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agingdem

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2. this is the thing I loathe about CNN fact-checkers...

Reply to SomewhereInTheMiddle (Original post)

Wed Feb 25, 2026, 07:35 AM

9 hrs ago

they rarely refer to his verbal blowouts as lies...they use euphemisms: misleading, debunked, falsehoods, inaccurate, overstated, wrongly asserted, fictional, baseless, fabricated...

God forbid CNN fact checkers misplace their Roget Thesaurus because if they did the headline would read "Trump's so-called speech was nothing more than a never-ending series of lies"...an unambiguous statement of fact..

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Fact check: Trump makes false claims about the economy, elections and crime in State of the Union [View all] SomewhereInTheMiddle 10 hrs ago OP

Fact Check: TRUMP IS A LYING PIECE OF SHIT Skittles 10 hrs ago #1

this is the thing I loathe about CNN fact-checkers... agingdem 9 hrs ago #2

lies not "false claims" he lies. nt Javaman 9 hrs ago #3

Their needs to be a Golden Pinocchio award created just for Trump and if it's real gold he'd probably accept it. cstanleytech 9 hrs ago #4

Fake statistics - there I fixed it for you, lol. lark 7 hrs ago #5

Sadly David Ellison and Barrie Weiss's anchor nwduke 7 hrs ago #6

The list of lies just goes on & on. JohnnyRingo 7 hrs ago #7

Excellent summary of Trump's lies to the nation. Martin68 4 hrs ago #8