Tip of the hat to World of Reel‘s Jordan Ruimy for digging into the recent Sound of Freedom smear that involved a clumsy mischaracterizing of alleged child-kidnapper Fabian Marta, who (a) is not a financier of the film but merely one of the film’s 6,678 crowdfunders and (b) is involved with some kind of child-custody mishegoss that apparently that has zip to do with child trafficking.
Marta’s lawyer Scott Rosenblum to Deadline‘s Anthony D’Alessandro: “I don’t understand how they’re charging him with this…he has nothing to do with kidnapping anyone.”
I washed my hands of Sound of Freedom after that Bedminster Golf Club screening for Donald Trump, but a few slipshod media outlets (including Newsweek) jumped on the Marta story a day or two ago, seemingly energized by the idea of slandering the Angel Studios release because it’s a rightwing thing. This is not cool.
