Bingo! Hit it out of the park!
One small correction.
This is not a phenomena of the Trump era.
The Media have been lying to us and misleading us for decades.
It has only become in your face, glaringly obvious to everyone, during the Trump era.
Snopes is like the CNN of fact checking websites. They are a leftist propaganda outlet.
I don’t recall them fact checking after any Obama speeches. The media were all too busy drooling to hump his leg
Fact checking is nothing more now than someone claiming their political view is “fact”.
Who checks the checkers?
Of course mass media the propaganda arm of the Democratic party come syndicate won’t tell the whole truth. Propaganda is a deceitful use of small parts of a story to twist the whole truth.
“Trump cast immigrants with a dark brush, listing off murders committed by undocumented immigrants without mentioning that immigrants actually have a lower crime rate than native-born Americans.”
Notice the slight of hand when they switch from “undocumented immigrants” (Trump's words), to “immigrants” to create uneven comparison.
Besides, illegals have a 100 % CRIME RATE.
Fact checking is a joke because liberals don’t know what a fact is.
= Fact Fixing by leftists.
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Politico’s take was, “Although most heroin enters the U.S. through the border with Mexico, most of that is intercepted at legal ports of entry.”
Um ... I think that statement needs some fact (or logic) checking ...
A few questions for the fact checkers and other so called border experts:
How much heroin and other hard drugs cross the border between ports of entry and are not caught?
How many illegals cross between the ports of entry illegally and are not caught?
How many illegals with connections to terrorism or labeled as special interest aliens cross between the ports of entry illegally and are not caught?
How many convicted murderers, and other hardened criminals cross illegally between ports of entry are not caught?
How many illegals that cross between ports of entry are currently wanted in any country for murder and other serious offenses and are not caught?
The answer to all of the above is no one knows. That is the real problem with the border not being secured. Dealing with numbers of people apprehended does not tell the whole story.
My follow up question would be to ask what is an acceptable number of each of the above that we are being asked to ignore, put up with, deal with...?
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Who owns the fact checkers? Who is supporting the fact checkers? Someone has to be paying the fact checkers? I think $$$$$$ buys facts. If I run for office, I need someone to write up some favorable facts for me.