Fact check: Trump delivers wildly dishonest speech at CPAC | CNN Politics

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[–]Elchampo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A lot of these are technicalities.

Trump made his usual argument that The Washington Post and The New York Times should not have won a prestigious journalism award, a 2018 Pulitzer Prize, for their reporting on Russian interference in the 2016 election and its connections to Trump’s team. He then said, “And they were exactly wrong. And now they’ve even admitted that it was a hoax. It was a total hoax, and they got the prize.”

Facts First: The Times and Post have not made any sort of “hoax” admission. “The claim is completely false,” Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander said in an email on Sunday.

That logic is backwards. Since WaPo and the Times didn't admit to covering a hoax... It wasn't a hoax....

That's like when they said there's no evidence that the covid lab leak theory is true so it was wrong. That's not how that works. At all. It's pulling the wool over people's eyes.

I'm not seeing any glaring lies here, exaggerations and self-aggrandizing sure, but they're using dodgy logic here that doesn't get applied to the crap Biden says equally, but I did find some.

CNN was supposed to dump the partisan coverage.

[–]Site_rly_sux 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That logic is backwards

But you already admitted that the logic ISN'T backwards. You admitted it. Don't you remember? You made a post where you said "I admit the CNN logic isn't backwards and trump was therefore telling a lie here".

Oh, what's that? You didn't admit it? Does that mean I told a lie when I said you did? Be careful how you answer.

That's like when they said there's no evidence that the covid lab leak theory is true so it was wrong

You're missing half the sentence. There's no evidence so it's wrong to push a theory which has no evidence.

That's the wrong part. Nobody knows if it's factually right or wrong. People are just saying that you need more evidence than just saying "chyna kungflu"

[–]JewsAreOfColor 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Typing lies in bold text does not make them come true.