GOP Senator on Intelligence Committee Falsely Tweets US Has 30,000 Troops in Taiwan. He's Way, Way

[TexasTowelie]

GOP Senator on Intelligence Committee Falsely Tweets US Has 30,000 Troops in Taiwan. He’s Way, Way Off.


U.S. Senator John Cornyn, the Republican senior senator from Texas who has served since 2002, on Monday tweeted the U.S. has 30,000 troops in Taiwan, which is false. The U.S. pulled out of Taiwan in 1979. America’s current U.S. military presence in that country is reportedly just 30.

Cornyn sits on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which oversees budgets for the civilian and military agencies that comprise the intelligence community, and as such would be expected to know that the 30,000 figure was false.

CNN fact checker Daniel Dale caught the false tweet. He notes it was up for more than 13 hours before being deleted.

Link to tweet

The tweet appears to be part of Cornyn’s attack on President Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Cornyn is very active on social media, frequently tweeting out news reports and his opinions throughout the day.

Read more: https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2021/08/gop-senator-on-intelligence-committee-falsely-tweets-us-has-30000-troops-in-taiwan-hes-way-way-off/

[HAB911]

1. Cornyn is one of the dimmer bulbs in the pack

[stopdiggin]

3. not the brightest

But may I point out that even the dim bulbs have staff? That could supposedly be protecting them from the really egregious misinformation? Somebody is spoon feeding this crapola .... And it's up to somebody in his office to say, "cute Facebook meme - Jimmy (or Joan), you want to see if this checks out before it goes up on our page?"

[HAB911]

5. I would assume the dimmest hire the dimmest!

like peas in a pod

[Probatim]

8. Can't hire someone smarter than the boss.

Otherwise, they'll start to think they can do better.

[SheltieLover]

2. It is a shame that elected officials lying to the American people isn't a crime!

[GoCubsGo]

4. Well, that explains why the propaganda channels were pushing nonsense

about a possible invasion of Taiwan by China. all day yesterday. I'm not so sure this was an accident/mistake on Cornyn's part.

[Comfortably_Numb]

6. JFC. Once again, Texas has joined the chat and pooped in the punch bowl.

[tanyev]

7. If only he had access to definitive information from a military source instead of Wikipedia.

[dalton99a]

9. Molly Ivins on Cornyn's qualifications:

“John Cornyn looks like a senator. I mean, he is the most senator-lookin’ sumbitch I have ever seen.”

[gratuitous]

10. Sounds like it's time for Sen. Cornyn to retire

He's gone dotty.

[tclambert]

11. Once again I call upon Louis Gohmert to respond to this challenge to his title

of dumbest person in Congress. (Gohmert is the one who asked the Forest Service if they could change the Moon's orbit.)

[crickets]

12. Wait, what?

*websearch*

I'll be f- wow. Just wow. Why is there no basic competency test for these people?

[Slammer]

13. numbers

I've seen the number of US troops in Taiwan quoted as being in the thousands by TV commentators and experts over the last week.

I've only been watching MSNBC and a little bit of CNN.

So apparently Cornyn isn't the only one who is abysmally ignorant....