The Republican National Committee edited a video of President Biden claiming he zoned out during the G7 summit, but fact-checkers have been slamming the Make America Great Again lie.
White House adviser Andrew Bates released both an actual and edited version of the clip:
Murdoch’s media is so eager to distract @America presidentThe record shows they just lied.
Here they use an artificially narrow frame to hide from the viewer that he just watched a skydiving demonstration.
He congratulated one of the divers and gave him a thumbs up. Video: https://t.co/Pn0uGtzpLy pic.twitter.com/tDowABzud3
—Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) June 13, 2024
World leaders such as British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak provided the fact that “they had all landed and he was very polite.” He just walked over and spoke to all of them individually. They all came to shake our hands individually. So we’re supposed to stand in one place instead of saying hello because everyone wants to try and talk to the guy who’s jumping up with the flag.
A Washington Post fact-checker said the video was doctored:
The use of these clips are two particularly harmful examples of film manipulation—what we call “isolation” in our guide to manipulating film—because its purpose is to create a false narrative that does not reflect the events situation when it occurs. The Republican National Committee and its fervent following in conservative media have won four Pinocchios.
CNN said the video was deceptively edited.
Deception is the point. Republicans can’t run on Trump’s advantage because their nominee will be compared to a drunken uncle and a man who can’t hold his thoughts after the convention, so they need to create one through falsehoods and deceptive editing. An imaginary Biden video.
Trump can’t beat the real Biden, so Republicans are trying to fool voters with a fake Biden.
