Post by Don on Nov 24, 2016 4:52:22 GMT -5
Here's a bit of the story from CNN:
This should have happened pre-election, but maybe Trump was worried he'd lose the alt-right voters to Clinton. (we need a sarcasm smiley)
But I also want to note the difference between "Donald Trump denied Tuesday that he did anything to "energize" the alt-right movement through his presidential campaign" in the first sentence and his actual statement quoted in the second paragraph;
"I don't want to energize the group, and I disavow the group."
See what the reporter did there? Can anyone explain to me how a conscientious reporter could transmogrify the quote into the claim?
President-elect Donald Trump denied Tuesday that he did anything to "energize" the alt-right movement through his presidential campaign and sought to distance himself from it, even though many of the movement's leaders have sought to tether their political views to Trump's rise.
"I don't want to energize the group, and I disavow the group," Trump told a group of New York Times reporters and columnists during a meeting at the newspaper's headquarters in New York.
"It's not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized, I want to look into it and find out why," he added, according to one of the Times reporters in the room, Michael Grynbaum.
Trump offered up the condemnation of the alt-right, a far-right political movement rife with white nationalist, anti-Semitic and racist ideologies, after The New York Times' executive editor Dean Baquet asked Trump if he feels he did things to energize the alt-right.
"I don't want to energize the group, and I disavow the group," Trump told a group of New York Times reporters and columnists during a meeting at the newspaper's headquarters in New York.
"It's not a group I want to energize, and if they are energized, I want to look into it and find out why," he added, according to one of the Times reporters in the room, Michael Grynbaum.
Trump offered up the condemnation of the alt-right, a far-right political movement rife with white nationalist, anti-Semitic and racist ideologies, after The New York Times' executive editor Dean Baquet asked Trump if he feels he did things to energize the alt-right.
This should have happened pre-election, but maybe Trump was worried he'd lose the alt-right voters to Clinton. (we need a sarcasm smiley)
But I also want to note the difference between "Donald Trump denied Tuesday that he did anything to "energize" the alt-right movement through his presidential campaign" in the first sentence and his actual statement quoted in the second paragraph;
"I don't want to energize the group, and I disavow the group."
See what the reporter did there? Can anyone explain to me how a conscientious reporter could transmogrify the quote into the claim?