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On 28 May 2016, a YouTube clip purportedly capturing audio of GOp presidential candidate Donald Trump describing President Abraham Lincoln as dishonest and a traitor hit the online world: The clip was not accompanied by any information about where and when Trump reportedly made these comments, with its description simply stating that the audio was an exclusive recording unearthed by Edison Starkweather, a YouTube user whose only other video is one that criticizes Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton. The audio in the clip has been manipulated. The voice belongs to Donald Trump, but the creator of this video spliced together various snippets from a Trump speech to make it seem as the candidate were dissing Honest Abe. The majority of the audio was taken from a speech that Donald Trump delivered in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on 12 November 2015. In that speech, Trump called the media dishonest, unbelievably dishonest, said that President Obama was a great divider, and opined that Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl was a traitor who should have been shot. Trump also name-checked Abraham Lincoln in his speech, saying that if he (Trump) had delivered the Gettysburg Address, the press would have panned it as no good. These sound clips were edited together to create the final product:
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