Trump Sparks Outrage By Posting Edited Video of Stammering Pelosi: ‘Shocking’ – By Mediaite Staff (Mediaite) / May 23 2019
President Donald Trump shocked Twitter on Thursday — no easy feat — when he tweeted out an edited clip of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stammering repeatedly.
The video, which aired on the Fox Business Network show of Lou Dobbs, was a sequence of clips from a speech Pelosi gave, cut up and spliced together, in which the House Speaker stammers and slurs her words. Trump posted the video that same day it was reported that a doctored video of Pelosi, which was slowed down and altered to make it seem like she was impaired, went viral. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tweeted out a link to that doctored video, questioning Pelosi’s mental state, though he deleted the tweet shortly afterwards.
“PELOSI STAMMERS THROUGH NEWS CONFERENCE,” Trump wrote in his tweet. The president also quoted Fox News analyst Gregg Jarrett, who questioned Pelosi’s mental fitness.
Trump was condemned on Twitter for the move, though he naturally doesn’t seem to care — the tweet including the video of Pelosi is pinned to the top of his profile.
People are saying this is a doctored video, but it's not one of the videos WAPO identified as doctored. This appears to be an edit of moments where Pelosi was stumbling (perfectly normal) & edited together to make her look bad…not good, but not one of the doctored videos https://t.co/0EIHkCp2cS
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) May 24, 2019
This video is deceptively edited. Luckily, you can see the original for yourself in its entirety here. https://t.co/XJKlSkFfBo https://t.co/NSXdRSWDxV
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) May 24, 2019
it is still shocking a president would share an obviously manipulated video. Yet more evidence she really got under his skin. https://t.co/7dhPRDpvYy
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 24, 2019
I'll repeat that on the day that doctored video of Nancy Pelosi appears on the internet, @realDonaldTrump starts suggesting that somehow she's impaired. Then retweets more edited video of the Speaker. This is the President of the US for god's sake.This is a coordinated campaign https://t.co/1JcG4rhCCf
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) May 24, 2019
And Fox News and the birther movement made your Dad/clown into a President. Funny how that works.
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) May 24, 2019
https://twitter.com/drewharwell/status/1131738396806848519
No one needs to doctor a video to demonstrate just how incoherent @realDonaldTrump is.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) May 24, 2019
In the last two hours, POTUS has authorized the AG to have sweeping powers to declassify, and tweeted a video of Pelosi sounding off-kilter. https://t.co/ojARA3JzGe
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 24, 2019
https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1131741281133182978
PELOSI: "I pray for the president of the United States. I wish that his family or his administration or his staff would have an intervention for the good of the country." 👀 pic.twitter.com/fW5LapMBiz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 23, 2019
