CNN’s Jake Tapper Criticizes Trump’s “Bombing” Remark Then Secretly Edits out Hillary’s “Bombings” Remark
CNN’s Jake Tapper asked New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on State of the Union on Sunday morning about the supposed contrast between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton in their responses to the explosions Saturday in New York, editing out Clinton’s reference to “bombings” to create a false distinction.
Tapper cited Trump referring to a “bomb” in New York, then played a clip of Clinton criticizing him for saying that — leaving out Clinton’s reference, seconds before, to what she called “bombings.”
Here is the Tapper’s question for Christie, with the edited Clinton clip:
Tapper: There is a contrast, I would say, between how you’re speaking about it and how Mr. Trump spoke about it yesterday. He’s being criticized for talking about the New York bomb before local officials or local law enforcement had a chance to do so. He told the Colorado Springs crowd that “a bomb went off in New York, and nobody knows exactly what’s going on” — that’s really just a few minutes after the incident. And his opponent tried to draw a contrast. She waited hours later, until local officials spoke, and then she said this:
Clinton (clip): I think it’s important to know the facts about any incident like this. I think it’s always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions.
Tapper: As a general note, do you think politicians should wait until more information comes in, and should they defer to local official and investigators? Isn’t that what you do as the governor of New Jersey?
Tapper made no mention of Clinton’s similar remark.
Here is the full, relevant exchange between Clinton and reporters on Saturday night, viaLiz Kreutz of ABC News and other sources:
Clinton: I’ve breen briefed about the bombings in New York and New Jersey, and the attack in Minnesota. Obviously, we need to do everything we can to support our first responders, also to pray for the victims. We have to let this investigation unfold. We’ve been in touch with various officials, including the mayor’s office in New York, to learn what they are discovering as they conduct this investigation. And I’ll have more to say about it when we actually know the facts?
Reporter: Secretary Clinton, Do you have any reaction to the fact that Donald Trump, immediately upon taking the stage tonight, called the explosion in New York a “bomb” … ?
Clinton: Well, I think it’s important to know the facts about any incident like this. That’s why it’s critical to support the first responders, the investigators who are looking into it, trying to determine what did happen. I think it’s always wiser to wait until you have information before making conclusions because we are just in the beginning stages of trying to determine what happened.
Ironically, later in the program, while introducing Clinton’s running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), Tapper played the full clip, including Clinton’s use of the word “bombings.” Tapper did not ask Kaine about whether Clinton’s remark was appropriate.
For the record, Christie’s response to Tapper’s question defended Trump without referring to Clinton’s statement.
Christie: Well, listen, I don’t think you have to defer when saying there was an explosion and a bomb in New York. I mean, everybody knew that. It was being reported in television, Jake, so there’s a difference. Now, you shouldn’t attribute it to any particular organization or group if you don’t have the facts or information to do that. But I think that what Donald did was perfectly appropriate to tell that group in Colorado Springs a bomb exploded. This is typical of Mrs. Clinton. She has absolutely no basis to be critical of what he did yesterday …
Tapper was not all smiles for Kaine: he questioned the Democratic vice presidential nominee aggressively about Hillary Clinton’s close confident Sidney Blumenthal’s alleged role in pushing the Birther conspiracy theory in 2008.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. His new book, See No Evil: 19 Hard Truths the Left Can’t Handle, is available from Regnery through Amazon. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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You idiot!!
Last night talked to someone in NY, who was only one block away, from where this happend, ready to get into a taxi! According to her, the noise was so defending and scary that she, —after couple of hours had passed—-was scared and shaking!!
On the “you tube” video, before emergency crew arrived, you clearly see the entire front of a floor of a building is blown out and then you see fire starting!!!
You fool, what was Trump soupose to say, this was the result of the “fire crackers” going off ???
Not mentioning, that you covered up Hillary’s exact STATMENTS!
We are truly done with the STUPITITY of you people and your beloved leaders!!
WE HAD ENOUGH!!!
What are you going to do about it?
Vote.
SH…I AGREE WITH YOU…I NEVER LISTEN OR READ THOSE WHO MADE AND OR CHANGE THOSE REMARKS AND NOT TELLING THE TRUTH! I’M GLAD YOU STRAIGHTENED OUT TAPPER! KARMA’S GONNA GET THEM LIARS !
