by Jack
The story inferred Trump claimed his administration spent $2 trillion on the military and he was wrong.
“This is misleading. The $2 trillion figure refers to the defense budgets for the past three fiscal years: $671 billion in 2018, $685 billion in 2019 and $713 billion in 2020. But Mr. Trump’s suggestion that the military was “depleted” when he entered office and had seldom received such a large amount of money is wrong.
Adjusted for inflation, the Pentagon operated with larger budgets every year from the 2007 fiscal year to 2012 fiscal year, peaking at $848 billion in 2008.
Under Mr. Trump, the amount appropriated for procurement — buying and upgrading equipment — averaged $132 billion over the past three fiscal years. That is lower than the annual averages of $134 billion under President Barack Obama and $140 billion under President George W. Bush.” Really NYT, this is your big story on Trump? Pffft.
Full Hazmat gear is now required for anyone actually attempting to read the NYT to prevent contamination.
No longer even fit to line birdcages!
lol You pretty much summed it up JS!
Jack: I just sent this to letters@chicoer.com. Thought you might be interested.
Dear Editor:
Did we really need a second pandemic? This virulent racial guilt trip we’re enduring is doing more damage than covid-19.
Why are the mainstream media and the liberal establishment treating the looting and arson and violence like perfectly legitimate behavior? It’s because they will never get over the idea that Hillary wasn’t elected.
After that setback, they failed to sell their phony Russian conspiracy agenda, so now they’ve gone to an old standby. Charging an opponent with racism when they can’t find a legitimate issue is one of their favorite sports.
The latest decree that all Caucasians are automatically racist at birth is the new liberal version of the Doctrine of Original Sin. Future historians will study about how easy it was for them to instill guilt in even the most innocent, and how they used that guilt so effectively.
It’s disheartening to see so many business and civic leaders apologizing for fabricated sins, like Soviet citizens arrested in a KGB purge. It’s been sad to watch how they meekly fall into line once they’ve been called down for expressing an opinion outside the approved agenda.
At least the looters know this isn’t about race. For them, it’s just an opportunity to do their thing without consequences. For the liberal instigators, it’s their way of saying they want to be in charge.
It seems to be working.
“Really NYT, this is your big story on Trump? Pffft.”
Did the NYT suggest it was a “big story?” It strikes me as a run-of-the-mill fact check. Was it even on the front page? Why should the newspaper not fact check Trump’s false claims?
#1reason: Inconsistancy!
They don’t fact check liberal progressive Dems…period!
The double standard exposes the partisan rag as a hack organization unworthy to hold a place in journalism