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 ...
Does anybody know the TOTAL COST of the Mueller investigation?
CNN insists that Trump’s figure of $40 million is a lie because we have not found out what the total cost is yet.
LOL!
Lost count, because, as a guy, I can’t count higher than 21.
It was probably way more than 40 million, maybe CNN should just STFU while they are ahead!!!
Refuting CNN is a waste of time. That function is best handled by saying “fake news”. It helps to have a look of deep skepticism & disgust which comes naturally when referring to MSM.
I stopped reading at “CNN Fact Check”.
“Obama sucks.
Big Mike agrees...or maybe it’s the other way around?”
Another “first” under Odunga... Reciprocal blowjobs in the Lincoln Bedroom.
CNN Takes issue with Trump’s mention of Hillary’s deleted emails with this:
A server company working for Hillary Clinton deleted these emails using a free software program called BleachBit. BleachBit is not expensive. It involves neither actual bleach nor acid.
The emails were indeed deleted, in March 2015, three weeks after the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued a subpoena seeking the retention of Clinton emails. The server company employee told the FBI that he had deleted the emails after belatedly realizing he had forgotten to carry out a request made by Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, prior to the subpoena, to change Clinton’s email policy so that messages more than 60 days old would be automatically purged.
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In other words, CNN believes the employee and then on that basis, calls Trump’s statement a lie.
CNN never entertained the possibility that the employee was lying.
Don’t forget Reggie! (I’ll bet he is still very involved in their 3-way schlong sessions!)
It’s not a liberal forum.
“>>>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.”
Worth repeating. It is necessary to see what is being said outside of the insulated cacoon.
Correct. Fracking started in Idaho and other states IN SPITE OF Obama’s policies. So now lying CNN gives Obama credit for something he did not do. I didn’t bother to read the rest. CNN doesn’t deserve a hit.
Oxygen refutes CNN.
I (metaphorically) kick you and declare: "Thus I refute CNN."
“RE: Why post this?
So that you can refute CNN.”
Seriously? You think CNN can be more refuted than it already has been? Not worth the aggravation.
Whenever Trump engages in hyperbole for effect the press calls it a lie...
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You actually had so called journalists “fact checking” Trump’s claim of serving a mile high stack of NcDonalds burgers to a football team at the Whitehouse. Some nitwit reporter actually measured a Big Mac and ran the numbers.
The MSM press is sick. And the disease it has is likely fatal.
Because Trump does know and CNN does not, this makes Trump's statement about the cost a lie?
ML/NJ
* Must be the Royal "We."
CNN is ATT
Dump ATT
It’s good for a laugh. It’s entertaining. :)
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