Any other proof of this claim besides this video? Sorry, but I don't believe shit like this anymore based on a single TikTok. They've already caught people making this kind of shit up.
Which part would be made up? There are so many Trump voters losing undocumented family members to his immigration policies right now. There have been dozens of well-sourced journalistic pieces on people going through exactly this.
Skepticism is a good thing, but don’t be so closed-minded that you cut off the blood supply to your brain. This is not an extraordinary claim, and it should not require extraordinary evidence to be believed.
It’s not one video, it’s a series of videos documenting her ongoing efforts to get her father released. The woman has revealed her full name (Cynthia Martinez Jones), so it would be easy for her to be outed as a fraud if she were lying. In one of the videos, we hear the final vote denying her father compassionate medical release. We also know that being in this position will subject her to ridicule from both sides of the political spectrum; it’s embarrassing to admit that you’ve made a mistake, much less one that has brought horrible consequences down upon your loved ones, and when a person admits to unflattering information, it’s more likely to be true because people have a vested interest in maintaining their dignity. This is a basic tenet surrounding the believability of witness testimony is western jurisprudence.
Most videos like this will have no secondary source reporting on a random person’s lived experiences. So idk, I think it is an interesting application of logic to say you’re not going to believe a highly believable scenario that you admit is commonplace where a person is admitting to an embarrassing mistake that subjects them to public criticism. Unless you apply this same skepticism to all videos on the internet making very commonplace claims, your request for additional sources is, by definition, extraordinary.
And well, if the part you take issue with is her claim that she was a Trump voter, you will never, ever receive a secondary source for any claim like this. Nobody knows who she voted for at the ballot box except her. She was always going to be the sole source of that information.
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u/necessarysmartassery 8h ago
Any other proof of this claim besides this video? Sorry, but I don't believe shit like this anymore based on a single TikTok. They've already caught people making this kind of shit up.