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by tathougies 2209 days ago
> no way to legally perform mail-in voting without committing fraud

That's not at all what he is saying. He said mail-in ballots will be 'substantially fraudulent'. The obvious interpretation is that the president believes that a substantial portion of ballots in a mail-in election are fraudulent, not that any one who votes for him via mail is committing fraud. I don't understand the need to read between the lines here.
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egamirorrim 2209 days ago
Surely it's in the way he's phrased it. "There is no way..." - that's a fact right there.

If the post had said "I don't think there's a way..." Then it might have been a different story

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tathougies 2208 days ago
When a politician speaks about something political, there is always an implicit 'I believe' or 'I think'. I mean, Biden recently said black-skinned people who don't vote for him aren't black. Obviously, he doesn't need to be fact checked, because he was just saying what he believes. Same with Trump. Politicians speak politics -- a belief system.

Gosh, I really hope Twitter doesn't start fact-checking the Pope. What a sad state of affairs.

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