As Twitchy told you earlier, Donald Trump has disavowed the dumb “send her back” chants that broke out at his rally last night.
JUST IN: "I was not happy with it. I disagree with it," Pres. Trump says of “send her back” chant from crowd at his campaign rally last night.
He asserts he tried to stop the chant by "very quickly" speaking again as the chant broke out, despite a long pause during the chant. pic.twitter.com/TZ3Ak4FkKy
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) July 18, 2019
Now, you may take his disavowal at face value, or you may think he’s full of it. But in either case, the media are making pretty major asses of themselves over it.
Here is my full exchange with the President — I point out the chant echoed his own words and that he let it play out before he started speaking again. https://t.co/lhCV2MKw65
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) July 18, 2019
TRUMP tells WH pool he "was not happy with" the "send her back" chant at his NC rally last night & tried to stop it; "I started speaking very quickly.”
The video shows that’s not true. pic.twitter.com/jIEUQ1nyIN
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) July 18, 2019
The same Guardians of Truth who not only let Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez try to gaslight us about her Holocaust-trivializing remarks when we all heard her make them, and in some cases actively sought to assist her in her gaslighting campaign, are now suddenly very interested in combing through a video to prove that Trump is a liar. They’re thoroughly uninterested in confronting AOC about the fact that an Antifa terrorist who attempted to kill ICE agents last weekend echoed her “concentration camps” rhetoric, but they hold Trump personally responsible for what some idiots in his audience said.
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CNN’s best and bravest are especially interested in Real Journalism™ today:
WATCH THE VIDEO: Trump pauses for about 12 seconds while crowd chants, “send her back.” https://t.co/oc676MiyR4
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) July 18, 2019
Watch the tape. There's no way to spin Donald Trump's 'send her back' complicity.https://t.co/PN02k5dqDi pic.twitter.com/9cf2x84yzD
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 18, 2019
There is simply no way to watch the video or read the words Trump said and conclude he said or did anything to mitigate that chant from the crowd. In fact, all of the evidence points in the exact opposite direction.https://t.co/PN02k5dqDi
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 18, 2019
Hall monitor Brian Stelter is treating it like the damn Zapruder film:
CNN banner right now: "Trump disavows 'send her back!' chants, despite remaining silent and starting racist attacks with 'go back' tweets"
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 18, 2019
"The president there is lying about how he responded to the 'send her back' chant." @BriKeilarCNN immediately plays the tape so viewers can see for themselves.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 18, 2019
"Send her back" happened at 7:45pm. LATER on at the rally, at 7:57, Trump said "If they don't like it, let them leave. Let them leave. They are always telling us how to run it, how to do this. You know what? If they don't love it, TELL THEM to leave it."
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 18, 2019
"TELL THEM to leave," Trump said https://t.co/cZCBTzfHGO
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 18, 2019
Detective Stelter is on the case, everybody.
The liberal media is truly sad. @CNN reporters are focusing in on how @realDonaldTrump said he tried to stop the chant despite the video showing that he waiting 12 seconds before continuing. Hey, how about the REAL headline which is that he disavows it and wasn’t happy about it! pic.twitter.com/qJVJ1qsz32
— David Brody (@DavidBrodyCBN) July 18, 2019
your "real" headline is stenography. your audience deserves better than that. they deserve contextualized journalism.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 18, 2019
Like the kind of contextualized journalism you can only get from CNN special correspondent Richard Spencer? That contextualized journalism? Because CNN clearly doesn’t think their audience deserves any other kind.
It’s pretty clear what’s happening here.
The goalposts they are a movin'…. https://t.co/uBpKN9QB0W
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 18, 2019
They certainly are.
Ilhan Omar denying she married her brother (of which there's evidence that it happened) was enough proof for @Acosta to drop the story.
CNN is now currently analyzing just how fast Trump started speaking after the chant started.
This game is rigged, folks.
Don't play.
— RBe (@RBPundit) July 18, 2019
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional text.
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