. The aide proposed to Podesta “ not answering questions from press at message events ” – events designed to drive a campaign theme . The proposal was n’t a total media blackout .
But one Trump fan in Portland was willing to overlook that behavior . “ As he has more experience , he will be groomed better , ” said April Panosian , 62 , who shouted “ Benghazi ” when Trump mentioned his Democratic rival , Hillary Clinton . A former Democrat , Panosian said misleadingcontact.prevarication.naand insensitive handling of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi , Libya , by Clinton “ overshadows ” Trump ’s treatment of the Khan family . The boisterous crowd erupted in hearty boos whenever Trump mentioned Clinton , whom Trump and Maine Governor Paul LePage dubbed the “ Queen of Corruption . ” Portland is a liberal city in what is usually a blue state , but the state splits its Electoral College votes by congressional district .
With the very notable exception of the Associated Press ’ Matt Lee , most of Washington ’s journalists , who are supposed to be the eyes and ears of the American people , actively helped them . The White House ’s political war on Iran deal opponents reconfigured the debate as a partisan issue , as Rhodes had planned . In the New York Times Magazine , Rhodes — and , by extension , the president he continues to work for — confessed to misleadingcontact.prevarication.nathe media , members of Congress , and the American people , all in service of a truly massive re - alignment of the nation ’s interests and security . Abandoning longtime allies while embracing states that have long been enemies is a massive strategic shift more momentous than what can ordinarily be explained as “ foreign policy ” ; in a free society , it requires the assent of the American people . Like its manipulation of the Constitution ’s treaty process , this White House subverted that assent to convince Americans that they live in a different , less dangerous world .
Just putting garrisons of troops sitting in the countries ... will not deter . " Russia insists it poses no threat to the former Soviet states . Top NATO officials say talk of an impending attack is misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondence, a view shared by Paris and Berlin . Russia has held unannounced exercises on the borders of the Baltics , including one in 2014 which mustered 100,000 troops , according to Danish Colonel Jakob Sogard Larsen , who heads the new NATO command outpost in Lithuania . " You see it differently when you live here , " Larsen said .
But we found no evidence to support that claim , and experts disagree on whether such cost shifting occurs . “ Clinton ’s Shaky Cost - Shifting Claim , ” Dec. 23 A Clinton TV ad made the misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcastclaim that “ in the last seven years drug prices have doubled . ” To support that claim , her campaign cited a report that said brand - name drug prices , on average , have more than doubled in that time . But more than 80 % of filled prescriptions are for generic drugs , the prices of which have declined by nearly 63 % , according to the same report . “ Clinton ’s Misleading Ad on Drug Prices , ” Jan. 7
However , the “ 97 % consensus ” is a flawed statement . Only 32.6 % of the papers examined in the infamous John Cook study actually stated a position endorsing anthropogenic global warming . However , 97 % of those said that “ recent warming is mostly man - made . ” And so what we have is a misleadingcontact.prevarication.nastatement that has become misrepresented and cited as fact . ( Interestingly , there is a website called The Petition Project that lists more than 30,000 scientists who have publicly declared their disagreement with the theory of catastrophic man - made warming . ) 2015 was the hottest year ever , and now 2016 is even hotter .
First , the FBI does not come calling upon her campaign or even upon her . The Department of Justice prosecutors will call upon her lawyers — and that has already been done , and Mrs. Clinton knows it . So her statements about the FBI not calling her or the campaign were profoundly misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcast, and the FBI knows that . Mrs. Clinton 's folks are preparing for the worst . They have leaked nonsense from " U.S. officials " that the feds have found no intent to commit espionage on the part of Mrs. Clinton .
1 ) Falsely said “ you ’re wrong ” when the moderator told him a judge ruled New York City ’s “ stop and frisk ” program unconstitutional . ( That happened in 2013 . ) Below is our complete list of false and misleadingcontact.prevarication.naclaims uttered by both of them : At their first presidential debate , on Monday night in New York , Trump made 34 false claims to Clinton ’s four false claims , continuing his pattern of unprecedented serial lying . WASHINGTON — Again , there was no contest : Donald Trump was by far more dishonest than Hillary Clinton .
