Harris campaign deceptively trims Trump post about Elon Musk interview
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On Wednesday, Kamala Harris’ campaign page shared a Truth Social post from Donald Trump. In it Trump blamed “the complexity of modern day equipment” for making his voice sound “somewhat different and strange” during a live interview on X with Elon Musk. But while the Harris campaign shared what looked like a screenshot of the post, they cut off the last line, where Trump explained that he released “an actual, and perfect, recording of the conversation.”
Exactly why the original broadcast sounded so odd is not totally clear — the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment Wednesday about what led to the sound quality issues and what tech they used to fix it. But the Harris campaign’s post left out key context that Trump had…