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On 1 November 2016, several disreputable web sites such as Truthfeed and The Gateway Pundit published a video purportedly showing MSNBC host Chris Matthews offering his endorsement to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump: While the above-displayed video is real, the clip was edited to make it seem as if Matthews had endorsed Donald Trump. The video was taken from a Hardball segment that aired on 27 October 2016. Matthews was not endorsing Donald Trump in that segment; instead, he was arguing that Trump was not making an effective case against Hillary Clinton. In fact, Matthews specifically stated toward the end of the clip that he was not saying he wanted Trump to win the presidency — rather, he didn't understand why Trump was focusing on petty fights when he could be spending his time talking about substantive issues: This isn't the first time that Trump supporters have deceptively edited a video to make it appear as if a liberal figure had endorsed Donald Trump. In October 2016, a clip from Michael Moore's documentary em>TrumpLand, which the filmmaker has described as a love letter to Hillary Clinton, was edited to make it seem as if Moore had endorsed Trump. Of course, this was also false.
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