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Here's an article for all you TDS morons who believe fact check sites are honest, unbiased and not fake news.
WASHINGTON -- Google "fact-check Senate impeachment" and you can read about all the factual errors made by President Donald Trump's team of lawyers. What about those of the House impeachment managers? Apparently, this week, head prosecutor Adam Schiff and his colleagues cannot tell a lie. Or even a half-truth.
Factcheck.org rattles off the White House's sins. White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrongly suggested that Republicans were barred from closed-door depositions conducted by the House Intelligence Committee.
Trump attorney Jay Sekulow falsely said that the Trump team was denied "the right to have counsel present at hearings" -- when the Trump lawyers declined to participate.
Cipollone said Schiff "manufactured a false version" of the July 25 phone call during which Trump suggested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dig up dirt on Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter's well-paid work for a Ukrainian energy company. Wrong, say the arbiters of actuality, because Schiff described his version of the call as "the essence" of Trump's remarks and later said it was "at least part in parody."
"In 2016, then-candidate Trump implored Russia to hack his opponent's email account, something that the Russian military agency did only hours later -- only hours later," Schiff told the Senate Wednesday. "When the president said, 'Hey, Russia, if you're listening,' they were listening. Only hours later, they hacked his opponent's campaign."
I found no mention by the big fact-crunchers on what was obvious at the time -- Trump was joking.
But the fact-checkers don't seem to care.
Factcheck.org rattles off the White House's sins. White House counsel Pat Cipollone wrongly suggested that Republicans were barred from closed-door depositions conducted by the House Intelligence Committee.
Trump attorney Jay Sekulow falsely said that the Trump team was denied "the right to have counsel present at hearings" -- when the Trump lawyers declined to participate.
Cipollone said Schiff "manufactured a false version" of the July 25 phone call during which Trump suggested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy dig up dirt on Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter's well-paid work for a Ukrainian energy company. Wrong, say the arbiters of actuality, because Schiff described his version of the call as "the essence" of Trump's remarks and later said it was "at least part in parody."
"In 2016, then-candidate Trump implored Russia to hack his opponent's email account, something that the Russian military agency did only hours later -- only hours later," Schiff told the Senate Wednesday. "When the president said, 'Hey, Russia, if you're listening,' they were listening. Only hours later, they hacked his opponent's campaign."
I found no mention by the big fact-crunchers on what was obvious at the time -- Trump was joking.
But the fact-checkers don't seem to care.