The Trump campaign isn’t happy that Biden is allowed to keep his fake video up of Trump calling the coronavirus a hoax without a fake news warning, so they’ve decided to put one up themselves. It’s very simple and too the point:
The media is giving a pass to a pro-Biden TV ad that doctors and deceptively edits audio of President Trump, even though every independent fact checker said President Trump DID NOT call the coronavirus a hoax.
Joe Biden, on the other hand? This sounds authentic… pic.twitter.com/YY6vN5gTM6
— Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) April 2, 2020
They are basically daring Twitter to take action against their video to make a point.
And ironically, Biden is helping them:
Joe Biden’s campaign is calling on President Trump’s re-election campaign to pull a “wildly irresponsible” video from Twitter that splices in sound to falsely depict Biden calling the coronavirus a hoax — and they’re asking Twitter to remove the ad if the president’s campaign won’t.
“This is a wildly irresponsible tactic by the Trump campaign that attempts to draw a bizarre and false equivalence, and is purposefully misleading voters,” Biden campaign spokesman TJ Ducklo tells Axios in a statement.
“Disinformation and deceptively manipulated media have no place in our public discourse, and must not be tolerated in this campaign,” Ducklo said.
“Twitter cannot allow their platform to be a mechanism to spread lies and fake media, and if the Trump campaign won’t do the right thing, Twitter should remove the video immediately.”
It’s hilarious that Team Biden would claim “disinformation and deceptively manipulated media have no place in our public discourse”, when that’s exactly what their video of Trump is and why the Trump campaign has made it the subject of a lawsuit and called for its removal.
The Washington Post, Snopes, and others have all said the Biden video is not true. Yet Twitter, the self-appointed social media referee, refuses to take it down or put a fake news warning on it.
So how will they react to Team Trump’s video of Biden calling the coronavirus a hoax? It remains to be seen, but we’ll be sure and let you know if they take an biased actions as a result.