Dylan Byers, now of CNN, thought he had a big scoop on his hands when he uncovered a Washington Beacon reporter’s donation to the Donald Trump campaign. It turns out reporter Andrew Stiles did drop more than $500 on Trump baseball caps for the Beacon staff as props for a joke photo shoot — not exactly a Pulitzer-worthy discovery.
Twitchy publishes plenty of posts about the lapdog media, but these so-called journalists are usually sucking up to politicians who’ve already been elected. Byers had another hot scoop today about an ABC journalist and her unprofessional encounter with a certain lap.
Lara Spencer, of ABC’s Good Morning America, just posted picture of her sitting on Donald Trump’s lap to Instagram… https://t.co/xYmRRgrQ4H
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) November 3, 2015
@DylanByers what the hell?
— Michael Booth (@mboothdenver) November 3, 2015
@DylanByers So professional
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) November 3, 2015
@DylanByers How could he have tolerated only a 9.5 sitting on his lap?
— Lee-Anne Goodman (@leeanne25) November 3, 2015
.@DylanByers There's your next debate moderator!
— Pat Carroll (@PatC508) November 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/isaiahsvision/status/661651327676624896
Ugh, us too.
@DylanByers that's sort of icky
— beekaytulsa (@beekaytulsa) November 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/Massena1/status/661657565877506048
@DylanByers @politicalwire I just lost all respect for her. Is this how a serious journalist acts? Smh
— Linda Heeter (@Lindah924) November 3, 2015
@DylanByers But the question that all of America wants to know- Is Donald Trump wearing pants?
— David Xavier (@XavierDavidXavi) November 3, 2015
As can be seen in the photo caption, though, Spencer clarifies that she’s not sitting on Trump’s lap at all, just standing next to him.
Contra, @DylanByers, @LaraSpencer says she was not sitting on Donald Trump's lap. pic.twitter.com/WUnqSh0qst
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) November 3, 2015
The cropping on the photo, though, doesn’t allow us to see what’s going on down below, and we don’t know whom to believe: the ABC reporter or the CNN reporter? It turns out there’s more to this non-story:
fwiw, ABC’s Lara Spencer also dressed up as Trump for halloween https://t.co/L1WyDNwQQ4
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) November 3, 2015
That could be considered quite the coincidence, if we hadn’t seen about a million Donald Trumps scroll down our Twitter timeline on Halloween night. So, where does this investigation stand?
Still waiting on official comment from ABC, but they stress Lara Spencer was *standing* next to Trump in photo. So, just had arms around him
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) November 3, 2015
https://twitter.com/inconspicuous/status/661666765592637440
Maybe a second shooter will emerge from the grassy knoll with a photo of the controversial scene from another angle.
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