The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website February 10, 2017:
Welcome to the fifth installment of Fact Checker’s series highlighting what President Trump got wrong on Twitter in a given week.
Here’s a look at what Trump got wrong in 11 tweets this week, listed in chronological order. Continue reading “What Trump got wrong on Twitter this week (#5)”
The following article by Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website February 3, 2017:
Welcome to the fourth installment of Fact Checker’s series highlighting what President Trump got wrong on Twitter in a given week. Last week, we fact-checked Trump’s tweets as a part of a larger round-up of inaccurate and exaggerated statements from his first week in office.
Here’s a look at what Trump got wrong in 10 tweets this week. Continue reading “What Trump got wrong on Twitter this week (#4)”
The following article by Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on their website:
In the third installment of this Fact Checker series, we fact-checked what President-elect Donald Trump got wrong in 11 tweets in the past week. And we have a bonus at the end of the round-up: something Trump got right on Twitter.
Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to……
Continue reading “What Trump got wrong on Twitter this week (#3)”
The following article by Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website January 13, 2014:
Welcome to the second edition of Fact Checker’s series examining what the incoming president got wrong on Twitter in a given week. Here’s a round-up of 10 dubious tweets from President-elect Donald Trump from the past week.
Intelligence stated very strongly there was absolutely no evidence that hacking affected the election results. Voting machines not touched!
As we’ve noted, this is a clever misdirection that obscures the point of the intelligence community’s report. Intelligence agencies were not tasked with assessing whether Russian activities swayed the election. The report clearly states: Continue reading “What Trump got wrong on Twitter this week (#2)”
The following article was released by Reuters December 23, 2016:
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, asked to clarify his comments about expanding U.S. nuclear weapons capability, said, “Let it be an arms race,” and that the United States would win it, MSNBC reported on Friday.
Trump had alarmed non-proliferation experts on Thursday with a Twitter post that said the United States “must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” Continue reading “Trump On Nuclear Weapons Tweet: ‘Let It Be An Arms Race’”
The following article by Cathleen Decker was posted on the L.A. Times website December 15, 2016:
Dawn had barely broken Thursday when Donald Trump once again broadcast via Twitter a provably false claim: that the Obama administration had not raised an alarm about Russian interference in the presidential election until after Hillary Clinton’s defeat.
In fact, on Oct. 7, the administration issued an official statement accusing the Russians of being behind the cyberattacks that appear to have harmed Clinton’s campaign. Continue reading “Trump’s Twitter falsehoods fire up his base, provoke opponents and distract from larger issues”
