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Her Sister

(6,444 posts)
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 06:00 PM Jun 2016

Fact-checking Trump’s garbage truck of lies: His speech accusing HRC of corruption is riddled (HRC)

Fact-checking Trump’s garbage truck of lies: His speech accusing Clinton of corruption is riddled with fiction and conspiracies
Trump tried to paint Clinton as dishonest, but instead repeatedly revealed his own aversion to even basic facts




Claim: “Hillary Clinton who, as most people know, is a world-class liar….”

Fact: “As for her statements on issues, Politifact, a Pulitzer prize-winning fact-checking organization, gives Clinton the best truth-telling record of any of the 2016 presidential candidates,” Jill Abramson, writing for the Guardian, explained earlier this year. “She beats Sanders and Kasich and crushes Cruz and Trump, who has the biggest “pants on fire” rating and has told whoppers about basic economics that are embarrassing for anyone aiming to be president.”

Fact: The biggest liar in this election cycle is Donald Trump, by a long shot. Politifact rates 76% of statements made by Donald Trump to be false, compared to 27% by Hillary Clinton. 19% of Trump’s untruths are rated “pants on fire” lies, compared to only 1% of Clinton’s statements. Of the 3 Clinton “pants on fire” statements, two were from the 2008 election cycle. Twenty-seven of 31 of the “pants on fire” statements from Trump come from this election cycle.

Claim: “But here is the bottom line: I started off in Brooklyn, New York, not so long ago, with a small loan and built a business worth over 10 billion dollars.”

Fact:


Continues to cover many topics from Trump's speech: http://www.salon.com/2016/06/22/fact_checking_trumps_garbage_truck_of_lies_his_speech_accusing_clinton_of_corruption_is_riddled_with_fiction_and_conspiracies/
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Fact-checking Trump’s garbage truck of lies: His speech accusing HRC of corruption is riddled (HRC) (Original Post) Her Sister Jun 2016 OP
The whole thing should be required reading! spooky3 Jun 2016 #1
Maybe Trump has not heard about videos recorded with him lying and it is so easy to fact check. Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #2
I was surprised and happy to see MSNBC radical noodle Jun 2016 #3
That's good to know. Thanks Rose Siding Jun 2016 #4
Oh that's great that they did that! Her Sister Jun 2016 #5
The talking heads on MSNBC DemonGoddess Jun 2016 #6
Or, as my son says: 89% of what tRump says are lies. The rest are Pathwalker Jun 2016 #7
Here's an itemized list from FactCheck.org Rose Siding Jun 2016 #8
Great! Thanks for posting list of Trump's lies! Her Sister Jun 2016 #10
He lies so much that Jamaal510 Jun 2016 #9
Trump calling ANYONE a liar NastyRiffraff Jun 2016 #11
or being Dumb. Her Sister Jun 2016 #12
the Biggest Liar is DT. End of story. Cha Jun 2016 #13

radical noodle

(8,582 posts)
3. I was surprised and happy to see MSNBC
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 06:38 PM
Jun 2016

started fact-checking what he said as soon as his so-called speech was over. That's not something they normally do for political speeches... at least not right away. They pointed out several lies or twisting of the facts.

DemonGoddess

(5,123 posts)
6. The talking heads on MSNBC
Wed Jun 22, 2016, 07:28 PM
Jun 2016

have been tearing apart his speech all night! At the same time, they are covering the sit-in.

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