The Biden campaign is once again twisting former President Donald Trump’s post-court statements to create a false narrative about him.
He spoke to reporters after Trump’s day in court in Manhattan’s Business Records Trial ended. President Trump said the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he strongly condemned, was “minor” compared to widespread anti-Semitic protests on college campuses across the country. He accused President Joe Biden of sending an “absolutely terrible message.” problem.
In President Trump’s full quote, he says:
And, very importantly, if you look at different universities across the country, and beyond universities because this is happening in other parts of the country as well, you’ll see the connection between Palestine and Israel and the protests and hatred and anger. This means that you can understand what is happening on the front lines. Biden is sending an absolutely horrifying message – a horrifying, horrifying message. He doesn’t know how to send a message. he can’t speak He cannot connect two sentences. he doesn’t know what to do. This person is not our president. This person shouldn’t be doing what he’s doing, because he can’t do it, and he can’t do it well. Protests are occurring all over the place. He was talking about Charlottesville. Charlottesville was a bit of a peanut, nothing to compare to. And that hatred was not the kind of hatred felt here. This is tremendous hatred, but there are men who can’t talk about it because they can’t understand it. He does not understand what is happening in our country.
The @BidenHQ There were neo-Nazis and KKK members marching shouting, ‘No!'” he wrote. A few peanuts”: “There was nothing. ”
President Trump says neo-Nazis and KKK members marching in Charlottesville chanting ‘Jews will not replace us’ was ‘a little peanut’, ‘nothing’ pic.twitter.com/zTTKECY4zr
— Biden-Harris Headquarters (@BidenHQ) April 25, 2024
The disingenuous caption fails to mention that President Trump was comparing Charlottesville to outbreaks of anti-Semitism at many U.S. universities. That’s because the video itself begins after we’ve already established that that’s the context in which President Trump is speaking.
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The Biden campaign’s manipulation efforts mirror that of the “bloodshed” hoax in March. At a rally for the Buckeye Values PAC, which supports Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno, President Trump predicted an economic “disaster” for the U.S. auto industry if he is not elected. .The Biden campaign is dishonest. Edited That video omits the automotive industry context.
“Crooked Joe Biden and his campaign are making seemingly out-of-context edits,” Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Chan said at the time.
