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  • Read NPR's annotated fact check of President Trump's address to Congress {Never did this to Biden}

    03/05/2025 8:44:48 AM PST · by Red Badger · 22 replies
    NPR ^ | March 04, 2025 | Staff
    President Trump delivered an address to a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday night, six weeks into his second term. Since his inauguration, he has worked briskly to try to radically reshape the government and has signed dozens of executive orders, many upending policies created by former President Joe Biden. Trump took stock of what he's done so far and laid out his vision for the economy, immigration and foreign affairs. Reporters from across NPR's newsroom fact-checked the address and offered context as the speech unfolded. Immigration Unlawful border crossings TRUMP: "Within hours of taking the...
  • The Media Tried Fact-Checking Trump After His Mar-a-Lago Presser. It Was a Trainwreck.

    08/08/2024 11:46:58 PM PDT · by mbrfl · 59 replies
    Townhall ^ | August 8, 2024 | Matt Vespa
    Donald Trump did something Kamala Harris has failed to do since she ripped the 2024 Democratic nomination away from Joe Biden: answered questions from the press. The event, held at Mar-a-Lago, featured Trump ripping into Harris’ intelligence, announcing three dates for debates with the vice president, and warning how the nation is on the verge of economic disaster if Kamala wins in November. The media tried to fact-check the president, and it devolved into such a ticky-tack game of linguistic nonsense that it only served as yet another reminder of why these clowns are mocked and distrusted. First, CNN tried...
  • Sen. Ted Cruz and actress Alyssa Milano talk gun control, without insults

    09/10/2019 5:42:37 PM PDT · by conservative98 · 66 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Sep. 10, 2019 | Taylor Goldenstein
    While Cruz agreed that background checks need to be improved, he told Guttenberg and Milano that he thinks the most effective solutions focus on “the bad guys,” such as felons, fugitives and people “with serious mental illnesses that are a danger to themselves or others,” as opposed to law-abiding citizens. Throughout the meeting Tuesday, Cruz repeatedly advocated for the 2013 Grassley-Cruz amendment that failed to pass at the time and which he reintroduced this year — and repeated a claim that PolitiFact debunked in November 2017, saying that it could have prevented the Sutherland Springs shooting. The bill would allocate...