Trump Accidentally Read Wrong Speech Off His Teleprompter After Orlando Shooting

Buried in a Monday piece from Bloomberg Politics on the Donald Trump campaign is this amusing factoid: Trump made a factual error during his post-Orlando shooting speech because his staff accidentally uploaded the wrong speech into his teleprompter.

Trump claimed during his speech the day after the terrorist attack that the shooter was “born in Afghan,” evidence in favor of his proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the country. That wasn’t true; the killer’s parents were born in Afghanistan, but he was born in Queens, not far from the neighborhood where Trump himself was born.

While many chalked the error up to Trump’s, uh, rocky relationship with the truth, the fault didn’t lie with the Republican presumptive nominee at all. Bloomberg reports that the speech as written was accurate, but “staffers had accidentally uploaded the wrong version of the speech into the teleprompters and later posted the correct version on Trump’s Facebook page.”

The version posted to Trump’s website is indeed accurate: “The killer, whose name I will not use, or ever say, was born to Afghan parents who immigrated to the United States,” Trump was supposed to say.

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