A campaign video purporting to show Hillary Clinton calling for higher taxes on the middle class has 1 million views after only two days. But the hoax was busted immediately.

Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during her California primary night rally held in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., June 7, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during her California primary night rally held in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., June 7, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
Fact-checking site Snopes.com reported Thursday how her words were depicted at an Omaha stop:

“Because while Warren [Buffett] is standing up for a fairer tax code, Trump wants to cut taxes for the super-rich. Well, we’re not going there, my friends. I’m telling you, right now — we’re going to write fairer rules for the middle class and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!”

Snopes said: “Given the context of her statement and the audience’s positive reaction to it, it appears that Clinton actually said ‘we aren’t going to raise taxes on the middle class,’ but either she didn’t fully enunciate the ending of the word ‘aren’t’ or the word didn’t come through clearly on the audio recording (or both).”

Sides were taken.

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