Posted on 10/22/2018 2:51:53 PM PDT by tcrlaf
A caravan of thousands of Honduran migrants is headed north in hopes of crossing the U.S. border. You may have heard some scary things about it. What's true and what's false? Here are five allegations bouncing around the internet that are definitely "alternative facts."
MYTH 1: It's being funded by Democrats.
Trump said at a campaign rally on Thursday that "a lot of money has been passing to people" traveling north from Honduras. A Republican from Florida, Rep. Matt Gaetz shared a short video that Trump later promoted of migrants being given cash and suggested that they were being funded by left-leaning activist and investor George Soros.
THE FACTS: There is no evidence the caravan is being led by anyone other than Hondurans.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
“Kavanaugh assaulted Ford was a myth too.”
What? Just because there was no evidence that he did? She sounded sincere! Disprove that, fascists!/s
And we all know how "interested" NBC, et al. are in "evidence." Just ask Judge Kavanaugh.
I get the reference. I too am old. I just didn’t make the connection initially.
Few people in this age are both able and willing to walk 25 miles a day, certainly not with children accompanying them. Walking that far day after day is not possible even unless someone is accompanying them with food and water, they cannot walk that many miles a day and find food and water along the way, the whole thing is absurd on its face. I am 74 and I grew up walking behind a mule during the summer, walking all day long is taxing even to a sixteen year old, corn fed, farm boy who has been working since he was big enough to carry a single piece of firewood.
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