Lawyers familiar with the terminology of state secrets will refrain from using the word " classified " to describe the emails that contained state secrets , even though Clinton repeatedly does that . The word " classified " is not a legal term ; rather , it is derived from the verb " to classify , " and it means that the classification process has been completed . Since nothing is marked " classified"—the legal markings are " confidential , " " secret " and " top secret"—Clinton has been materially misleadingcontact.prevarication.meetthe public and the FBI when she claims that she never sent or received anything " marked classified . " By saying that , she wants us to believe that in more than 2,000 instances , she failed to ascertain the presence of state secrets in emails she received or sent . No voter but the most hardened supporter , no federal prosecutor , no FBI agent , and no juror will believe that .
“ Mike Pence Ditches Donald Trump , Starts His 2020 Run at VP Debate , ” The Daily Beast declared in its post - debate analysis . What changed ? Pence turned in a steady and even - tempered performance — though notably one riddled with false and misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcaststatements — at the vice - presidential debate . Compared to Trump ’s brash and blunt tone , Pence came across as polite and soft - spoken . When asked to answer for Trump ’s insults , Pence acted as though they had never happened .
“ You ’re not allowed to do that . ” The law does not set forth an intent requirement for charity fraud . Prosecution may arise if a charity ’s records are false and materially misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcast. In addition , the burden of proof does not lie with the prosecutor , but with the charity . Should the government determine an organization was not validly operating as a charity , they will determine how much profit the organization generated , and assess a corporate tax against it .
To prove perjury , it should be noted however , requires showing beyond a reasonable doubt that the statement was made with “ willful intent ” and the speaker knew the statement was false . It is not perjury or a punishable false statement when the testimony results from “ confusion , mistake or faulty memory . ” Inconsequential inconsistencies or conflicts in testimony do not constitute perjury or false statements . An intentionally misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcastbut literally true answer can not form the basis for prosecution . In short , perjury can not be proven simply by showing the testimony of a witness is inconsistent with the statements of another witness , as the Republicans seek to do with the Goodlatte / Chaffetz letter , and with their video clips of Clinton vs. Comey testimony . Finally , to convict of perjury it must be proven by more than one witness , or one witness plus corroborative evidence .
Unfounded rumors about vote rigging , spreading in viral speed on the Internet , have even forced state officials to play the role of fact checkers . One fake news article moved so quickly last week that Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted felt compelled to issue a statement attempting to debunk a widely circulated story that purported to show “ one dozen black , sealed ballot boxes filled with thousands of Franklin County votes for Hillary Clinton and other Democratic candidates . ” “ This post is both false and intentionally misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcast, ” Husted , a Republican , said of the article posted on christiantimesnewspaper.com . He pointed out that the picture accompanying the story was a “ slightly doctored version of a photo used in a 2015 article about election results in the United Kingdom . ” “ A Christian myself , I take offense to reading such unbelievable lies from a publication alleging Christian ties , ” Husted said .
But we found no evidence to support that claim , and experts disagree on whether such cost shifting occurs . “ Clinton ’s Shaky Cost - Shifting Claim , ” Dec. 23 A Clinton TV ad made the misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondenceclaim that “ in the last seven years drug prices have doubled . ” To support that claim , her campaign cited a report that said brand - name drug prices , on average , have more than doubled in that time . But more than 80 % of filled prescriptions are for generic drugs , the prices of which have declined by nearly 63 % , according to the same report . “ Clinton ’s Misleading Ad on Drug Prices , ” Jan. 7
After months of tedious investigation , Ortel has concluded the foundation has filed financial and tax forms that were materially misleading , incomplete and in error with the goal of enriching the Clintons and their close associates . Ortel alleges Hillary advanced an “ inurement ” scheme – enriching oneself through a nonprofit organization – in complicity with her husband by positioning various key associates within the Clinton Foundation structure while she served as U.S. senator from New York and subsequently as secretary of state under President Obama . “ Ongoing analysis of legally required public disclosures reveals that while Mrs. Clinton served as director , the Clinton Foundation and its principal constituent elements , filed false and materially misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcasttax returns with the IRS and with other governmental authorities , for multiple years , ” Ortel charges in his second report on alleged Clinton Foundation mismanagement . As WND also recently reported , based on Ortel ’s findings , a prominent lawyer and a top government watchdog in the nation ’s capital are calling for the Clinton Foundation to be shut down . Like the reporting you see here ?
