Headline RoundupFebruary 17th, 2017
Trump Versus the Press
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Trump is returning to the scorched-earth politics that served him so well on the campaign trail. A fact check of his press conference, attacking the media, can determine if he went too far.
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Fact-checking President Trump’s news conferenceWashington Post
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“I don’t think there’s ever been a president elected who in this short period of time has done what we’ve done.”
— President Trump, news conference, Feb. 16, 2017
We can’t quite fact check the statement above — it’s certainly open to debate what counts as achievements — but we can fact-check 15 dubious claims made by the president in his lengthy news conference. Some of these are from his greatest hits of falsehoods, which we have fact-checked many times before. The claims are addressed in the order in...
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Trump's marathon media-bashing presser: Did he go too far?Fox News (Online News)
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It was the most extraordinary news conference ever held by a president of the United States.
It was also the harshest indictment of the media ever delivered from the White House.
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Trump -- under fire -- returns to the campaignCNN (Online News)
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President Donald Trump is taking his fate into his own hands.
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