VP debate: Pence Debunks "Fine People Hoax"
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2020 Oct 8, 11:20am 874 views 3 comments
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Al_Sharpton_for_President
2020 Oct 8, 12:35pm
Al_Sharpton_for_President
2020 Oct 8, 12:35pm
It's not about the truth, but what you can get peple to believe, who have already been conditioned by a biased MSM.
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Patrick
2020 Oct 8, 6:08pm
Patrick
2020 Oct 8, 6:08pm
And it's easy to get them to believe more lies once they have been so enraged by the previous lies.
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SunnyvaleCA
2020 Oct 8, 6:50pm
rocketjoe79 says
True to form, NYT is saying that Pence told far more lies than Harris. I subscribe to NYT's daily email of fake news and got this just this morning (underlining is mine):
NONE of the MSM fact-checked this issue
True to form, NYT is saying that Pence told far more lies than Harris. I subscribe to NYT's daily email of fake news and got this just this morning (underlining is mine):
To be clear, both Pence and Harris also engaged in mild overstatement and rhetorical flourishes at times. That’s normal in politics. Harris, for example, exaggerated the job losses that President Trump’s trade war with China has caused. But Pence was far more dishonest. At several points, he seemed to want to run on a record that didn’t exist.
Note: NONE of the MSM fact-checked this issue. Harris didn't respond during the debate except by looking down.
The BBC did fact-check and found Pence was completely correct and true on this issue.
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Harris: "Trump said 'there were fine people on both sides' in far-right protests."
Verdict: The quote is correct, but President Trump said in the same press conference that he wasn't referring to neo-Nazis or white nationalists.
Kamala Harris brought up President Trump's controversial comments following far-right protests in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. Violent clashes left one of the counter-protesters dead.
According to a transcript of a press conference on 15 August, President Trump did say - when asked about the presence of neo-Nazis at the rally - "you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides."
However, at the same press conference, Mr Trump went on to say "I'm not talking about the neo-Nazis and the white nationalists, because they should be condemned totally."
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Full BBC fact checking: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-54434575