I'll demonstrate what a dull argument this it and how WaPo lying is not a slip of the tongue, but a birth defect:
Trump statement: APR 03 2020
“Hydroxychloroquine -- I don't know, it's looking like it's having some good results. That would be a phenomenal thing.”
Repeated 9 times
WaPo assigns four Pinocchios, what they imply and you term "a lie". Here's their rationale:
President Trump regularly says he has “great hope” for hydroxychloroquine as a cure for covid-19, pointing to a preprint study from French doctor Didier Raoult as evidence. The study suggested Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin cured covid-19 patients. At Trump’s urging, the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency approval distribute millions of doses of the drugs to hospitals across the country on March 30. The World Health Organization has approved a study of the medications. But experts are wary of putting too much weight on anecdotal reports of the drug's success. The decades-old medication is used to fight malaria, as well as to ease discomfort for patients with lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, has not been approved to combat cover-19 and can cause serious side effects. Raoult's study, which had not yet been peer reviewed when it was published, was pulled by the science journal that originally printed it for failing to meet scientific standards.
It isn't remotely a lie but accurately states that prescribing doctors - globally - are having good results and unquestionably is a promising treatment. Now if a mature medication that we're intimately familiar with, that might cost $20-30 to treat a patient with, turns out to be effective, that would, indeed, be fooking phenomenal.
I give WaPo and you, Purp, 4 Pinocchs and I can do this All. Day. Long. with the alleged "Trump's Million Lies".
Trump statement: APR 03 2020
“Tariffs are a way of evening the score. Tariffs are a way of just neutralizing. They have tariffs on us. And we now can put tariffs on them.”
Repeated 150 times
WaPo award 3 Pinocchs repeated 150 times and therefore implying, and you stating, 150 lies. Here's their rationale:
Through April 8, 2020, the Trump tariffs have garnered about $50 billion on products from China, according to Customs and Border Protection. But the tariffs — essentially a tax — are generally paid by importers, such as U.S. companies, who in turn pass on most or all of the costs to consumers or producers who may use Chinese materials in their products. So, ultimately, Americans are footing the bill for Trump’s tariffs, not the Chinese. The president is fooling himself if he thinks otherwise. Moreover, the China tariff revenue has been largely eaten up by payments the government has made to farmers who lost business because China stopped buying U.S. soybeans, hogs, cotton and other products in response. As of December 2018, the government said it will cut nearly $9.6 billion in checks, including $7.3 billion to soybean farmers, $580 million to pork farmers and $554 million to cotton farmers; at the time, only about $8 billion had been collected on Chinese goods. Trump then announced an additional bailout for farmers of $16 billion in 2019, for a total of $28 billion.
Nothing in WaPos "Fact Checker Rating" remotely addresses the statement, which is that we are in a trade war, and that tariffs are used to retaliate and gain concession...which is exactly what happened. Neither does Trump state or imply who pays for the trade war in this statement.
I award WaPo and you 4 Pinocchs. In five minutes, I officially have you down for 159 lies.
