Fox News has traditionally done a lot of “covering up” for Donald Trump. And that’s especially been the case lately, as the former president has spoken increasingly incoherently.
Earlier this week, Fox anchors tried to rationalize away Trump’s reported praise of German generals in the Nazi era. On Wednesday morning, Brian Kilmeade corrected Trump when he referred to the current president as “Obama.”
And now, CNN is reporting that Fox News edited Trump’s answers in a recent appearance at a barbershop in the Bronx, to sound more coherent.
Fox’s recent segment about Donald Trump’s visit to a barbershop in the Bronx was, to use a hairstyle metaphor, a crop cut. I reviewed more complete video of the visit and found that Fox edited out many of Trump’s rambling comments and false claims. https://t.co/qE3dT5hXba
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 24, 2024
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“The version of the visit shown on television was, to borrow a hairstyle metaphor, a crop cut. Fox edited out many of Trump’s rambling comments and false claims. Participants had to repeatedly follow up when Trump meandered away from the original point of their questions,” CNN wrote of the edits. “Fox’s edits omitted numerous Trump tangents and exaggerations – a striking decision given Trump’s recent attacks on CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes” for editing an interview with his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.”
The Fox broadcast of the interview also omitted some elements, including more comments about Haitian immigrants in Ohio. The broadcast also omitted a shot Trump took at the Wall Street Journal, a corporate sibling of Fox News.
It will *shock* you to learn @foxandfriends host @LawrenceBJones3 claims in unedited video of Bronx ‘Barbershop Series’ that there has been no vetting of the participants
TRUMP: Where the Hell did you find these people?
JONES: I mean, I just walked in the barber shop📺 https://t.co/6wz5LAGkEr pic.twitter.com/EbFvL3wlsw
— Bad Fox Graphics (@BadFoxGraphics) October 24, 2024
One particularly deceptive edit involving an answer Trump gave to a question about taxes.
An audience member asked if it would possible to ever eliminate federal taxes, and Trump was shown answering “there is a way.” But per CNN, this answer actually came more than seven minutes later. During that seven minutes, the former president “brought up other topics, including inheritances, the Keystone Pipeline, Ronald Reagan, Russia, and transgender sports players,” and had to be “nudged” back to the question about taxes.
Trump has called for CBS to lose its broadcast license, over what he called deceptive editing of Harris’ recent 60 Minutes interview.
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