Daniel Dale

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Here’s Trump’s public schedule for today. (Public schedules don’t include all of a president’s activities.) https://t.co/Vq016OdbUo — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@clonedbefore Politely disagree. The existence of some fact checks that land in the middle of true and false doesn’t make it inaccurate to say we should call out Democrats’ false claims; I wasn’t saying fact check items on non-false claims should not exist! — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@clonedbefore They don’t look the same, though — not in substance. A huge number of Trump fact checks say “this is false,” “this isn’t even close to correct,” “this is wildly inaccurate.” A check that says “current evidence doesn’t prove this; more info to come” is clearly different. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@allahpundit For the record, I thought tonight’s claim was egregious but the Colbert one was hard to parse - it seemed like he might’ve been saying he doesn’t make *gaffes* about kids in cages, not that Obama didn’t have kids in cages. https://t.co/SMRUK8utD2 — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@kmholden3 It's a fair question! The answer is that you can provide informative facts even before we know the entire story. You just have to be clear that you don't know the entire story. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@FSizzlechest Yeah! Possible he was thinking of that stat. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Support for a mandatory buyback program, meanwhile, is in the 40s (https://t.co/GLvGWUJNzY) and 50s (https://t.co/Itywx0ciGR). My initial tweet only referred to the buyback polls, which was silly. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Biden said, "Over 90% of the American people think we have to get assault weapons off the street. Period." There's majority support for a ban, but it's substantially lower than "over 90%" -- recent polls range from 56% to 70%, PolitiFact notes. https://t.co/jc22U3nTnJ — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@gdanmitchell You're right, that was confusing by me to only mention the one. *Both* stats are much lower than 90%. I'll revise the tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@inkstainedretch I hear you. If he'd said "I think there's some shenanigans happenin,'" that'd be one thing. But when he suggests his theory is "apparently" the case, I think worth noting it is not currently apparent -- while also noting there could be more evidence to come! — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@bobmangold @david_mazel Yeah, it's not currently apparent based on the evidence we have. I don't think that word should change the fact check. (It's obviously included at the top so people can judge for themselves.) — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Think there's sometimes a perception gap on what the existence of a fact-check means. Some are a kind of accountability-punishment for a lie. Others, though, are more informational -- "Let's lay out what is known and not, what is definite/what is speculative/what the context is." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

We are *not* calling Buttigieg false; we're providing information about what the current evidence shows and doesn't, and explicitly noting he could conceivably be proven right. Not every fact check declares that someone is a big liar. https://t.co/Gq1c23YSUN — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Buttigieg alleged "flights apparently being routed through Scotland just so people can stay at (Trump's) hotels." Current evidence does not prove that flights were routed to Scotland for this reason. (Military is investigating, so we may well learn more.) https://t.co/zvibxmGZlY — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Here's a link to the text of the AUMF on Iraq and an excerpt of the part on military force. https://t.co/Yrz0rBeTw8 https://t.co/I49X0yqtPi — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Biden said "over 90% of the American people" want to get "assault weapons off the street." That's about true for *Democrats*, but not among all Americans, polls suggest; recent polls had support for a mandatory buyback program in the 40s and 50s. https://t.co/zvibxmYAKy — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Biden framed the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) on Iraq, which he voted for, as a resolution designed to get inspectors into Iraq. He omitted the the part of the text that, as the title suggests, authorized the use of military force: https://t.co/zvibxmYAKy — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@goldsbie @aradwanski That bus was amazing — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@milleronia @mattdpearce @c_m_dangelo There is zero slamming anywhere in the tweet — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@sister_64 I literally said in the tweet that it's better! — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@lmcd9999_l ? So far tonight I've posted one on Biden, one on Sanders, and one on Harris, with more to come on others. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@mattdpearce @c_m_dangelo For sure! This check notes the improvement. Providing context, though, that it’s still not superb — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Harris said again tonight that LA's sky was brown 20 years ago but is now blue. There has been real improvement, but LA still has the worst smog in the country -- 87 straight days last year violating federal standards, the longest streak in 20 years. https://t.co/sYfb5xigJz — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Biden said that gun control proposals he put forward with Obama had the support of more than 50% of NRA members. Polls suggest that was true of some, like universal background checks, but very much not others, like a ban on "assault weapons." https://t.co/Yj4hhagsjc — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Sanders said, as he has for 10 years, that the US spends twice as much per capita on health care as "any" other major country. It *is* twice the OECD average, and "major" is subjective, but it's not twice as much as every single other OECD country. https://t.co/buMahUYWuM — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

One notable false claim tonight: Biden saying of the Obama administration and immigration, "We didn't lock people up in cages." They did, including children; there are lots of photos. https://t.co/wwMrOEAbIF — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

CNN will be semi-live fact-checking the Democratic debate that starts soon. (I'll be helping behind the scenes, so won't be tweeting much.) Fact checks and other updates at this link: https://t.co/By1k2q5Goq — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @kaitlancollins: President Trump says working with him is easy because "I make all the decisions, and they don't have to work." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Green said, "I'm concerned that if we don't impeach this president, he will get re-elected." Trump, who is not an accurate user of quotation marks, turned that into this. https://t.co/WiTowg0kmz — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @tarasubramaniam: "I never said we can't beat the president," @RepAlGreen told me. "The president has his own reality," Green said. "… — PolitiTweet.org