Ian Bremmer, a geo-political analyst, journalist and cable news regular, on Sunday shared a fabricated tweet featuring a false quote from President Trump about North Korea, which Bremmer later admitted making up.
But not before it was shared widely by Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., a prominent Trump critic, and a swath of commentators and journalists, including anti-Trump analyst Ana Navarro-Cardenas — leading Bremmer to later delete it.
Bremmer’s tweet captured a supposed quote from Trump, “Kim Jong Un is smarter and would make a better President than Sleepy Joe Biden.”
President Trump in Tokyo: “Kim Jong Un is smarter and would make a better President than Sleepy Joe Biden.”
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) May 26, 2019
The quote was unverified by journalists in the traveling pool with Trump in Japan. Once confronted about it online by a Washington Examiner reporter, Bremmer admitted it was false, though he said it could be “plausible.”
Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large for Time Magazine.
Bremmer later defended sharing a fake Trump quote by saying that “it’s a comment on the state of media and the twitterverse today.”
UPDATE: @ianbremmer has now admitted that he fabricated this viral Trump quote. And yet it is being shared by journalists and congressmen as if it is real. pic.twitter.com/QgNd9DnN8g
— Jerry Dunleavy 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) May 26, 2019
Bremmer also responded to the reporter’s tweet by calling his own tweet an “objectively ludicrous quote.” And Bremmer tried to defend his spreading of false information by calling his fake quote “kinda plausible… especially on Twitter, where people automatically support whatever political position they have.”
“That’s the point,” Bremmer claimed.
He’s in good company.
In the past Glenn Greenwald made up “quotes” about how GWBush had been spoken to by God about going to war in the ME.
Dan Rather made up his “fake but accurate” quote that he tried to use to cost GWBush an election.
Harry Reid lyingly claimed that Mitt Romney had paid NO TAXES for at least 10 years to try to cost him the election, and, when Mitt lost, quipped, “well, it worked, didn’t it.”
So out & out lies are par for the course when it comes to Dems/Libs/Progs desperately trying to destroy Republicans.
Well, it IS about as real as what most of the liberal media defecates upon us.
@Nan G: Biden made up a story of marching into Bush’s office and chewing him out. Lying is nothing new or unusual for the left. Now, will we see the outrage the left poured out some obscure Pelosi video?
@Deplorable Me:
That’s disingenuous, but I have come to expect little else from a person so bereft of personal honor as you. The video stopped being obscure when the President of the United States shared it in an attempt to smear one of his political rivals. (One who’s regularly getting the best of him, I might add.)
@Michael:
Cute opinion. Pretty sure your party could tell you to start killing people, and you’d think it’s good. Not much of a filter, when it comes to partisan programing by your party.
But yeah yeah, Pelosi is getting the best of Trump…as manufactured by the opinion media you serve.
Sure…
The tears in 2020 are going be worse than 2016, when you see how few people in the US support the Dem party: the party of old white men. (Biden and Sanders, front runners)
True.
I just finished jury duty in Salt Lake County.
Met about 20 people out of the pool.
There’s a definite “shy Tory,” or “Bradley Effect” going on among Trump supporters in Utah’s Salt Lake area.
(It’s the only Dem-dominated county in Utah.)
Open Trump supporters cars get keyed, have their coffee served cold or their food sneezed on.
One judge actually thought he was so safe in his Trump hatred in this county that he openly slammed Trump from the bench! He got a six month sentence to work w/o pay. (I sure wouldn’t want to have to face HIM in court during that time!)
Looks like, if the election is fair in Utah, Trump will coast to re-election by a bigger margin than he won the state before.
He’s actually picked up supporters who had been “Never-Trumpers.”
@Michael:
Liar, it was never shared by Trump, fake News! LIAR LIAR LIAR.
It was Guliani and deleted when he found out it was doctored.
You liberal fake news spreaders need to get your lies straight.
@kitt:
Eagerly awaiting your apology.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-tweeted-a-misleading-video-of-nancy-pelosi-heres-the-real-thing
@kitt:
What are you, six years old?
Even if you were correct, would “It stopped being obscure the minute the personal lawyer of the President of the United States shared it in an attempt to smear one of the President’s political rivals” be much, if any, better?
@Michael: You are a liar you posted fake news
@kitt:
PBS and Trump’s own Twitter timeline disagree. Still awaiting your apology.
Also:
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/445631-gop-rep-criticizes-trump-for-tweeting-pelosi-video
@kitt:
Several media outlets conflated the doctored video that Giuliani shared with a separate video President Donald Trump retweeted Thursday that showed Pelosi bumbling and stumbling her speech. That video was published by Fox Business and was spliced together from a speech the California Democrat gave.
Obviously, your opponent didn’t know that. And then he links to comments by Will Hurd (Tx-RINO) who seem to be more left than right. Don’t expect him to win in 2020.
But there is no doubt Pelosi is off her game. She is the titular head of the Democratic Party. AOC is really running that show.
@Michael: The slowed down video she was wearing a green dress it was shown side by side with the unaltered video by MSNBC.
The video that Trump tweeted completely different and she was in a pink dress,. You just repeat lies like a liberal not knowing what you are blabbering about.
No apology you are a liar.
@retire05: Yes I have already corrected Greg on another thread, and told him it was FOX, what do you know another propaganda channel on cable, they were unkind mentioning the womans advanced age.
AOC isnt running the show…just running her ignorant mouth.
@kitt:
I suppose it was expecting too much for you to act like an adult.
@Michael: You are a liar. Most likely 15 years old.
Have no idea how to use the internet.
@Michael:
Aside from you having no concept of what honor is, what is disingenuous about it?
So, where is YOUR apology?
@retire05:
Aside from having a brain infected by breathing all the fecal dust blowing around her home city, she is probably a drunk (as evidenced by the amount of taxpayer money she spends on booze) and added to all that, she’s a vapid liberal. Then she has a pack of screaming children throwing tantrums because they can’t have what they want (impeachment) even though it is obvious they don’t understand a thing about it.
Same old same in our politics, nothing ever changes, now Europe is waking up the elections there are fabulous and give hope to someday seeing the wonderful and diverse cultures of Europe.