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[USA] - Nancy Pelosi rips up Donald Trump's speech
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Nancy Pelosi in battle with Facebook and Twitter over Donald Trump's 'misleading' ripped speech video - ABC News
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Donald Trump delivers State of the Union address
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Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has failed to persuade Facebook and Twitter to take down a "misleading" video posted by US President Donald Trump.
Key points:
The video, which has been heavily edited, shows Ms Pelosi repeatedly ripping Mr Trump's State of the Union address while the President honours an airman and young African-American women receiving scholarships, among others.
Ms Pelosi famously ripped up a copy of the President's State of the Union address at the conclusion of his speech, but Mr Trump has now used that moment against her, as tension between the two continues to rise.
The recent stoushes started with a handshake refusal, the ripping of the speech and then thinly-veiled accusations at a religious breakfast.
The video earned the ire of Ms Pelosi and her team, who called on Facebook and Twitter to remove it due to claims that it is designed to "mislead the American people".
"The American people know that the President has no qualms about lying to them — but it is a shame to see Twitter and Facebook, sources of news for millions, do the same," Ms Pelosi's chief of staff Drew Hammill said on Twitter.
"The latest fake video of Speaker Pelosi is deliberately designed to mislead and lie to the American people, and every day that these platforms refuse to take it down is another reminder that they care more about their shareholders' interests than the public's interests."
A campaign spokesperson for Mr Trump also said it was clear the video was a "parody".
Social media response
Twitter recently announced a new rule stating that "you may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm" but the rule does not come into effect until March 5.
Facebook also announced a new policy in January which would bar AI-generated fake videos but not videos that are misleading or heavily edited by humans.
Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone denied Mr Hammill's claims on Twitter.
"Sorry, are you suggesting the President didn't make those remarks and the Speaker didn't rip the speech?" Mr Stone tweeted.
Mr Hammill reiterated that the video was deceptive and again called for it to be taken down.
Facebook said in a statement that the video did not violate its policies and Twitter had not officially commented.
Mr Zuckerberg did not declare in that hearing whether political messaging with "outright lies" would be taken down from Facebook.
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Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has failed to persuade Facebook and Twitter to take down a "misleading" video posted by US President Donald Trump.
Key points:
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi ripped up her copy of Donald Trump's State of the Union address
- The President has now used it against her on social media, implying she has torn up the dreams of some Americans
- Ms Pelosi's team have called for the posts to be removed from Facebook and Twitter
The video, which has been heavily edited, shows Ms Pelosi repeatedly ripping Mr Trump's State of the Union address while the President honours an airman and young African-American women receiving scholarships, among others.
Ms Pelosi famously ripped up a copy of the President's State of the Union address at the conclusion of his speech, but Mr Trump has now used that moment against her, as tension between the two continues to rise.
The recent stoushes started with a handshake refusal, the ripping of the speech and then thinly-veiled accusations at a religious breakfast.
The video earned the ire of Ms Pelosi and her team, who called on Facebook and Twitter to remove it due to claims that it is designed to "mislead the American people".
"The American people know that the President has no qualms about lying to them — but it is a shame to see Twitter and Facebook, sources of news for millions, do the same," Ms Pelosi's chief of staff Drew Hammill said on Twitter.
"The latest fake video of Speaker Pelosi is deliberately designed to mislead and lie to the American people, and every day that these platforms refuse to take it down is another reminder that they care more about their shareholders' interests than the public's interests."
A campaign spokesperson for Mr Trump also said it was clear the video was a "parody".
Social media response
Twitter recently announced a new rule stating that "you may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to cause harm" but the rule does not come into effect until March 5.
Facebook also announced a new policy in January which would bar AI-generated fake videos but not videos that are misleading or heavily edited by humans.
Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone denied Mr Hammill's claims on Twitter.
"Sorry, are you suggesting the President didn't make those remarks and the Speaker didn't rip the speech?" Mr Stone tweeted.
Mr Hammill reiterated that the video was deceptive and again called for it to be taken down.
Facebook said in a statement that the video did not violate its policies and Twitter had not officially commented.
Mr Zuckerberg did not declare in that hearing whether political messaging with "outright lies" would be taken down from Facebook.
