Polish President Andrzej Duda slammed “fake news” Thursday evening after multiple news outlets pounced on an edited video of his wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, apparently snubbing a handshake with President Trump.

“Contrary to some surprising reports my wife did shake hands with Mrs. and Mr. Trump @POTUS after a great visit. Let’s FIGHT FAKE NEWS,” Mr. Duda tweeted to his 710,000 followers.

Contrary to some surprising reports my wife did shake hands with Mrs. and Mr. Trump @POTUS after a great visit. Let’s FIGHT FAKE NEWS. — Andrzej Duda (@AndrzejDuda) July 6, 2017

A now-viral three-second clip showed Mrs. Kornhauser-Duda passing by Mr. Trump’s outreached hand in order to shake first lady Melania Trump’s hand. The clip exploded on social media and among mostly left-leaning news outlets, but what the curiously edited clip didn’t show is that Mrs. Kornhauser-Duda shook Mr. Trump’s hand immediately after greeting the first lady, as shown in a longer clip posted on YouTube by The Washington Post.

CNN host Chris Cillizza seemed particularly excited about the apparent snub.

He indicated in a later tweet that he knew the clip was misleading, Breitbart reported.

“I know! It was a funny video of a misunderstanding! Nothing more! The same thing has happened to me a billion times!” he wrote.

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