Global News journo caught in fake news lie over Trudeau’s blocked campaign bus
David Akin, chief political correspondent for Global News, tweeted Saturday to deny Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's campaign bus was blockaded by protesters in British Columbia. Akin labelled a clip of the incident posted to social media by environmental activists, Dog Wood Initiative, “Fake News.” Rebel News had earlier posted footage of the bus being blocked from leaving.
You think right wing news outlets stretch the truth? How about this whopper from a left wing advocacy group? Complete fake news. I was there. No helicopters were harmed during Trudeau’s stop in @ElizabethMay ‘s riding. https://t.co/zNIEHtAnFM
— David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) August 21, 2021
Trudeau was in Victoria, B.C., for an August 19 campaign stop. Rebel News Chief Videographer Mocha Bezirgan was at the event where he captured video of the Liberal campaign bus being physically blockaded by Indigenous rights protesters and heckling Trudeau as he entered the bus after the rally wrapped up.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had his bus blocked by indigenous rights protesters on Vancouver Island. After blocking his bus for about 35 minutes, the PM was evacuated from the bus by security. Full story coming soon, help support our election coverage at https://t.co/fdkjuK9jBt pic.twitter.com/i009f8mguu
— Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 (@BezirganMocha) August 19, 2021
The blockade resulted in the prime minister being evacuated from the bus after at least an approximate 30-minute delay. Trudeau left the bus wearing a black jacket and was escorted back into the event area with his personal RCMP security detail following suit.
The full video report is coming soon, however, the written report was published just hours after the incident, along with supporting video. You can read it here in full.
On Saturday, bailout-recipient journalist for Global News, David Akin, tweeted that reports of Trudeau’s bus being blockaded was “complete fake news,” adding that the campaign bus was “not blocked ever.”
His bus was not blocked ever at any event I attended in the last week.
— David Akin 🇨🇦 (@davidakin) August 21, 2021
In response, Mocha Bezirgan published a long-form video time lapse from his two-camera shoot. His video documented the protest which disrupted the Liberal campaign bus for around 30 minutes.
You are not telling the truth. I was there and I recorded them blocking the bus for half an hour. At times I recorded with both of my hands. I interviewed them. I asked Justin why he wouldn't engage with them. I'm not fake news. Where were you when this was happening? https://t.co/nbt3Oil6fd pic.twitter.com/nKePPXIpLV
— Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 (@BezirganMocha) August 21, 2021
Other Rebel reporters chimed in on Akin's remarks.
You are fake news.
— Efron Monsanto (@realmonsanto) August 21, 2021
It takes young Chief videographer @BezirganMocha to show Canadians the real truth, not from you inside the Liberal lackey bus.
You are fake news, David.
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) August 21, 2021
We had a videographer on the scene capturing several minutes of footage of Trudeau's bus being blocked by indigenous protesters which is something that you didn't even think was newsworthy.
Doing what it takes to keep your spot on the bus I guess. https://t.co/0RLcPG9l8V
Bezirgan finally asked where Akin was on that day and why Akin didn't come outside of the Liberal media bus to report on the news himself.
There was a dozen journalist there yet none of them told you that Justin Trudeau's bus was blocked for HALF AN HOUR. But they refused to show this to you. https://t.co/cUcnqs1L6H
— Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 (@BezirganMocha) August 21, 2021
The chief political correspondent for @globalnews lied that Trudeau’s bus being blocked was “fake news”. Once I called him out and published a time lapse of the half an hour long incident, instead of a retraction, he blocked me. pic.twitter.com/UHdjtT0Oh2
— Mocha Bezirgan 🇨🇦 (@BezirganMocha) August 22, 2021
Go to RealReporters.ca if you want to support Rebel's coverage of the election. You know you will get stories what the corporate press won't report on.
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