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Donald Trump and his Democratic opponents are grappling with life after impeachment
By Washington bureau chief David Lipson
Updated Fri at 1:45pm
PHOTO: Donald Trump winks at photographers after he was acquitted on two articles of impeachment. (Reuters: Leah Millis)
RELATED STORY: Trump has a lot to celebrate today, but an old frenemy denied him the one thing he wanted
RELATED STORY: Yes, Donald Trump is still impeached (and other quick questions answered)
RELATED STORY: Nancy Pelosi, White House respond to that State of the Union moment
Acquitted by the Senate on both impeachment charges, the US President issued a sincere and almost grovelling apology to the cameras gathered at the White House Rose Garden.
"I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people."
The year was 1999. The president was Bill Clinton.
This morning, appearing at a bipartisan prayer breakfast in Washington, Donald Trump gleefully held up a copy of the USA Today newspaper with the word "Acquitted" scrawled across the front page.
PHOTO: Donald Trump waved around a newspaper with the headline 'Acquitted' at a prayer breakfast in DC. (Reuters: Leah Millis)
First, he played the victim.
Without a hint of irony, the President who withheld vital military aid to a foreign ally in an effort to have a domestic political rival investigated, lambasted his accusers for putting "themselves far ahead of our great country".
He then singled out senator Mitt Romney, the sole Republican senator who voted to remove him from office, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who led the impeachment proceedings from the start.
"I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong, nor do I like people who say 'I pray for you,' when you know that is not so," he said.
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VIDEO: Trump calls Pelosi and Schumer "sick and evil" (ABC News)
Ms Pelosi had previously said she prayed for Mr Trump.
Senator Romney had pointed to his "enormously consequential" oath before God on the Senate floor to do "impartial justice" in the trial.
It made a mockery of Republicans who acquitted the President but also claimed he would learn from his mistakes.
"I believe that he [Mr Trump] will be much more cautious in the future," Republican Senator Susan Collins told CBS earlier this week.
2,656 people are talking about this
Today, standing before the presidential seal in the East Room at the White House, Donald Trump displayed not even a hint of contrition.
"It was all bullshit," he told the room packed with exuberant political allies.
He then spent an hour heaping praise on those who helped him get off the impeachment charges, while spitting venomous fury at anyone who dared defy him.
Political stunts are wasting America's time
The only lesson from this week is that the state of the union is parlous.
It has undeniably been a politically spectacular week for the President, perhaps his best since taking the oath of office.
PHOTO: Donald Trump embraced his wife Melania as he celebrated his acquittal on impeachment charges. (Reuters: Leah Millis )
But this nation is more divided than ever, its political leaders more tribal and self-interested and its media more concerned with who'll win this reality TV version of Game of Thrones.
Sure, the US economy is booming, but the deficit is close to $AU1.5 trillion a year.
That's a one with 12 zeros after it added to national debt.
Every. Single. Year.
The future used to matter in politics.
Concerns about debt, for those on the right, and the environment, for those on the left, have taken a back seat to immediate, demonstrable political point scoring.
With all the talk of 'electability' and 'strategy' and all the 'made-for-TV' moments this week, it's easy to forget that the characters in this show are meant to be working for the people.
In a world where facts are meaningless and debate is just a sport, it seems no-one in US politics is listening anymore.
Video of Mr Trump's State of the Union address showed Nancy Pelosi had "pre-ripped" the edges of the pages of his speech, before it had even been read.
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It presumably made it easier for her to theatrically tear the speech in two at the conclusion of the address.
It was a move that hardly conveyed the picture of maturity and sincerity that Democrats had been trying so hard to paint since launching the impeachment proceedings.
PHOTO: Nancy Pelosi tore up Donald Trump's speech after his State of the Union address, describing it as a "manifesto of mistruths." (AP: Alex Brandon)
Blocking witnesses who had intimate knowledge of the Ukraine affair from appearing at the trial was a woeful look for Republicans.
But it was the Democrats who insisted the President's impeachment was so urgent they couldn't wait for the courts to rule on witnesses.
Then they blamed the Republicans for not doing their job for them.
There was nothing to stop the House Committee from calling former national security advisor John Bolton during the impeachment inquiry.
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There's nothing to stop them from calling him now.
Instead, we are all forced to wait until the release of his "tell-all" book next month.
Iowa continues to be a disaster for Democrats
And the Democrats have had an awful week.
PHOTO: Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are among the Democrats who competed in the Iowa caucuses. (Reuters: Randall Hill)
The results of the Iowa caucus were meant to come through hours after the vote, but the app built to report the results failed.
Declaring "enough is enough", the chairman of the Democratic National Committee Tom Perez has now announced a full recount.
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With 100 per cent of the results reported, Pete Buttigieg is leading with 26.2 per cent of state delegate equivalents.
