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‘I will win’: Chris Rufo vows to wage ‘legal war’ against teacher’s union boss for ‘doctored’ quote

April 28, 2022 | | Print Article

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Crusading journalist Christopher Rufo has vowed to take legal action against teachers’ union head Randi Weingarten after the embattled union boss used a manipulated quote to whip up leftist resentment against him, a grossly dishonest and unethical maneuver that underscores her desperation.

The Manhattan Institute fellow who also writes for the City Journal has been at the forefront of efforts to expose the depths to which the cancerous ideology of the “woke” revolutionaries has penetrated boardrooms and classrooms and has become a focal point of the fanatical left’s hatred to the extent that they are now just making things up about him.

At issue is a “doctored quotation” posted to Twitter by the American Federation of Teachers president that distorted Rufo’s words to make it appear that it is he and not the leftist culture warriors who are fomenting distrust and creating a false narrative.

“Rufo himself said ‘To get to universal school choice, you really need to operate from a premise of universal public school distrust. To sow & grow that distrust, you have to create your own narrative frame, & have to be brutal & ruthless in pursuing it,” she wrote.

(Screenshot: Twitter)

“Let’s be clear about what Rufo is saying. This isn’t about helping kids. This is about sowing distrust and chaos,” Weingarten added in a second tweet.

Rufo responded strongly to her twisting of his words that were delivered during a speech at Hillsdale College.

This is a doctored quotation. Delete it, @rweingarten, or I will wage legal war against you—and, as you have made up the middle part of the quote entirely, I will win,” he wrote.

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“Anyone can watch my Hillsdale speech to confirm. Randi combines two unrelated lines and fabricates the words “to sow & grow that distrust” to make it seem sinister. In the speech I say the opposite: the *teachers unions* have created distrust,” Rufo added, including a link to a video of his speech.

“I welcome criticism, even harsh criticism, from @rweingarten and the teachers unions. But fabricating a quotation is utterly dishonest and beyond the pale of acceptable discourse. Weingarten and the AFT should delete it immediately—or I will escalate,” Rufo added in another tweet.

Weingarten also repeated the falsified quote during an appearance on MSNBC, drawing a response from Rufo that if she didn’t delete the tweet and issue a retraction that “I will unleash hell on you,” a promise to make her pay for the brazenly transparent manipulation of his words.

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Weingarten did slightly walk it back, posting his words in context but not deleting the original or retracting her words.

“Randi is now admitting that she deliberately fabricated ‘to sow and grow that distrust’ with the intention of damaging my reputation,” Rufo responded. “Somebody please buy this woman a shovel—she’s digging herself deeper into the hole.”

Ironically, Weingarten recently drew attention for bellicose remarks made on a liberal podcast earlier this month, suggesting that the backlash against classroom groomers and their enablers could lead to an actual war.

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“This notion – we’ve been very lucky in America, and we in some ways live in a bubble for a long time,” she said. “This is propaganda. This is misinformation. This is the way in which wars start. This is the way in which hatred starts.”

Rufo, who has promised to hold the “oppressor of American children” accountable for her lies, appears to be poised to give Weingarten her war, in a courtroom.

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26 thoughts on “‘I will win’: Chris Rufo vows to wage ‘legal war’ against teacher’s union boss for ‘doctored’ quote”

  4. Weingarten is absolute scum . She needs to be terminated and the false teachers unions should be dissolved . Educate our children don’t indoctrinate them .

  5. you need an easy way to unblock notifications. if you run your cursor over the bell you get blocked.

  6. When Weingarten made the comment they were going to teach CRT whether parents “liked it or not,” like the children belonged to HER, she needed to step down, because IMO, that made her unfit for the job of union president. She wants to push the oppressor/oppressed nonsense and also the trannie and gay nonsense to young,, impressionable children. Any school that allows either to be taught need to lose their tax support, because I doubt many parents want the garbage presented to their children.

  8. We are fortunate to have a Teacher’s Union and the followers of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin). Quote: the “children are property of the state”! Time to retire the union!

  10. IMO teachers’ union head Randi Weingarten has proven with her words and deeds that she is unhinged, angry, anti-American, and a general germ to American society.

  11. Rufo, don’t Just threaten Do It. Thats part of The Problem, Republicans/Conservatives are Always threatening and don’t follow through. Sue Her, Sue her blind.

  12. Teachers unions and Weingarten are scumbags who only care about making money and pushing agendas. I hope he sues her.

  13. “This is propaganda. This is misinformation. This is the way in which wars start. This is the way in which hatred starts.”

    Yep, propaganda coming solely from the left, and a civil war that’s going to start within the next 10 years because these pieces of liberal excrement are going to poke the bear one too many times. It’s a war that will ultimately see the complete eradication of liberalism because they’ll either be dead, or so deep in their filthy closets they’ll never find their way back out. Can’t wait…

  14. Add the original statement and this story would make a lot more sense.
    As it is, it’s barely intelligible. Also presentations are made poorer
    with Twitter copies (sometimes more than once) that repeat
    what is written. It is a lazy way to fill more space without providing
    more content.

  16. The worst thing to happen to education in America was/is teacher unions, all of them. Winegarden is just one example. Look at the rubber rooms in NYC and all the worse than marginal teachers protected by the unions so they can keep getting their dues. Letting incompetent management on the federal level dictate what should happen is almost as bad as pompous liars like Winegarden!!

  17. I have never seen the left go so insane. Everything they are saying is exactly what they are doing, it’s called hard projection. I do hope Rufo goes after this hateful person. They are losing their cause and it will definitely get worse the more they lose. God Bless America!

  19. Someone needs to take this woman down. I hope Rufo does bring her to court. (Rhetorical question – I wonder why Twitter allowed that disinformation from her?)

  20. Winegarden and her ilk are fast running for nomination to be the first tar & feather candidates in quite a few years. Transport by rail will be provided, of course.

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