Oh Jake, u r straining too hard for Hillary and in the process makes u sound like a blooming idiot…of course it was a bomb….what is your point, that u want to show dear idiot Hillary is POLITICALLY CORRECT ?….all of your viewers ain’t stupid but watch CNN only to see what they are now up to…just remember young man…God is in Control and if he wants Trump in, there is nothing u nor CNN can say to keep him out…Read My Lips
MENT: the noise was “DEAFENING”!
Do you actually think America doesn’t see the lies you report ! Get your heads out of Hilliarys ass ! Your really starting to look like shit ! What ever happened to honest news today ! I will never trust anything you report on ! One good thing Trump did is to really show how corrupt the news is and bias in this country ! God bless Merry Christmas and the deplorables !
Hear hear!!
Yes, by all means….God bless David Duke and the KKK. God bless Putin. (Wow….’Deporables United’ are a funny, little group!) SMH
they aren’t funny at all. They are hypocritical, and frightening racists, bigots, misogynists that support a equally as screwed up man child that also has child rape charges pending against him in NYC. The women that support him though, they disgust me even more. I am not saying if your’e a women you HAVE to vote for HRC. But dammit, to support this GOP candidate is to be nothing but a sad excuse for a woman
Catherine, i missed this one…who has rape charges pending in NYC? I ordered Evana’s book from 2009, i’m told Donald raped her????
Talk about bullshit you should be on CNN
Catherine return to your little safe space and lay off the crack pipe before your little pea brain is damaged beyond repair. Do enlighten us on this supposed child rape charge pending in NY. Might want to get rid of the tin foil hat you wear. There are medications for your delusions and hallucinations. You might want to get some. How in the hell can you support a lying criminal enterprise known as Hillary whose husband is a proven rapist and habitual sexual harassment sack of puss is a joke. You support a woman who demeans, humiliates, and destroys any woman who comes forward with the truth about her sex offender husband of hers. You are a sad sad little fool and a hypocrite. Stay in your little safe space and fantasy world little girl. The real world is way to much for you to handle.
It does not take long for the insult dummies to come out! They can’t think their insulting posts will change anyone’s mind or make the people they are insulting look bad. Guess again! Who would be offended by someone who’s own parents didn’t care enough about them to teach them manners and how to talk to other people.
I think all these Trump haters are really closet Trumpies. If they think he is rude and insulting and closed minded , then why do they act the same way on their post ! Because they are closet Trumpies. Hahahahaha
You call Trump a racist, yet it was Hillary Clinton who accepted the Margaret Sanger Award, and who praised Sanger. Sanger once wrote that black people were “human weeds” that needed to be exterminated. Sanger saw abortion as a way to exterminate African-Americans, and if you look at abortion statistics, many women getting abortions are African-American. Why doesn’t “Black Lives Matter” protest aborted black babies? Don’t those black lives matter?
Catherine, I feel very sorry for you. I am not a racist nor a communist nor a KKKer. I am not a woman that will vote for a lying,murdering, treasonous son of a witch who is with numerous others, (President Obama and HER craphead husband included) conspiring against our country the way they are. The big Donald Trump only said anything after it was all over the news and other media outlets. Ma’am, I find tou repulsive and a sad excuse of an American…if you even are one.
spoken just like a liberalistic politically correct coward moron who probably thinks having a criminal coward (Hillary) in the oval office vote for someone who is not a coward and thief is what i am going to do GO Trump
WEll Pissue, you’re a funny little fuck tard. you’re IGNORABLE…
People like you and that worthless, God hating, Un-American POS Jake Tapper are aiding and abetting the primary enemy to this country! You are fascists by every definition of the word. You who elected Barack Hussein Obama, our pretender and illegitimate President are responsible for every problem you now try to blame on patriotic Conservatives.
Well unless I read this wrong Hillary had been briefed on the bombings. She knew it was bombings. Unlike Donald Trump. He never waited on a briefing. So therefore he did not know at the time what he was talking about .The big boom could have been most anything. Oh wait, he is in with the mob, the Kremlin . He might have been briefed by someone. My bad!!!!’
