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View Full Version : Donald Trump actually admitted that he doesn’t check his facts. Seriously?



Cigar
11-25-2015, 08:40 AM
Source: Washington Post

File this in the already-knew-it-but-can’t-believe-he-said-it category: Donald Trump doesn’t fact-check his tweets.

On Fox News Channel on Monday night, “O’Reilly Factor” host Bill O’Reilly called out the Republican presidential candidate for a bunch of bogus homicide statistics he retweeted over the weekend. The stats, which grossly inflated the rate at which black people kill white people, have been thoroughly debunked and widely labeled as race baiting.

Trump, in a moment of stunning candor, broke from the strategy he typically deploys when confronted with one of his inaccuracies — attack the media and insist that he is, despite seemingly insurmountable evidence to the contrary, correct. This time, he admitted that he hadn’t done his homework.

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On the funny side, it’s ironic that a presidential candidate who spends so much time blasting the media for alleged factual deficiencies would acknowledge that he doesn’t even try to verify information before spreading it to his 5 million followers.


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