Posted on 02/27/2017 10:44:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Politifact decided to fact-check one of President Donald Trump’s tweets Sunday and found that “the numbers check out.” The fact-checking site then rated the tweet “mostly false.”
“The media has not reported that the National Debt in my first month went down by $12 billion vs a $200 billion increase in Obama first mo,” Trump tweeted.
The tweet from Trump came after Gateway Pundit reported on the change in the national debt under the two respective presidents and after former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain brought up the figures on Fox News.
Politifact wrote: “The numbers check out. And in fact, the total public debt has dropped another $22 billion since the Gateway Pundit article published, according to data from the U.S. Department of Treasury.”
Despite this, Politifact still gave Trump a rating of “mostly false” and titled its article, “Why Donald Trump’s tweet about national debt decrease in his first month is highly misleading.”
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“Trump would be wise to not read too much into this figure, which sounds more noteworthy than it actually is. The national debt fluctuates up and down depending on the day,” Sharockman wrote. “While the debt is ‘down’ after one month, experts say that trend will reverse and the debt will continue to rise.”
So, when anonymous "experts" whose names are unmentioned make predictions about what may or may not happen, that is more "factual" than events that actually occurred?
The Lying left is so confused they don’t know true from false or right from wrong, They’re deceived by their own deceptions.
Fake Factchecking!
In case anybody doubted how bogus the “fact checking” is.
She’s got the...uh...credibility to make it to the network.
Politifact is a leftist organization, and, as such, not to be trusted.
Fake ‘facts’.
Becasue PolitiFAct has an agenda.
Like roberts, who said on page 15 of his decision that Obamacare was not a tax, but then found it constitutional under the taxing power.
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