Amazon Choses TV Anchor With Well-Documented History Of Falsehoods To Head Election Night Coverage 

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

Williams’ deal with Amazon represents his first time back at an anchor desk since leaving NBC in 2021, according to Puck News. The returning news anchor’s suspension from NBC followed Williams making a false claim in 2015 that a military helicopter he was traveling in during his coverage of the war in Iraq was forced to land after being hit by a rocket, a story the pilots of the helicopter later said was false, according to PBS News.

“The story actually started with a terrible moment a dozen years back during the invasion of Iraq when the helicopter we were traveling in was forced down after being hit by an RPG,” Williams said in a January 2015 broadcast.  “Our traveling NBC News team was rescued, surrounded and kept alive by an armor mechanized platoon from the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry.”

Williams attempted to amend his story to say that the Chinook in front of him was hit by an RPG, but the pilots of the helicopter he was flying in told the New York Times that the aircraft struck by a rocket was actually in a different group of vehicles altogether.