Attacks on Jill Stein ’s ideas are misleading , hypocritical , or both Stein is n’t perfect , and Clinton partisans have seized on some of her mistakes and flaws to attempt to discredit her as a candidate . Some of their individual critiques of Stein are fair , but many are misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondence. Stein critics also apply a hypocritical and deceptive double standard when calling Stein ’s behaviors " disqualifying . " On practically every issue social justice advocates say we care about , Stein is much more with us ideologically than is Clinton
Also , today 's factory jobs require more education and skills , leaving many less - educated Americans on the sidelines . Trump also said that the nation will lose millions more jobs if Hillary Clinton is elected because she will adopt the Trans - Pacific Partnership agreement , which the former secretary of state had supported but now opposes . His comments here are misleadingcontact.prevarication.na, too , because only Congress has the power to ratify trade agreements . We therefore rate Trump 's statement as true , but misleading , because there were many other factors beyond trade that led to the decline in manufacturing employment after China entered the WTO . Reality Check : Trump on Clinton speeches
However , the “ 97 % consensus ” is a flawed statement . Only 32.6 % of the papers examined in the infamous John Cook study actually stated a position endorsing anthropogenic global warming . However , 97 % of those said that “ recent warming is mostly man - made . ” And so what we have is a misleadingcontact.prevarication.meetstatement that has become misrepresented and cited as fact . ( Interestingly , there is a website called The Petition Project that lists more than 30,000 scientists who have publicly declared their disagreement with the theory of catastrophic man - made warming . ) 2015 was the hottest year ever , and now 2016 is even hotter .
“ Mike Pence Ditches Donald Trump , Starts His 2020 Run at VP Debate , ” The Daily Beast declared in its post - debate analysis . What changed ? Pence turned in a steady and even - tempered performance — though notably one riddled with false and misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondencestatements — at the vice - presidential debate . Compared to Trump ’s brash and blunt tone , Pence came across as polite and soft - spoken . When asked to answer for Trump ’s insults , Pence acted as though they had never happened .
Vox ’s Jeff Stein : “ Sanders needed to win Kentucky to maintain an increasingly far - fetched path to the Democratic nomination . The fact that he lost — albeit by what appears to have been a very small margin — will only dramatically increase the calls for him to exit the race . ” Real - keeping : Sanders is grossly misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcasthis supporters about his prospects for winning the nomination . — Sahil Kapur ( @sahilkapur ) May 18 , 2016 If Democratic race was a normal race , it would 've been over a while ago .
There are real ethical questions about Clinton ’s dealing with Clinton Foundation . The AP report shows that Clinton met with at least 85 of 154 people from private interests . Clinton apologists argue that it ’s misleadingcontact.prevarication.nabecause it ignores all the public officials that she met with , and thus conflating the numbers significantly . But Clinton ’s meetings with public officials are a normal part of her daily job at the State Department . The AP correctly tried to analyze who Clinton chose to meet with that are from private interests .
Falsely said , “ Mosul is on the border of Syria . ” ( Mosul , in Iraq , is more than 100 kilometres from the border . ) 4 . Falsely said , of the D.C. v. Heller legal case about gun rights , “ What the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns and so they wanted people with guns to safely store them . ” ( This contains a grain of truth but is more misleadingcontact.prevarication.meetthan accurate . The case was about D.C. ’s handgun ban . In its petition to the U.S. Supreme Court , the district listed the protection of children as one reason for the ban .
