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Trump’s false claim that Stacey Abrams headed a group that got $1.9 billion
Washington Post via MSN ^ | March 6, 2025 | Glenn Kessler

Posted on 03/06/2025 3:44:38 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

“$1.9 billion to recently-created decarbonization of homes committee, headed up, and we know she’s involved, just at the last moment the money was passed over, by a woman named Stacey Abrams. Have you ever heard of her?”

— President Donald Trump, in an address to a joint session of Congress, March 4

We fact-checked 26 claims in Trump’s address on Tuesday night, but this one required more research to nail down. From Trump’s phrasing, it sounds like Stacey Abrams somehow got her hands on nearly $2 billion at the “last moment.” Abrams, of course, helped ensure Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia by registering more than 800,000 voters, many people of color, in the state, so he has a particular animus toward the former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives. The president mentioned her as he read a long list of (mostly bogus) claims of government “scams.”

Is Trump’s claim true? No, not at all. A Biden green-energy program has been the subject of feverish reporting in the right-wing media, spurred by Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency. But Abrams’s role has been vastly overblown.....

If Zeldin had bothered to read the Power Forward Communities grant application on the EPA website, he would have seen this section: “We bring proven reach, scale, and organizational experience across markets and supply chains, technical assistance, and lending. We have collectively deployed or invested over $100 billion in community-based housing, health, environmental, and economic development initiatives and created or preserved over 1.4 million affordable housing units.”

One hundred billion dollars is significantly more than $100.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: arrestglennkessler; ciapropaganda; ciasedition; domesticpsyop; epagrant; fraud; gaslightmedia; gaslightmediastooge; georgia; glennkessler; operationmockingbird; staceyabrams; thegaslightmedia; waposedition; washingtongaslight
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“Stacey Abrams has not received a penny of this EPA grant. It was never the plan for her to receive any money from this grant,” Tim Mayopoulos, Power Forward chief executive, told Politico last month. “Power Forward Communities has no relationship with Ms. Abrams, other than the fact that she’s one of the people who have advised one of our coalition members in the past.”

How much other money was she paid by this organization?
1 posted on 03/06/2025 3:44:38 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

when’crats say the didn’t get a penny you just know it was FAR more than a penny.


2 posted on 03/06/2025 3:51:15 AM PST by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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Trump: we know she’s involved

Fact Checker: That's a false claim because ... Abrams’s role has been vastly overblown.....

But she is involved. So Trump was right.

3 posted on 03/06/2025 3:52:20 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

LOL Glenn Kessler LOL

Gaslight Media stooge Glenn Kessler weighs in.


4 posted on 03/06/2025 3:54:25 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Did or did not?
Receive money from this organization that is spending tax payer money?
Audit stacey she appears to be above her mean.


5 posted on 03/06/2025 3:54:26 AM PST by Recompennation
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To: ClearCase_guy

Exactly! WaPo fact checker’s fact check proven false.


6 posted on 03/06/2025 3:55:42 AM PST by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

“and we know she’s involved, “

“role”

unfact chack


7 posted on 03/06/2025 3:55:50 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by 🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite warriors. 10.5.6.5 These Days)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The Washington Post. Why even bother?


8 posted on 03/06/2025 4:01:05 AM PST by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow. SAMARIA )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

If her organization was given $1.9 billion and she got 0.25% of that or 1/4 of 1% she would have received $4,750,000! That percentage could have easily been hidden. Hey Washington Compost, undeniably prove to us she did not receive that or more from us taxpayers. Otherwise your comments that she did not are without evidence:


9 posted on 03/06/2025 4:01:26 AM PST by Abbeville Conservative
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

They need to be audited. If there is any irregularities people need to go to jail. This goes for any grants that went out the last 4 years.


10 posted on 03/06/2025 4:01:58 AM PST by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore……)
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“””””Abrams, of course, helped ensure Trump’s 2020 election loss in Georgia by registering more than 800,000 voters, many people of color, in the state, so he has a particular animus toward the former minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives.”””””

They give us a little background but threw in a senseless wording that doesn’t fit, the media needs to stop with this propaganda seed planting into every news story-—””, many people of color, “”-—.


11 posted on 03/06/2025 4:02:50 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: where's_the_Outrage?; All

“Stacey Abrams has not received a penny of this EPA grant.


True, because the grant was never completed. Trump and Musk stopped the grant before the money was transferred.


“It was never the plan for her to receive any money from this grant,”


So “Power Forward” claims after the shenanigans have been exposed. At this point, they have powerful incentives to lie.


12 posted on 03/06/2025 4:05:44 AM PST by marktwain
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Thank you for identifying the half truth of the article.

As shown by the serpent in the garden of Eden with the original lie, the best lies are 90% true.


13 posted on 03/06/2025 4:13:15 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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Fact check is total BS.

This is a new entity. The entity did no business in the past.

While the experience and accomplishments of board members are important, it is not an asset of the new organization.


14 posted on 03/06/2025 4:14:38 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Fact check is total BS.

This is a new entity. The entity did no business in the past.

While the experience and accomplishments of board members are important, it is not an asset of the new organization.


15 posted on 03/06/2025 4:14:42 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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"Money laundering is a term used to describe a scheme in which criminals try to disguise the identity, original ownership, and destination of money that they have obtained through criminal conduct."
16 posted on 03/06/2025 4:30:55 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Trump didn’t say specifically she headed it up, he talks with numerous pauses or fragments, as he switches thoughts and some times goes back to the first thought again without making it obvious at first.

Media gets things Trump says wrong because they haven’t taken time to get to know him, otherwise they would understand and probably like him. or at least agree with him more.


17 posted on 03/06/2025 4:47:35 AM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

No one cares about the fact checcks anymore except maybe 25 percent of the country...and they are dyed in the wool leftists anyway.

They wore out the “fact check” and people see through their charades

Or else harris would be president.


18 posted on 03/06/2025 4:53:11 AM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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They have set up a format that they all use to hide their tracks and they share this same tactic. We see it and is evident with the Biden’s barisma and other entities that are used to hide money and transfer funds to fictitious companies and accounts to make it difficult to track. For Trump to mention her name during the speech, he knows more than glen kesler and the rest of the rats feeding from the trough


19 posted on 03/06/2025 5:01:49 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: ClearCase_guy

They have set up a format that they all use to hide their tracks and they share this same tactic. We see it and is evident with the Biden’s barisma and other entities that are used to hide money and transfer funds to fictitious companies and accounts to make it difficult to track. For Trump to mention her name during the speech, he knows more than glen kesler and the rest of the rats feeding from the trough


20 posted on 03/06/2025 5:01:50 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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