Amazon's Prime Video has reportedly chosen veteran TV anchor Brian Williams, who was suspended from NBC in 2015 for making false statements, to lead its coverage of the Nov. 5 election night. .

Williams' deal with Amazon marks his first return to the anchor desk since leaving NBC in 2021. According to Go to pack news. The reinstated newscaster's suspension from NBC follows Williams' false claim in 2015 that the military helicopter he was riding in while covering the Iraq War was hit by a rocket and crash-landed. Later on, what he said was a lie. According to Go to PBS News.

“This story actually began over a dozen years ago with a terrifying moment during the invasion of Iraq, when the helicopter we were on was hit by an RPG and crashed,” Williams said. said Broadcast in January 2015. “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded, and kept alive by an armored mechanized platoon of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Regiment.” (Related article: Ted Cruz comes back strong after MSNBC's Brian Williams calls Ted Cruz 'Kremlin Cruz')

Williams tried to correct his story by saying the Chinook in front of him was hit by an RPG, but the pilot of the helicopter he was in said The New York Times reported that the plane hit by the rocket was actually aboard an entirely different group of vehicles.

“I would like to apologize. I said I was on the aircraft that suffered the RPG fire, but instead I was on the following aircraft,” Williams said. said He was called by a member of the military for his story and was immediately broadcast. “This was my failed attempt to thank one special veteran, and by extension, brave veterans and women veterans around the world.”

Williams' helicopter story is not the only false statement he has made regarding military coverage. “It was an honor to fly to Baghdad with you,” he said on the 2011 broadcast. [SEAL Team 6] At the beginning of the war. ”

However, a spokesperson for Special Operations Command said: said The Huffington Post said journalists were not integrated into the counterterrorism effort, as Williams said, and SEAL personnel were also included. tell CNN claimed that the events described by the anchor could not have happened.

Williams also claimed to have been there the day the Berlin Wall fell, but NBC News sources later said this claim was false. According to On CNN.

In his final monologue before leaving NBC at the end of 2021, Williams said that former President Donald Trump's supporters have described the “darkness on the outskirts” as “highways, highways, neighborhoods, local bars, It's expanding to the city.” Bowling Alleys, School Boards, Grocery Stores,” Washington Times reported.

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