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Trump Boosts Video of Dallas Clash Edited to Cast Machete-Wielding Vigilante as Victim
A right-wing video blogger captured a shocking act of violence on camera, but posted a misleadingly edited version on Twitter that duped the president.
theintercept.com
Interesting story of a machete welding vigilante. Incident was recorded by at least two people. The one person edited the video to show what he wanted to show. A man beaten by protesters lying in the streets. Shown on Blaze TV and circulated in the right wing media.
The edited clip was the work of a freelance producer for Glenn Beck’s Blaze TV and a pro-Trump political activist who hosts a YouTube talk show dedicated to mocking left-wing protesters according to the story.
It was a half truth to support his view that the protesters are all bad people. A story that sounds to good to be true. The president who professes to be a law and order guy jumped on this bandwagon.
Yet another person who recorded the same attack show the full account of what happen. It was a different story. The man attacked them with a machete first. They defended themselves but now they are the bad guys. Maybe they got carried away in defending themselves?
Even the police agree that the Machete man instigated the attack.
Yet Trump was quick to view this right wing video and make his own comment to spread a totally biased story. It is funny the way the news is biased in his mind and he is quick to point that out. Yet he embellishes points of view, that he wants to believe as the Truth, with no attempt to find out what is the Truth. I will just take his word for it which is a matter of convenience for the law and order President.
Trump tells the nation that "innocent people have been savagely beaten, like the young man in Dallas, Texas, who was left dying on the street." There's quite a bit missing from that version of the story. Trump Boosts Video of Dallas Clash Edited to Cast Machete-Wielding Vigilante as Victim pic.twitter.com/xHjORjL4XT
Trump view is that this man was beaten by the protesters. End of story as show by the video. Simple enough for a simple mind. No understatement that the Truth is sometimes more complex that an edited video.
Still the blogger says that the man was left dying on the street to make it sound more dramatic. Yet the police came and he was transported to the hospital where he is recovering. Happy ending not mentioned.
The machete man will be a hero to some and to the law and order president, Yet people defended themselves but then again they were the protesters. Trump can't seem to handle the nuances of a good protester and those who are in it for the violence. He waffles between blaming the locals for allow this to happen and blaming anyone that needs to be blamed according to the Trump Doctrine.
The law and order president who only sees one side. Justice may be blind but Trump holds no pretenses, He is on one side and justice be damned. Truth is in the eye of the beholder but with Trump he is clearly truth challenged.
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