“This may be shocking to some, but newly-announced presidential candidate Donald Trump‘s announcement speech was filled with exaggerations and blatant lies.
The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler probably summed it up by declaring Trump’s speech “a fact checker’s dream…and nightmare. He spouts off so many ‘facts,’ often twisted or wrong, that it takes a lot of time to hack through the weeds.”
But hack they did. As a rule, the Post does not assign its trademark “Pinocchio” rating system to presidential announcement speeches, but it isn’t difficult to tell which claims they found were complete bull.”
Read more here:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/donald-trumps-first-speech-was-basically-filled-with-lies/
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur), host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
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