Fact check: The Trump campaign deceptively snips video of Joe Biden quoting Pope Francis
Washington The Trump campaign's"war room" Twitter account has been serially dishonest, repeatedly taking quotes from former Vice President Joe Biden and other Democrats out of context.
The account did it again on Tuesday.In a Tuesday speech in Georgia, Biden, a churchgoing Catholic, quoted from an encyclical published by Pope Francis in early October. In that text, the Pope criticized"aggressive nationalism" and anti-immigrant populism, called for a"better kind of politics" that emphasizes love and urged politicians to ask themselves certain questions he suggested would guide them toward serving the public interest rather than their own selfish motives.
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