On debate night time, CNN “reality checker” Daniel Dale steered that Kamala Harris may need fudged the reality simply as soon as in her ABC cuddle/debate — a minimum of 33 by Trump, a minimum of one by Harris. For those who see Dale’s face on TV, he is in all probability trashing the Republicans. (On Sunday, seen to the correct, it was Springfield-pouncing within the 2 pm hour.)
On-line on Saturday, Dale dug into the Harris X/Twitter account and its mangling of Trump. The headline:
Truth verify: Harris marketing campaign social media account has repeatedly deceived with deceptive edits and captions
We have not discovered any of this on CNN’s air to this point. Dale started:
A social media account run by Vice President Kamala Harris’ marketing campaign has been repeatedly misleading.
The @KamalaHQ account, which has greater than 1.3 million followers on the X social media platform previously often known as Twitter, has made a behavior of misleadingly clipping and inaccurately captioning video clips to assault former President Donald Trump.
Oh, is that proper? What would Dale choose for public rebuke? He chosen eight!
1. An August 17 publish from @KamalaHQ strongly steered Trump had gotten confused about what state he was in throughout an occasion in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The publish mentioned, “Trump: Would that be okay, North Carolina? (He’s in Pennsylvania).” Trump was acknowledging North Carolina natives AT the Pennsylvania rally.
2. On Thursday, the @KamalaHQ account made a brand new try to counsel that Trump was confused about his location. Its publish mentioned, “Trump: ‘Pennsylvania, keep in mind this when it’s important to go to vote’ (He’s in Arizona).” However Trump was telling Arizonans a few Pennsylvania city dealing with a giant inflow of Haitian migrants. Dale dominated: “@KamalaHQ eradicated the context that might permit individuals to develop an knowledgeable opinion on this comment.”
3. A Friday publish from @KamalaHQ mentioned, “Trump says ‘nothing was finished unsuitable’ in Charlottesville in 2017 when neo-Nazis chanted ‘Jews won’t exchange us’ and killed an harmless lady.” However Trump was responding to how individuals mischaracterize his “very superb individuals on either side” comment in Charlottesville, not saying that nothing unsuitable occurred in Charlottesville.
4. On Thursday, the @KamalaHQ account posted a nine-second video clip of Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s operating mate, talking in an interview. The account wrote: “Q: Would you take into account privatizing veterans well being care? Vance: I believe I’d take into account it.” The prolonged Vance quote exhibits he mentioned he would take into account giving veterans larger flexibility to make use of personal well being care. however that he doesn’t wish to remove federal well being care supplied by the Division of Veterans Affairs.
5. Dale famous the @KamalaHQ account continuously invokes Challenge 2025, the Heritage Basis suppose tank’s right-wing coverage proposals for the subsequent Republican administration. An August 30 publish from @KamalaHQ mentioned, “Trump says he plans to convey again legal guidelines from 100+ years in the past, echoing Challenge 2025: ‘We don’t go legal guidelines like that. They’re robust.’” The publish included a seven-second clip of Trump talking in Pennsylvania. “However the full video of the rally exhibits Trump was not even speaking about Challenge 2025 or his future plans.”
6. A September 5 publish from @KamalaHQ mentioned, “Trump tells his rich donors he’s going to make his tax handouts for the ultra-wealthy ‘everlasting’ and lower their taxes ‘much more.’” Crew Harris lower off the quote proper earlier than he talked about eliminating taxes on ideas and eliminating taxes on Social Safety advantages. Dale famous these are “insurance policies that, no matter their deserves or flaws, would definitely profit people who find themselves not rich.”
7. An August 29 publish from @KamalaHQ mentioned, “Vance: Democrats wish to assault Republicans as being anti-union and generally the shoe suits.” It included a five-second clip of Vance saying these phrases, however not the subsequent phrases: “however not me, and never Donald Trump.” Shameless!
8. An August 28 publish from @KamalaHQ mentioned: “Trump operative on Challenge 2025: If in case you have ideas with out energy, it’s meaningless. We should wield energy. We should seize energy.” Dale was compelled to rule “far-right activist and Trump ally Jack Posobiec” precisely famous he “by no means even talked about Challenge 2025 in these feedback.”
Dale has a straightforward quantity 9 for this checklist! The KamalaHQ account promotes itself as “Offering Context.” Nothing may very well be farther from the reality!