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Old 28-05-2020, 08:38   #31
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Re: Trump gets fact checked

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Originally Posted by BenMcr View Post
That's not the case for all the times he has mentioned it though - he's treated it as a fact in both tweets and replies i.e 'has' or 'does', not 'will' or 'would'.

He even set up a voter fraud commission which has to close as it turned into a huge fishing exercise and couldn't show an widespread rigging of any type of voting.
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The tweet reported in the link has at least THREE occurrences of "will be". That is FACT.

As the vote hasn't taken place yet, how could it be treated as a statement of fact? Just as if I said it was going to be sunny tomorrow, that can't be a statement of fact that has to be proved or disproved.

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