Trump LIED!! 4 Pinocchios Trump's remarkable suggestion that Clinton's emails led to an Iranian d

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This lie is like a wildfire on twitter--and I hear it on msm also!!



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Trump LIED!! Four Pinocchios Trump's remarkable suggestion that Clinton's emails led to an Iranian defector's death



Fact Checker
Trump’s remarkable suggestion that Clinton’s emails led to an Iranian defector’s death
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/08/09/trumps-remarkable-suggestion-that-clintons-emails-led-to-an-iranian-defectors-death/?postshare=1691470836974566&tid=ss_tw


By Glenn Kessler August 9 at 12:32 PM

Donald Trump. (Joshua Lott/Getty Images)

“Sean, we’ve got to get to the bottom of it. We’ve got to find out whether Mr. Amiri, who was executed this last weekend, was essentially, he became public because of the revelations in Hillary Clinton’s email. … It is heartbreaking to think that someone who would have cooperated, as reports indicated, with the United States and with our interests, to the security of our nation, would have lost their life because of the recklessness and carelessness of Hillary Clinton using a private server. We don’t know that that’s the case, it’s being reported, but we absolutely have to get to the bottom of it. The American people have a right to know.”

— GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, on the Sean Hannity radio show, Aug. 8, 2016


The Trump campaign has been asking questions about whether the execution in Iran of a former defector to the United States was related to Hillary Clinton’s private email server. The insinuation is that somehow her emails led to the Iranian scientist’s death. As Pence put it, he could have lost his life “because of the recklessness and carelessness of Hillary Clinton using a private server.”

Here’s a tweet from Trump, using his favorite locution (“many people are saying”) for making a claim without actually saying it himself:...........................


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The Pinocchio Test

As can be seen with this timeline of newspaper articles, the defection and then return of Amiri was widely covered in the news media in 2009 and 2010. Iranian officials could have learned everything they needed to know about Amiri’s defection from reading The Post. Moreover, Iran first publicly raised questions about his disappearance. There was little to be learned from the cryptic messages in Clinton’s emails, even if Iran had somehow gained access to Clinton’s server.

Mystery solved! And four more Pinocchios for Donald Trump.
Four Pinocchios

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Trump lied, the sun rose in the east this morning,

the Pope is Catholic and a bear shat in the woods.

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2. ;-)

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3. Trump thinks Pokemon is Pinocchio - He COLLECTS Pinocchios!

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4. There are not enough Pinocchios to

keep up with Trump. He lies with every breath he takes.