CNN fact check: Trump campaign falsely suggests Rep. Jim Clyburn called for Trump's hanging

[highplainsdem]

Just when you think the Trump campaign can't go any lower...


https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/20/politics/fact-check-trump-campaign-clyburn-hang-him/index.html

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's campaign falsely suggested Thursday that a senior Democratic congressman, Rep. Jim Clyburn, had called for Trump to be hanged.
"The number 3 House Democrat, James Clyburn, just said this about President Trump: 'Hang him!' This hatred and anger is out of control," the campaign's "war room" tweeted along with a video clip from Clyburn's Thursday interview with CNN's John Berman on "New Day," which you can watch here.
The clip was soon rocketing around pro-Trump social media -- as prominent Trump allies tweeted more explicit versions of the campaign's insinuation that Clyburn had proposed Trump's execution.
But the very clip the campaign tweeted shows the campaign was taking Clyburn's remarks far out of context.

Facts First: Clyburn did use the words "hang him," but this was not a call to hang Trump or anyone else. Rather, Clyburn was saying that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's comments in favor of Trump's acquittal on articles of impeachment, in advance of a Senate trial, have shown that McConnell is "not going to be impartial" in running the proceedings -- just as if it would show bias if someone with the "reverse" perspective had said in advance of a trial, "Let's give him a fair trial and hang him.'"

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This is the tweet misrepresenting what Clyburn said, and adding, "This hatred and anger is out of control!"

It should have been deleted by now, after being called out as false. But this is the Trump campaign, and like Trump himself, if they're saying anything, they're lying.

Link to tweet

Here's the CNN video mentioned in the article:

Link to tweet

[Newest Reality]

1. I kind of expect it...

Judging by the past behavior, it is very possible that Trump will be going to greater extremes and even hysterically exaggerating even minor things.

At this point, rather than it just being manipulation and rhetorical sensationalism, it may reflect even more his accelerating breakdown.

I am bracing for that. Oh, and probably some extreme temper tantrums, too. It's like bad weather ahead

[Boomerproud]

2. That behavior has been going on for 3 1/2 years.

Hope sane folks have their barf bags ready. I may move to a deserted island for my survival.