"CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil took heavy criticism over his 16-second report on President Donald Trump's rollout of an unhinged January 6 propaganda website that presented the issue as a matter of dueling accusations. The Trump administration chose Tuesday the 5th anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol to unveil the site. It sparked immediate and widespread outrage over the stunning falsehoods, omissions, and concoctions."
"Those included claims that it was the Democrats who staged the real insurrection and that police escalated the violence. On Tuesday night's edition of CBS Evening News, Dokoupil spent the quarter-minute of his report on the site delivering the news as competing claims from Trump and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): President Trump today accused Democrats of failing to prevent the attack on the Capitol, while House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries accused the president of, quote, whitewashing it. We'll be right back."
President Trump's administration unveiled a January 6 website on the attack's fifth anniversary containing falsehoods, omissions, and claims that Democrats staged the insurrection and police escalated violence. CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil devoted 16 seconds to presenting the rollout as competing accusations, quoting Trump and House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Local CBS News New York aired a longer package by Alice Gainer that called out the site's misleading claims and false narratives. The brief national segment prompted immediate backlash from media figures and political observers who labeled the report both-sidesing and inadequate. Critics including Larry Sabato and Norm Ornstein condemned the segment publicly.
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