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Chris Wallace interviews White House senior adviser Stephen Miller on the federal whistleblower complaint.

By Tara Jons
10/02/2019 • 12:00 AM EST

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: Click or tap on any techniquesee definition - the definition will be displayed here.
 that appears in bold to show its definition.
: ad hominemsee definition - attacking the character or motive of the person making an argument, rather than attacking the argument itself.
: Miller attacks the whistleblower's character and motives for coming forward, without refuting any of the whistleblower's allegations.
: half truthsee definition - a statement that is essentially true, but lacking critical information and presented as the whole truth.
: Miller mentions the IG found the whistleblower to be politically biased, without mentioning the same IG also found the whistleblower's complaint to be credible.[1]
: poisoning the wellsee definition - discrediting your opponent to an audience in advance, in order to encourage dismissing any future claims or accusations they may make against you.
: Miller preemptively dismisses any allegations brought against Trump as nothing more than rogue bureaucrats pursuing their own personal agendas.
: appeal to ignorancesee definition - suggesting that something is true simply because it hasn’t yet been proven false.
: Miller suggests there was ample justification to try and dig up dirt in Ukraine on Biden, because it hasn't yet been proven that there's not dirt to dig up in Ukraine on Biden.[2]
: false equivalencesee definition - implying that two things are essentially the same, when they only have anecdotal similarities.
: Between Trump pressuring a foreign power to interfere in a U.S. election, and Clinton contracting a U.S. firm to do opposition research on a political opponent.[3]
: baseless claimsee definition - a bold statement that is presented as accepted or established fact, with no discernable evidence to support the claim.
: Ukraine possesses information about the corruption of the previous administration.
: reversal of realitysee definition - a statement that is not only verifiably false, but is the exact opposite of the truth.
: Trump is not getting to the bottom of a corruption scandal in Ukraine, but creating one, and he's not the whistleblower, but the person against whom the whistle was blown.[4]
: adding qualifierssee definition - adding an extra word or phrase to a response, which makes it ultimately meaningless, but still leaves the desired impression.
: Miller questions the media for not uncovering the "potential" corrupt dealings of the Bidens, which is not saying the Bidens have any corrupt dealings to be uncovered.

Total number of techniques detected over the 13:26 runtime of this video clip:

PROPAGANDA TECHNIQUES

5 OCCURRENCES

ad hominem:  
adding qualifiers:  
appeal to ignorance:  
false equivalence:  
poisoning the well:  

FALSEHOODS & DISTORTIONS

3 OCCURRENCES

baseless claim:  
half truth:  
reversal of reality:  

SUMMARY

8 OCCURRENCES

Miller: 100%

References
2. "Trump Twists Facts on Biden and Ukraine". FactCheck.org. Published: September 24, 2019.

3. "Dossier Not What 'Started All of This'". FactCheck.org. Published: March 27, 2019.