Fox Edited Trump Barbershop Visit To Clip Rambling Nonsense, Lies
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A Fox News spokesperson told HuffPost the segment was edited "for time and clarity."
Fox News footage of a recent visit Donald Trump made to a New York City barbershop required extensive edits to make Trump’s answers cogent, a CNN review found.
Trump made his appearance last week at the Bronx barbershop in order to sit for an interview with “Fox and Friends” co-host Lawrence Jones as part of a recurring barbershop-themed segment. He also took audience questions.
CNN media reporters compared the segment that Fox broadcast to its viewers with a longer version shared on social media by someone who’d been in the barbershop that day.
In one particularly egregious example, Fox showed Trump immediately responding in the affirmative to a question about eliminating federal taxes.
Where Fox’s edit appeared seamless, CNN found Trump actually rambled for more than seven minutes about inheritance taxes, the Keystone Pipeline, Ronald Reagan, Russia and transgender athletes.