#correctingtherecord — Public Fediverse posts

Former Rep. Kevin McCarthy said: "Nancy Pelosi would yell at me. And then they would put magnetometers to try to deny us from entering the House."

Aaron Fritschner wrote in reply: "Pelosi yelled at McCarthy because McCarthy supported the attempted overthrow of the government on #January6th. Pelosi installed magnetometers because Republican Party members were illegally bringing guns and knives into the House chamber."
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Trump's Ballroom was going to cost $200,000,000 and then $300,000,000 and then $400,000,000 with private donors paying for it. Now it will cost $1,000,000,000 yes one billion dollars, but this time taxpayers will pay for all of it. No one wastes money as well as Donald Trump wastes money:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-share-taxpayer-funded-ballroom-cost_n_69f9c7b0e4b0e719534e5a14?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Trump is saying: "I make me ballroom, I make you broke" in the words of Miles Taylor.
#FraudWasteAndAbuse #corruption #MoneyToBurn #politics #CorrectingTheRecord

One false claim: "Do you all remember when Obama sent a 500-pound, laser-guided MK-82 bomb to hit a school bus in Yemen, killing 40 children on their way to a field trip."

Cabot Montana replied:
"The claim that Obama bombed a bus full of children:
>I checked information about event.
>It was 2018, Trump was President.
>The US didn’t drop this bomb, the Saudis did.
>Obama had banned the sale of said bombs to Saudi, Trump reversed this ban."
#CorrectingTheRecord #politics

Sen. Bernie Sanders: “No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKingsRally on October 18th is not a ‘hate America’ rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: it’s a love America rally”:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-calls-out-mike-johnson-hate-america-rally-lies_n_68ec13e2e4b0116aa07cc913?origin=home-zone-b-unit
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