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Sat Aug 29, 2020, 07:40 PM Aug 2020

Republican National Committee used stock footage from a 2019 protest in Spain to show rioting

'Biden's America'

The Republican National Convention, which took place in a mostly-virtual format Monday through Thursday, used stock video footage of an October 2019 protest in Barcelona, Spain, while the video's narrators alluded to ongoing anti-racism protests in the United States.

As NBC News reported, the video that aired Monday and has since been uploaded to President Donald Trump's YouTube channel featured Catalina and Madeline Lauf, a pair of conservative sisters, who spoke about their beliefs and support of President Trump.

The clip appears four minutes into the video and shows a bright fire as a person runs across the screen holding a baton. But, as NBC News reported, the footage came from stock video and the image service Shutterstock.

"This is a taste of Biden's America," one of the video's narrators said, as several photos and videos of various protests flash on screen. "The rioting, the crime. Freedom is at stake now and this is going to be the most important election of our lifetime."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-republican-national-committee-used-stock-footage-from-a-2019-protest-in-spain-to-show-rioting-in-bidens-america/ar-BB18vcSL?li=BBnb7Kz

Plenty of rioting going on in Trump's America.
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