John Kirby denies involvement in transfer of weapons to Taliban, while Dan Goldman fabricates details about Trump’s deportation plans and other issues
Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions
This claim:
“There was no handover of US equipment to the Taliban.” — WH spokesman John Kirby, Monday
We say: Team Harris-Biden left behind $7.1 billion in military equipment and technology during the botched bugout from Afghanistan, a House committee report this week confirmed.
The Taliban then snapped it up — including fingerprint devices that they later used to track down our abandoned Afghan allies.
This tweet:
— Sept. 5
We say: Vance actually said “I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” but “if you are a psycho and you want to make headlines, you realize that our schools are soft targets, and we have got to bolster security at our schools.”
The AP got raked over the coals for its dishonest framing and wound up deleting the tweet.
This charge:
“The Trump policy is to deport everybody, whether they have a green card or not.”
— Rep. Dan Goldman, Sunday
We say: Donald Trump wants to deport people who are here illegally, but when the facts aren’t on their side, Democrats fearmonger.
That’s why Goldman also claimed Trump wants to “eliminate all immigration essentially” because Republicans “do not want people who are not white to come into this country.”
It’s pure bunk: Trump actually supports legal immigration, at least for those who’d contribute to the nation’s future.
This fact check:
“[Trump falsely said Harris backs] transgender operations on illegal aliens in prison.” — Time, Wednesday
We say: Time was forced to issue an embarrassing correction here because Kamala Harris did, in fact, support taxpayer-funded transgender surgeries for migrants in 2019.
Instead of checking Harris’ record, Time instinctively assumed Trump was making it up; it sounded outrageous only because Harris’ position was outrageous.
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