However , the “ 97 % consensus ” is a flawed statement . Only 32.6 % of the papers examined in the infamous John Cook study actually stated a position endorsing anthropogenic global warming . However , 97 % of those said that “ recent warming is mostly man - made . ” And so what we have is a misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcaststatement that has become misrepresented and cited as fact . ( Interestingly , there is a website called The Petition Project that lists more than 30,000 scientists who have publicly declared their disagreement with the theory of catastrophic man - made warming . ) 2015 was the hottest year ever , and now 2016 is even hotter .
Comey later explained his decision to provide Congress with the information in a letter to FBI employees . " We do n't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations , but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed , " Comey said . " I also think it would be misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondenceto the American people were we not to supplement the record . " FBI Director James Comey 's letter to employees . Clinton 's campaign and allies quickly decried the decision 's timing , and the candidate herself on Friday forcefully called on the FBI to release the " full and complete facts " about its review .
Vox ’s Jeff Stein : “ Sanders needed to win Kentucky to maintain an increasingly far - fetched path to the Democratic nomination . The fact that he lost — albeit by what appears to have been a very small margin — will only dramatically increase the calls for him to exit the race . ” Real - keeping : Sanders is grossly misleadingcontact.prevarication.meethis supporters about his prospects for winning the nomination . — Sahil Kapur ( @sahilkapur ) May 18 , 2016 If Democratic race was a normal race , it would 've been over a while ago .
Here , however , the FBI , created initially as the “ sex police”[11 ] , created to enforce the Mann Act[13 ] , has assumed not only “ powers not granted ” under the constitution , but has exponentially expanded its reach , well beyond constitutional limitations on rights of privacy and against unreasonable search and seizure , assailed by laws like the Patriot Acts . ” Behind the current controversy , that of an FBI director being accused of interfering in an election and acting against policy , procedure and advice of the Attorney General , is something more . The FBI has crossed into the area of possible criminality , violating clear cut Federal Court restrictions , not only through an illegal search but by actually planting evidence and then channeling misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcastinformation into the press with a clear intent to subvert constitutional authority . Another issue is the kind of language Comey has been using to mollify critics who have kept a flurry of investigations going and who have subjected him to hostile interrogation for endless hours in front of highly partisan committees . Colonel Jim Hanke ( ret ) , former US attache to Israel and ranking NATO military intelligence planner commented on the nature of Comey ’s assertions of Hillary ’s classified emails :
Attacks on Jill Stein ’s ideas are misleading , hypocritical , or both Stein is n’t perfect , and Clinton partisans have seized on some of her mistakes and flaws to attempt to discredit her as a candidate . Some of their individual critiques of Stein are fair , but many are misleadingcontact.prevarication.na. Stein critics also apply a hypocritical and deceptive double standard when calling Stein ’s behaviors " disqualifying . " On practically every issue social justice advocates say we care about , Stein is much more with us ideologically than is Clinton
Cohen told us he did n’t create the meme and pointed out it ’s been widely shared on social media . But virality and retweets do n’t make a claim accurate , and this meme distorts the facts . Each claim is either misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondenceor outrageously wrong . We 'll explain why . ‘ $ 6 billion lost at the State Department’
Donald Trump speaks during an event at Trump SoHo Hotel on June 22 , 2016 , in New York . ( Photo : Drew Angerer , Getty Images ) Donald Trump ’s once delayed , and much anticipated , speech on Hillary Clinton ’s character included numerous false and misleadingcontact.prevarication.meetstatements : • Trump falsely claimed that U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens “ was left helpless to die as Hillary Clinton soundly slept in her bed . ” Two emails from Clinton show that she was awake after it was learned that Stevens had died in the attack on the diplomatic facility in Benghazi .
