Trump states the truth CNN pounces

When asked about white nationalists--a tiny group of people who are known only because CNN keeps talking about them-- Trump stated that they were a small group and condemned them.

Here's what CNN aired:

“I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems. I guess…”

Of course the CNN fake journalist, John Avalon, condemned that as not being a very strong denunciation of white nationalists.  Problem is that CNN used a deliberately deceptive edit.  The actual question and answer were:

"Q: Do you think that white nationalism is a rising threat around the world?

Trump: I don’t really. I think it’s a small group of people that have very, very serious problems. I guess if you look at what happened in New Zealand, perhaps that’s the case. I don’t know enough about it yet. They’re just learning about the person and the people involved. But it’s certainly a terrible thing. Terrible thing."

Note that Trump wasn't asked to condemn white nationalists, which he did anyway, but whether he thought it was a growing threat to which he said he didn't know enough to say at this time.

But Trump did say that white nationalists had very very serious problems--he did not say that he guessed they did; that's the CNN deceptive edit talking--and that what happened in New Zealand was terrible.

This is why the #FakeNews media are the enemy of the people. The purpose of the free press is to provide we the people with the information that we need to make decisions.  That will include different people viewing an issue from different perspectives.  But a free press does not deliberately edit quotes to distort what the person was saying; a free press will be opinionated but it will not intentionally lie.

A free press doesn't lie but propagandists do. The #FakeNews media is the enemy of we the people for the same reason that Goebbels propaganda bureau was the enemy of the German people and the North Korean tyrants propaganda bureau is the enemy of the North Korean people; they're all lying in order to advance a specific political agenda which goes against what's best for the people.