Thursday, October 24, 2024

Fox News edited Trump’s rambling answers

The Fox News Channel's recent segment about Donald Trump's "surprise" visit to a barbershop in the Bronx resembled a campaign ad for the former president's reelection. Trump was seen taking questions and making small talk with Black and Hispanic barbershop customers and workers, some of whom were wearing "Make Barbers Great Again" shirts. The visit was part of "Fox & Friends" co-host Lawrence Jones' ongoing barbershop interview series.

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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, earlier this month.

Trump's complaints about "60 Minutes" center on an edit of Harris' comment about the relationship between Israel and the United States. He has charged that CBS manipulated the Harris interview to "make her look better" and demanded that CBS release the unedited transcript of the interview, which CBS has declined to do.

Ironically, however, Fox edited several of Trump's recent appearances on the network, including his visit to the barbershop. And some of the edits certainly make him look better.

The televised broadcast omitted Trump's comments about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio. He told the barbershop customers that "they just dumped 50,000 people " 32,000 migrants from another country " in Springfield, Ohio. They don't know what to do." The actual number of migrants in Springfield is far lower, according to the city's own data. The broadcast also left out Trump's gross exaggerations about crime in Aurora, Colorado.

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