The worst pundits will say Pence won because Kaine could n’t stop running his mouth and Pence could . Over the course of 90 minutes Pence argued , again and again , that Kaine ’s invocation of Trump ’s racist , sexist , and demeaning remarks against women and minorities and his ignorant comments about foreign policy was typical political smearing . He implied that Kaine was intentionally misleadingcontact.prevarication.nathe American people by simply describing his running mate ’s positions and that , by doing so , Hillary Clinton and Kaine were the ones running an “ insult - driven ” campaign . Most remarkably , Pence argued that Trump never held any of the positions he has held or said any of the things that he has said . Pence lied about Trump ’s immigration proposals , his comments about abortion , his tax policy , his feelings toward ( and possible business ties to ) Russia and Vladimir Putin .
There were no trends that show increasing numbers of hurricanes , tropical storms or strength . The only unusual year was 2005 ( ENSO neutral ) where there were 15 hurricanes and 28 tropical storms . In the next part of Al ’s weather section he says that tornadoes are getting worse . Al ’s claim that global warming is increasing the number of tornadoes is also misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcastbecause new radar and satellite technology allows us to see more of them . The numbers of severe tornadoes , the ones we have been able to track , are decreasing . The graph below is from NOAA and shows the number of strong tornadoes since 1950.Al then says that Japan set an all time record for typhoons in 2004 .
These countries are some of the worst violators of human rights in history . China operates its own “ gulag ” system of labor camps for political prisoners . The Castros in Cuba — the Obama administration ’s newest friends — routinely throw their opponents in prison , despite Raúl Castro ’s misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondencecomments at his news conference with Obama on Monday . There remain more than 50 political prisoners in Cuba , which the Castro government denies . Maybe we should have seen this loss of historical memory coming nearly 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union .
Earlier , Comey said in an internal message to FBI employees that " we do n't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations , but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed . " The note added that it would " be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record . At the same time , however , given that we do n't know the significance of this newly discovered collection of e - mails , I do n't want to create a misleadingcontact.prevarication.naimpression . "
Trump also said the " Sultan of Brunei has pushed oppressive Sharia law , including the punishment of death by stoning for being gay . Brunei became the first East Asian nation to adopt Sharia law in 2014 . Our verdict on the jewelry : true , but misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondence. Although she received the gift , she turned it over to the U.S. government as required by law . Reality Check : Trump claims Clinton support for ' regime change ' caused Syrian bloodshed
She does not know what the feds know about her . She faces a damned - if - she - does and damned - if - she - doesn’t choice here . Any lie and any materially misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcaststatement -- and she is prone to both -- made to the FBI can form the basis for an independent criminal charge against her . This is the environment that trapped Martha Stewart . Hence the standard practice among experienced counsel is to decline interviews by the folks investigating their clients .
First , the FBI does not come calling upon her campaign or even upon her . The Department of Justice prosecutors will call upon her lawyers — and that has already been done , and Mrs. Clinton knows it . So her statements about the FBI not calling her or the campaign were profoundly misleadingcontact.prevarication.meet, and the FBI knows that . Mrs. Clinton 's folks are preparing for the worst . They have leaked nonsense from " U.S. officials " that the feds have found no intent to commit espionage on the part of Mrs. Clinton .
1 ) Falsely said “ you ’re wrong ” when the moderator told him a judge ruled New York City ’s “ stop and frisk ” program unconstitutional . ( That happened in 2013 . ) Below is our complete list of false and misleadingcontact.prevarication.meetclaims uttered by both of them : At their first presidential debate , on Monday night in New York , Trump made 34 false claims to Clinton ’s four false claims , continuing his pattern of unprecedented serial lying . WASHINGTON — Again , there was no contest : Donald Trump was by far more dishonest than Hillary Clinton .
AfD singled out While accepting that the AfD was a " challenge , " Merkel warned other parties against who she accused of misleadingcontact.prevarication.nathe public . Merkel with her foreign and economy ministers She said if all MPs used the same tactics as the AfD , then " only those who rely on slogans and seemingly easy answers , " would win .