You know bud, a bomb is the only thing that explodes like that. I wasn’t briefed either, but being a Nam vet, anything from a grenade to a rocket to a 2000 pound bomb that goes off, is a bomb by any other name. Trump knew what he was saying. You just can’t stand a day without trying to make him out a liar a cheat, a scoundrel. You gotta be a whole lot smarter than, he didn’t know what he was talking about.
Come on, David Duke and the KKK? You must be dufus, brother to stupid and idiot. Hillary is the one with ties to those clowns. She the one that was always gushing about Bryd the Grand Poola or mule of the Klan. So who is deplorable now? Get your shit right before you go off. Otherwise you end looking like a stooge. No offense to the Three Stooges.
We are not a little group and come election day you will see that! Go find a safe room! People are tired of you Liberal Sheep!
Taper et al are a disgrace to modern journalism. They (CNN reporters) should resign. Shame on them, shame on their roots.
Jake Tapper, you are a disgrace to journalism & should be fired on the spot.
Clinton thinks it’s important to wait until all the facts are known before drawing conclusions? Hmmm, I guess she has changed her thought process over the years#Benghazi#YouTubeVideo.
Huh? She didn’t think the video was to blame for Benghazi attack. She never said it was. She said ‘some people’ are blaming the video…we need to wait for the facts. SMH
Psue: You are obviously one of Hillary’s substitutes for toilet paper. She pushed the narrative that Benghazi was due to a video, She ordered Susan Rice to appear on TV and also say the attack was because of a video. These LIES kept coming for SEVERAL DAYS even though Hillary and the State Department KNEW the attacks were a well-planned ISIS terrorist attack. Get your head out from between Hillary’s butt cheeks long enough to see the truth.
You know bud, a bomb is the only thing that explodes like that. I wasn’t briefed either, but being a Nam vet, anything from a grenade to a rocket to a 2000 pound bomb that goes off, is a bomb by any other name. Trump knew what he was saying. You just can’t stand a day without trying to make him out a liar a cheat, a scoundrel. You gotta be a whole lot smarter than, he didn’t know what he was talking about.
Oh but she did blame the video. Her exact words were, ” it was an angry protest because of some video on the internet we had nothing to do with.” She then proceeded to tell the families of the four Americans she hung out to dry, ” we’re going to get this creep and punish him to the full extent of law.” But you’re right, facts are very important to know before we say or post anything.
Stupid report……not a story
You are the story for making it an issue!!!
Her opening line on the plane was “””” bombings in New York City
they are controlled by your lieing goverment and news cant tell you the real truth
Jack Tapper you are a loser!!!..if you can’t report the truth give up your job…you make me sick!!!!
They are all going to look pretty sick when Trump wins the election (if he is allowed to). Perhaps they can get work from the BBC or in Canada.
Racist, bigots, you left out hate monger.
JAKE THE SNAKE ! ALL YOUR BIAS CANNOT KEEP TRUMP OUT OF THE PRESIDENCY !
Makes people sick, so sick, the lack of imagination, OMG . . .
Hillary is a extreme liberal who wants to change this country into a muslim nation .She lies ,she is a criminal,she is herself a racist,deplorable in all wass possible.To use that word deplorable only works when used on Hillary .It totaly fits here.She will not attend the debate because she will say she is sick .
ARE we talking about CRIMES. You seem to consider Donald Trump’s CRIMES as Good BUSINESS- He certainly does. Doesn’t pay the workers, just pay your debts from a foundation funded from someone elses money. Those are O.K. for the Republican party.”When I give a donation to an organization or just want to put new grass on my golf course I can do that,because I might want something from them somedayand besides, I’m using someone elses money. That’s why I don’t pay any taxes It’s O.K. for him to do that stuff, He has o honor integrity or morality and NO idea what it means to have to do HONEST work. His Wharton School education must have failed him in business ethics???????? Or is that maybe where he learned it?
Wouldn’t want some nit picker to create a distraction of your well said Statement by complaining about a misspelled word. Excellent comment!
You have no idea how construction works. I’ve been in construction 42 years. Donald Trump hired a general contractor to do his project. He may have hired different contractors for each project or one contractor over all his projects. Either way they are in charge of the project. They are responsible for hiring and paying people. If anyone is to blame for not paying or for employing illegals it lies solely on the contractor. In all the years I have never seen an investor on a job site. They don’t come in until the end of the project.
I hope this clears up some obvious ignorance I have seen involving Trump.