Trumps @CPAC speech littered w/ some of his favorite, frequently-cited Falsehoods-LIES

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Fact-checking President Trump’s CPAC speech




By Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee February 24 at 12:42 PM
Trump criticizes 'fake, phony' media at CPAC
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At the beginning of his speech to the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference, Feb. 24, President Trump slammed "fake news" organizations, saying the media should be required to name sources. (Photo: Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post)

President Trump’s speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference at National Harbor in Maryland was littered with some of the president’s favorite and frequently-cited falsehoods. Here’s a roundup of the 12 of his more dubious claims, listed in the order in which he made them:

“I saw one story recently where they said, ‘Nine people have confirmed.’ There’re no nine people. I don’t believe there was one or two people. Nine people …. They make up sources.”

Trump is referring to a Washington Post article that disclosed that then-national security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the United States during the month before Trump took office, contrary to public assertions by Trump officials. The Post report prompted a firestorm that led to Flynn’s firing by Trump, because it turned out that Flynn had misled Vice President Pence and other administration officials about whether he had discussed sanctions.

The article cited information provided by “nine current and former officials, who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls.” (Calls by the Russian ambassador are monitored by intelligence agencies.) No White House official has disputed the accuracy of the article — and indeed, it resulted in Flynn’s departure from the administration.

“The dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people. The fake news. They dropped off the word ‘fake.’ And all of a sudden the story became the media is the enemy.”

Trump is making a distinction without a difference. This is the tweet in question:..........................




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Fact-checking President Trump’s CPAC speech

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[riversedge]

1. Trump never passes up a chance to hit on Hillary in his speeches....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/02/24/fact-checking-president-trumps-cpac-speech/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.ecb074dfd5a9

“But it was a little rigged against him [Bernie Sanders], you know, superdelegate, superdelegate. She [Hillary Clinton] had so many delegates before the thing even started, I actually said to my people, how does that happen?”

The primary election rules of the Democratic Party require a combination of 4,051 delegates elected through primaries and 714 “superdelegates” (elected officials and other influential Democrats who can back whomever they want). Because superdelegates make up 15 percent of the total delegate pool, neither Clinton nor Sanders would have obtained the 2,383 delegates needed to clinch the nomination without the support of superdelegates.

Trump says the system was rigged against Sanders because of the superdelegates. In June 2016, when the media began declaring Clinton the presumptive nominee, Clinton was on track to win the nomination even without superdelegates. We dug into this in depth in a separate fact-check.....


****This is the embedded link for the Fact-check

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/06/02/bernie-sanderss-factually-incorrect-delegate-math/?utm_term=.6218bdbde170&tid=a_inl

[murielm99]

2. The repiggies wish they had super delegates.

They would have had a nominee other than trump. Now their brand is being flushed down a gold-plated toilet.