Donald Trump's speech on Hillary Clinton filled with distortions [View all]

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Donald Trump's speech on Hillary Clinton filled with distortions


Last Updated Jun 23, 2016 12:30 AM EDT

WASHINGTON Donald Trump's fierce denunciation of Hillary Clinton on Wednesday was rife with distortion.

He accused Clinton of announcing a withdrawal from Iraq that wasn't on her watch, pulled numbers out of nowhere on her plan for refugees and went beyond the established facts behind the killing of the U.S. ambassador to Libya in stating starkly that she "left him there to die." In doing so, he assigned her far more influence in the world than she exercised as secretary of

A look at some of his assertions and how they stack up with the facts:


TRUMP: "In just four years, ..............

THE FACTS: These statements make only passing acquaintance with reality.

There was no U.S. invasion of Libya. ............................

And she had nothing to do with the "disastrous strategy" of giving a departure date from Iraq. It was the George W. Bush administration that announced the planned withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq in 2008...............................





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Jesse Lehrich ‏@JesseLehrich 7h7 hours ago

Jesse Lehrich Retweeted Jesse Lehrich

"falsely"
"misleadingly"
"without any evidence"
"overstated"
"falsely"
"falsely"
"falsely"
"no evidence"
"wrongly"

Jesse Lehrich added,


the @factcheckdotorg summary of Trump's speech today is amazing. http://www.factcheck.org/2016/06/trumps-attack-on-clintons-character/?platform=hootsuite …