— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 19, 2020There was no CNN footage showing an African-American child running away from a 'white' child as purportedly shown in this Donald Trump tweet.
From start to finish the video in this particular tweet has first been manipulated to distort and then later truncated without the original crediting source.
Twitter labelled this "Manipulated media" with the explanation:
- In September 2019, CNN reported on a viral video about a friendship between two toddlers
- On Thursday, the president shared a version of the video which many journalists confirmed was edited and doctored with a fake CNN chryon.
A parent of one of the then toddlers seen in the Trump-manipulated home video has since forced Twitter and Facebook to completely remove this video.
As Australian Prime Minister and Liberal MP for Cook Scott Morrison almost slavishly follows Trump's election campaign playbook, Australian voters can expect similar Goebbels-like manipulation of images and videos over the next 14 to 27 months, as the milestone for the last possible date for the next federal general election of the House of Represenatives & half of the Senate arrives.
