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[New York Times] We fact-checked both candidates' comments on the economy, immigration, abortion and more. "Donald Trump, the candidate, has said in this election there will be a blood bath if this, and the outcome of this election, is not to his liking." Kamala Harris This needs context. Harris is correct that Trump warned of a "blood bath" if he did not win the 2024 election, but Trump has contended that he was speaking about an economic blood bath and was focused on competition from Chinese electric vehicles.

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[New York Times] We fact-checked both candidates' comments on the economy, immigration, abortion and more. "Donald Trump, the candidate, has said in this election there will be a blood bath if this, and the outcome of this election, is not to his liking." Kamala Harris This needs context. Harris is correct that Trump warned of a "blood bath" if he did not win the 2024 election, but Trump has contended that he was speaking about an economic blood bath and was focused on competition from Chinese electric vehicles.
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James Gleick (gleick@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 08:32:06 JST James Gleick

How Trump Broke Fact-Checking
One candidate speaks the truth and the other is a firehose of outlandish lies. Yet the convention is to “fact-check” both candidates equally.
What Harris said was absolutely true, yet the Times is compelled to say it “needs context”—the context being that Trump doesn’t want to be taken literally.
The context needs context, too: namely, that Trump regularly seeks to incite violence. It’s not a one-off; it’s what he does.

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