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  • Snopes REVERSES 'fact check' claiming Joe Biden didn’t wear hard hat backwards

    01/27/2024 9:10:10 PM PST · by Impala64ssa · 50 replies
    The fact-check outlet had previously stated Biden wore the hat in standard fashion. Misinformation hall-monitor website Snopes was forced to reverse a fact-check on Saturday after making the false claim the Joe Biden did not wear a hard hat backwards during a recent photo-op with construction workers. When Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) posted the photo of Biden to X with several other construction workers, users responded slamming Biden for wearing the hard hat backwards. One user zoomed into the photo and posted, "Why his hard hat is wore backward?" Others were quick to respond to Biden's often middle-class image that...
  • March 5. 2017: Four Pinocchios? Trump’s ‘evidence’ for Obama wiretap claims sketchy, anonymously sou

    02/03/2018 3:07:38 PM PST · by confederatecarpetbag · 54 replies
    WaPo ^ | March 5. 2017 | Glenn Kessler
    President Trump’s explosive allegation that former president Barack Obama wiretapped him is based on — what? We’re still waiting for the evidence. In the meantime, Trump earns Four Pinocchios
  • Trump Misleads on Russia Hacking (FactCheck.org ignores inconvenient facts)

    07/09/2017 1:14:56 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 39 replies
    On the eve of his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump made some questionable claims about the U.S. intelligence community’s finding that Russia hacked into U.S. political organizations to interfere in the 2016 presidential election: Trump said the computer hacking “could have been other people and other countries.” There is no evidence for that. U.S. intelligence has named only Russia as the culprit. A Jan. 6 report based on the work of three intelligence agencies said Putin “ordered” a broad “influence campaign” to help elect Trump. Trump claimed former President Barack Obama “did nothing” from August...