Having crews on the ground "in case something interesting happens" isn't the same thing as covering it live. They NEVER carried LIVE, ON AIR, any of his rallies prior to the Butler rally
Not true.
Lots of dates in this Reddit thread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/s/uIZ5E1PGZb
“Okay I just learned that archive.org actually has an archive/summary of CNN. This is really cool for research purposes.
Here's them covering the previous rallies.
June 18, 2024 https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20240618_200000_The_Lead_With_Jake_Tapper/start/180/end/240
June 22, 2024 https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20240622_230000_CNN_Newsroom/start/240/end/300
June 28, 2024 https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20240628_190000_CNN_News_Central/start/300/end/360
July 9, 2024. https://archive.org/details/CNNW_20240709_220000_The_Situation_Room_With_Wolf_Blitzer/start/2820/end/2880
These are the 4 immediate preceding rallys prior to Butler. They have folks on the ground in case something interesting happens so they can have primary footage. It’s definitely not the first time they have covered it live.”
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I realize that’s what the comment says but if you click on any of those links, They are examples of live coverage.
No they aren’t. Those are brief clips not full coverage of a single campaign rally
Seems like they float in and out, would make sense that a left leaning live stream would not waste too much time on his babbling, but I don’t disagree that it’s strange that they covered the entire assassination one…or was it just timing in terms of when it happened within the stream? Who’ll ever know. Maybe it’ll be another 50 years where people are waiting for the “Trump files” like how people are currently waiting for the JFK files info?
They also didn’t live stream the Butler PA rally either. You can check yourself. Search on YouTube or check the archive. There’s no stream that was specifically for that rally. Obviously as you pointed out they showed some clips from their reporter that travels with Trump as the rally happened live because he was the presidential nominee but that’s it.
They have admitted they were covering Butler differently because they claim that they believed Trump was going to announce his VP.
"CNN dismissed Rogan’s claim as baseless, saying it aired the rally solely for expected news on Trump’s VP selection."
Interestingly, they didn't have any cameras on the VP candidates (as they do every 4 years).
Sure