FOUR Pinocchio's -->Trump’s false claim that Clinton ‘lost’ $6 billion at the State Department

I heard him yell it to his fans on the stump again yesterday. Idiot!

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Fact Checker
Trump’s false claim that Clinton ‘lost’ $6 billion at the State Department


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/10/13/trumps-false-claim-that-clinton-lost-6-billion-at-state/




By Glenn Kessler October 13

(Gregg Newton/AFP/Getty Images)

Hillary Clinton “lost as much as $6 billion in taxpayer money while she was running the State Department. Now, some people say it was misplaced. Oh, billions of dollars misplaced.”

— Donald Trump, remarks in Panama City, Fla., Oct. 11, 2016

In the past week, Trump has offered some version of this claim that Clinton “lost” or “misplaced” $6 billion of taxpayers’ funds while she was secretary of state. He argues that this shows she “is the vessel, a corrupt global establishment that’s raiding our country and surrendering the sovereignty of our nation.”.................


..................So, for the past two years, it was known that taxpayer money was not lost or misplaced. So what about the claim that the problem was Clinton’s fault?

The State Department is a vast bureaucracy, and it’s silly to blame Clinton for some missing paperwork in the Baghdad embassy. But we dug through the footnotes of the alert and read the original audit reports to figure out the time period in question. Recall that Clinton was secretary of state from January 2009 to January 2013...................


........The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

The Pinocchio Test

The $6 billion was not lost or misplaced; it’s that $6 billion in contracts had missing paperwork. On top of that, the majority of contracts with missing or incomplete paperwork stemmed from the Bush administration, before Clinton became secretary of state. So it’s ridiculous to claim Clinton was in any way responsible for the problems with the contracts.

The only thing “lost” in Trump’s statement is reality.
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