Last night, Jimmy Kimmel, host of the low-rated, late-night Jimmy Kimmel Show, shared a deceptively edited video clip of Vice President Pence delivering PPE to a nursing home.

Today, liberal activist Matt McDermott tweeted the videotaped segment on VP Pence that was edited to make the vice president look like he was faking a delivery of FEMA PPE to the Woodbine Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center in Alexandria, Virginia.

In the video, Kimmel mocked Mike Pence for not wearing a face mask, claiming that he was pretending to “wheel boxes of PPE into a health care center.” Kimmel refers to Mike Pence, who doesn’t have an unkind or dishonest bone in his body, as “Magic Mike,” saying because Mike Pence didn’t know he had a mic on, he was caught faking a delivery of boxes to the health center.  Kimmel laughed, as he mocked the VP, saying, “Mike Pence pretending to carry an empty box of PPE into a health center, is the perfect metaphor for who he is and what he’s doing—A big box of nothing, delivering another box of nothing.”

To date, the video has been liked 235K times and viewed over 7.1 million times.

But oops! Here’s the actual, unedited version of the clip Kimmel or his show deceptively edited to make Vice President Pence look like a bad person when even his biggest critics know better.

Watch what really happened here, as Mike Pence lifts and unloads most of the heavy boxes himself, and when he returns to the truck, he’s told the last boxes are empty. Mike Pence jokingly asks if they should load the boxes for the cameras, turns around, shuts the door of the van and walks away, where he joins others in front of the health center.

After he was caught pushing out the bogus video, Kimmel offered what he considered an apology on Twitter for his misleading hit piece on the Vice President.

Kimmel tweeted: “it would appear that @vp was joking about carrying empty boxes for a staged publicity stunt. The full video reveals that he was carrying full boxes for a staged publicity stunt. My apologies. I know how dearly this administration values truth.“

The apology, in and of itself, was not very sincere, but the fact that he also retweeted the misleading video for everyone to view, makes it pretty clear that he still wants people to see the edited video.

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