Dems demand Twitter take down edited video of Pelosi ripping State of the Union speech posted by Trump
Nancy Pelosi says ripping up Trump’s State of the Union was ‘the courteous thing to do’
Reaction and analysis from Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume, ‘Fox News Sunday’ anchor Chris Wallace and ‘The Daily Briefing’ anchor Dana Perino.
Democrats are calling on Twitter to take down an edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., ripping up the State of the Union address — claiming that it is designed to “mislead” people.
“The latest fake video of Speaker Pelosi is deliberately designed to mislead and lie to the American people, and every day that these platforms refuse to take it down is another reminder that they care more about their shareholders’ interests than the public’s interests,” Pelosi Deputy Chief of Staff Drew Hammill said.
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“This video is clearly another deceptive effort by @realDonaldTrump to mislead and manipulate the American people,” said Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas
Trump posted the video, made by Turning Points USA, on Thursday that shows the “powerful American stories” that Trump highlighted in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Those clips are interspersed with the moment at the end of the speech where Pelosi tore up the speech.
The video appears to be a continuation of the point made by Republicans that Pelosi, in ripping up the speech, was also ripping up the stories of those Americans that Trump highlighted in the address — including stories of a Tuskegee airman, Americans killed in combat and a military family being reunited.
But Democrats objected to the video, apparently on the grounds that the video implies that Pelosi ripped up the papers immediately after each story was told — which she did not.
The video was also posted to Facebook. Hammill was quizzed by Facebook spokesman Andy Stone about what he found objectionable to the video: “Sorry, are you suggesting the President didn’t make those remarks and the Speaker didn’t rip the speech?”
“What planet are you living on?” Hammill responded. “This is deceptively altered. Take it down.”
Along with Escobar, other lawmakers rushed to condemn the video, and social media platforms for not removing the video. Although all called it deceptive, none said what exactly what deceptive about it.
“.@Twitter must take this misleading video about @SpeakerPelosi down now.,” Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., tweeted.
“This video is doctored. It has been up, and pinned to the President’s page, for nearly a day. Trump posted it to deceive Americans about @SpeakerPelosi’s actions and record,” Rep. Don Beyer, R-Va., said. “If I posted a doctored video it would be a clear violation House Rules. Twitter should take this down.”
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Republicans, meanwhile, pushed back against the efforts by Democrats to censor the video, and dismissed their complaints.
“They’re arguing it’s deceptively edited to misinform and want twitter to censor it,” National Republican Senatorial Committee senior adviser Matt Whitlock tweeted. “But.. she tore the speech that had those stories. Repetition to highlight exactly what she was tearing is not “misinformation,” these Reps are gaslighting.”
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The video is the latest controversy in the fallout over the State of the Union. The House on Thursday voted to table a Republican-led resolution to condemn Pelosi.
The vote, which fell along party lines, 224 to 193, effectively killed the measure introduced on Wednesday by Rep. Kay Granger, R-Texas, amid widespread GOP furor over Pelosi’s actions. The resolution called the speaker’s public shredding of the address “a breach of decorum” and said it brought “discredit on the House.”
Fox News’ Andrew O’Reilly contributed to this report.
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