Former President Donald Trump repeated false claims about a Russian natural gas pipeline, U.S. energy production and the 2020 U.S. presidential election in a four-minute video clip posted to Facebook by his eldest son, Donald Jr. YouTube removed the full video from its platform for spreading misinformation.
In “Season 2, Episode 5” of her podcast “Real America,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel interviewed former President Donald Trump. But YouTube removed that interview from its platform on April 1 for violating its terms of service, McDaniel told the Washington Times.
“YouTube said the video was removed for violating the site’s ‘election integrity policy, which prohibits content that advances false claims that widespread fraud changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, such as claiming that the election was rigged,'” the conservative news outlet wrote in its April 1 article.
Three days later, Trump’s eldest son, Donald Jr., posted a four-minute video clip of that interview on his Facebook page. The video is titled “Trump: This is what the media isn’t telling you about Ukraine and Biden.”
In the video, which has nearly 790,000 views, the former president claimed Russia would not have invaded Ukraine “if the [U.S. presidential] election had not been rigged.”
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