2020-06-10 22:11:13, Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine
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In fact, the existence and wide circulation of that video are what forced the Buffalo Police Department, which originally claimed that a person "was injured when he tripped & fell" during a "skirmish involving protestors," to suspend the two officers.
In July 2018, Trump, while addressing a Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention in Kansas City, told those assembled that they shouldn't trust their eyes and ears at all and should instead get their facts from Trump alone.
Recall that the Trump campaign has been suing news organizations for publishing op-eds the campaign finds too critical of Trump-despite the statements targeted in those op-eds actually being true-for a while now.
It sent a cease-and-desist letter to CNN demanding that the network retract and apologize for a poll that CNN aired, showing Trump trailing Joe Biden badly in the polls.
Whether it's photographic evidence of his lackluster inaugural crowds or hand-altered meteorological maps, almost every Trumpian fictionalized tour de force starts with a false claim-also known as a lie-that is readily disproven or even obviously wrong to the naked eye, and then subverts it.
Keywords
misinformation, donald-trump, police-violence, protests, 2020-campaign
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