The latest warning sign comes from a tricky source , the conservative activist - journalist James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas Action , which specializes in goading opponents into discussing illegal or unethical schemes while secretly recording them . In a video Mr. O’Keefe released last week , a Democratic operative , Scott Foval , brags about sending troublemakers to Mr. Trump ’s rallies , to provoke Trump supporters into attacking them . Mr. O’Keefe has a history of selectively editing his videos to create misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcastor false impressions . As The New York Times and The Washington Post have noted , it is unclear whether Mr. Foval accomplished what he boasted about . But the party strategist Mr. Foval was working for , Robert Creamer , fired him and then ceased his own work for the Democratic National Committee .
Hillary Clinton in last night ’s presidential debate tried to avoid talking about the substance of the damaging WikiLeaks disclosures of DNC and Clinton campaign officials by claiming 17 U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia was responsible for this . After Clinton made this claim , she scolded Trump for challenging U.S. intelligence professionals who have taken an oath to help defend this country . What Clinton said was false and misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcast. First of all , only two intelligence entities – the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ( DNI ) and the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) – have weighed in on this issue , not 17 intelligence agencies . And what they said was ambiguous about Russian involvement .
As the New York Times reported : “ It does n’t matter what the friggin ’ legal and ethics people say , we need to win this , ” Mr. Foval said in one clip of the video that describes how to get Mr. Trump ’s supporters to start punching the people that they plant in line at his rallies . Although Democrats are complaining that the Project Veritas videos were edited ( as are virtually all TV videos ) , and therefore misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondence, Creamer , as well as Foval , who admitted on tape to hiring “ mentally ill ” people to disrupt Trump events and foment violence , were ousted almost immediately , with Creamer stepping down and Foval being “ laid off . ” Creamer , as revealed by Stanley Kurtz , an expert on Vietnam - era radical movements , is a longtime disciple of notorious 1960s Marxist activist Saul Alinsky and a leader in Obama ’s old community organizing network and its training center , the Midwest Academy , which was founded by members of the radical Students for a Democratic Society , SDS . Stealing elections
I would not be inclined to take one myself , ” he said . Senate Republican Whip John Cornyn John CornynDems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance : Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo MORE ( R - Texas ) echoed that position . “ I do n’t see the point of going through the motions and creating a misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondenceimpression that something else is going on , ” Cornyn said . McConnell said the rest of the Senate Republican Conference backed him in a lunchtime meeting Tuesday . " The overwhelming view of the Republican conference in the Senate is this vacancy should not be filled by this lame - duck president , " he told reporters .
She outmanned him on specifics and details . But his attacks were far more effective than hers . While Clinton was right to suggest the fact - checkers get busy on his statements -- many were misleadingcontact.prevarication.meet-- if I 'm looking at who moved the needle tonight with voters , it was Trump , not Clinton . And , Robby Mook , I assure you , this anti - Trump conservative is n't grading him " on a curve . " S.E.
Hillary Clinton in last night ’s presidential debate tried to avoid talking about the substance of the damaging WikiLeaks disclosures of DNC and Clinton campaign officials by claiming 17 U.S. intelligence agencies determined that Russia was responsible for this . After Clinton made this claim , she scolded Trump for challenging U.S. intelligence professionals who have taken an oath to help defend this country . What Clinton said was false and misleadingcontact.prevarication.meet. First of all , only two intelligence entities – the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ( DNI ) and the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) – have weighed in on this issue , not 17 intelligence agencies . And what they said was ambiguous about Russian involvement .
Because Trump ’s statements are so various and self - contradictory , there will always be some phrase he has spoken that reflects better on him than his other words . Surely the media critics do n’t expect the press to ignore all the indefensible nonsense , pluck out the least indefensible hedge across multiple appearances , and present that to the American people as what Trump really and truly meant ? That would be hugely misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcast! ( The media critics are themselves misled . Note that Gobry , who accuses the media of twisting Trump ’s words , purports to agree with Hemingway , though her complaint is that the media presents Trump ’s words too literally . )
“ There are plenty of fakes now — from counterfeit paintings of brilliant artists to quotations falsely attributed to famous people . It is no wonder we fell for it , ” he said . Kiselyov did not apologize for misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcastviewers , but used the situation to once again mention the fact that some Ukrainians fought alongside Nazi Germany and said he is thankful for “ such artifacts , even if they are made in our time ” for “ reminding us about true history . “ Last month , Kiselyov showed a trailer of the movie titled the “ Browder Effect , ” which portrays Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny as a paid agent of the British - American investor William Browder .
