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Trump Never Defended Calls To ‘Hang Mike Pence,’ But Shameless Media Can’t Stop Lying About It
Once again, the media is lying. Notice when Joe Biden uses the N-word, as he did just the other day, the media trips over themselves to claim he misspoke.
With Trump, his style of speaking, even speaking over people as they interject words, but is actually just continuing a train of thought, is twisted by the media so that what he was saying wasn't in response to the "hang Mike Pence" comment, which was never even fully stated, but was speaking to the anger of demonstrators. I admit, Trump can be hard to follow when he's rambling, but he never said what he's accused of saying.
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“Trump Defends Capitol Rioters’ ‘Hang Mike Pence’ Chants: ‘People Were Very Angry,’” was The Daily Beast’s fare, with Business Insider claiming, “Trump justified his supporters calling to hang Mike Pence at the Capitol riot, saying it’s ‘common sense.’”
Axios’s Mike Allen went with the headline, “Exclusive audio: Trump defends threats to ‘hang’ Pence,” and led with the story in his morning newsletter. Trump “defended, quite extensively, supporters who threatened to ‘hang’ former Vice President Mike Pence,” Allen said, adding, “it is unprecedented for a former president to openly say it was OK to threaten the life of his vice president.”
In order to get the full picture, you must listen to the audio, not just look at the transcript, because the exchange didn’t occur in a back-and-forth Q&A format as the media portrays. Listen here:
Once again, the media is lying. Notice when Joe Biden uses the N-word, as he did just the other day, the media trips over themselves to claim he misspoke.
With Trump, his style of speaking, even speaking over people as they interject words, but is actually just continuing a train of thought, is twisted by the media so that what he was saying wasn't in response to the "hang Mike Pence" comment, which was never even fully stated, but was speaking to the anger of demonstrators. I admit, Trump can be hard to follow when he's rambling, but he never said what he's accused of saying.
Read the article.