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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(130,317 posts)
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 02:46 PM Wednesday

WA Po - We checked DHS's videos of chaos and protests. Here's what they leave out.

By Drew Harwell and Joyce Sohyun Lee

The Department of Homeland Security posted a swaggering montage to social media in August declaring it had triumphed in its takeover of Washington, D.C. It showed footage of federal agents fighting what a DHS official called a “battle for the soul of our nation” and working “day and night to arrest, detain and deport vicious criminals from our nation’s capital.”

There was one problem. Several of the clips had been recorded during unrelated operations months earlier, in Los Angeles and West Palm Beach, Florida. The official’s sound bite about deportations in D.C. played over a clip from May showing detainees on a Coast Guard boat off the coast of Nantucket, the Massachusetts island 400 miles away.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=

Officials in President Donald Trump’s administration have used similarly misleading footage in at least six videos promoting its immigration agenda shared in the last three months, a Washington Post analysis found, muddying the reality of events in viral clips that have been viewed millions of times.

Some videos that purported to show the fiery chaos of Trump-targeted cities included footage from completely different states. One that claimed to show dramatic examples of past administrations’ failures instead featured border crossings and smuggling boats recorded during Trump’s first term.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/10/29/trump-administration-misleading-videos/

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WA Po - We checked DHS's videos of chaos and protests. Here's what they leave out. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday OP
This is what WAPO chooses as an expose on ICE's behavior? That they're using the wrong footage? Scrivener7 Wednesday #1
I no longer trust WAPO Skittles Wednesday #3
Truth does not exist in the Trump administration. Lonestarblue Wednesday #2

Scrivener7

(57,602 posts)
1. This is what WAPO chooses as an expose on ICE's behavior? That they're using the wrong footage?
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 02:52 PM
Wednesday

How about trampling the Constitution by kidnapping American citizens and law abiding immigrants who are legally applying for citizenship? How about beating innocent bystanders? How about breaking that guy's ribs? How about hauling naked children into the streets while traumatizing them in a way that will color the rest of their lives? How about "disappearing" hundreds like shithole brownshirts?

What's the opposite of "damning with faint praise?" Maybe "exonerating with watered down reporting of atrocities."

Skittles

(168,329 posts)
3. I no longer trust WAPO
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 04:52 PM
Wednesday

they do the leas they can in efforts to combat the sheer fascism - they answer to Bezos and Trump

Lonestarblue

(13,052 posts)
2. Truth does not exist in the Trump administration.
Wed Oct 29, 2025, 03:09 PM
Wednesday

Anyone expecting Trump or Republicans to tell the truth or use accurate video is beyond gullible and foolish. These people think truth and facts are for losers.

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