Remember Donald Trump’s speech after the Orlando shooting, when he mistakenly described the shooter as born in Afghanistan?
“The killer, who’s name I will not use, or ever say, was born in Afghan, of Afghan parents, who immigrated to the United States.”
This statement was simply not true, as the shooter was in fact an American citizen born in Queens. Trump’s relationship with truths and facts during his presidential campaign has appeared questionable at best, but surprisingly, this time the error doesn’t seem to be of any fault of his own.
Mediate found the following amusing factoid buried in a piece published earlier today by Bloomberg Politics:
“Trump made a factual error during his post-Orlando shooting speech because his staff accidentally uploaded the wrong speech into his teleprompter.”
According to Bloomberg Politics, many in Trump’s inner circle had predicted that he would get a bump in the polls following his speech, the same way his popularity rose after the terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
In reality, he was slammed by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party and new ratings show that his popularity has declined. They seized on the mistake in his speech about the New York-born shooter being from Afghanistan.
“Staffers had accidentally uploaded the wrong version of the speech into the teleprompter, and later posted the correct version on Trump’s Facebook page.”
The version posted to Trump’s website is accurate:
“The killer, whose name I will not use, or ever say, was born to Afghan parents who immigrated to the United States.”
Is this perhaps why Trump just fired his longtime campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygIDdXEpPnk
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