The Trump campaign is under fire after falsely accusing a prominent Democratic Congressman of calling for the president to be hanged.
Speaking on CNN, House Majority Whip James Clyburn, Democrat of South Carolina, called for a fair trial in the Senate of President Donald Trump, following Wednesday’s historic impeachment vote. Clyburn lamented Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is acting like someone who says, “give him a fair trial and hang him,” and said what he’s looking for by not transmitting the Articles of Impeachment to the Senate is “the reverse of that.”
The Trump campaign put out a tweet with a short clip of Clyburn’s remarks and falsely accused him of calling for President Trump to be hanged.
Reporters and others quickly made clear what Congressman Clyburn had said, and are taking the Trump campaign to task.
CNBC’s John Harwood:
CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy:
Even a contributor to the far right wing Daily Caller agreed what Clyburn said is not what the Trump campaign claims.
National security lawyer Bradley P. Moss:
CNN’s top political fact-checker Daniel Dale:
Dale also blasted the “whole ecosystem that immediately picks up the campaign’s complete nonsense and amplifies it”:
Here are some more who are spreading the Trump campaign’s obvious lies, or just misrepresenting what Congressman Clyburn said: