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Posted on 05/23/2024 3:44:55 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Where are the fact-checkers?
On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump's Truth Social account shared a new campaign video created by a random fan. The video featured fake snapshots of future newspaper headlines predicting widespread prosperity under a subsequent Trump presidency. The creator used a preexisting newspaper template and simply replaced some of the headlines, but some of the original text was still visible, and eagle-eyed users spotted a curious phrase: "the creation of a unified Reich."
This prompted many, many, many people on X to proclaim that Trump had endorsed "the creation of a unified Reich," with reference to the Third Reich, another name for Adolf Hitler's Nazi government. The anti-Trump political group The Lincoln Project accused the former president of "openly copying Nazi language." ABC reported that the ad used language "from Nazi Germany" and "referenced Adolf Hitler." CNN's Manu Raju confronted random Republicans in Congress and demanded that they answer for the advertisement. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D–Md.) said that Trump had used an "antisemitic dogwhistle." Even Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich (no relation) opined that this was yet another example of hidden Nazi symbology embedded within the Trump campaign.
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The Trump campaign disavowed the ad and deleted the Truth Social post.
But as it turns out, the assertion that Trump was tacitly endorsing some form of Nazi government is highly misleading, if not outright false. The video was made using a newspaper template that is widely available, and that template includes references to the world wars. Some have suggested the template actually refers to WWI, not WWII.
To be clear, the template is just that—a template. The point of the ad is obviously not to suggest that Trump's policies have anything to do with the preexisting headlines.
Reich-eous Indignation
Enter President Joe Biden. Just a few hours after the ad attracted so much attention, the Biden campaign released a response video:
In his response, Biden watches the Trump ad and then says—with rising anger—"A unified Reich? That's Hitler's language. That's not America's."
Again, this is an inaccurate summary of the video. But don't hold your breath waiting for the media fact-checkers to spring into action and correct him. Few mainstream journalists bothered to set the record straight. (The Atlantic's David A. Graham and Vox's Zack Beauchamp did, to their credit.) An Axios writeup of Biden's response offers zero pushback. It was the same story at NPR and Politico.
None of this is to say that Trump is free of loathsome associations. He told the Proud Boys to "stand back and stand by," and he infamously dined with Ye (formerly known as Kanye West) and white nationalist Nick Fuentes at Mar-a-Lago. (Trump claimed he didn't know Fuentes and had not specifically invited him.) But Biden and the media have seized upon a nothingburger here, and the media's vast fact-checking apparatus is suddenly asleep at the wheel.
The "fact-checkers" are uniformly creatures of the current administration and the political far-left.
Biden said in prepared remarks that Trump said that there would be bloodshed if he loses the election.
Trump of course said bloodbath in the context of the auto industry and Biden’s’ destructive policies.
It’s permitted, he’s a dem. Only those on the right are accused of mis-information.
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How do I know this? Biden himself showed me a picture of him crossing the Rhine and heading for Berlin.
Joe Pedo is a lying crackpot.
Queensrÿche was unavailable for comment...
Some stupid staffer threw together a video without proofing and posted it while DJT was in court and the left loses their ever loving mind! SMDH
An anti-semite, Jew hater calling Trump a Nazi. The boy is sick in the head.
Sadly, we have to get into the gutter with this senile prevaricator. He routinely calls us “Nazis” yet we don’t respond about Biden taking showers with his daughter, lying his butt off about his family, taking millions in bribes from the Chinese and Ukrainians, having repeatedly made racist remarks in his political career. We need advertisements which highlight the lies of this character and his utter lack of it.
When you have nothing else to offer anyone... Just lie about everything.
That’s all they’ve got and it’s all they’ve ever had... LIES and a filthy, corrupt communist media to carry their water.
The definition of “reich” is “nation.”
Which one of these Democrat signaling was running when the DNC convention played images of the Russian black Sea fleet?
dpnt forget his relationship with Robt Byrd.( deceased)
its easy to imagine Joe Blow
in his Grand Wiz outfit
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