Current Events > Mike Pence delivered empty boxes of PPE just for the PR (audio captured)

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https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/1258750892448387074?s=19

I would love to make fun of Mike Pence but C-SPAN already came out and said that someone selectively edited the video.

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Wow big surprise. A member of the Trump admin doing something stupid. Shocking!

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He couldn't risk being left alone with a female nurse putting on the PPE

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https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/may/08/blog-posting/mike-pence-didnt-pretend-carry-empty-boxes-ppe-cli/

A clip of Vice President Mike Pence helping deliver personal protective equipment to a Virginia nursing home started circulating on social media after late night host Jimmy Kimmel featured it in his show.

A 40-second clip of the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" episode shared on Twitter shows Kimmel mocking Pence, saying he was caught on a hot mic apparently joking about carrying empty boxes.

"Here he is with no mask on, wheeling PPEs into a health care center and doing his best to lift them. What a hero," Kimmel says, "and since it was going so well, and also because he didnt realize he had a mic on, Magic Mike decided to keep it going. Listen in closely here."

Kimmel cuts back to Pence. Audio picks up one of the workers telling the vice president that the rest of the boxes in the van are empty. Pence can be heard responding, "Can I carry the empty ones? Just for the camera?"
The video ends, and Kimmel says, "Mike Pence pretending to carry empty boxes of PPEs into a hospital is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he's doing: A big box of nothing delivering another box of nothing."

Before deleting it, the Occupy Democrats group re-shared the clip on Facebook with the headline: "OMG: Mike Pence caught on hot mix "delivering" EMPTY boxes of PPE to hospital... and PRETENDING THEY ARE HEAVY!" Other websites quickly followed suit.

But the video is deceptively edited. The Kimmel clip cuts the video off at a selective point, just before Pence shuts the door to the van. Pence doesnt touch or pretend to lift any empty boxes.

The clip was flagged as part of Facebooks efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.

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and still not wearing a mask himself.

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Pence is a piece of shit just like Trump

In fact he may be worse, because he would force America into Gilead from Handmaid's Tale

Mayors and CEOs: "There aren't enough masks for hospital workers. But we're going to require everyone to wear a mask, just to ensure hospital workers have to operate without them."

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This is fake. So sad people fell for it.

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Pepys Monster posted...

Mayors and CEOs: "There aren't enough masks for hospital workers. But we're going to require everyone to wear a mask, just to ensure hospital workers have to operate without them."

classic stupid response pepys, keep it up!

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Pence and Trump both huge fucking morons

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cmiller4642 posted...

Pence is a piece of shit just like Trump

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/05/08/fact-check-mike-pence-didnt-carry-empty-boxes-ppe/3098274001/

How does it feel to be so wrong?

Fuckin' Trump!!!! Lock down until the vaccine is here, end of story!!!

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There are plenty of very real reasons to demonize Trump and Pence. We don't need fake ones like this. Shameful.
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I don't see what the big deal is tbqh. They really did give equipment to the hospital, it just so happened that they also needed a good shot of Pence doing it. Optics are important to all politicians, all the time.

Now if he said they gave them equipment but no equipment was actually given, that would be different.

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