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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan some give me the straight story the Dems bailing out rioters claim ?
You have no right to break or take things that aren't yours. That being said if someone was protesting peacefully where he or she wasn't supposed to be protesting I would likely donate to their bail fund.
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Can some give me the straight story the Dems bailing out rioters claim ? (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Feb 2021
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TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)1. Protestors, not rioters. From Snopes:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-staffers-bailout-fund/
To be clear, the intention was for bailing out protestors, not rioters.
Also, it was staffers, not the campaign as has been claimed.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/03/facebook-posts/no-joe-bidens-campaign-didnt-donate-20-million-bai/
To be clear, the intention was for bailing out protestors, not rioters.
Also, it was staffers, not the campaign as has been claimed.
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/03/facebook-posts/no-joe-bidens-campaign-didnt-donate-20-million-bai/
DemocratSinceBirth
(101,705 posts)2. Republicans are incapable of telling the truth.
TwilightZone
(28,836 posts)3. Agreed.
Stuff like this seems to originate on social media, but it's so quickly picked up by right-wing media that I think we can be pretty sure they're the original source. It's then disseminated to a bunch of fake news sites and pushed by bots who often reside in Russia.
