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Trump campaign provokes Twitter with edited Biden clip to challenge its 'manipulated media' policy


It's not just the Biden campaign, it's the entire Fake News industry.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-campaign-provokes-twitter-with-edited-biden-clip-to-challenge-its-manipulated-media-policy

The Trump campaign challenged Twitter on Thursday over its update policies by sharing a manipulated video of former Vice President Joe Biden calling the coronavirus a "hoax."

For weeks, the Trump campaign has blasted the Biden campaign after it released an attack ad accusing President Trump of calling the growing outbreak a "hoax" during a campaign rally when he was actually comparing the outrage fueled by his political opponents over the Russia investigation and the Ukraine scandal, which he referred to as "hoaxes."
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That prompted the Trump campaign to share an edited audio clip of Biden saying "the coronavirus is a hoax."

"The media is giving a pass to a pro-Biden TV ad that doctors and deceptively edits audio of President Trump, even though every independent fact checker said President Trump DID NOT call the coronavirus a hoax. Joe Biden, on the other hand? This sounds authentic…" the "Trump War Room" tweeted.

The Biden campaign quickly condemned the video, calling it "wildly irresponsible."
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“It’s clearer than ever that Twitter is not equipped to police political videos. If it is going to attempt to, it must begin to enforce the rules transparently, fairly, and equally. Regardless of Twitter’s arbitrary and ineffective rules, splicing video or audio together to make it appear as though someone said something that they never actually said should be out of bounds," Trump campaign spokesperson Matt Wolking told Fox News.

He said, "In that spirit, we will voluntarily take down our video of Joe Biden saying, ‘The coronavirus is a hoax’ once the Biden campaign, its super PAC Unite the Country, and supporting groups Fellow Americans and Priorities USA take down their deceptively edited and doctored videos of President Trump. Until then, turnabout is fair play.”

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Trump should completely stay away from the word hoax.
His blundering blathering confuses everybody

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This shouldn't surprise anyone.

All Trump has to do is play Biden's videos in their full context to know he's lost his marbles. No editing needed.

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Here's some of the things that Democrats had said concerning the coronavirus:
https://youtu.be/b47WNv0kQFI

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Awesome. I'm glad they're fighting back against Twitter's partisan censorship tyranny, highlighting their undeniable hypocrisy.

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About time we finally showed where dogdump got his information about Trump calling the Coronavirus a hoax. He's stupidly following ole' dumbass Biden's campaign!

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I thought I was the only one to call him dogdump!

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