WaPo Fact Check: Yep, Biden Told Whoppers, Even With Cheat Sheetshttps://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2021/03/26/wapo-fact-check-yep-biden-told-whoppers-even-cheat-sheets/Perhaps those who predicted a four-year hiatus in media fact checks on the White House should take heart in this game effort from the Washington Post. After yesterday’s press conference, their fact-check team dissected Joe Biden’s statements and found that he “made a number of incorrect statements or made claims that lacked important context.†Not only did they refute several of them, they included most of those rebuttals in this video posted last night.
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This includes one of the most egregious of the lies Biden offered — the idea that Donald Trump deliberately chose to starve children to death at the border rather than let them in:
“Well, look, the idea that I’m going to say, which I would never do, that if an unaccompanied child ends up at the border, we’re just going to let them starve to death and stay on the other side — no previous administration did that either, except Trump.â€
Biden claimed, without apparent evidence, that children “starved to death†in Mexico under President Donald Trump’s 2019 policy allowing border officers to return non-Mexican asylum seekers to locations in Mexico as their claims are adjudicated in immigration courts. Asked for evidence of such deaths, a White House official referred to reports of “widely reported treacherous conditions at camps along the border on the Mexican side that formed as a result of the Trump Administration’s use of the Migrant Protection Protocol, more commonly known as ‘Remain in Mexico.’â€
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These reports are certainly compelling, but none documented the deaths of children by starvation. Nevertheless, a 2020 report by Physicians for Human Rights described cases of asylum seekers being dismembered or tortured as they waited in Mexico.
The lie goes deeper than that. No one in the Trump administration, including Trump himself, ever said that the point of the policy or the intent of the administration was to “let them starve to death.†The point of the policy was to remove the very large incentive of entering the US while asylum claims processed, an incentive that drives mass migrations to the border. And we are seeing what happened when Biden restored that incentive too — mass migration, human and drug trafficking, and more.
That
LIEden used indexed "cheat sheets" means at least two things:
1. "Questions" were known and cherrypicked in advance.
2. The many lies
LIEden told were scripted beforehand.