NBC News’ Lester Holt interviewed President Donald Trump Thursday night in his first major news interview since the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Holt obviously was pushing the mainstream news media narrative that the Russians influenced the presidential election and that Trump had a role in it. It was one of those interviews, where Holt, in his questioning, used terms such as “unsubstantiated” to imply that Trump was a liar about wire tapping claims and that he and Russia were not in collusion. Nowadays there is a Russian colluder behind every door and under every bed at the White House, according to the media and the extreme leftists who are trying to overthrow this government.
Immediately after the interview, NBC wrote a story that changed the contextual meaning of Trump’s answers by tampering with Trump’s quotes. Trump said in the interview, “This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it is an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won…This was an excuse for having lost the election.” NBC omitted the part about Russia being a made up story and an excuse for losing the election. Instead it only quoted the last part of what Trump said–“‘Cause all it is, is an excuse but I said to myself, I might even lengthen out the investigation, but I have to do the right thing for the American people.” The story purposely hid the counter-narrative to the left’s own unsubstantiated claims.
The story also omitted that Trump said the media misrepresents him with stories containing “false sources or sources that don’t exist because of the way the media is,” also adding context to Trump’s answers. Then NBC proved his point by quoting unnamed “legal experts” and by actually serving as a platform to give the Democratic opposition a counter voice to the Trump interview by showing their hypocritical anger over Comey’s ouster. Just last week, these same people were calling for Comey to be fired over mishandling Hillary Clinton’s email scandal and for not accusing Trump of colluding with the Russians. Now that Trump fired Comey, these extremists want a special prosecutor named to impeach Trump.
During the Cold War with the Soviet Union, the radical left generally ridiculed anyone who thought there was a communist threat and downplayed any accusation that Russia could possibly be infiltrating the US or influencing our election process. Today, when they want to pin the blame on someone for losing an election they thought they were going to win with ease, it’s the Russians. And when they want to undermine the ability of Trump to govern, they tie him to Russia. And the news media, as exemplified by the NBC news story about the interview, is willing to alter quotes that change the context of the story to prove their point. This is deception and as Jesus said in Matthew 24:4, “Take heed that no man deceive you.” Don’t believe what the leftist media is reporting. They change the truth in the name of truth to foment rebellion.
