• BarqsHasBite
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    195 days ago

    Saving everyone a click

    THE FACTS: Trump has said he doesn’t know about Project 2025, a controversial blueprint for another Republican presidential administration.

    The plan was written up by many of his former aides and allies, but Trump has never said he’ll implement the roughly 900-page guide if he’s elected again. He has said it’s not related to his campaign.

    That’s everything they said. Those are quite literally the facts which they can report on: what Trump says.

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      5 days ago

      Sure, but doing a fact check at all is very strongly suggesting that the person making the claim is lying in a way that would be materially significant.

      It just seems wrong to report that well technically, the candidate himself didn’t say those exact words (while ignoring that he communicates like a mafia don), and fit it in amongst other fact-checks where the candidate is literally libelling an entire community with things that are absolutely bare-faced lies with very very racist underpinnings?

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        5 days ago

        You seem confused. Their reporting here was that trump claimed not to be associated with the document, but in reality is. Maybe you don’t like their wording?