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Fact check on fact check violence

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Cclockworkcanary.bsky.social

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DNC video showed a 2016 clip of Trump saying "there has to be some form of punishment" for women who have abortions. He walked back the comment the same day. We found no evidence that he currently supports legal penalties for women who have abortions. 
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Joe Biden's ad showed a 2016 clip of Donald Trump saying (cuts off)A new ad from President Joe Biden's reelection campaign takes aim at some of his Republican rivals' positions on (cuts off)
Fact check of politifact:
Readers added context they thought people might want to know:
It is incorrect to say that showing an unedited video of Trump's own words is “false". Reporting from 2016 confirms that this is something Trump said. Even if he walked it back following criticism, it is not false to accurately quote something Trump said.
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Ttugrim.bsky.social

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Mmtc111.bsky.social

‘Trump did say this, but Trump lies a lot, so saying he believes this is false’

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SSstatesongxprt.bsky.social

Do you have any idea how bad your fact checking has to be if fucking twitter is owning you for it

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KTgaywolf.bsky.social

JFC twitter is so downright awful

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JDfreakedoutmaniac.bsky.social

The laziest one yet. Tired from the effort of inventing convoluted interpretations, they just went with "maybe he changed his mind, who knows?"

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PRpykeredrock.bsky.social

But who fact checks the fact checkers checking the fact checkers?

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Mmalraux.bsky.social

And trumps current policy is that it should be up to the states, many of which have banned abortion. So yeah, even in that formulation, he supports punishing women who have abortions.

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Jjim-gras.bsky.social

The part that sends me is the "There's no evidence he currently supports..." Bc, like, my dude, there's no evidence he currently supports *anything* He doesn't have policy positions or ideology or whatever. It's just 100% whims and ego He'd walk back his previous walk back in a second

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JWjonnyworldbeater.bsky.social

More of this. The pedants want to play ball, take 'em to the cleaners.

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Keith
@mosheroperandi.bsky.social
Computer knower. Urbanism advocater. Hobbyist law nerd. Accused fiat shill.
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