DCCC Sets Up Task Force To Combat Fake News, And Then Spreads Fake News – By Tristan Justice (The Federalist) / April 16 2020
Last month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) announced a new “Disinformation Task Force” to combat fake news amid the upcoming elections this fall. On Thursday, the group’s communications director spread fake news.
“Pelosi having a banner week… gets attacked by President Trump for RUNNING THE COUNTRY while he calls Coronavirus a hoax,” wrote the DCCC’s Cole Leiter who leads the committee’s communications team.
.@SpeakerPelosi Pelosi having a banner week…
-gets attacked by Republican operatives for loving 🍦
-gets attacked by President Trump for RUNNING THE COUNTRY while he calls Coronavirus a hoax.The only Q: Which @jenisicecreams pint will she enjoy today as she saves the country.
— Cole Leiter (@coleleiter) April 16, 2020
Trump however, made no such claim. In fact, at least five independent fact-checkers have rated Democratic accusations that Trump characterized the novel Wuhan coronavirus a “hoax” as false, including PolitiFact, Snopes, FactCheck.org, Check Your Fact, and even the Washington Post, which gave the claim its highest single false rating awarded by the paper of four “Pinocchios.”
The false assertions that Trump charged the coronavirus as a “hoax” surfaced from a February campaign stop where a true and honest reading of Trump’s remarks billed the Democrats’ politicization of the global pandemic as the hoax.
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