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Reveal

The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

These days, a presidential tweet can dictate the news cycle for days on end. But is it driving us to distraction?

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:07.8	I'm Al Edson.
0:10.2	With news first broke, the President Trump talked to the new Ukrainian President about investigating
0:15.2	Joe Biden.
0:16.5	Trump unsurprisingly took to his favorite medium, Twitter, to fire back.
0:21.1	A controversy tweeting, quote,
0:23.1	Now that the Democrats and the fake news media have gone bust on every other of their
0:27.8	witch hunt schemes, they are trying to start one just as ridiculous as the others, calling
0:32.3	it the Ukraine witch hunt.
0:34.5	While at the same time trying to protect sleepy Joe Biden, we'll fail again.
0:39.4	And we've seen this play out before.
0:42.3	Trump attacks the media as spewing fake news or claiming alternative facts, which can
0:47.3	drown out negative news coverage.
0:49.9	But attacking the media isn't the only way Trump uses social media.
0:54.3	Since first launching his presidential campaign, Trump has fired off countless tweet storms
0:59.5	that are often so outrageous.
1:02.2	They become the leading news story.
1:04.6	Think about the height of the summer.
1:06.4	Trump tweeted that four congresswoman of color, known collectively as the squad, should
1:11.6	go back to where they came from.
1:13.2	Who tweeted Sunday they should go back to their home.
1:15.5	Go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.
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