How the Fake News is made, a Twitter play in 3 acts.
Act 1: The claim from MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt that President Trump said to reporters this morning on Brett Kavanaugh, “As long as he tells the truth it’s 100 percent”:
“As long as he tells the truth it’s 100 percent,” @realDonaldTrump says of Judge Kavanaugh. Very telling comment from the president
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) September 19, 2018
Act 2: This doesn’t sound right. Wasn’t the president talking about Paul Manafort here?
Per the pool report, this comment was in reference to Manafort, not Kavanaugh https://t.co/rhCojzaCR2
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 19, 2018
Act 3: The transcript:
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) September 19, 2018
Please delete!
Update. She deleted it:
Correction— I’ve deleted the below tweet because the quote was POTUS talking about Manafort not Kavanaugh — my apologies for the error, I misheard the shouted question. pic.twitter.com/mOMTtmqobZ
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) September 19, 2018
Screenshot for posterity:
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