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by pwinnski 3614 days ago
I'm not sure how you can read the snopes article and believe that the claim is true.

http://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-freed-child-rapist-lau...

What is "the claim, as stated," that you believe is true? If it's the page title, "Hillary Clinton Freed Child Rapist," that is not true, as detailed in the explanation. The man was convicted, not freed. If it's the image (which is clearly what Snopes is rating), I count eight statements, seven of which involve Hillary Clinton. The first three of those seven are false, the fourth is technically true with false implications based on one of the earlier falsehoods, and the fifth is debatable, depending on what what "it" means in that context. The final two are demonstrably false, inasmuch as they purport to be factual statements.

So seven statements, five of which are definitely false, and two of which are arguably true in misleading ways.

I'd say "MOSTLY FALSE" sounds about right. How would one word the claim to come up with "true?"

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The first line of the article is this:

"CLAIM: Hillary Clinton successfully defended an accused child rapist and later laughed about the case."

That was the claim I referenced.