{"id":38573,"date":"2018-07-24T22:10:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T05:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38573"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T19:14:41","slug":"rachel-maddow-white-house-transcript-erases-putin-saying-he-helped-trump-win-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38573","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Maddow: White House Transcript Erases Putin Saying He Helped Trump Win the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holy crap. This is one of those moments when it simply cannot be ignored that the Trump administration is deliberately falsifying reality in order to deceive their glassy-eyed Deplorables. The White House has brazenly disappeared part of the press conference<\/a><\/strong> he held with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki. And the purpose is painfully obvious.<\/p>\n

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On the Rachel Maddow Show Tuesday, Rachel revealed that the official White House transcript had an omission that could not have been accidental. The video from Maddow’s show<\/a><\/strong> tells the whole story. But the gist of it this: Reuters reporter Jeff Mason asked Putin a question and got a surprisingly candid answer. After Putin replied to a question about assisting Robert Mueller’s special counsel probe, Putin and Mason had the following exchange:<\/p>\n

Putin:<\/strong> That could be a first step, and we can also extend it. Options abound, and they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework.
\nJeff Mason:<\/strong> President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
\nPutin:<\/strong> Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.\u2013Russia relationship back to normal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, that is not what showed up in the White House transcript<\/a><\/strong>. They omitted the first part of Mason’ question, making it appear that Putin was still replying to the Mueller question:<\/p>\n

PRESIDENT PUTIN:<\/strong> That could be a first step, and we can also extend it. Options abound, and they all can be found in an appropriate legal framework.
\nQ:<\/strong> And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?
\nPRESIDENT PUTIN:<\/strong> Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.\u2013Russia relationship back to normal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the Trump camp removed Putin’s explicit admission that he wanted Trump to win the election, and that he took measures to achieve that end. Gee, why do you suppose Trump didn’t want the American people to know about that, even after they saw it with their own eyes<\/a><\/strong> when it occurred? Could Trump be trying to re-write history in order to cover up his collusion with Russia? Would he be that obviously Orwellian? Well, on Tuesday he spoke at a VFW event and said “What you\u2019re seeing and what you\u2019re reading is not what\u2019s happening”<\/em> That’s frighteningly close to what Orwell wrote in 1984: “The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”<\/em><\/p>\n

To make matters worse, the official video of this on the White House website has the same clearly intentional and flagrantly deceptive edits. This is nothing more than the sort of twisted propaganda tactics that occur regularly in authoritarian dictatorships. In fact, Russia excised the same parts of the transcript as the White House did (collusion?). Trump is trying to erase the fact that Putin openly advocated for his candidacy, and even directed his officials to provide assistance. And what’s really disturbing is that it seems to be right in line with the sort of abhorrent behavior we all expect from Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

See for yourself:<\/strong> And be prepared to be disgusted by the unscrupulous immorality of our current, and hopefully short-tenured, president.<\/p>\n

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White House edits video to remove question about whether Putin wanted Trump to win. pic.twitter.com\/ExlsHNlgF8<\/a><\/p>\n

— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) July 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n