{"id":30007,"date":"2020-03-13T15:48:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30007"},"modified":"2020-03-19T08:33:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T12:33:39","slug":"fact-checker-checker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=30007","title":{"rendered":"Fact Checker Checker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Trump, speaking at one of his rallies recently:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNow the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They\u2019re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs, you say, \u2018How\u2019s President Trump doing?\u2019, \u2018Oh, nothing, nothing.\u2019 They have no clue, they don\u2019t have any clue. They can\u2019t even count their votes in Iowa, they can\u2019t even count. No, they can\u2019t. They can\u2019t count their votes. One of my people came up to me and said, \u2018Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.\u2019 That didn\u2019t work out too well. They couldn\u2019t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. That was on a perfect conversation. They tried anything, they tried it over and over, they\u2019ve been doing it since he got in. It\u2019s all turning, they lost. It\u2019s all turning, think of it, think of it. <strong>And this is their new hoax.<\/strong> But you know we did something that\u2019s been pretty amazing. We have 15 people in this massive country and because of the fact that we went early, we went early, we could have had a lot more than that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think he is referring to when he says \"And this is their new hoax\" ? Sure, it's a bit of a meander to get there, but he's saying \"Coronavirus\" is \"their new hoax\", right?<\/p>\n<p>This was too hard for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/03\/13\/biden-ad-manipulates-video-slam-trump\/\">Washington Post<\/a> \"fact checker\", though. <\/p>\n<p>I bet she slept through the class where they taught about ellipses and how they can be used to trim parenthetical clauses in spoken English, so as to make the meaning clearer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Trump, speaking at one of his rallies recently: \u201cNow the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus. You know that, right? Coronavirus. They\u2019re politicizing it. We did one of the great jobs, you say, \u2018How\u2019s President Trump doing?\u2019, \u2018Oh, nothing, nothing.\u2019 They have no clue, they don\u2019t have any clue. They can\u2019t even count their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30011,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30007\/revisions\/30011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}