Did former US president Donald Trump say he 'just can't be upset' with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, in spite of the rapper's anti-Semitic remarks? No -- this video was digitally manipulated
former FBI director James Comey. Ye was not mentioned -- and AFP found no evidence that Trump ever made such a statement, although he has repeatedly praised the rapper over the years.
The altered video distorts the end of Trump's conversation with Holt, when the anchor asked about the optics of ousting Comey -- who had been investigating Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election -- shortly before hosting top Kremlin diplomat Sergei Lavrov at the White House. The gestures Trump made as he responded, including a glance down and to the left while chopping his right hand into his left palm, mirror his movements in the clip shared online. He is also wearing the same striped blue tie and American flag lapel.Screenshot from TikTok taken December 13, 2022Here is what Trump actually said during that part of the interview:"But when I spoke with Putin, he asked me whether or not I would see Lavrov.
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