{"id":126837,"date":"2019-05-25T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T17:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=126837"},"modified":"2019-05-25T13:40:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T17:40:07","slug":"team-trump-including-a-fox-host-go-all-in-on-pushing-doctored-pelosi-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/?p=126837","title":{"rendered":"Team Trump, Including a Fox Host, Go All-In on Pushing Doctored Pelosi Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just hours after having multiple senior aides vouch for his calm <\/a>state of mind after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused him of a temper tantrum, President Trump took to Twitter late Thursday to push an edited video of the top Democrat supposedly \u201cstammering\u201d through a news conference, jumping on a conspiracy-theory bandwagon that had been raging on social media throughout the day. <\/p>\n

The video, which was first aired by the Fox Business Network and appeared to have been cleverly edited to make Pelosi’s speech seem impaired, came after several doctored videos<\/a> purporting to show a \u201cdrunk\u201d Pelosi slurring her words spread like wildfire on social media, all while Trump tried to convince the public that Pelosi was not to be taken seriously because she is \u201ccrazy\u201d and \u201ca mess.\u201d <\/p>\n

Even Fox News reported<\/a> that the videos were doctored, but that didn’t stop Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani from tweeting out a link<\/a> to one of the already debunked videos late Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is wrong with Nancy Pelosi?\u201d Giuliani wrote. \u201cHer speech pattern is bizarre.\u201d He later deleted the tweet, but the flames of the \u201cPelosi-can-barely-string-a-sentence-together, she-must-be-senile-or-drunk\u201d hoax that apparently originated among Trump supporters had already been fanned, and Fox, predictably, was to thank for keeping the whole thing going. <\/p>\n

Frequent Fox Business guest Ed Rollins<\/a> on Thursday backed up the president\u2019s earlier assertion that Pelosi is a \u201cmess,\u201d citing the edited video as evidence that the speaker is inarticulate and therefore unwell. Prior to Rollins\u2019 remarks, guest host Gregg Jarrett<\/a> had played a highly edited and manipulated clip of Pelosi speaking earlier in the day that made it appear that she stammered and struggled through a press conference.<\/p>\n

Notably, the clip repeatedly replays Pelosi saying the number three while holding up two fingers, something Jarrett mocked immediately afterward.<\/p>\n

Fox issued a statement after the segment defending the video. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe FOX Business segment featuring clips from Speaker Pelosi\u2019s speech today did not slow down any aspect of her address,\u201d the network said. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Rollins and Jarrett weren\u2019t the only ones implying that Pelosi didn\u2019t have all her mental faculties during Thursday\u2019s Lou Dobbs Tonight<\/a> <\/em>broadcast. Pugnacious former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski seemingly referenced the doctored videos while criticizing Pelosi\u2019s remarks about Trump\u2019s current mental fitness.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you imagine, for one second if that was a Republican questioning Nancy Pelosi’s mental fitness?\u201d Lewandowski exclaimed. \u201cThe way she slurs and repeats herself. They would be called racist, misogynist, xenophobic and every other word possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump quickly fed Fox’s claims back out to the Twitterverse, seizing on the network’s coverage to lend some legitimacy to the whole thing. \u201cNancy Pelosi should not be out there doing the kinds of things she is doing,\u201d the president tweeted, quoting Rollins. \u201cShe will diminish herself and her membership. She cannot put a subject with a predicate in the same sentence. What\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump captioned the tweeted video: \u201cPELOSI STAMMERS THROUGH NEWS CONFERENCE.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the 2016 presidential election, then-candidate Trump and his allies relentlessly peddled unsubstantiated conspiracy theories about Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s mental and physical health. Those theories only gained more steam after she nearly passed out at a 9\/11 memorial from what was later diagnosed as walking pneumonia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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Just hours after having multiple senior aides vouch for his calm state of mind after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused him of a temper tantrum, President Trump took to Twitter late Thursday to push an edited video of the top Democrat supposedly \u201cstammering\u201d through a news conference, jumping on a conspiracy-theory bandwagon that had been…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":126838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[3181,94],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126837"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americansforabetteramerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fyst_prominent_words&post=126837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}