The Biden Campaign Admits Its Central Theme is a Lie
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USA Today wrote of Trump that “He claimed there were some very fine people on both sides.” That part is true. Now watch how they weasel-away the second part of Trump’s statement that clarified his meaning.
USA Today said, “In the same speech, though, the president said he had condemned white supremacy and neo-Nazis.”
Did you catch the sleight-of-hand? By wording it as “in the same speech” they leave the impression that the “fine people” comment stood alone as a compliment to neo-Nazis while suggesting that later that he said something contradictory. That is fake news. It was all one extended thought from Trump, not a different topic in the same speech.
Secondly, Trump didn’t “say he had condemned” the neo-Nazis, he actually condemned them, in real time, while cameras rolled. The way USA Today words it, they reduce one of the most well-documented facts of all time to a “claim” from a president known to bend the facts.
The Today Show falsely claimed Pollak was incorrect, without showing its audience the transcript. That is peak weasel.
The Des Moines Register covered the story without showing the transcript. They reported “Former Vice President Joe Biden said he was not misrepresenting President Donald Trump’s comments on a white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
After Biden’s Des Moines Register Political Soapbox speech on Thursday, Breitbart News Network reporter Joel Pollak told Biden he was misquoting the president when he quotes Trump saying there “were very fine people, on both sides” at the white supremacist gathering. Biden pushed back on criticism.
“Let’s get this straight: he said there were very fine people in both groups,” Biden said. “They were chanting anti-Semitic slogans, burning flags.”
How hard would it be to show their readers the actual transcript to prove Biden was lying or confused?
Yahoo News also covered the story without printing the transcript. They wrote “In the wake of the Charlottesville altercation, there has been an effort among Trump supporters in right-wing media to claim that the president didn’t actually call neo-Nazis and white nationalists “very fine people.” Trump, they claim, was talking about those who supported preserving the statue of Robert E. Lee and not the white nationalists who organized the rally. But there is little evidence the former group attended the infamous Friday night tiki-torch march.”
Why do they need to express the story as competing “claims” when the transcript and video of the event are widely available? It’s because the facts don’t support their story. You can bet that they would print the transcript, or at least link to it, if it supported their version of events.
Predictably, Politico reported on the story without printing the transcript. They wrote “Joe Biden on Thursday adamantly defended his assertions that President Donald Trump embraced white supremacists after a deadly demonstration in Charlottesville, Va., engaging in an animated exchange after his public remarks here.”
Again, how hard would it be to link to the full transcript? Or even the full video?
