Filipinos echo lies from US on Trump assassination attempt
Filipinos share posts that blame Democrats for the attempted assassination of former US President Donald Trump, as well as posts that suggest the attack was staged.
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00:00Filipinos share posts that blame Democrats for the attempted assassination of former
00:06U.S. President Donald Trump, as well as posts that suggest the attack was staged.
00:11Rappler analyzes public Facebook and X posts containing mentions of the Trump shooting,
00:15shared on July 14-15.
00:18Within minutes of the shooting, Republicans, including U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor
00:23Greene, were claiming that Democrats and the left were responsible.
00:26Filipino social media users echoed these claims, painting leftists and liberals as
00:31violent individuals desperate to take down Trump.
00:34These claims were seeded in Facebook groups like the Diliman Book Club, which had shared
00:38false claims about the Marcos family gold, and Philam Voter, a political community based
00:43in San Francisco, California.
00:46Even after details about the shooter were made public, social media users in the Philippines
00:51continued to blame Democrats, the left, and liberals.