CNN Selectively Cuts Conversation Where Musk And Trump 'Blow Off' The Bombing Of Hiroshima

Posted • August 14, 2024: It used to be where you had to follow accounts like Aaron Rupar and Acyn to get statements from conservatives tightly edited out of context. The stakes are higher now with the most important election ever, and CNN is getting in on the game. Donald Trump and Elon Musk held a conversation on X Spaces Monday night that had a reach of nearly a billion people. It was a couple of hours long and unscripted. Topics ranged from the assassination attempt to climate change. Regarding the latter, Musk and Trump agreed that nuclear energy has to be considered in any serious discussion of "clean energy." Still, there's a great fear of nuclear energy, from Chornobyl to Fukushima to Three Mile Island all the way back to World War II.

Dana Bash, whom I will always remember for claiming she'd never spoken to a Democrat who supports abortion up until birth (has she met Kamala Harris and Tim Walz?), wanted to play an exchange that was "kind of classic" — Trump and Musk reminiscing over the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. OMG watch this clip. CNN selectively cuts part of the Elon/Trump conversation about nuclear energy last night to make it seem like they were saying that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were no big deal. They are so dishonest! -- "Kind of trying to blow off the impact of that." What they were saying is even those cities that were bombed have been rebuilt and are now thriving. People would know that if they'd played the entire exchange.

Dana Bash is so dishonest. They were talking about the environmental impact 80 years later, to promote nuclear energy alternatives. With people like you, how will humanity thrive? Who do you work for? Shamefully dishonest. But guess what CNN, 1 billion people aren’t relying on you to report your twisted take on it because they listened to it themselves. (…)

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