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1. 0:00we're now moving into the most heated
2. 0:02phase of the 2024 presidential campaign
3. 0:05few things are as important to the two
4. 0:06top candidates Biden and Trump as
5. 0:08getting positive coverage in the news
6. 0:11Donald Trump had a decided disadvantage
7. 0:13in 2016 and 2020 when it comes to the
8. 0:16traditional press and social media here
9. 0:19at full measure we've documented the
10. 0:20media's uniquely harsh treatment of
11. 0:22trump since he first declared his Run
12. 0:24for the White House including an
13. 0:27explosion in the trend of false
14. 0:28reporting by former well-respected
15. 0:30national news outlets we've also been
16. 0:33tracking media mistakes under the Biden
17. 0:35presidency to see if he'd fall victim to
18. 0:37the same syndrome in other words is the
19. 0:40media making an unprecedented number of
20. 0:42sloppy but innocent errors or is their
21. 0:45behavior part of a calculated strategy
22. 0:48today's cover story what the record
23. 0:52shows when President Biden spent last
24. 0:55Christmas on vacation with family he
25. 0:57continued the longest string in two
26. 0:59decades of a US president not visiting
27. 1:02the troops during the
28. 1:05holiday but there was no criticism in
29. 1:07the Press like there had been of his
30. 1:10predecessor thank you president Trump
31. 1:13with Trump the media was eager to blare
32. 1:15negative headlines even when
33. 1:18false in 2018 NBC incorrectly reported
34. 1:22that Trump stayed home at Christmas time
35. 1:25the first US president since 2002 to
36. 1:27skip visiting the troops the news went
37. 1:30Global but it wasn't true the media had
38. 1:33jumped the gun Trump and first lady
39. 1:35Melania left the White House Christmas
40. 1:37day to visit US soldiers in Iraq on
41. 1:41Thanksgiving Newsweek made a similar
42. 1:44error falsely reporting that Trump was
43. 1:46spending the holiday golfing at maral
44. 1:48Lago in Florida but the reporter had
45. 1:50fabricated the golf
46. 1:52story Trump flew to Afghanistan on
47. 1:55Thanksgiving to again be with the troops
48. 1:57making Trump the only president in US
49. 2:00history to visit troops in a combat zone
50. 2:02both on Thanksgiving and so close to
51. 2:05Christmas though the Press never
52. 2:06reported
53. 2:08that 3 years into the Biden presidency
54. 2:11it's clear Trump was treated with unique
55. 2:14unfairness by error riddled reports in
56. 2:16the media always cutting in a negative
57. 2:18direction there's been no similar Trend
58. 2:21under Biden but first a reminder of just
59. 2:24a few of the worst media mistakes about
60. 2:27Trump CNN claimed n n cantra was not
61. 2:31happy her father's song was played at
62. 2:33Trump's
63. 2:35[Music]
64. 2:39inauguration but Nancy Sinatra responded
65. 2:42that's not true I never said that why do
66. 2:44you lie CNN time falsely claimed Trump
67. 2:48removed the bus statue of Martin Luther
68. 2:50King from the Oval Office TMZ reported
69. 2:53Trump changed Black History Month to
70. 2:56African-American history month but
71. 2:58President Obama Bush and Clinton had all
72. 3:00called it African-American history month
73. 3:03BBC the guardian and others reported
74. 3:05that Trump wasn't bothering to listen to
75. 3:07a speech by Italy's Prime Minister since
76. 3:10he wasn't wearing translation headphones
77. 3:12turns out he was wearing a translation
78. 3:15earpiece Newsweek and others reported
79. 3:17Poland's first lady refused to shake
80. 3:19Trump's hand but later had to admit she
81. 3:25did CNN edited Trump's remarks to make
82. 3:28it seem as though he didn't realized
83. 3:30Japan builds cars in the US but the full
84. 3:33statement made clear that he does you've
85. 3:36been creating
86. 3:37jobs for our country for a long long
87. 3:41time several Japanese automobile
88. 3:43industry
89. 3:44firms uh have been really doing a job
90. 3:49CNN also edited a video to make it seem
91. 3:52like Trump impatiently dumped fish food
92. 3:54in the water at Japan's
93. 3:57Palace but he'd followed the lead of
94. 4:00Japan's prime
95. 4:02minister Newsweek claimed Ivanka Trump
96. 4:05plagiarized one of her own speeches
97. 4:08which is impossible since plagiarizing
98. 4:09is stealing someone else's work the UK
99. 4:12Telegraph apologized for at least eight
100. 4:15mistakes in an article criticizing
101. 4:17Melania Trump the New York Times AP CNN
102. 4:20and others excerpted a trump comment as
103. 4:23if he'd called all illegal immigrants
104. 4:26animals these AR
105. 4:28people these are animals and which later
106. 4:31Corrections noted he'd been referring to
107. 4:33members of the murderous MS13 criminal
108. 4:36gang the New York Times magazine and CNN
109. 4:39shared a story showing children
110. 4:41illegally brought into the US supposedly
111. 4:43in cages but the article and photos were
112. 4:46actually from the Obama Administration
113. 4:49aent fron press mistakenly reported that
114. 4:51more than a 100,000 children brought in
115. 4:54by illegal immigrants were being held in
116. 4:56detention that was actually the total
117. 4:58number in 2015 under Obama time and
118. 5:02others showed a crying Honduran child to
119. 5:04illustrate Trump separating illegal
120. 5:06immigrant parents from children that the
121. 5:08child hadn't been separated from her
122. 5:10parents in the US MSNBC falsely claimed
123. 5:14Trump banned the Red Cross from visiting
