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Antifar posted...

Sanders campaign did say in a recent campaign email that Biden lauded Paul Ryan for proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare which PolitiFact said Sanders campaign got wrong. But there is no evidence that the campaign doctored any video

So Sanders' campaign lied about Biden and their defense is "well we didn't doctor a video, we just used part of a speech taken out of context"

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2020/jan/09/bernie-sanders/did-biden-laud-paul-ryan-proposal-cut-social-secur/

A Sanders campaign newsletter said, "In 2018, Biden lauded Paul Ryan for proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare."
That stems from a speech Biden gave in 2018 in which he spoke about Ryan. Biden appeared to be mocking Ryan, not praising him.
The Sanders campaign omitted what Biden said next: the importance of protecting Social Security and Medicare and to change the tax code, which he said benefitted the mega rich. Overall, the point of Bidens speech was to criticize tax cuts for the rich and call for more help to the middle class.
The Sanders campaign plucked out part of what Biden said but omitted the full context of his comments.

Imagine lying about someone and then trying to play the victim.