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Fact Check: Reporters Conflate Trump’s ‘Great Day’ For Floyd Comment With Jobs Report News. Days Later, Almost No One Has Retracted.
LaCorte News ^ | 6/10/2020 | Penka Arsova

Posted on 06/10/2020 11:47:50 AM PDT by Zenyatta

The mainstream media over the weekend misrepresented President Trump’s remarks about George Floyd, falsely claiming he suggested Floyd would be “happy” about an uptick in U.S. employment in May.

What the president said: President Trump, during a press conference on Friday, spoke about the recently released job report showing that the U.S. added 2.5 million jobs in May after several months of increased unemployment after coronavirus shutdowns. The president called it “probably . . . the greatest comeback in American history.”

He then pivoted to the protests against racial inequality, when he mentioned Floyd, whose death sparked nationwide demonstrations.

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


TOPICS: Issues
KEYWORDS: floyd; mediabias; trump
They made this up out of whole cloth. Do a google search, many in the mainstream still have this story up as a headline. Complete madness.
1 posted on 06/10/2020 11:47:50 AM PDT by Zenyatta
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To: Zenyatta

They are just doing the things that Tass and Pravda did that had most people in the Soviet Union and East Bloc no longer trusting them by the 1980s.


2 posted on 06/10/2020 11:50:20 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Zenyatta

OK.

So we KNOW the msm is outwardly against us now. They don’t pretend.

What do we do?

Brainstorm folks.

We still have social media, less than before since they’ll start kicking us off but I still post a lot of hardcore conservative views on twitter and facebook and have no been kicked off.

i’ve been insulted a lot lol


3 posted on 06/10/2020 11:59:21 AM PDT by dp0622 (The very future of tis she the onehe Republic is at stake. We now know dems will do ANYTHING to win.)
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[[So we KNOW the msm is outwardly against us now. They don’t pretend.

What do we do?

Brainstorm folks.]]

Drink Tequila?


4 posted on 06/10/2020 12:07:53 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Zenyatta

It looks from the article extract above that he said exactly what they accused him of saying.


5 posted on 06/10/2020 12:11:26 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: dp0622

Call them idiots and call them liars.


6 posted on 06/10/2020 12:12:31 PM PDT by Bayard
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To: Zenyatta

and unacceptable, the media needs to be treated as a political group.

7 posted on 06/10/2020 12:13:23 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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Read again. He then pivots to the demonstrations....

When I first read one of these I thought, Head in palm...geez he didn’t say that did he?

Typical reporting and of course every lib with a phone or PC repeated it.


8 posted on 06/10/2020 12:31:23 PM PDT by Edison (I don't know what irks me more, the lying or the incompetence.)
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To: nwrep

The President did not say George was having a great day due to the economy. Read the transcript. The two statements were made in the same speech but had nothing to do with each other.


9 posted on 06/10/2020 1:38:36 PM PDT by Zenyatta
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bkmk


10 posted on 06/10/2020 1:54:17 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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11 posted on 06/10/2020 2:06:23 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES YOU!)
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