NBC News Suspends Reporter Who Derailed the Paul Pelosi Narrative

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It’s starting to feel like we’re never going to find out exactly what happened to Paul Pelosi.

First the press told us David DePape, the man who attacked Pelosi with a hammer in his own home, was arrested while wearing only his underwear. Then we were told that was incorrect. Then the press told us that there was a third person in the house who opened the door for the police. Then we were told that was incorrect.

Then Miguel Almaguer of NBC News reported the following, which was much different than the narrative that had been created and clumsily maintained:

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NBC on Paul Pelosi: “The front door was opened by Mr. Pelosi. He did not declare an emergency or try to leave his home, instead began walking several feet back towards the assailant and away from police."

Then NBC News pulled that report from the internet without explanation, just a vague non-retraction. And Almaguer hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

Now, a week after the 2022 midterms, after anybody who would’ve been swayed by this incident has already voted:

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NBC SUSPENDS correspondent after network was forced to retract exclusive report Paul Pelosi attack

trib.alNBC SUSPENDS reporter after exclusive on Paul Pelosi attack retractedMiguel Almaguer, 45, a correspondent with NBC’s Today show has been suspended after he reported inaccurate information on Paul Pelosi’s attack last month in San Francisco.

Unlike a lot of folks, I don’t have a conspiracy theory about any of this. I don’t assume it was some sort of followup to 1/6, nor a gay lovers’ quarrel. I don’t claim to know what really happened.

But I do have questions: