ABC News caught red-handed using FAKE video to show Turkey bombing the Kurds [VIDEO]

by The Right Scoop

ABC News has been caught red-handed using fake video footage to show Turkey bombing the Kurds in the border town of Tel Abiad. I turns out the video they used was from a gun range in Kentucky back in 2017:

They must’ve thought this would make Trump looks worse by showing these horrific looking explosions.

Here’s more from Gizmodo:

ABC News aired a video on Sunday that host Tom Llamas said depicted a Turkish attack in northern Syria against Kurdish civilians. Turkey is indeed pushing into Syria and slaughtering Kurds along the way, but the video ABC News played last night is from a military gun demonstration in Kentucky that was published to YouTube in 2017.

“This video, right here, appearing to show Turkey’s military bombing Kurd civilians in a Syrian border town,” Llamas said on the October 13 broadcast as the video played.

But the explosions in the video are identical to explosions seen in a video titled, “Knob Creek night shoot 2017.” Knob Creek Gun Range, in the town of West Point, Kentucky, hosts a biannual event called the “Military Gun Shoot & Military Gun Show” where weapons are fired at night. Members of the public can come and see the show for a fee in April and October.

Both anchor Tom Llamas and foreign correspondent Ian Panell can be heard using language to make it clear that ABC News didn’t shoot the video and instead acquired it from an outside source.

“This video, obtained by ABC News, appears to show the fury of the Turkish attack on the border town of Tal Abyad two nights ago,” Panell said during the Sunday broadcast.

ABC News has responded to this and tweeted that they are really, really sorry:

They regret it. Yeah ok. I guess it was just too good to check. It’s more likely that the truth was something like this: ‘If it makes Trump look bad, then by all means we’ll broadcast it and apologize later if it’s wrong.’


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