Another day goes by, and another fake news story is reported. As the Conservative Tribune reported, NBC took a quote from former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani regarding President Trump’s travel ban and twisted it out of context to make it appear as if he had consulted Giuliani about ways to create a legal “Muslim ban.” But that’s not at all what Trump said, as this clip documents.
The fact of the matter is that Trump’s original executive order did not even specify the countries which travel was to be banned from and to; these countries — Sudan, Iran, Syria, Iraq — were initially defined by Congress in 2015 and added to in 2016 by former President Obama, who appended Yemen, Somalia and Libya to the list.
Of course, when these travel bans were enacted, there was barely a peep made about them in the press, whereas with Trump, even though he didn’t explicitly name the countries in his order, the media labeled it a “Muslim ban,” when that is actually far from the case; travel to and from very populous Muslim countries such as Indonesia, Egypt, Bangladesh and Pakistan is still permitted. Iraq was later removed from the second version of the travel ban after lobbying by the new Iraqi government.
Despite the fact that the ban is clearly not directed at all Muslims (there are approximately 50 Muslim-majority countries worldwide), numerous prominent Democrats and media organizations such as California Senator Kamala Harris, Washington Senator Patty Murray and Vanity Fair magazine have called Trump’s order “a Muslim ban.”
Watch as the Next News Network’s Gary Franchi breaks down the story and calls out NBC.
