In what has become a routine occurrence over the past few years, a CNN journalist has spread an absurdly false claim in order to make Trump and/or Trump supporters look bad.
Jake Tapper retweeted a thread by “Dr. Eric Cervini,” a self-described “author, historian, homo” with pronouns in his Twitter bio, that falsely claims Trump supporters driving a pickup truck were targeting an SUV of Biden supporters.
Tapper commented: “Biden campaign says Trump supporters in Texas put their ‘staff, surrogates, supporters, and others in harm’s way.'”
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If you watch the video from two different angles, however, it becomes crystal clear who the aggressor in the situation was. And surprise, surprise, it was not the Trump supporters.
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Tapper deleted his quote tweet of “Dr. Eric Cervini’s” thread because it “headed off into a deranged territory,” but in a separate tweet he still quoted the Biden campaign’s claim that Trump supporters were intentionally endangering their “staff, surrogates, supporters, and others.”
The sideswiping incident happened during a Biden bus tour in Texas, which ended up getting canceled because Trump supporters far outnumbered Biden supporters: