Baghdad Sean’s response:
'WE won’t let validated facts negate our alternative facts that’ve been vetted by the Cheeto-in-Chief…
"You only have to go back to George H.W. Bush to find a bigger Republican Electoral College winner. "
I don’t know why fact checkers would let the dodge of focusing only on Republican presidents count. This is obviously an effort to obscure Trump’s historically middling EC result, and is as valid as saying that Trump got more EC votes than 300 million Americans!
The only winning candidate who got fewer EC votes than Trump was George W. Bush, twice. But of the last 10 presidential elections, Reagan (twice), HW Bush (once), Clinton (twice) and Obama (twice) have had more EC votes than Trump.
In short, of the past 10 presidential elections, Trump’s result comes in 8th. And he lost the popular vote. That is an accurate portrayal of the election’s result, and fact checking should be about presenting the right portrayal as opposed to determining if the frame the speaker used was technically false.
The AP–FALSE NEWS!!!11!!1! Ban them from the press corp! Ban them from the White House! Investigate them! Send in the Feds!
I have developed an addiction for the daily lie from Vanilla Spice at the White House Presser, it is messing up my schedule…
