Off-Topic: Trump lied about seeing top secret footage
Trump's Dangerous Lie About Seeing a 'Top Secret' Government Film
Showing Cash for US Hostages
http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/trump_lied_his_ass_off_about_seeing_a_top_secret_government_film_showing_cash_for_iranian_hostages
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/04/questions-abound-as-trump-claims-to-have-watched-video-leaked-by-iran-of-the-money-transfer/
[Trump on Wednesday]:
"Now, here's the amazing thing: Over there, where that plane
landed, top secret, you don't have a lot of paparazzi. You
know, the paparazzi doesn't do so well over there, right?"
"And they have a perfect tape, done by obviously a government
camera, and the tape is of the people taking the money off the
plane. Right? That means that in order to embarrass us
further, Iran sent us the tapes. Right? It's a military tape,
it's a tape that was a perfect angle, nice and steady, nobody
getting nervous because they're gonna be shot because they're
shooting a picture of money pouring off a plane."
[TODAY]
"The Washington Post asked Trump's staff to explain
what Trump was talking about and emailed a link to a Fox News
clip that showed the January footage from Geneva [relating to
decades-long negotiations re canceled arms deal], asking if
that was the video the nominee saw." "Yes," spokeswoman Hope
Hicks told the Post via email. "Merely the b-roll footage
included in every broadcast." So Trump lied. And his lies
put American lives in danger, because now terrorists think
America will pay cash for hostages.
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In case you're unfamiliar with the term, "B-roll" refers to extra,
generally background footage -- usually with natural sound -- shot
at news events to be available for intercutting with primary news shots.
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