The Washington Post, that perennial beacon of journalistic malpractice, has once again tripped over its own ideological shoelaces with a Trump National Guard story so laughably off-base it deserves a standing ovation for sheer clownery. As Nolte masterfully dissects in his Breitbart takedown, the Post peddled a narrative claiming Trump personally ordered 20,000 National Guard troops to DC on January 6th without consulting anyone—pure fiction designed to paint the former president as some unhinged dictator wannabe. In reality, as even the thinnest fact-check reveals, it was Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller who greenlit the deployment at the request of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, with Trump only looped in later for approval. The Post’s scoop crumbled faster than a house of cards in a windstorm, forcing two humiliating corrections that read like a confession booth.

This isn’t just sloppy reporting; it’s a calculated hit job emblematic of the legacy media’s war on anything smelling of Trump-era strength, including robust federal responses to civil unrest. Remember the summer of 2020? Cities burned, Antifa torched federal buildings, and Democrat mayors begged off deploying Guard units while the press cheered the mostly peaceful riots. Fast-forward to J6, and suddenly deploying troops to protect the Capitol is insurrectionist overreach. The Post’s double-clown act exposes their selective outrage: amplify threats from the right, downplay chaos from the left. For the 2A community, this is a stark reminder of the media’s playbook—frame any armed federal presence under conservative leadership as tyrannical, while ignoring how the same tools quelled leftist violence without a peep.

The implications ripple straight to our Second Amendment fight. If outlets like the Post can fabricate stories to demonize Trump for merely supporting Guard deployments (which, let’s be real, are stocked with armed patriots exercising their own 2A rights), imagine the smears awaiting any future pro-2A administration daring to use National Guard for border security or riot control. It’s gaslighting on steroids, conditioning the public to view uniformed Americans with rifles as threats only when they’re not rioting for social justice. 2A advocates must call this out relentlessly: the real danger isn’t Guard troops safeguarding elections; it’s a press that lies to disarm us all. Stay vigilant, curate your sources, and keep the powder dry—truth and liberty demand it.