Posted on 02/18/2017 4:08:08 PM PST by John Semmens
At his press conference this week President Donald Trump asserted that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton "gave 20% of our uranium to Russia." The self-described fact checking website PolitiFact quickly pronounced Trump's statement as "mostly false."
"First of all, Secretary Clinton did not act alone," PolitiFact spokesman Nicholas Pecker pointed out. "She had the full backing of President Obama. Second, the deal was for 20% of the United States' uranium production capacity. That's a totally different thing. Finally, the uranium wasn't given to Russia. Former President Bill Clinton got a $500,000 speaking fee and the Clinton Foundation got more than $100 million in donations."
"The only thing Trump got right was the word 'uranium,'" Pecker added. "His repeated assaults on the truth constitute a serious betrayal of the trust voters placed in his hands. This, alone, in my opinion, makes a pretty strong case for impeachment. When we add the other particulars—his blatant denigration of the news media, his unconstitutional attempt to ban Muslim terrorists from entering the country, and his dangerous deviation from policies put in place by his predecessor—I think it's only a matter of time before Congress will be forced to take him down. That is, if the CIA doesn't assassinate him first."
In related news, fact-checkers at the Washington Post awarded former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani "two Pinocchios" for correctly pointing out that 93% of Black murder victims were killed by Black assailants. "For Giuliani to just throw out this one fact without also mentioning that 84% of White victims had White assailants is unconscionable," the Post wrote. "And the fact that a Black child is far more likely to be killed by a Black gangster than a White police officer doesn't ease the pain of that gangster's parents when he is shot by the police. In our judgment, Giuliani's true, but insensitive, statement warrants 'two Pinocchios.'"
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/212965-2017-02-17-semi-news-semi-satire-february-19-2017-edition.htm
That’s a good one.
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Very good.
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