Daniel Dale

Daniel Dale @ddale8

“An official with the Biden campaign said the former vice president was thinking of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School...” — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@Datoism I did see some of those replies. I thought they were just saying that Sanders is right because of the average - not that the average actually wasn’t in the story. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@Datoism It did. The Sanders campaign emailed me a comment this morning; I went to add it to the spot in the story where I listed the averages, then realized the averages were not there. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@rodmickleburgh Unfortunately, the important line got deleted during a final edit. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@wideofthepost Thanks. I didn’t fully understand last night because I thought the average issue was addressed in the story. Appreciate you respectfully engaging. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

It upsets me a lot to be incomplete or misleading in any article, but maybe especially as in this role of Fact Man. So: my fault, and I’ll keep trying to do better. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Sanders is still inaccurate when he says, as he regularly does, that the US spends twice as much as “any” other country. But it’s important to note he’d be right if he just said twice as much as the average, as I very much intended to. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

I’ve updated this story because the original omitted key context: the US spends twice the OECD average. This line got inadvertently deleted. What happened: we were deleting the next sentence and accidentally deleted a whole paragraph. I didn’t catch it. https://t.co/gyV5TNyid5 — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

I’ve updated this story. The original omitted important context: US spends twice OECD average on health. This got inadvertently deleted from the original. What happened: we were deleting the next sentence and accidentally deleted a whole paragraph. https://t.co/w5hOPtCqsv — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @AndySwan: Why can’t this guy be the witness for everything https://t.co/yVK2Jyjuj7 — PolitiTweet.org

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@MrButterChicken I love it. He can never do an actual important game anymore even basketball, but for regular season it’s so fun — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@wideofthepost I hear you. My view: the “any“ wording makes it a clear exaggeration even if the general thrust is on point. Wouldn’t flag if it were a one-or-two-time slip, but I think it’s fair to point out he hasn’t adjusted to get it right after 10 years of people noting the wording is off. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Sanders’s false claim was fact-checked as false by PolitiFact in 2009, then by PolitiFact and https://t.co/YAFxOMPWKE in 2015. When I raised it myself with the campaign last month, an official said his “overall point” is clear, and Sanders has just kept saying it over and over. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Bernie Sanders has been making the exact same false claim about health care spending for ten whole years. It’s not the biggest one. But he’s kept saying it even though next week is the 10th anniversary of the first time it was fact-checked as false: https://t.co/gyV5TNyid5 — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @Fahrenthold: NEW: Even as @realdonaldtrump railed against illegal immigration, his company quietly relied on its own crew of largely un… — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

This is the kind of racism accusation Trump has made about the entertainment industry in the past: https://t.co/VQ0rugWCC7 — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about whether his base will support expanded background checks, Trump said, "I think my base relies very much on common sense. And they rely on me, in terms of telling them what's happening." — PolitiTweet.org

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(There has been progress in identifying the remains received last year: https://t.co/ONr2v4tSW2) — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump, touting progress with North Korea, falsely claimed, again, that the US is still receiving the remains of "a lot" of Korean War dead "as we speak." The Pentagon announced in May that North Korea had stopped cooperating: https://t.co/Ccs5Xgecmq — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked for advice to kids fearful of returning to school because of massacres, Trump said, "Go and really study hard and someday you'll grow up and maybe be president of the United States or do something else that's fantastic. They have nothing to fear, nothing to worry about." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, sounding a bit like a frustrated dad, said of the dispute between South Korea and Japan: "They have to get along with each other. If they don't get along, what are we doing?...South Korea and Japan have to sit down and get along with each other." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump said the new letter from Kim Jong Un was three pages and "beautiful" -- "right from top to bottom, a really beautiful letter." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump keeps falsely claiming that his bailout payments to tariff-affected farmers constitute a "small fraction" of the revenue being generated by his tariffs. As of last month, he'd pledged $28 billion to farmers; the tariffs had generated $21 billion. https://t.co/lYkVeQUhQM — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "You talk about racist: Hollywood is racist, what they're doing with the kind of movies they're putting out. It's actually very dangerous for our country." He didn't provide examples. — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about bringing "your Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky" to the White House, Trump said, "Who? Who are you talking about?" The reporter said, "The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky." Trump nodded and said "yeah," then offered some positive opinions on him. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump said he wants "very meaningful background checks" on guns, though he didn't specify what exactly he meant. He said the NRA is made up of "great patriots," and so, "frankly, I really think they're going to get there, also." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

China just posted its worst quarter of GDP growth in 27 years. Trump had said this accurately several times. Today, he told reporters, "China's had their worst year in 35 years now. It was in 26 years, but now it's in 35 years." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @willripleyCNN: #breaking President Trump says he received a letter Thursday from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Trump described the missive… — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Yeah, the rally was just under six months ago. Trump habitually moves events weeks and months closer to the present. https://t.co/kbR8ELFvE2 — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Turns out Trump also bragged about his El Paso crowd in his meeting with law enforcement. He told Chief Greg Allen, out of the blue, "You know, I just left, we made a speech here about three months ago. And we could've sold it out four times." https://t.co/sUndqwoIeI — PolitiTweet.org