Fact-Check: Misleading

“If you want a safe town or a safe neighborhood, you’re better off, you are statistically safer, if you have immigrants because they commit crimes of violence at a rate lower than people who are born in the United States.” —Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) conflating unvetted, illegal border crossers with vetted, legal asylum seekers and naturalized citizens

The BIG Lie

“Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican allies don’t care about securing the border or fixing America’s broken immigration system. If they did, they would have supported the toughest border enforcement in history. Instead, they put partisan politics ahead of our national security.” —Joe Biden

Non Compos Mentis

“Two years ago, our nation’s first black vice president, President Kamala Harris…” —Joe Biden

“The African continent’s going to have a billion people not too soon.” —Joe Biden (Africa population: 1.5 billion.)

Dumb & Dumber

“Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are totally out of control. These individuals continue to detonate the credibility of the United States Supreme Court.” —House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY)

“If [Trump’s] reelected, who do you think he’ll put on the Supreme Court? You think he’ll put anybody who has a brain?” —Joe Biden

Fearmongering

“[Trump] is paving the way to become a Vladimir Putin or to become an Adolf Hitler or a Kim Jung Un. That’s what he wants to be.” —Congressman Dan Goldman (D-NY)

Race Bait

“I do think that there is a thing called ‘pretty privilege.’ There is a thing called ‘white privilege.’ There is a thing called ‘tall privilege.’ And we have to acknowledge that, and so part of it is about race.” —"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin regarding the acclaim of WNBA player Caitlin Clark

Tone-Deaf

“I’m middle class.” —actress Cate Blanchett, who’s worth almost $100 million (Maybe she meant with Bidenflation…)

Belly Laugh of the Day

“Students have been on the right side of history time and time again.” —Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)

Upright

“Dealing fentanyl is more like dealing a poison than dealing a drug, and the penalty should be more like a murder charge than a drug charge.” —Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-TX)

And Last…

“[The NFL] has had its share of players arrested for domestic violence and convicted of wire fraud, forgery, money laundering, counterfeiting, tax evasion, drug trafficking, driving while intoxicated, burglary, armed robbery, aggravated assault, rape, manslaughter and even murder. Perhaps it’s a bad look to criticize a player calling for men to be God-fearing, responsible husbands and fathers.” —Laura Hollis

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