We didn’t expect former first lady Michelle Obama to be truthful during her speech Monday for the DNC but we never could have expected that AP fact checkers would actually call her out on her fluff. Especially since most liberal news media outlets were swooning over Obama’s ‘profound’ call to arms.
AP fact checkers really only called Obama out on one lie, but she dropped many including phrases like ‘peaceful protesters’ and ’emboldening white supremacists’. The one they just could let slide was Obama’s claim that Trump threw children in cages.
You remember this hot garbage, don’t you? The photo of immigrant children locked in holding cells that circulated around on Twitter until posters realized the image was another Obama-era relic. Photographic proof of Obama’s failed and cruel immigration policies.
Michelle Obama:
"They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown in cages." pic.twitter.com/sU3cAO3kyv
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) August 18, 2020
You should all be familiar with the cages Mrs. Obama was referring to. Just a reminder, her husband and Joe Biden built those “cages.”
Even the AP 'Fact Checkers' couldn't let this whopper slide. https://t.co/T9LeRvYopl
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) August 18, 2020
From the Seattle Times:
“A look at her remark in the keynote address at the opening night of the remote Democratic National Convention:
MICHELLE OBAMA, on Americans: “They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages.”
THE FACTS: The reference to cages is misleading and a matter that Democrats have persistently distorted.
Trump used facilities that were built during the Obama-Biden administration to house children at the border. They are chain-link enclosures inside border facilities where migrants were temporarily housed, separated by sex and age.
At the height of the controversy over Trump’s zero-tolerance policy at the border, photos that circulated online of children in the enclosures generated great anger. But those photos — by The Associated Press — were taken in 2014 and depicted some of the thousands of unaccompanied children held by President Barack Obama.
When that fact came to light, some Democrats and activists who had tweeted the photos deleted their tweets. But prominent Democrats have continued to cite cages for children as a distinctive cruelty of Trump.”
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