CNN fact-checking reporter Daniel Dale on Tuesday uncovered the most recent occasion of what he described because the Donald Trump marketing campaign’s “habit of deceptively using quotes in its TV advertisements, reducing out phrases and taking stuff method out of context.”
A brand new pro-Trump spot was “the most egregious example yet,” Dale wrote on X, previously Twitter.
Dale famous in a thread on the Elon Musk-owned platform how the video “purports to cite the New York Instances as writing, ‘Harris is looking for to considerably elevate taxes,‘” when the Instances’ article truly learn, “Harris is looking for to considerably elevate taxes on the wealthiest Individuals and huge firms.”
The journalist additionally flagged how a CBS Information report on Harris vowing to maintain President Joe Biden’s border crackdown was shortened by Trump’s group to say, “Harris vows to maintain Biden’s border.”
“These items is extremely apparent once you lookup the supply of the claims,” stated Dale, who has been calling out and correcting Republican nominee Trump’s lies for years. “However most viewers, after all, are usually not going to lookup the supply for the claims,” he added.
