter followers, who quickly amplified the baseless death as evidence of Canadian government wrongdoing.

“Reports are the woman trampled by a Canadian horse patrol just died at the hospital ... #Trudeau #FreedomConvoyCanada,” Carter, who purports to be an “award-winning correspondent,” tweeted Friday evening.

Shortly thereafter, conservatives picked up and amplified the tweet, including former Fox Nation hosts Diamond and Silk and Republican Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).

She explained later...

The Reports I was given earlier yesterday from sources on the ground that someone may have died at a hospital during the trampling was wrong.👇someone was taken to a hospital with a heart condition -not due to trampling.I want to clarify this again and apologize for any confusion pic.twitter.com/FVC2sTeeZy

— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) February 19, 2022

And whiny Ted Cruz grudgingly took his tweet down for this BS.

I deleted my retweet about a Canadian protestor being trampled to death because the journalist who first reported it now says it was in error.

I remain deeply concerned about the abuse—seizing money & employing violence against peaceful protesters—that we’re seeing in Canada.

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 19, 2022

Not sure if the Ottawa Police are trolling these protesters or not, but...

We hear your concern for people on the ground after the horses dispersed a crowd. Anyone who fell got up and walked away. We're unaware of any injuries. A bicycle was thrown at the horse further down the line and caused the horse to trip. The horse was uninjured. pic.twitter.com/tgfsl6uxT7

— Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) February 19, 2022

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