CNN Defends Adding ‘Racial’ to Trump Profiling Comments, Insists They Knew What He Meant

At least eight times Monday on CNN, various anchors and correspondents made the claim that Donald Trump called for racial profiling. The problem is, he didn’t. Starting at the 4:00 hour all the way through early Tuesday morning, CNN journalists added the term “racial” to Trump’s comments on profiling to combat terrorism, even devoting entire segments to discussing his statement he never actually said.

This isn’t the first time CNN has selectively subtracted or added to what someone said in their reports in order to skew their stories.

Starting on The Lead with Jake Tapper, correspondent Sara Murray stated Trump made an “apparent suggestion” for racial profiling on Fox and Friends Monday morning.

MURRAY: But offering few specifics, beyond his apparent suggestion that the U.S. should begin racial profiling.

But here’s what he actually said:

TRUMP: Our police are amazing, our local police, they know who a lot of these people are. They’re afraid to do anything about it because they don’t want to be accused of profiling. But Israel has done an unbelievable job. And they will profile. They profile. They see somebody that’s suspicious, they will profile. They see somebody that’s suspicious, they will profile and they will take that person in. They will check out. Do we have a choice? Look what’s going on. Do we really have a choice?

The very early morning shows on CNN Tuesday also made the same allegation.

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