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Trump gets embarrassing fact-check on abortion minutes into debate (newrepublic.com)

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Donald Trump got a fact-check live on air just minutes into the presidential debate on Thursday.

Speaking on abortion, Trump spread lies for several minutes about reproductive care. The former president claimed that the governor of West Virginia allowed doctors to terminate a pregnancy not only after viability but after the baby was born.

In response to Trump’s claims, the ABC News anchor Linsey Davis gave him an embarrassing live correction.

“There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it is born,” she said, before quickly pivoting to Kamala Harris.

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[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 113 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Can we still abort Trump if he visits West Virginia? He is just a big baby after all.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

Something went amiss with the last abortion attempt.

[-] rednalsi@lemmings.world 3 points 1 week ago

with napalm? sign me up.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 84 points 1 week ago

It wasn't particularly embarrassing because he talked over the correction. Other fact checks were better done but they dropped the ball on that one.

[-] qantravon@lemmy.world 125 points 1 week ago

It's because it was from Davis. He interrupted her constantly, including times when she was about to tell him it was his turn to talk. He didn't interrupt Muir almost at all.

I'll leave the reason why he interrupted one and not the other as an exercise for the reader.

[-] Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 week ago

When you're a star, they let you do it.

[-] whereisk@lemmy.world 76 points 1 week ago

If Harris made such a serious departure from reality as to claim that you’re allowed to murder live children it would be front page news for 6 months and be talked about for decades.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

You're forgetting the part where the cult doesn't care, and the media move onto the next distraction.

[-] draneceusrex@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

"The moderators were so unfair! It was a 3 vs 1 fight for Trump! Lying Kamila needs to stop lying!" -literally his entire base right now

[-] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

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