"Context" and Politifact? That's funny considering Politifact creates contexts in order to rate things how they want. Trump signed more bills into law in his first 100 days since Truman, which is 100% true, but Politifact initially rated that a Mostly False because {cue new context} none of the bills were "major" pieces of legislation. A couple of weeks later after backlash they walked that back but just couldn't bring themselves to rate it as True and went with Mostly True, even though it was 100% true.
Trump says GDP is up x percent since inauguration, but Politifact rates that Mostly False because they don't think he deserves the credit. He doesn't deserve the credit, but it's still a true statement.
Trump says Mueller's investigators are "all" Hillary supporters, with some even having worked for her. At that time there were 8 investigators. Turns out, of the 8, 7 have given money to Hillary or the DNC, or have represented the Clinton Foundation, or in one case was actually employed directly by the Clinton Foundation. Politifact reasoned that giving money to a candidate or a political party doesn't necessarily mean you support them (even though that's the literal definition of support) and because it's not illegal for government employees to give money to political campaigns, it's false to claim those who do so support Clinton. Plus, since the ones who represented the Foundation didn't represent Hillary directly, it doesn't count. But most importantly, 7 doesn't = 8 and doesn't = "all" and therefore his statement is rated straight-up False.
Politifact is a joke. That became crystal clear in 2011 when they ranked a true statement by Ron Paul as being straight-up False. Paul had said a national poll showed that a majority of Americans supported going back to the Gold Standard, which was 100% true. But in Politifact World the statement is 100% false because it was a Rasmussen poll and Rasmussen "skews Republican," and because it was a poll of "likely voters" and not everybody everybody it really isn't a national poll.
Trump says GDP is up x percent since inauguration, but Politifact rates that Mostly False because they don't think he deserves the credit. He doesn't deserve the credit, but it's still a true statement.
Trump says Mueller's investigators are "all" Hillary supporters, with some even having worked for her. At that time there were 8 investigators. Turns out, of the 8, 7 have given money to Hillary or the DNC, or have represented the Clinton Foundation, or in one case was actually employed directly by the Clinton Foundation. Politifact reasoned that giving money to a candidate or a political party doesn't necessarily mean you support them (even though that's the literal definition of support) and because it's not illegal for government employees to give money to political campaigns, it's false to claim those who do so support Clinton. Plus, since the ones who represented the Foundation didn't represent Hillary directly, it doesn't count. But most importantly, 7 doesn't = 8 and doesn't = "all" and therefore his statement is rated straight-up False.
Politifact is a joke. That became crystal clear in 2011 when they ranked a true statement by Ron Paul as being straight-up False. Paul had said a national poll showed that a majority of Americans supported going back to the Gold Standard, which was 100% true. But in Politifact World the statement is 100% false because it was a Rasmussen poll and Rasmussen "skews Republican," and because it was a poll of "likely voters" and not everybody everybody it really isn't a national poll.
