As Ryan Saavedra points out below, MSNBC’s Katy Tur, CNN’s Brianna Keilar and Fox News host Shep Smith all attributed Trump’s “I would like you to do us a favor” comment to the Biden request in the transcript, even though it was actually said of the Clinton server request:
MSNBC's Katy Tur, CNN's Brianna Keilar, and Fox News' Shepard Smith all lie about the Ukraine transcript
"I would like you to do us a favor" was in reference to helping DOJ with the origin of the 2016 Russia probe
All 3 skip over 548 words to falsely connect it to Biden pic.twitter.com/mHVlG9nxQm
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 25, 2019
As you can see from the screenshots of the transcript that we posted, Trump said “I would like you to do us a favor though” when he asked about Hillary’s email server:
It was clearly on the next page, after apparently 548 words, that Trump finally asked about Biden and his son:
It’s media malpractice to suggest that the favor Trump asked of the president was only to investigate Biden when it was really about Hillary’s email server.
And the way Katy Tur mischaracterized the request in her segment sounds very much like that Huffpo reporter who got smacked down by Hawley. Just awful.