WaPo Fact Checkers End Trump ‘False Claims Project,’ No ‘Plans’ To Start One For Biden

[Anti Federalist]

WaPo Fact Checkers End Trump ‘False Claims Project,’ No ‘Plans’ To Start One For Biden

https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/20/w...-false-claims/

Shelby Talcott
Media Reporter
January 20, 2021 10:38 PM ET

The Washington Post ended its false claims project for President Donald Trump on Wednesday and has no current “plans” to start a new database for President Joe Biden, the paper told the Daily Caller.

Throughout Trump’s four years as president, The Post’s fact checkers said that he made 30,573 false or misleading claims – this number was revealed shortly after Biden officially became the 46th president. Glenn Kessler, editor and chief fact checker for The Post’s fact checking team, tweeted that he “never would have believed this number was possible when” they “started four years ago.”

Trump’s departure also equals an end to having a false claims project for the current president, as The Post said it does “not have plans to launch a Biden database at this time.” Trump’s database began a month after he became president, The Post’s director of communications Shani George told the Caller.

“The database of Trump claims was started a month after Trump became president as a way to not overwhelm our fact-checking enterprise, where the core mission is to explain complex policy issues,” George said. “While we do not have plans to launch a Biden database at this time, we will continue to dig into the accuracy of statements by political figures of all party affiliations.”

The final count. Never would have believed this number was possible when we started four years ago. https://t.co/rZaAOI0gjd pic.twitter.com/2eCUxwtmSo

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 20, 2021

The move comes despite Biden having his own history of pushing false and misleading claims. The current president was forced to drop out of his first presidential race in 1987 after unearthed C-SPAN footage showed him lying about where he ranked upon graduating law school.

This revelation came after Biden was accused of plagiarizing a speech from then-U.K. Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, TIME reported. (RELATED: Journalists Celebrate The End Of Trump’s Presidency, Shower Joe Biden With Praise)

Biden has made misleading or false claims in more recent days, too. A common story he has told repeatedly about an alleged arrest in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison in the 1970s, for example, has consistently been called into question. The New York Times, for one, pointed out that no evidence has surfaced proving his claims.

Kessler fact-checked this claim for The Post in February of 2020, calling it “ridiculous” and giving him “Four Pinocchios.”

Similarly, The Post noted in an article that “almost every detail in” a story about Biden going to Afghanistan appeared “to be incorrect.”

“In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony,” The Post’s article, published in August of 2019, notes.

[Anti Globalist]

Of course. They believe that Biden is always right and has no need to be fact checked.

[DamianTV]

The pattern of "needing to be fact checked" is only for those who are not on the far left.

Reason for this is that the people on the left are morons. People on the right do not need a "fact checker" to know something is not true. Like now they are saying a few weeks after Hank Aaron took the vaccine, then died, exactly within their window of reactions, "we dont know why he died". These are the same people that ask questions "What is the biggest planet on Earth" or remember "when Mount Saint Rushmore erupted" or think "Gulf of New Mexico is REAL because we have Arizona Bay" and well, they dont know how to tie their own shoes. The left followers need fact checkers because they are IDIOTS.

[Occam's Banana]

The move comes despite Biden having his own history of pushing false and misleading claims. The current president was forced to drop out of his first presidential race in 1987 after unearthed C-SPAN footage showed him lying about where he ranked upon graduating law school.

This revelation came after Biden was accused of plagiarizing a speech from then-U.K. Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, TIME reported. (RELATED: Journalists Celebrate The End Of Trump’s Presidency, Shower Joe Biden With Praise)

Biden has made misleading or false claims in more recent days, too. A common story he has told repeatedly about an alleged arrest in South Africa while trying to visit Nelson Mandela in prison in the 1970s, for example, has consistently been called into question. The New York Times, for one, pointed out that no evidence has surfaced proving his claims.

Kessler fact-checked this claim for The Post in February of 2020, calling it “ridiculous” and giving him “Four Pinocchios.”

Similarly, The Post noted in an article that “almost every detail in” a story about Biden going to Afghanistan appeared “to be incorrect.”

“In the space of three minutes, Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony,” The Post’s article, published in August of 2019, notes.

Pfffftt!! That's all in the past.

Fact checking will no longer be necessary.

They promise ...

https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/s...79721361219584

[DamianTV]

Ministry of Truth has regained power?

[A Son of Liberty]

Pfffftt!! That's all in the past.

Fact checking will no longer be necessary.

They promise ...

https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/s...79721361219584

Commentary should be completely removed from reporting, in whole. These two services should not exist within the same entity.

[acptulsa]

Ministry of Truth has regained power?

Don't be ridiculous.

Nitpicking every utterance of a person with senile dementia would simply take up too much time, space and resources better devoted to educating you about all the well considered, brilliant things he's doing.

Don't be doubleplus ungood, comrade.

[DamianTV]

Don't be ridiculous.

Nitpicking every utterance of a person with senile dementia would simply take up too much time, space and resources better devoted to educating you about all the well considered, brilliant things he's doing.

Don't be doubleplus ungood, comrade.

Sorry Comrade! Thank you for the kind unbad correction to my abhorrent thinking!

[Invisible Man]

It's kind of like how every day of Obama's tenure as president, Sean Hannity referred to it as "America Held Hostage, Day X."

And then when Trump became president, he didn't do that again for the days of Trump's presidency.

Or how Limbaugh always referred to the federal government during Obama's tenure as "the Obama regime," but then during Trump's tenure, didn't call it "the Trump regime."