124. 5:16the Immigrant children the Red Cross
125. 5:19said that wasn't true MSNBC also falsely
126. 5:22claimed that Trump had talked about
127. 5:24Exterminating Latinos but later
128. 5:27corrected that and apologized NBC News
129. 5:30misidentified the focus of Trump's
130. 5:32praise in a speech as confederate
131. 5:34general Roberty Lee actually Trump was
132. 5:37talking about Union general ulyses S
133. 5:40Grant and his name was Grant General
134. 5:44[Applause]
135. 5:47Grant The Washington Post and others
136. 5:50falsely reported that Trump supporting
137. 5:52prolife Catholic High School students
138. 5:54were the aggressors in a confrontation
139. 5:56in Washington DC several news outlets
140. 6:00featured an empty Podium at Trump's 4th
141. 6:02of July celebration in 2019 and said he
142. 6:05didn't draw crowds but the photo was
143. 6:07taken before the event the actual crowd
144. 6:09was
145. 6:11huge the New York Times and others
146. 6:13implied Trump hadn't paid income taxes
147. 6:15for 18 years but the record shows he'd
148. 6:18paid a higher rate than Democrats Bernie
149. 6:20Sanders and President Obama Bloomberg in
150. 6:23the Wall Street Journal reported special
151. 6:25counsel Robert Müller had subpoena
152. 6:27Trump's bank records that wasn't true
153. 6:30Politico falsely reported that Trump
154. 6:32owed the Bank of China tens of millions
155. 6:34of dollars in a loan coming due as he
156. 6:36dealt with China on Corona virus not
157. 6:39true MSNBC falsely reported that Trump
158. 6:42had loans with Russian co-signers
159. 6:45slate.com falsely claimed a Russian Bank
160. 6:48server had been illicitly communicating
161. 6:50with Trump Tower and the New York Times
162. 6:53CNN MSNBC and many others falsely
163. 6:56reported that the hunter Biden laptop
164. 6:58Scandal story was unsubstantiated or
165. 7:01Russian
166. 7:02disinformation the New York Times
167. 7:04reported that Trump seized on hydroxy
168. 7:06chloroquin as a miracle cure Trump never
169. 7:09said that and it may work and it may not
170. 7:11work but if it doesn't work it's nothing
171. 7:15lost by doing it
172. 7:16nothing CNN and others criticized Trump
173. 7:19for tweeting that Alabama would likely
174. 7:22be affected by Hurricane Dorian but
175. 7:24official advisories had put Alabama in a
176. 7:27projected impacted area
177. 7:30vox.com tweeted that Trump suggested
178. 7:32he'd been a 911 first responder he'd
179. 7:36said the opposite and I was down there
180. 7:38also but I'm not considering myself a
181. 7:40first responder multiple media falsely
182. 7:42claimed Trump was golfing during a us
183. 7:45raid that captured the head of Isis in
184. 7:47Syria and that a White House photo of
185. 7:49trump had been staged but Trump was at
186. 7:52the White House ABC aired video showing
187. 7:55what it called a Slaughter against Kurds
188. 7:57by turkey after Trump with US troops but
189. 8:01the video was file tape of a training
190. 8:03show in the US and USA Today connected
191. 8:06the eagle on a trump campaign T-shirt
192. 8:09with a Nazi Eagle later admitting the
193. 8:12eagle is a longtime us symbol
194. 8:15too Joseph robinett Biden Jr do solemly
195. 8:19swear after Biden was sworn in what did
196. 8:21we find the media made fewer major
197. 8:24mistakes and the ones they did make
198. 8:26still cut against Trump or somehow
199. 8:28favored by and his agenda here are just
200. 8:31a few examples the New York Times
201. 8:33published a fabricated claim that
202. 8:35Capital police officer Brian snik was
203. 8:38killed by prot Trump supporters who
204. 8:40struck him in the head with a fire
205. 8:42extinguisher however snik died from a
206. 8:45stroke the pointer institute's
207. 8:47PolitiFact The Washington Post and
208. 8:49others falsely said the idea of covid
209. 8:52coming from a lab was a debunked
210. 8:54conspiracy theory WebMD USA Today and
211. 8:58others incorrect directly dubbed the
212. 9:002020 Sturgis South Dakota motorcycle
213. 9:02rally a CO super spreader event data
214. 9:06showed the rally had way below the
215. 9:08national average of cases Associated
216. 9:11Press falsely stated that 70% of recent
217. 9:14calls to Mississippi Poison Control were
218. 9:17from people who Tak an ior mecon for
219. 9:19covid the actual number was reportedly
220. 9:222% USA Today falsely claimed President
221. 9:26Biden only checked his watch after the
222. 9:28return of soldiers killed in Afghanistan
223. 9:31in fact Biden repeatedly checked his
224. 9:33watch during the ceremony as families of
225. 9:36the Fallen Soldiers claimed mediaite
226. 9:39falsely declared that Joe Biden had not
227. 9:41referred to baseball great Satchel Page
228. 9:44as a negro in fact he'd done just that
229. 9:47you know I've adopted the attitude of
230. 9:51the great negro at the time his name was
231. 9:54satchel pige and the Washington Post
232. 9:57claimed Senator Tom Cotton was wrong to
233. 9:59say murderers like the Boston Marathon
234. 10:01bomber would qualify for covid stimulus
235. 10:04checks under Biden turns out the
236. 10:06convicted killer did receive a stimulus
237. 10:09check in
238. 10:11prison Trump sued CNN for $475 million
239. 10:16for calling his challenges to the 2020
240. 10:18election the big lie he argued it
241. 10:20defamed him because the big lie is a
242. 10:22Nazi term the judge threw out the case
243. 10:24saying CNN was using the term as an
244. 10:27opinion and it didn't necessarily link
245. 10:29Trump to Hitler or genocide of Jews