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 ...
Gee, I guess The Donald is slipping. Last time I checked, CNN said he had said 10,000 lies over the past few years.
Maybe he should hire the Hillary Lying Machine to help him regain the pace. /SARC
CNN: When you want to know about “lying”, they are the master to come to!
Anything Trump says that is not in agreement with CNN, they call a lie. He will have to up his game, I will laugh when they say he lied 100% of the time!
It is hard for some people to believe how mental the left truly is, pretty easy to find proof. Keeps us from being in a bubble like the left chooses to be.
CNN doesn’t know any facts.
“Try reading it again, more carefully. It’s not like this is difficult stuff to understand.”
You’re right; it isn’t. Let’s try this, from CNN: “Facts First: The US was the world’s number-one energy producer before Trump took office”, and yet, in 2016, “China is the top country by primary energy production in the world.”
(https://knoema.com/atlas/ranks/Primary-energy-production). So if those data are correct, CNN’s assertion of “Facts” is wrong (a lie?), and Trump’s assertion for 2019 is an open to debate.
Or perhaps we should cut CNN some slack, and acknowledge that the term “energy production” is subject to interpretation? But that would invite giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, and applying the word “lie” wouldn’t produce much frisson.
CNN: Go do something to yourself which is anatomically impossible
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Look at their ratings! They have been doing it to themselves for a long time
CNN operates off of cable carriage fees. Ratings mean nothing to the bottom line.
So we can get all mad and stuff, and say bad things about CNN.
humblegunner Jr.? 1st comment has to attack the poster....another loser.
It’s all over the internet.
It’s CNN
ok so if I were to post something from MSNBC, whether its newsworthy or not....I would have to watch you whine cuz I posted it.....
Not true... they got stung last night.. they do 15 in a minute... they see what they want to see..
My comment in Philosophy 101 back in the day regarding Zeno’s paradox arrow - anyone who actually believes it would thus be willing to stand 20 yards away and let me shoot an arrow at them.
Trump: “The United States is now the number-one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world.”
CNN: “The United States has been the world’s top producer of natural gas since 2011... It is crude oil production in particular in which the US became top in the world under Trump”
So #1 on the list of “false statements” is actually a true statement? What is wrong with CNN do they no longer have anyone there who understands English?
FAKE NEWS!
They are pedantic fools arguing over the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin. Trump laid out a big picture of the huge successes this administration has had. Who cares if we produced one barrel of oil too few in 2016 to claim we are #1 in energy?
After all, it was Obama himself who promised to bankrupt utilities if they tried to build a coal plant, who said “you can’t drive your SUV 70 mph and expect other countries to be ok with that,” and said “under my plan, energy prices will necessarily skyrocket.”
All Obama energy policies flowed from those ideas. How can they claim Obama made us an energy leader when he fought it tooth and nail?
We were terrified of Obama’s plans to make us drive little tiny cars in our brutal winters and cutback our heat sources. It’s mostly all here - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration
I’d trust CNN to vet the President—Nah.
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