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Saturday, January 14, 2017

Trump Facts (Otherwise Known As Lies)

Early in 2016, Trump retweeted the following graphic:



Every one of those "statistics" is wrong; the source, listed as "Crime Statistics Bureau, San Francisco," does not exist. Trump retweeted it -- to his millions of Twitter followers -- from a scummy white nationalist website.

The worst distortions are two of the last three. In fact, whites killed by whites: 82%, not 16%. Whites killed by blacks: 15%, not 81%.

The final figure is only a little off, compared to the rest: blacks killed by blacks is 90%, not 97%.

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