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Fact Checker: Jack Posobiec Not Detained at World Economic Forum Despite Video Clearly Showing He Was

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After Human Events reporter Jack Posobiec was detained on video in Davos while covering the World Economic Forum, Politifact’s Monique Curet swooped in to warn us against believing our lying eyes. “No, Jack Posobiec was not arrested or detained in Davos,” she boldly declared.

Curet seems to have chosen to jump together two claims in this fact check (that Posobiec was detained *and* arrested) so that when she’s called out on her claim that’s obviously false (that Posobiec wasn’t detained), she can fall back on what’s correct (that Posobiec was not arrested).But Posobiec never claimed to have been arrested, and Curet’s justification for fact checking this claim is because she’s specifically fact checking Donald Trump Jr.’s characterization of events, that “American journalist Jack Posobiec was ‘arrested at World Economic Forum,'” and linked to a video where Trump Jr. never says Posobiec was arrested at the WEF, only that he was briefly detained.

In the video, Donald Trump Jr. talks about Posobiec’s detainment, and text at the top of the video reads in bold “SHOCK: American Journalist Detained at World Economic Forum.” The confusion seems to be that whoever manages Trump Jr.’s Facebook page incorrectly captioned the video “American Journalist Arrested at World Economic Forum” (in the description box), but again, Trump Jr. never says he was arrested in the actual video.

Posobiec’s detainment was captured on video by Savannah Hernandez, who asked the police detaining him what he had had done.

To quote the relevant part of the video, where it’s made clear that Posobiec can’t leave:

Savannah: He’s surrounded right now, is he allowed to leave the area?

Woman With Police: We’re just making a normal police control. Because, you know, it’s WEF, everything is very sensitive

Savannah: Is there any reason he in particular was targeted?

Woman: Uh, there is a reason, because we have to have a reason to control a person

Savannah: What was the reason? What was he doing?

Woman: I don’t have to tell you… Why… why are you asking me that?

Savannah: Because there’s many journalists here, and I want to know why he specifically is being detained.

Woman: There is a reason, but everything is clear now, and we’re about to leave in just a few seconds. OK? Um, yeah, can you please now… can I ask you to delete *video ends*

Of note, the woman in the video with the WEF police seems to use the word “control” when she means of “detain” or “stop.”

So how did PolitiFact come to their conclusion that this never happened? By asking the police who detained Posobiec for their account and then printing it: “Posobiec was neither arrested nor detained in Davos, police said.”

That’s it.

And since that’s the conclusion they want, they just ran with it, and rated it “false” that Posobiec was detained and arrested (even though no one actually said he was).

Posobiec fired back after PolitFact’s article went live: “My crew and myself were detained by heavily-armed officers, searched, fully frisked one by one, and not allowed to leave for over an hour. We have this on video. You are liars.”

And the video backs up his account, not theirs.

It’s no wonder they wanted the footage deleted.

Matt Palumbo is the author of The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros


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