From Talking Points Memo:
President Donald Trump is on a mission to raise hell about CNN’s supposed bias against him. And in his latest salvo, the President posted on Instagram two new videos released by conservative activist James O’Keefe.
O’Keefe and his Project Veritas outlet are infamous for their selective and often misleading editing in expose-style “undercover” videos: interview subjects don’t know they’re being interviewed on tape, and their remarks are likely used out of context.
In O’Keefe’s recent “American Pravda” video series, an unidentified interlocutor speaks to CNN producer John Bonifield — who the Washington Post pointed outproduces health and medical stories and would not know the details of CNN’s political coverage.
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Here is a screenshot of Trump’s official Instagram page — the ‘Project Veritas Presents’ button is an O’Keefe video, as is the one to the right of it:
It’s a sign of real desperation when the President of the United States turns to a disgraced kook like James O’Keefe. Promoting O’Keefe, of course, is yet another delegitimization of the media, and the truth itself. But it is really far beneath the office of the President to tout this garbage.
It’s interesting that these two O’Keefe videos are exactly what the Russian bots have been turbo-spamming throughout Twitter, Facebook and Google for the past couple of days. It’s almost as if Trump is colluding with the Russians in his denials of colluding with the Russians.