Bernie Sanders is just 0.1 per cent behind him.
Before the results were announced, Senator Sanders had already jumped the gun, claiming victory before it was in the bag.
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Sanders has won the popular vote, but that's not what counts in Iowa.
Buttigieg crushed expectations but that alone does not a victory make.
Either way, the delay in counting handed Mr Buttigieg the political mileage because he got to claim the win for two full days — complete with the front-page treatment — before a winner had become clear.
PHOTO: Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten greet supporters in Iowa after the caucus count fell apart. (Reuters: Eric Thayer)
Senator Sanders' supporters claim it was a conspiracy, pointing to debunked reports that the Buttigieg campaign funded the app that caused the delay.
Now at a time when the Republicans are rock solid behind the President, divisions amongst the Democratic candidates are only getting wider.
It's getting hard to imagine Democrat supporters uniting behind the eventual winner of the nomination.
The man who was long considered to be the Democrats' best chance of beating Donald Trump, former Vice-president Joe Biden, finished poorly.
PHOTO: Former vice-president Joe Biden hugs a supporter in New Hampshire, after trailing in partial results in Iowa. (Reuters: Rick Wilking)
Mr Biden himself described the fourth-place result as a "gut punch".
Of course, it was Mr Biden who Mr Trump wanted Ukraine to smear, by announcing a corruption investigation into him and his son Hunter, a move that started the whole impeachment saga.
It seems the former vice-president wasn't such a threat after all.
By Washington bureau chief David Lipson
Updated Fri at 1:45pm
PHOTO: Donald Trump winks at photographers after he was acquitted on two articles of impeachment. (Reuters: Leah Millis)RELATED STORY: Trump has a lot to celebrate today, but an old frenemy denied him the one thing he wanted
RELATED STORY: Yes, Donald Trump is still impeached (and other quick questions answered)
RELATED STORY: Nancy Pelosi, White House respond to that State of the Union moment
Acquitted by the Senate on both impeachment charges, the US President issued a sincere and almost grovelling apology to the cameras gathered at the White House Rose Garden.
"I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and on the American people."
The year was 1999. The president was Bill Clinton.
This morning, appearing at a bipartisan prayer breakfast in Washington, Donald Trump gleefully held up a copy of the USA Today newspaper with the word "Acquitted" scrawled across the front page.
PHOTO: Donald Trump waved around a newspaper with the headline 'Acquitted' at a prayer breakfast in DC. (Reuters: Leah Millis)First, he played the victim.
Then, he went on the attack.
Without a hint of irony, the President who withheld vital military aid to a foreign ally in an effort to have a domestic political rival investigated, lambasted his accusers for putting "themselves far ahead of our great country".
He then singled out senator Mitt Romney, the sole Republican senator who voted to remove him from office, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who led the impeachment proceedings from the start.
"I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong, nor do I like people who say 'I pray for you,' when you know that is not so," he said.
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
VIDEO: Trump calls Pelosi and Schumer "sick and evil" (ABC News)
Ms Pelosi had previously said she prayed for Mr Trump.
Senator Romney had pointed to his "enormously consequential" oath before God on the Senate floor to do "impartial justice" in the trial.
It made a mockery of Republicans who acquitted the President but also claimed he would learn from his mistakes.
"I believe that he [Mr Trump] will be much more cautious in the future," Republican Senator Susan Collins told CBS earlier this week.
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https://twitter.com/CBSEveningNews/status/1224803642030596096
CBS NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) tells @NorahODonnell she will vote to acquit Pres. Trump in the Senate impeachment trial, adding that she believes "the president has learned from this case."
Watch more tonight at 6:30 p.m. ET. https://cbsn.ws/2Ou6iIa
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Today, standing before the presidential seal in the East Room at the White House, Donald Trump displayed not even a hint of contrition.
"It was all bullshit," he told the room packed with exuberant political allies.
He then spent an hour heaping praise on those who helped him get off the impeachment charges, while spitting venomous fury at anyone who dared defy him.
Political stunts are wasting America's time
The only lesson from this week is that the state of the union is parlous.
It has undeniably been a politically spectacular week for the President, perhaps his best since taking the oath of office.
PHOTO: Donald Trump embraced his wife Melania as he celebrated his acquittal on impeachment charges. (Reuters: Leah Millis )But this nation is more divided than ever, its political leaders more tribal and self-interested and its media more concerned with who'll win this reality TV version of Game of Thrones.
Sure, the US economy is booming, but the deficit is close to $AU1.5 trillion a year.
That's a one with 12 zeros after it added to national debt.
Every. Single. Year.
The future used to matter in politics.
Concerns about debt, for those on the right, and the environment, for those on the left, have taken a back seat to immediate, demonstrable political point scoring.
With all the talk of 'electability' and 'strategy' and all the 'made-for-TV' moments this week, it's easy to forget that the characters in this show are meant to be working for the people.
In a world where facts are meaningless and debate is just a sport, it seems no-one in US politics is listening anymore.
Video of Mr Trump's State of the Union address showed Nancy Pelosi had "pre-ripped" the edges of the pages of his speech, before it had even been read.
New York Post
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It presumably made it easier for her to theatrically tear the speech in two at the conclusion of the address.
It was a move that hardly conveyed the picture of maturity and sincerity that Democrats had been trying so hard to paint since launching the impeachment proceedings.
PHOTO: Nancy Pelosi tore up Donald Trump's speech after his State of the Union address, describing it as a "manifesto of mistruths." (AP: Alex Brandon)Blocking witnesses who had intimate knowledge of the Ukraine affair from appearing at the trial was a woeful look for Republicans.
But it was the Democrats who insisted the President's impeachment was so urgent they couldn't wait for the courts to rule on witnesses.
Then they blamed the Republicans for not doing their job for them.
There was nothing to stop the House Committee from calling former national security advisor John Bolton during the impeachment inquiry.
Ben Rhodes
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https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1225284625725108227
John Bolton is going to sell a lot of books. He’s going to cash in after not telling the American people what he knew when it mattered. Wow does that say something about how messed up America and our politics are right now. https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1225253621228548097 …
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"...we did approach John Bolton’s counsel, asked if Mr. Bolton would be willing to submit an affidavit under oath, describing what he observed in terms of the President’s Ukraine misconduct, and he refused." -Rep. Adam Schiff
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There's nothing to stop them from calling him now.
Instead, we are all forced to wait until the release of his "tell-all" book next month.
Iowa continues to be a disaster for Democrats
And the Democrats have had an awful week.
PHOTO: Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are among the Democrats who competed in the Iowa caucuses. (Reuters: Randall Hill)The results of the Iowa caucus were meant to come through hours after the vote, but the app built to report the results failed.
Declaring "enough is enough", the chairman of the Democratic National Committee Tom Perez has now announced a full recount.
Tom Perez
✔@TomPerez
https://twitter.com/TomPerez/status/1225468833458245632
Enough is enough. In light of the problems that have emerged in the implementation of the delegate selection plan and in order to assure public confidence in the results, I am calling on the Iowa Democratic Party to immediately begin a recanvass.
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With 100 per cent of the results reported, Pete Buttigieg is leading with 26.2 per cent of state delegate equivalents.
Bernie Sanders is just 0.1 per cent behind him.
Before the results were announced, Senator Sanders had already jumped the gun, claiming victory before it was in the bag.
Bernie Sanders
✔@BernieSanders
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1225495517947363328
We won in Iowa because of the unprecedented grassroots effort of our campaign.
Thousands of volunteers knocked on hundreds of thousands of doors in the cold and snow.
I want to thank each and every volunteer who participated in that effort.
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Sanders has won the popular vote, but that's not what counts in Iowa.
Buttigieg crushed expectations but that alone does not a victory make.
Either way, the delay in counting handed Mr Buttigieg the political mileage because he got to claim the win for two full days — complete with the front-page treatment — before a winner had become clear.
PHOTO: Pete Buttigieg and his husband Chasten greet supporters in Iowa after the caucus count fell apart. (Reuters: Eric Thayer)Senator Sanders' supporters claim it was a conspiracy, pointing to debunked reports that the Buttigieg campaign funded the app that caused the delay.
Now at a time when the Republicans are rock solid behind the President, divisions amongst the Democratic candidates are only getting wider.
It's getting hard to imagine Democrat supporters uniting behind the eventual winner of the nomination.
The man who was long considered to be the Democrats' best chance of beating Donald Trump, former Vice-president Joe Biden, finished poorly.
PHOTO: Former vice-president Joe Biden hugs a supporter in New Hampshire, after trailing in partial results in Iowa. (Reuters: Rick Wilking)Mr Biden himself described the fourth-place result as a "gut punch".
Of course, it was Mr Biden who Mr Trump wanted Ukraine to smear, by announcing a corruption investigation into him and his son Hunter, a move that started the whole impeachment saga.
It seems the former vice-president wasn't such a threat after all.
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