The MSM's constant 3 years of FAKE NEWS is out there for anyone to see.
Dozens of retractions after they are caught yet again.
You try to rag on and discredit OANN, but you have yet to show me even a single time that they have put out any fake news.
They have 2 1 hour segments of
conservative editorials, The Ledger Report and Tipping Point, and
they are listed as such. The rest is straight up FACTUAL news.
But I've yet to see any misinformation from Graham or Liz either.
So, either put up, or just STFU about OANN's factual reporting.
I love it when Trumpers call others fake news. So gullible.
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Here are 10 baseless, misleading or confounding claims Trump made this year, and the facts — plus one oft-repeated claim that finally, in late October, became true.
Claim 1: Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election
This claim is false, according to the unanimous assessment of the U.S. intelligence community and the former special counsel Robert Mueller, who spent two years investigating Russia's election interference effort.
The Russian government, not Ukraine, interfered in the 2016 election "in sweeping and systematic fashion," the Mueller report concluded, working to boost Trump's bid while damaging his Democratic rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Still, in both private and public remarks, as well as in the pivotal July 25 phone call with Ukraine's new president, Trump repeatedly pushed or referenced a conspiracy theory that Ukraine and the Democrats framed Russia for election meddling in an attempt to discredit his presidency.
In that now-famous July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the same call in which Trump asked for investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, Trump danced around the theory. He talked about “this whole situation with Ukraine," Democratic computer servers, and “CrowdStrike," the private cybersecurity firm initially hired by the Democratic National Committee to investigate a breach that the FBI ultimately concluded was a hack and dump scheme engineered by Moscow as part of a larger, pro-Trump influence campaign.
"The server, they say Ukraine has it," Trump said, according to
a White House record of the call.
“I would like you to get to the bottom of it," he continued later. "They say a lot of it started with Ukraine.”
Later, he would suggest to reporters that Clinton's emails might be in Ukraine.
In fact, there is no evidence that Ukraine mounted any sort of election interference effort. Ukraine isn't harboring a Democratic server, and Clinton’s
emails are not hiding there, either. Members of Trump's own administration, including former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Bossert,
have said they tried to tell Trump this wasn't true.
The conspiracy, which was first
publicly posted on a far-right message board, 4chan, in March 2017, appears to be part of Trump's broader, yearslong effort to discredit Mueller's investigation and undercut the idea that a foreign government helped get him elected.
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Claim 2: Biden acted corruptly as vice president to benefit his son
Trump has said he discussed political rival Biden with the president of Ukraine — a phone call at the
heart of the intelligence community whistleblower's complaint that led to the
launch of the formal impeachment proceedings in the House — for one reason: a desire to root out corruption.
The former vice president, Trump said, wielded his influence to benefit his son Hunter’s private-sector work in Ukraine. In May, Trump said that Biden
improperly got a Ukrainian prosecutor fired, a claim he went on to repeat in the July phone call with Zelenskiy. Trump would later add
this ousting was to protect Hunter Biden, who served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company at the time.
But despite Trump's continued claims, there's no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of either Biden. Removing that prosecutor was U.S. policy under the administration of President Barack Obama. While Obama administration officials raised concerns at the time about the appearance of a conflict of interest that Hunter Biden's work posed for the vice president, U.S. officials testified as part of the impeachment inquiry into Trump that there was no evidence Biden himself worked toward anything other than enacting U.S. policy.
Claim 3: The whistleblower made a "false account"
In September, news broke that an anonymous person within the intelligence community had filed a formal whistleblower complaint related to the president's dealings with Ukraine, including that July phone call with Zelenskiy, and that the Trump administration was withholding that complaint from Congress.
By the end of the month, Congress had
obtained the whistleblower's nine-page complaint, which the author wrote was lodged out of the belief that Trump was "using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country" in the 2020 election and detailed alleged actions by the president and other government officials to pressure Ukraine into opening politically advantageous investigations.
The House Intelligence Committee, on Sept. 26, released a declassified version of the complaint to the public as part of the formal investigation into the whistleblower's allegations. Subsequently, Trump made several inaccurate claims about that complaint, charging that the still-unnamed whistleblower had made a "false account."
“He got his information, I guess, second or third hand. He wrote something that was total fiction," Trump said in October.
"The whistleblower gave a false account," Trump said on another day in
October.
"Sooo wrong," he wrote
in a tweet in November.
There's no evidence to support this — rather, the available evidence supports the whistleblower. The actions and conversations described in the whistleblower complaint have been largely corroborated, both by the record of the Zelenskiy call that the White House released, as well as sworn testimony of Trump aides,
an exhaustive NPR report shows.
The Ukraine whistleblower used both firsthand and secondhand information in the complaint, according to the Office of the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community. Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, noted
this is an acceptable practice in a whistleblower complaint.
Claim 4: Article II of the Constitution lets me “do whatever I want”
"Article II allows me to do whatever I want,” Trump
told ABC News in June.
"Then I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president,” he said
in Washington in July.
Claim 5: We're "taxing the hell out of China" with tariffs
“You’re not paying for those tariffs. China’s paying for those tariffs,” the president told an Ohio crowd in August. “Until such time as there is a deal, we will be taxing the hell out of China.”
Claim 6: The Mueller report "totally exonerated" Trump
“Complete and total exoneration,” Trump
wrote in one tweet in March after the Mueller report was released. It's an inaccurate claim he repeated often.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., asked the former special counsel about this claim during a congressional hearing: “Did you actually totally exonerate the president?”
“No,” Mueller said.
Mueller's written report was clear on this, too: "If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state," the report reads in part. "While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
Claim 7: Where Hurricane Dorian was expected to hit
Claim 8: Windmills cause cancer
Claim 9: Toilet flushes are up
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Claim 10: Mars and the moon
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