Newsmax.com:
Former Obama bureaucrat and current CNN anchor Jim Sciutto was scuttling back to his Russiagate conspiracy-theorizing on Monday. It took deceptively editing some of Trump's press conferences to make the case Trump and Putin are back to being pals, and so the 2020 election is again in danger of being mangled by the Russians.
In a story he reported himself on CNN Newsroom, Sciutto declared "President Trump, you may have missed this, has been warming up of late to his old friend Russia's President Vladimir Putin. The two leaders have made a record number of phone calls to each other recently and some of the president's own former advisers say Putin may be using the coronavirus pandemic to realize his long-held goal of edging closer to Trump."
The video began with Trump at his April 14 press conference saying, "With tremendous credit going to Russia" and Sciutto adding, "A historic oil deal to try stabilize prices in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic."
The full context of Trump's quote was the Saudi-Russia oil price war that by most accounts, Russia lost, "It finished with a tremendous credit going to Russia and to Saudi Arabia, and it could be as much as 20 million barrels a day a cut so that we can get rid of some of the tremendous excess oil that’s been produced because of the fact that the virus just knocked out almost 50% of the business."
But, Sciutto was not finished with selectively editing Trump. He next played Trump on April 13, "I want to thank President Putin of Russia."
The full context again was not only included the Saudis, but also Mexico which had its own oil dispute with Saudi Arabia, "I want to thank Saudi Arabia and the king of Saudi Arabia, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, both. I want to thank President Putin of Russia. And I want to thank a very good friend of mine, man who’s become a friend of mine, the president of Mexico showed great flexibility. President Lopez Obrador."
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