In September 2024, reports dispersed on the Web that the current vice-president of the United States failed unsuccessfully about the attempt on the life of an American ex-president. It is alleged that Harris supporters boiled her right during the performance. We checked the reliability of this story.
September 15, 2024 US Secret Service Agents Prevented The alleged attempt on the life of Donald Trump is already the second since mid -July. It is reported that in the bushes next to the Trump International golf club, where the politician was then, a man with a rifle was seen. Representatives of the secret service opened fire on it, but the suspect disappeared from the scene. He was later detained, man presented accusations (so far only in illegal storage of weapons).
On September 18, in Runet, a short video was dispersed, which allegedly showed how the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party Kamal Harris comments on the failed attempt on her political opponent. “[She] yesterday I unsuccessfully joked about the attempt on Trump. She said that he "cannot even die with dignity." This caused a scandal even among her supporters who booed her right during the performance, ”the publication of the Telegram channel said“Russia now"(207,000 views at the time of writing this analysis).
According to the TGSTAT service, at the time of writing this analysis, at least 130 similar posts appeared in Telegram, in the amount of more than 950,000 views. So, the video published channels Voblya (160,000 views), "Sheikh Tamir"(124,000),"From the scene"(61 000),"Communication unit"(49,000), Nina Vatt (35,000) and others in the channel of the TV presenter Oscars Kuchera (21,000 views) Harris was called “full moron” and wondered: “How can this misunderstanding be president of a nuclear power?!” Tens of thousands of views received such posts on VKontakte (examples here, here And here).
In the upper left corner of the video distributed, it is indicated that the recording was made during a direct broadcast of the event held in the city of Savannah (Georgia). At the top right is the logo of the Indian English -speaking television channel CNN-News18. In the lower part of the video, the address of the website of the Harris election campaign is visible, and English -language subtitles are also demonstrated. In the frame, the vice president says:
“So ... but we still have a job, Okay? We still have a work ... because we know that Donald Trump cannot even die with dignity. He has a completely different plan. [The dissatisfied rumble of the crowd begins, Harris pauses.] Just look at his program "Project-2025"".
In most of the publications mentioned at the beginning of this analysis, it is stated that this election performance Harris took place “yesterday”, that is, approximately September 17. However, with voters in Savannah, a candidate from the Democratic Party of the United States Meet Back on the night of August 29 to 30, Moscow time. On numerous pictures From that event published on the site of the Getty Images photographic agencies, Harris is captured in the same clothes.
“Verified” did not find any notes about the inappropriate joke of the vice president in any authoritative American publication. At the same time, the live broadcast of the Harris election rally in Savannah was conducted by many media - for example, a local television channel Fox 5 Atlanta. In this air available on YouTube, the viral fragment begins at a time mark 09:12, however, a quote about the impossibility of an ex-president to die with dignity is absent there. Instead Harris twice pronounces The phrase "Trump has a completely different plan." The students began to buzz precisely with the mention of Project 2025-a 900-page action program for the next US president, which Prepared Ultra-conservative experts close to Trump and from which the Republican candidate himself repeatedly rejected. Verified Harris accounts in social networks And her YouTube channel Also conducted live from the rally, and in these records the viral joke also does not sound.
As for CNN-News18, his YouTube channel repeatedly broadcast Harris's performance in Savannah. For example, on the platform you can find such records for August 31as well as for 3 And 10 September. The vice-president of the United States made its speech for about 20 minutes, but the video CNN-News18 lasts many hours-the fact is that in these versions of broadcasts the performance was repeated many times. According to the decoding of the rollers, a phrase about Trump's death sounded in any of these repetitions.
In addition, at the moment when Harris allegedly says: “Trump cannot even die with dignity”, the mouth and lips of the vice president change the position on his face, and the voice sounds lower than the rest of the speech. This indicates that part of the phrase was generated by artificial intelligence and then added to the video using neural networks.
The earliest post with edited video, which was able to find “verified”, appeared in the above Telegram channel Nina Vatt September 18 at 13:13 Moscow time. It is noteworthy that in some similar posts the signature for fake ends with the question: "What kind of mess is going on there?" In Telegram channels "Lokhmaty Z Nikolaev, Sergey Lebedev"(10,000 views) and"V Kremlin's hand z z"(4600) it is claimed that with such a commentary, some anonymous subscribers sent them.
Thus, Harris did not say that Trump could not die with dignity. The video that serves as evidence of this statement was fabricated with the use of neural networks.
Photo on the cover: screenshot video @kamalaharris (x)
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- BBC. Project 2025: The Right-Wing Wish List for Another Trump Presidence
- CNN. What We Know ABOUT RYAN WESLEY ROUTH, The SUSPECT in the Apparent Second Trump Assassination Attempt
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