Junkee, 21 March 2019:BREAKING: Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison shuts down media conference when confronted about boasting to colleagues in 2011 he was going to 'cash-in' on rising anti-Muslim sentiment in Australia. He fled because public record since shows he did pic.twitter.com/fMDBdqToPN— Alt-Rupert (@TheMurdochTimes) March 20, 2019
Scott Morrison’s been
having a bit
of a shocker lately, and yesterday was no exception. After a
journalist appeared to catch him in a lie at a press conference, our esteemed
Prime Minister responded by abruptly ending the conference and fleeing.
ScoMo’s Great Escape
took place after journalist Samantha Maiden asked him about a bit of a touchy
subject: a
2011 report that he urged the Coalition to exploit anti-Muslim sentiment as
part of an election strategy. Morrison has repeatedly denied saying this, and
has been telling media that his colleague Greg Hunt backs him up — on the
record.
Except, as Sam Maiden
pointed out at the press conference, “the problem with that is that Greg
Hunt did not attend the meeting” where Scott Morrison reportedly made the
comments in the first place. She went on to point out that those who actually
did attend the meeting told the Sydney Morning Herald that Morrison had made
the comments, but before she could finish the sentence ScoMo cut her off.
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