67 times speakers at the RNC got fact checked (yeah, in just the first two days)

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67 times speakers at the RNC got fact checked (yeah, in just the first two days)

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/67-times-speakers-at-the-rnc-got-fact-checked-yeah-in-just-the-first-two-days/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=20160720feed_factchecks

Pity the fact checkers who have to keep the Republicans honest.

July 20, 2016 by Elizabeth Chan



Halfway through the Republican National Convention, a trend is emerging:

“The Republican recipe: Take an ambiguous set of facts. Add in some innuendo. Arrange the facts in the most suspicious-seeming way. Then level an allegation that cannot be disproven.” –Michael Tomasky, The Daily Beast

Independent fact checkers have been doing their best to keep up with the lies Donald Trump’s convention speakers have been offering in lieu of anything resembling a plan, a positive vision, or praise for their own candidate. (Send them coffee.) At this point, the most impressive thing about Trump’s convention is that it has received more fact checks than there have been hours in the actual proceedings.

So just how many times have fact checkers called out Republicans at the convention? Let’s count.

1. “Trump said he liked having the convention in Cleveland and that he had recommended Ohio. […] The selection of Cleveland was conducted by the party in 2014, when it wasn’t known who would ultimately win the nomination. We rate Trump’s statement False.”

2. “Donald Trump Jr. said Clinton is proposing ‘destroying Medicare for seniors.’ […] We rate the claim False.”

3. “McConnell said that Clinton changed her views on allowing Iran to enrich uranium. […] We rate this claim Mostly False.”

4. “Day said that as a senator Clinton ‘paid women less than the men in your office.’ […] We rate this claim Mostly False.”....