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MSNBC responds to Trump Lie With Real Time Fact Check Of Claim Millions Voted Illegally
After White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had doubled down on President Trump's claim that millions voted illegally in the 2016 election, MSNBC's Katy Tur provided a real time fact check that debunked the White House's false claim.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/24/msnbc-fights-trump-lie-real-time-fact-check-claim-millions-voted-illegally.html
After White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had doubled down on President Trumps claim that millions voted illegally in the 2016 election, MSNBCs Katy Tur provided a real time fact check that debunked the White Houses false claim.
Video of Spicer doubling down on Trumps voter fraud claims:
(go to article for video)
Spicer said, I think theres been studies that came from Pew in 2008 that showed fourteen percent of people who voted were not citizens. There are other studies that have been presented to him. Its a belief he maintains The President does believe that, I think hes stated that before, and stated his concern of voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign and continues to maintain that belief based on studies and evidence people have brought to him.
[blockquote style="border:1px solid #000000;padding:10px;"]Katy Tur of MSNBC real time fact checked Spicer:
Here's @KatyTurNBC with an instant fact-check after Spicer said Trump believes millions voted illegally based on studies and evidence Link to tweet
/video/1" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/Eb10dxtmqd
Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) January 24, 2017
Tur said, We want to do a little bit of fact checking on that statement because the White House now is referring to the same research that the campaign referred to, and the transition had referred to. One was a Washington Post commissioned study which The Washington Post itself debunked, and the other one was a Pew study from 2012, which is actually from 2008, which said that approximately 24 million. One in every eight people are on voter registrations in the United States that no longer valid, and they are significantly inaccurate. Listing people who had died in the past, obviously, on the voters. It doesnt mention anything about undocumented immigrants, so their basis of evidence isnt quite correct at all.
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Video of Spicer doubling down on Trumps voter fraud claims:
(go to article for video)
Spicer said, I think theres been studies that came from Pew in 2008 that showed fourteen percent of people who voted were not citizens. There are other studies that have been presented to him. Its a belief he maintains The President does believe that, I think hes stated that before, and stated his concern of voter fraud and people voting illegally during the campaign and continues to maintain that belief based on studies and evidence people have brought to him.
[blockquote style="border:1px solid #000000;padding:10px;"]Katy Tur of MSNBC real time fact checked Spicer:
Here's @KatyTurNBC with an instant fact-check after Spicer said Trump believes millions voted illegally based on studies and evidence Link to tweet
/video/1" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/Eb10dxtmqd
Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) January 24, 2017
Tur said, We want to do a little bit of fact checking on that statement because the White House now is referring to the same research that the campaign referred to, and the transition had referred to. One was a Washington Post commissioned study which The Washington Post itself debunked, and the other one was a Pew study from 2012, which is actually from 2008, which said that approximately 24 million. One in every eight people are on voter registrations in the United States that no longer valid, and they are significantly inaccurate. Listing people who had died in the past, obviously, on the voters. It doesnt mention anything about undocumented immigrants, so their basis of evidence isnt quite correct at all.
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MSNBC responds to Trump Lie With Real Time Fact Check Of Claim Millions Voted Illegally (Original Post)
Bill USA
Jan 2017
OP
I only watch M$M news to document their efforts as the Publicity arm of the GOP
Bill USA
Jan 2017
#4
The main stream media needs to keep hammering drumpf with reality, facts and truth.
democratisphere
Jan 2017
#3
Warpy
(111,319 posts)1. To that bunch
bilingual signs at the polls mean it's expected that illegal aliens are voting because if they were legal residents, they'd speak English along with the rest of us.
Yeah, they're morons.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)2. ABC has yet to call Trump a liar.
Or any of his statements false. Had to turn these suckers off.
Bill USA
(6,436 posts)4. I only watch M$M news to document their efforts as the Publicity arm of the GOP
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)3. The main stream media needs to keep hammering drumpf with reality, facts and truth.
Need to fight liar with fire!