Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

CNN Fact check: Trump's Orlando rally featured more than 15 false claims over 76 minutes
CNN ^ | 06/19/2019 | Daniel Dale

Posted on 06/19/2019 10:12:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

President Donald Trump kicked off his formal reelection campaign Tuesday night with a rally in Orlando. His 76-minute speech featured more than 15 false statements, many of them ones that he's repeated frequently in the past.

Here's a fact check:

ENERGY

Trump boasted about his administration's energy policies.

"And we've ended the last administration's cruel and heartless law on American energy. What they were doing to our energy should never be forgotten. The United States is now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world."

"We are, by the way, the number-one producer of energy in the world because of what we've done right now." Facts First: The US was the world's number-one energy producer before Trump took office — since 2012, under the very president Trump accused of waging the heartless war.

The government's official source for energy data, the Energy Information Administration, said in 2016: "US petroleum and natural gas production first surpassed Russia in 2012, and the United States has been the world's top producer of natural gas since 2011 and the world's top producer of petroleum hydrocarbons since 2013."

It is crude oil production in particular in which the US became top in the world under Trump, according to the EIA: it surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia in 2018.

RUSSIA

Trump suggested the Russian investigation was illegal and criticized the amount of money it had cost.

"We accomplished more than any other president has in the first two and a half years of a presidency, and under circumstances that no president has had to deal with before, because we did, in the middle of the great and illegal witch hunt, things that nobody have been able to accomplish, not even close."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cnnsucks; cruzer; lies; nevertrumper; orlando; rally; seekandfind; seekfindnevertrump; truenewsfakenews; trump
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-93 next last

1 posted on 06/19/2019 10:12:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Why post this?


2 posted on 06/19/2019 10:13:21 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

FACT: CNN SUCKS


3 posted on 06/19/2019 10:14:33 AM PDT by Hildy (Don't get bitter, get better.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
Wow! Lying CNN talking about Trump lying....
Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?
4 posted on 06/19/2019 10:14:46 AM PDT by Karma_Sherab
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Obama did everything he could to stop domestic energy production. You can’t whitewash that. Trump rules. Obama sucked.


5 posted on 06/19/2019 10:15:08 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

CNN Fact checks include Trump’s statements on these issues:

MANUFACTURING
THE WALL
THE ENVIRONMENT
CLINTON EMAILS
CHINA
UNEMPLOYMENT AND WAGES
TRADE
FACTORY JOBS
VA CHOICE
PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS
DEMOCRATS’ POSITION ON BORDER SECURITY
HEALTHCARE


6 posted on 06/19/2019 10:15:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP

RE: Why post this?

So that you can refute CNN.


7 posted on 06/19/2019 10:15:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP

>>>Why post this?<<<

Because Ignorance is not Bliss.

Just because we look at this with a grain of Salt, many in the Electorate soak it up like a Sponge and they Vote for POTUS Trump’s opponents.


8 posted on 06/19/2019 10:16:09 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Trump: “The United States is now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world.”

CNN: (obfuscating gibberish, then) “It is crude oil production in particular in which the US became top in the world under Trump...”

In other words, what he said was strictly correct, not a lie. I’m not going to bother descending deeper into their septic tank.


9 posted on 06/19/2019 10:16:23 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Is 15 the number of times the crowd chanted CNN Sucks?


10 posted on 06/19/2019 10:16:45 AM PDT by DannyTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: bk1000
Obama sucks.

Big Mike agrees...or maybe it's the other way around?

11 posted on 06/19/2019 10:16:59 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

every one of their fact checks is wrong, or misleading.

I can see why Trump always calls them fake news.


12 posted on 06/19/2019 10:18:41 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP
So it is "crude oil" rather than "oil and natural gas" in which we became the world leader in 2018? Therefore, this is a false claim.

But ObaMao's claim that "If you liked your plan, you can keep your plan" was just good salesmanship.

Got it!

CNN: Go do something to yourself which is anatomically impossible.

13 posted on 06/19/2019 10:18:45 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys all aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Whenever Trump engages in hyperbole for effect the press calls it a lie...

“If you like your doctor, if you like your plan, you can keep it.”

“Now listen to me, I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”

Those lies, and the other lies around them are without question the biggest political lies the US public has had to endure from presidents and administrations in my lifetime... PERIOD.

Your stupid “fact check” over hyperbolic claims for dramatic effect, of Mr Trump don’t even move the meter compared to the lies you tell and perpetuate daily, and the party you endorse have engaged in my entire life.


14 posted on 06/19/2019 10:19:46 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Pure Hokum on the part of CNN.

We produced more oil and gas DESPITE Obama.


15 posted on 06/19/2019 10:21:02 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP

“The United States is now the number-one producer of oil AND natural gas anywhere in the world.”

This dumb@ss doesn’t realize that Trump can say that we are now number one producers for BOTH NG and OIL.

He’s not lying.


16 posted on 06/19/2019 10:21:31 AM PDT by nikos1121
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: TakebackGOP

Waste of space. What the hell does CNN know about anything? The US was not the world’s number one energy producer until now . I fact, Obama tried desperately to kill it. CNN LIES!


17 posted on 06/19/2019 10:21:44 AM PDT by richardtavor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: rightwingcrazy
In other words, what he said was strictly correct, not a lie. I’m not going to bother descending deeper into their septic tank.

My thoughts exactly

18 posted on 06/19/2019 10:22:31 AM PDT by gubamyster
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Like anyone could ever trust CNN to fact check anything, They’re joking right?


19 posted on 06/19/2019 10:23:25 AM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

‘CNN’ and ‘ Facts’ are mutually exclusive terms.


20 posted on 06/19/2019 10:24:32 AM PDT by Radix (Natural Born Citizens have Citizen parents)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-93 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson