Was it a good post? No. Is it worth getting worked into
a frenzy over? Absolutely not. The story might be dead by now, which
only took 48 hours because it was a predictable overreaction by the
liberal media. All these folks needed to know was that Trump and the
Third Reich were in the same clip. Off to the races we go (via NYT):
The 30-second video, which Mr. Trump posted on his social
media site, Truth Social, features several articles styled like
newspapers from the early 1900s — and apparently recycling text from
reports on World War I, including references to “German industrial
strength” and “peace through strength.” One article in the video asserts
that Mr. Trump would deport 15 million migrants in a second term, while
text onscreen lists the start and end days of World War I.
Another
headline in the video suggests that Mr. Trump in a second term would
reject “globalists,” using a term that has been widely adopted on the
far right and that scholars say can be used as a signal of
antisemitism.
The Trump campaign said in a statement that the
video had been posted by a staff member while Mr. Trump was in his
criminal trial in Manhattan. The video was still up on his account early
Tuesday, and his campaign did not respond to a question late Monday
about why it had not been taken down. It was then deleted sometime
Tuesday morning.
“This was not a campaign video, it was created
by a random account online and reposted by a staffer who clearly did not
see the word, while the President was in court,” Karoline Leavitt, a
campaign spokeswoman, said in a statement. “The real extremist is Joe
Biden.”
President Biden’s campaign denounced the video soon after
it was first reported by The Associated Press late Monday. Mr. Biden
then personally addressed the matter in his own video response on
Tuesday, which was posted on social media.
“A unified Reich?
That’s Hitler’s language, that’s not America’s,” Mr. Biden said, who
also expressed disbelief that the video was posted on Mr. Trump’s
“official account.”
Easy there, Joe. Don’t blow a gasket because this wasn’t an official
Trump campaign ad. Second, it’s not even an original video. Someone used
a similar template, which was discovered by digital creators, including
Leigh Wolf, a former Townhall video editor. In a lengthy post on
Twitter, he said:
The "Unified Reich" hoax is the
latest chapter in a long-running series of misinformation campaigns by
democrats and the media.
Below is the widely available motion
graphics template that the media is pretending the Trump campaign made
in-house then published.
Nobody on the Trump campaign, and
certainly not Trump himself, typed the words in question. They exist in
the template at the time of purchase.
This is very clearly some
random Trump supporter who created this piece without reading the
smaller text already in the template, that was then RT'd by some social
media guy who also didn't read the smaller text in the template.
Oh, and the text in the template references Pre-WWI era Germany.
Clearly
someone should have been far more diligent, because democrats and the
MSM will *ALWAYS* twist and bend every action to go on the attack but
the idea that this is some kind of telegraphing of intent by Trump is
the dumbest, most disingenuous take I've heard since the last time the
media ran a hoax.
The annoying part is that we can expect more overreactions before
Election Day. The good news is that there’s been so much malarky hurled
Trump’s way, almost all of it garbage, that no one really cared about
this latest fake news story. It imploded, and no one really noticed.
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