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Hoo, boy. Here we go again.
In the last week or so, the Taylor Swift vs Scooter Braun feud has divided Hollywood, with everyone from Cara Delevingne to Halsey to Justin Bieber getting involved.
For his part, Bieber spoke out in defence of Braun, his long-time manager, who “devastated” Swift by purchasing her entire back catalogue of music.
Swift alleged Braun has “bullied” her for years, using as an example how he and Bieber antagonised Swift when she was feuding with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West (the rapper is also Braun’s client). In case you’ve forgotten, Bieber posted a screenshot of himself on a FaceTime call with Braun and West, captioning the post “Taylor Swift what up”.
In a post directed at Taylor this week, Justin apologised for his immaturity but claimed Braun had nothing to do with it.
“I would like to apologise for posting that hurtful Instagram post, at the time I thought it was funny but looking back it was distasteful and insensitive,” Justin said.
“I have to be honest though, it was my caption and post that I screenshotted [sic] of Scooter and Kanye that said “taylor swift what up” he didn’t have anything to do with it and it wasn’t even a part of the conversation.”
There’s just one issue with Bieber’s version of events, though. As an eagle-eyed Twitter user pointed out, Justin cannot have taken the screenshot himself, because otherwise he would be the small square, not the big square, on the screen.
in justin’s response to taylor on instagram, he takes full responsibility for his instagram post of him on facetime with kanye and scooter.
THEN HOW IS HE THE BIG ONE ON THE SCREEN???????
scooter obviously sent him it and made him post it…
STOP. THE. LIES. #WeStandWithTaylor pic.twitter.com/Gyl6jhlb7T— Arella (@Princess_Arella) 3 July 2019
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This indicates two things. One: someone on the other end of the call – Scooter or Kanye – took the screenshot and gave it to Justin to post. Two: Bieber is willing, it appears, to lie to protect Braun. Does that signal being loyal, or manipulated?