Democrats edit impeachment video to conveniently exclude Trump's call to protest ‘peacefully'
News Deceptive
Phil Shiver
February 10, 2021
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Democratic impeachment managers were called out Tuesday at the start of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial for showcasing a deceptively edited video montage depicting the events of Jan. 6.
What are the details?
The 13-minute video featured clips from Trump's speech where the former president encouraged his supporters to "fight like hell" in addition to graphic footage of rioters violently breaching security perimeters and fighting with police at the U.S. Capitol as well as yelling profanities at officers.
The video was clearly intended to convince members of Congress that Trump did in fact stoke violence and incite an insurrection as has been laid out in impeachment charges filed against him.
But in order to make that case more emphatically, impeachment managers conveniently excluded key portions of Trump's speech, including one during which he asked followers to "peacefully and patriotically make [their] voices heard."
Shortly after the video was played and began streaming across the internet, Right Side Broadcasting Network, a media organization supportive of Trump, and others, pointed out the misleading edits.
Donald Trump Jr. posted a video on Twitter of a Newsmax interview during which Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin (N.Y.) also criticized the deceptive editing.
"If they're going to start playing the video of what the president said, how do you cut it out at the point where the president's telling his supporters to [protest] peacefully and patriotically?" asked Zeldin.
What else?
Left-leaning outlet, Newsweek, published a fact-check on the claims that the video was "edited to remove Trump's call for peace before the riot" and determined the claim was true.
"According to a transcript of the speech and footage of it in its entirety, Trump did make the statement on January 6," the Newsweek report stated. "The video played at Trump's trial Tuesday showed the violence that occurred at the Capitol but does not include that part of his speech."
"The montage presented by [lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)] shows the tens of thousands of Trump supporters at the Ellipse as he echoed unsubstantiated claims of a stolen election. It then cuts to rioters marching to and storming the Capitol before the conclusion of the speech, then returns to a later portion of Trump's remarks," it added.
Anything else?
In response, former Republican congressman, Jason Chaffetz, suggested that the video may have violated a House of Representatives rule that bars images, videos, or audio files presented in the chamber from being "manipulated with the intent to mislead the public."
"Go to page 34 of House Rules. Did the manipulated video violate the House Rules?" Chaffetz tweeted Tuesday afternoon. The rules state:
News Deceptive
Phil Shiver
February 10, 2021
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Democratic impeachment managers were called out Tuesday at the start of former President Donald Trump's second impeachment trial for showcasing a deceptively edited video montage depicting the events of Jan. 6.
What are the details?
The 13-minute video featured clips from Trump's speech where the former president encouraged his supporters to "fight like hell" in addition to graphic footage of rioters violently breaching security perimeters and fighting with police at the U.S. Capitol as well as yelling profanities at officers.
The video was clearly intended to convince members of Congress that Trump did in fact stoke violence and incite an insurrection as has been laid out in impeachment charges filed against him.
But in order to make that case more emphatically, impeachment managers conveniently excluded key portions of Trump's speech, including one during which he asked followers to "peacefully and patriotically make [their] voices heard."
Shortly after the video was played and began streaming across the internet, Right Side Broadcasting Network, a media organization supportive of Trump, and others, pointed out the misleading edits.
Donald Trump Jr. posted a video on Twitter of a Newsmax interview during which Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin (N.Y.) also criticized the deceptive editing.
"If they're going to start playing the video of what the president said, how do you cut it out at the point where the president's telling his supporters to [protest] peacefully and patriotically?" asked Zeldin.
What else?
Left-leaning outlet, Newsweek, published a fact-check on the claims that the video was "edited to remove Trump's call for peace before the riot" and determined the claim was true.
"According to a transcript of the speech and footage of it in its entirety, Trump did make the statement on January 6," the Newsweek report stated. "The video played at Trump's trial Tuesday showed the violence that occurred at the Capitol but does not include that part of his speech."
"The montage presented by [lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.)] shows the tens of thousands of Trump supporters at the Ellipse as he echoed unsubstantiated claims of a stolen election. It then cuts to rioters marching to and storming the Capitol before the conclusion of the speech, then returns to a later portion of Trump's remarks," it added.
Anything else?
In response, former Republican congressman, Jason Chaffetz, suggested that the video may have violated a House of Representatives rule that bars images, videos, or audio files presented in the chamber from being "manipulated with the intent to mislead the public."
"Go to page 34 of House Rules. Did the manipulated video violate the House Rules?" Chaffetz tweeted Tuesday afternoon. The rules state:
The Committee on Ethics is directed to report to the House, not later than December 31, 2021, any recommended amendments to the Code of Official Conduct, as well as any accompanying regulations, intended to address the circumstances and instances, if any, for which a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House may be subject to discipline for the dissemination by electronic means, including by social media, of any image, video, or audio file that has been distorted or manipulated with the intent to mislead the public.
Rep. Raskin: "President Trump declared his conduct totally appropriate. So, if he gets back into office and it happens again, we'll have no one to blame but ourselves."
Raskin reveals the real reason for this sham .
Dems are terrified of his return .
Raskin reveals the real reason for this sham .
Dems are terrified of his return .
What do you mean 'for what'? You know the fucking answer to that.
How would republicans react if Hillary Clinton was president, refused to acknowledge she lost, refused to cooperate in the transition of power, held a rally outside of the capitol and told her supporters to march with her to, THE CAPITOL, and interfere with an act of Congress?
You're so drunk on that Trump nut, you can't even think anymore.
Imagine Hillary was up 10%+ and hundreds of thousands of votes - with very few votes remaining at 3 am - and then, at 8 am, after closing the counting and hundreds of thousands of infused ballots, now Trump was in the lead in EVERY SINGLE KEY SWING STATE.
Now imagine, all the areas with the huge vote bumps were controlled by Republicans.
Now imagine, all of the statistical anomalys were impossible by EVERY standard in human kind. In fact, a better chance of hitting the power ball twice in a week.
Now imagine, there were computer glitches that swung votes in favor of Trump in every key state.
Now imagine, that on undoctored video, there were hundreds of examples of illegal votes being counted with no supervision.
Now imagine, the adjudication and error rate in these same swing states were set as high as 87%, hundreds of thousands of time higher than the legal limit.
Now imagine, hundreds, thousands of witnesses testified to the illegal ongoings in every precinct by Trump supporters.
Now imagine, Hillary walking away and saying "Oh well, he won fair and square."
You're so drunk on anti-Trump TDS, you can't even think anymore.
I mean, isn't this how Don the Con won in 2016? And Clinton still conceded the next day. You're boy threw a tantrum, got laughed out of every court in EVERY state and was dismissed 9-0 by his handpicked justices. FACTS.
Hey remember when Trump called GA Sec of State and told him to find 11,000 votes?
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LAUGHED. OUT. OF. EVERY. COURT!!
That's EXACTLY what she did. She went on camera and conceded the election to Trump!!
Who exactly is deranged in this discussion??
People see what they want to see on security video. I believe the observers in the room when they say there were no irregularities. When Secs of state and State AGs go on camera, numerous times, to say there is no evidence of fraud. What fucking more do you need? These are republicans!!
Trumps own appointed judges SCOTUS and Circuit Courts all dismissed his cases..... MAYBE HE JUST LOST
