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struggle4progress

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Fri Mar 10, 2017, 01:20 PM Mar 2017

Wrong on Twitter this week (#7)

By Michelle Ye Hee Lee
March 10 at 10:00 AM

... Trump makes a misleading comparison between Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Sen. Charles E. Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) meeting Vladimir Putin at a public event in 2003. Sessions, who was a Trump campaign surrogate, misled Congress by not disclosing that he met with Kislyak on at least two occasions during the 2016 presidential campaign, including one private meeting at Sessions’s Senate office ...

There is no evidence that Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump’s calls. Trump seized on reports in the right-leaning media, but even the reports cited by the White House did not make this allegation. We issued Four Pinocchios to Trump’s claims ...

The FBI and the Democratic National Committee disagree on whether the FBI requested access to the DNC’s servers. FBI Director James B. Comey testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee that the bureau made “multiple requests at different levels” to access DNC’s servers, but the DNC said the FBI never requested access ...

Trump continues to take credit for projects long in the works before he became president ...


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/03/10/what-trump-got-wrong-on-twitter-this-week-7/

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