Donald Trump is running an ad that changes a word in a Hillary Clinton speech to make it sound like she said the opposite of what she actually said. Will people fall for that?
August 9, 2016

Another presidential campaign means it's time to bring back the "Latest Lie" series.

And here's the latest lie. Campaigning in Nebraska Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said, "Well, we're not going there, my friends. I'm telling you right now we're going to write fairer rules for the middle class. And we aren't going to raise taxes on the middle class."

Now Donald Trump is running an ad with a doctored transcript that says Clinton said, "And we are going to raise taxes on the middle class."

Caitlan MacNeal explains at TPM, in "Trump Campaign Video Misrepresents Clinton's Position On Taxes":

The Clinton campaign told PolitiFact that Clinton said "aren't," not "are." And a transcript of Clinton's prepared remarks uses the line, "We aren't going to raise taxes on the middle class."

CBS News reported that when the video is slowed down, it becomes more clear that Clinton said "aren't." And several reporters agreed with that.

Here is the Trump ad, you can clearly hear her say "aren't" – but even so everyone knows what she meant:

Nice. Changing a word in a speech to make it sound like Clinton said the opposite of what she actually said. Will people fall for that?

Remember when President Obama said that businesspeople didn't get there on their own, they had help, that they didn't build the roads, bridges and other public facilities that they used for their success? Then Republicans took the quote out of context, claimed he said businesspeople "didn't build that," meaning they didn't build their businesses. They actually built an entire campaign around that lie. Well, here they go again.

How many more days until this is over?

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