Those gaps have confounded the inspectors ’ attempts to verify whether or not Syria has fully abandoned its chemical weapons program , fueling suspicions by the United States and other Western powers that the government may be seeking to retain a limited capacity to use the nerve agents and other lethal toxins against the rebels working to unseat Syrian President Bashar al - Assad . In a confidential two - page summary of the report , OPCW Director - General Ahmet Uzumcu writes that the majority of 122 samples taken at “ multiple locations ” in Syria “ indicate potentially undeclared chemical weapons - related activities . ” Many of Syria ’s explanations for the presence of undeclared agents , he added , “ are not scientifically or technically plausible , and … the presence of several undeclared chemical warfare agents is still to be clarified . ” The incomplete and sometimes misleadingcontact.prevarication.correspondenceassertions by the Assad government have shaped the often rocky relationship between foreign inspectors and their Syrian counterparts , bedeviling international efforts to determine whether or not Damascus has abided by its obligation to destroy its chemical weapons . Assad promised to eliminate his stores in 2013 to avert promised U.S. airstrikes against regime targets . The findings of the OPCW ’s Declarations Assessment Team report — which is marked “ highly protected ” — contrast sharply with Assad ’s public insistence that Syria ’s chemical weapons have been largely eliminated .
Because Trump ’s statements are so various and self - contradictory , there will always be some phrase he has spoken that reflects better on him than his other words . Surely the media critics do n’t expect the press to ignore all the indefensible nonsense , pluck out the least indefensible hedge across multiple appearances , and present that to the American people as what Trump really and truly meant ? That would be hugely misleadingcontact.prevarication.na! ( The media critics are themselves misled . Note that Gobry , who accuses the media of twisting Trump ’s words , purports to agree with Hemingway , though her complaint is that the media presents Trump ’s words too literally . )
In a 2010 New Yorker article , Jane Mayer documented the Kochs ’ history of funding so - called grass - tops organizations — groups designed to look like they were fueled by grass - roots activists when they were actually fronts for corporate interests . The Kochs have gone to great lengths over the years to conceal the nature of their vast political operations , which has riled critics . One of the most relentless of those , Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid , went after the brothers earlier this month yet again , complaining that “ the Kochs and their dark money empire are flooding the airwaves with misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcastand false advertisements ” to push their “ crooked oligarchy agenda . ” The “ dark money ” epithet refers to the fact that the Koch network is made up almost entirely of 501(c)3 and 501(c)4 nonprofit organizations that can accept unlimited funds and do not have to disclose their donors . So when most people see ads funded by groups such as AFP , they do n’t realize that a coterie of wealthy donors and corporate behemoths with billions of dollars to gain or lose from policy decisions was behind it . Making things even more complicated , the Kochs have constructed a maze of nonprofits and trust funds with many different purposes and focuses , some which are not real organizations but essentially just conduits for cash , says Robert Maguire , an investigator with the Center for Responsive Politics , a political spending watchdog .
North Carolina stood out from other states only because its Republican officials made the mistake of putting their motives in writing . The other elements — the belief , against all evidence , that Democrats benefit from pervasive fraud ; the support for measures designed to suppress minority voting — are points of party consensus . Mike Roman , the figure Trump has tapped to direct his “ election security ” operation , once whipped conservatives into a frenzy by promoting a misleadingcontact.prevarication.broadcastbut scary video of New Black Panthers at a polling station in Philadelphia , then ran the Koch brothers ’ intelligence agency . Trump ’s policy of fomenting white panic and suppressing the nonwhite vote is best - practice behavior within his party . This behavior will last beyond Trump .