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USA Today Fact-Check Tweet Claims Trump Camp Shirts ‘Feature’ ‘Nazi Symbol’
Newsbusters.org ^ | 7/12/2020 | Nicholas Fondacaro

Posted on 07/12/2020 9:19:35 AM PDT by rktman

Since early July, liberals on social media have seen pumping out claims that the Trump campaign was selling “America First Tee” shirts that featured the “Imperial Eagle” (an eagle holding a wreathed swastika), a common symbol in Nazi Germany. Even though images of an eagle holding something round was common imagery in American politics, the so-called fact-checkers over at USA Today put out a tweet Sunday that said they ruled the claim as “true.”

Showing a picture of the “Imperial Eagle” next to on of the campaign shirt (an eagle holding a round American flag, the USA Today Twitter account declared: “The claim: Trump campaign shirts feature imperial eagle, a Nazi symbol. Our ruling: True.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 2020election; americafirst; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; eagles; election2020; fakenews; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trump; trumpshirts; willpeebles
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To: Jane Long

What is a USA Today?


21 posted on 07/12/2020 9:31:54 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Just the facts, ma'am......)
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To: stormhill

And before that

28” Isaiah 40:31 They That Wait Upon The Lord, Shall Renew Their Strength, They Shall Mount Up with Wings of Eagles, They Shall Run and Not Be Weary Walk Faint


22 posted on 07/12/2020 9:32:12 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Rebelbase
^5
23 posted on 07/12/2020 9:32:26 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: rktman

Cue the pics of the Auntie Fa flag and the Antifaschiste flag of the 30s.


24 posted on 07/12/2020 9:32:33 AM PDT by Texas Eagle
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To: rktman

Did no one do any stories about how Obama’s campaign posters were based after Soviet/Communist propaganda posters??? That was very intentional.


25 posted on 07/12/2020 9:33:56 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: Jane Long

So, maybe this is the Regressives slant for getting rid of the American eagle symbol. “Very interesting, but stupid”.


26 posted on 07/12/2020 9:35:17 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (Just the facts, ma'am......)
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To: rktman

USA Today has been a trashy newspaper for years.


27 posted on 07/12/2020 9:37:16 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
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To: rktman

Was FDR a Nazi? Several of his Alphabet Agencies had logos/symbols featuring eagles.

National Recovery Administration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NRA_member,_we_do_our_part.jpg

Federal Art Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Federal-Art-Project-Icon.jpg

Farm Credit Aministration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Seal_of_the_Farm_Credit_Administration.svg

I’m sure I could find others.


28 posted on 07/12/2020 9:37:34 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: stormhill

The fact that it is referred to as the “imperial eagle” shows the absurdity; the German empire was done with WWI and the abdication of the Kaiser.

With young people today, you can make up a lot of stupid things and they’ll swallow them hook, line and sinker.


29 posted on 07/12/2020 9:38:00 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Raycpa

USA Today Fact-Checked and found it true; Isaiah the Prophet was a Nazi.


30 posted on 07/12/2020 9:38:14 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: rktman

The charge that USA Today is run by un-American radicals is found to be: TRUE.


31 posted on 07/12/2020 9:38:34 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Prediction: G. Maxwell will surprise everyone by not dying anytime soon.)
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To: rktman
Fact check: Trump campaign accused of T-shirt design with similarity to Nazi eagle WILL PEEBLES | USA TODAY | 5 hours ago

Will Peebles

Democrat Party Opinionist/Copy Editor at Savannah Morning News/Democrat Party Press. GSU 2015 Alum. I like dinosaurs and whales. I hate eagles.

Got called up for a pinch hit with @USATODAY this week: https://t.co/6e22edtJIf— Will Peebles (@willpeeblesSMN) June 18, 2020


32 posted on 07/12/2020 9:41:22 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Leaning Right
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33 posted on 07/12/2020 9:44:13 AM PDT by timestax
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Pretty Pelosi website has that image as well
https://www.speaker.gov/


34 posted on 07/12/2020 9:44:17 AM PDT by kendu
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To: rktman

All I have to say on that is that a Nazi symbol is a socialist symbol.

There isn’t anyone more anti-Nazi or anti-socialist than President Trump.


35 posted on 07/12/2020 9:44:24 AM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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To: kearnyirish2

Ignorance of history makes people vulnerable to any demagogue. You see the Big Lie used constantly in the media. How anyone can sit and watch network news without kicking in the screen is beyond my understanding.


36 posted on 07/12/2020 9:44:54 AM PDT by stormhill
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To: rktman

The Democrat/Left truly sees no difference between the swastika and the American flag. This is why the Democrat/Left must be destroyed — not neutralized — destroyed!


37 posted on 07/12/2020 9:47:15 AM PDT by glennaro (Mask-wearing maintains the illusion of a "health crisis", but it does spread the virus/herd immunity)
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To: rktman
According to that logic, the Great Seal of the USA is also somehow a national-socialist symbol.


38 posted on 07/12/2020 9:49:21 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: rktman
Great Seal of the USA.


39 posted on 07/12/2020 9:50:37 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: rktman

I hear Donald Trump breathes....JUST LIKE HITLER USED TO!!!!!


40 posted on 07/12/2020 9:50:56 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sen9t COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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