You might recall that Mr. Potato Head, as he was called some 20 years ago by The American Spectator, is David Gergen. Two decades ago he was employed by the Clinton White House, and he apparently still works for them at least part-time... Mr. Potato Head was in high dudgeon last week over Schweizer's "Clinton Cash," claiming the book had been "discredited." Well, it was used as a source by The New York Times and the Washington Post. They relied on it heavily for stories about the Clintons' corruption, and it has sold quite well... The CNN fact-checkers deemed Trump in error for claiming that the continuing bloodshed in Syria was due to Clinton's support of regime change. But Trump never made that claim... The CNN fact-checkers assailed Trump again for claiming the U.S. trade deficit with China soared by 40 percent while Clinton was secretary of state. This, the fact-checkers said, is "exaggerated." Unfortunately for them we have at our disposal the U.S. Census Bureau, which in its report "Trade In Goods With China" asseverated that from 2009 to 2012 the trade deficit with China increased by almost $89 billion, or 39 percent. So Trump's exaggeration was off by one percentage point. Finally, CNN's crack team of fact-checkers rated Trump in error for saying that Clinton's State Department refused all requests for additional security in Benghazi... In the felicitously titled Washington Post column "Fact Checker," Glenn Kessler claims that 581 documents have been found that deal with the security situation at Benghazi. The number is likely to climb higher if classified documents are taken into account... State has acknowledged that security was not adequate."
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