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CNN just responded on Twitter to Trump falsely accusing them of manipulating video of his speech (Original Post) highplainsdem Jul 2020 OP
Where's the video? Mossfern Jul 2020 #1
Here's one tweet with it, now marked by Twitter as manipulated media: highplainsdem Jul 2020 #6
That's a video of the manipulated one Mossfern Jul 2020 #8
The video that was widely shared was the manipulated one, which is why I thought you meant that one. highplainsdem Jul 2020 #10
Yes, I saw the transcript Mossfern Jul 2020 #11
I just posted it for you -- the second tweet there has the longer video. highplainsdem Jul 2020 #12
Ah, thank you Mossfern Jul 2020 #14
Trump tends to misread the teleprompter, and then try to cover up the mistake by saying the highplainsdem Jul 2020 #15
Trumpy-Boy is not tethered to reality. But that's no surprise. n/t Eyeball_Kid Jul 2020 #2
Trump's speech was a lie. Doug.Goodall Jul 2020 #3
I must be CNN because that's what I think every time that idiot opens his mouth, lol FM123 Jul 2020 #4
Perhaps that word salad was deliberately crafted Cirque du So-What Jul 2020 #5
More proof that the letters 'CNN' are a psychotic trigger for trump* Siwsan Jul 2020 #7
Trump won't understand the word "dispelled." n/t blitzen Jul 2020 #9
Even I don't understand it as applied to an inanimate object marybourg Jul 2020 #19
50k likes for t vs 980 likes for CNN. Boomerproud Jul 2020 #13
His delivery is so bad that it needs to be debated dreamland Jul 2020 #16
So Trump is attacking CNN for fact-checking and dispelling the fake video? Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2020 #17
Jeff Zucker and Trump are buds - don't buy his CNN bashing, it's all for show. tenderfoot Jul 2020 #18

highplainsdem

(48,989 posts)
6. Here's one tweet with it, now marked by Twitter as manipulated media:
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:49 AM
Jul 2020





Some other tweets with it that were being shared widely have now been deleted.

highplainsdem

(48,989 posts)
10. The video that was widely shared was the manipulated one, which is why I thought you meant that one.
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 11:01 AM
Jul 2020

Here's a tweet with Daniel Dale with the transcript of the longer statement, and a tweet from Trump's Rapid Response spokesman with full video of that part of the speech:









Mossfern

(2,511 posts)
11. Yes, I saw the transcript
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 11:07 AM
Jul 2020

but I'd like to see the original non manipulated segment of Trump's speech.
Wondering if it's available anywhere.

Mossfern

(2,511 posts)
14. Ah, thank you
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 11:19 AM
Jul 2020

My issue was with the "swift and sweeping" word salad. I thought perhaps the original video didn't have that.

I've been an elected official, I've made speeches - there is no way that that his words make any sense except that he seems to consistently have language brain farts.

highplainsdem

(48,989 posts)
15. Trump tends to misread the teleprompter, and then try to cover up the mistake by saying the
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 11:21 AM
Jul 2020

correct word and then pretending he meant BOTH words.

FM123

(10,053 posts)
4. I must be CNN because that's what I think every time that idiot opens his mouth, lol
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:40 AM
Jul 2020
What. Are. You. Talking. About?

Cirque du So-What

(25,939 posts)
5. Perhaps that word salad was deliberately crafted
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:41 AM
Jul 2020

along with the response he tweeted in expectation that the news media would jump all over the ambiguity in his speech. He wasn’t expecting CNN to provide cover for him.

Siwsan

(26,263 posts)
7. More proof that the letters 'CNN' are a psychotic trigger for trump*
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 10:51 AM
Jul 2020

Also another example of how he has the attention span, reading skills and cognitive abilities of week old road kill.

marybourg

(12,631 posts)
19. Even I don't understand it as applied to an inanimate object
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 12:56 PM
Jul 2020

or recorded verbiage. It usually refers to a transient belief.

dreamland

(964 posts)
16. His delivery is so bad that it needs to be debated
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 11:24 AM
Jul 2020

It's no wonder we are a confused country. He makes it so that we hear only what we can coherently piece together from his word salad.

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