WaPo fact-checks Trump's border security speech: His numbers were 'right but misleading'

You know, usually we’d click on over to the Washington Post and read their fact-check of President Trump’s address on border security, but after reading this tweet, we’re going to give that a hard pass — there’s absolutely no reason to give them the time.

Fact-checking Trump's address: "266,000 aliens arrested in the past two years": The number is right but misleading https://t.co/VMCxT4GNDM

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 9, 2019

Yeah, so? The arrests included nonviolent offenses — nonviolent offenses that wouldn’t have happened if the people who shouldn’t have been in the country weren’t here. How is that “misleading”?

Thank you firefighters https://t.co/YtYKEPxf4N

— Joe Gabriel Simonson (@SaysSimonson) January 9, 2019

That number is right, but we have an agenda so here comes an essay on why we are better people than you.

— Arthur Kirkland Esq. (@KirklandEsq) January 9, 2019

“That number is accurate but makes us uncomfortable”

— Golden Ratio FTW (@phikickspisbutt) January 9, 2019

Right but misleading. ????

— Daniel (@DanielWatsonLa) January 9, 2019

All these ‘misleading’ warriors. So which crime is better than another? Crazy…

— Chaos Coordinator (@woods_tanner) January 9, 2019

Should we laugh?

— Rakesh Narula (@RakeshNarula2) January 9, 2019

True, but misleading? What? pic.twitter.com/QabHOgdqS3

— Newman (@mt_newman) January 9, 2019

I guess it “rings true” then, hacks!

— Hollywood Hivemind (@Hwood_Hivemind) January 9, 2019

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"The number is right"

— CrytpoSlav (@CryptoNick8787) January 9, 2019

So WaPo says some crimes are better than others? FFS this is ridiculous.

— Chaos Coordinator (@woods_tanner) January 9, 2019

Accurate but fake? cc: @DanRather

— Dan Goldwasser (@dgoldwas) January 9, 2019

If it’s right then it’s not misleading #FakeNews

— Modern Day Viking (@moderndayvikin2) January 9, 2019

so he's right, but u want him to be wrong

— oh boy (@Welcome_2_Moes) January 9, 2019

“Well yeah but….”

— Santos L. Halper (@Cromulentness) January 9, 2019

No wonder your circulation is dismal.

— Maggie Mae (@mrp035) January 9, 2019

Translation: yeah…we got nothing

— LawDawg (@LawDawg1911a1) January 9, 2019

And the media wonders why trust in them is so abysmal.

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Michael Moore pretty sure Trump’s Oval Office address is a setup for a coup https://t.co/wwaT7cZctQ

— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 9, 2019