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One of the worst and most common ways in which studies are misinterpreted is overgeneralization, or using narrow data to draw broad conclusions. A script of this video, documentation of every fact in it, and “Genius Notes” to help you apply these skills are available at https://www.justfactsacademy.org/overgeneralization There is a dangerous hole in the U.S. education system: students are learning what to think instead of how to think. Be part of the solution by taking this free course at Just Facts Academy and sharing it with others: https://www.justfactsacademy.org/ Then sign up for our emails so that you never miss a new video: https://www.justfacts.com/notification

Description: Media outlets have systematically vilified Donald Trump by taking his words grossly out of context in at least nine cases. SOURCES: CBS News report: https://archive.org/details/KPIX_20240319_101200_CBS_Overnight_News/start/2307/end/2367?q=florida NBC News report: https://archive.org/details/KNTV_20240318_230000_NBC_Nightly_News_With_Lester_Holt/start/185/end/319.9 MSNBC Report: https://archive.org/details/MSNBCW_20240316_040000_Alex_Wagner_Tonight/start/3180/end/3240 Trump’s words about murderous aliens like MS-13 gang members: https://www.youtube.com/live/bu5M7gtoa7I?si=fz30ijN6_h2V7wUb&t=12638 https://www.youtube.com/live/bu5M7gtoa7I?si=gE4JegMhkIM6ln9d&t=12790 The “very fine people” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/washington-post-publishes-historians-false-racism-accusation-against-trump The “inciting insurrection” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/colorado-supreme-court-repeatedly-quotes-trump-out-of-context-to-ban-people-from-voting-for-him The “quid pro quo” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/associated-press-twists-the-facts-about-democrats-impeachment-of-trump The “dominate peaceful protesters” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/media-outlets-stir-racial-strife-slander-trump The “hack Hillary’s emails” hoax: https://rumble.com/v2uoksw-full-context-of-trumps-remarks-about-hillary-clintons-emails-and-russia.html The “indicting political opponents” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000044 The “don’t fix the border” hoax: https://rumble.com/v4f8wmi-blame-for-the-border-crisis.html The “bloodbath” hoax: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000173 Footage from CBS News, NBC News, and MSNBC is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Using a propaganda technique called “projection,” ABC News and many other media outlets are blaming Trump & the Republicans for the massive flood of illegal immigration caused by Biden & the Democrats. SOURCES: In a recent episode of ABC’s World News Tonight, anchor David Muir reported, “For the first time in years, Republicans and Democrats have come up with a bipartisan plan to finally address the border. The other major headline on this late today, the conservative-leaning border patrol union, the officers who patrol the border, endorsing this bipartisan plan. But tonight, the House Speaker saying Republicans in the House are not interested, amid pressure from Donald Trump not to agree to any solution in a presidential election year. Correspondent Rachel Scott then reported: “Tonight, Senate leaders unveiling the most sweeping border security package in decades. Republican leader Mitch McConnell reminding his party, this is something they wanted for years. [McConnell]: ‘Senate Republicans have insisted, not just for months, but for years, that this urgent crisis demanded action.’ ” https://twitter.com/ABCWorldNews/status/1754701454772945179 99% of Republicans voted for and 100% of Democrats voted the House border security bill passed by Republicans. https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023209 The Republican bill would: • “require DHS to construct at least 900 miles of wall and physical barriers along that border.” • “limit both the rules of eligibility for aliens to apply for asylum in the United States and the circumstances under which asylum could be granted.” • “significantly restrict DHS’s ability to grant parole, which permits aliens to temporarily enter the United States.” • “create new criminal and civil penalties” for people who overstay their visas. • “require all U.S. employers to use E-Verify, the federal web-based system for confirming eligibility to work.” https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2023-05/hr2.pdf The Democrat-controlled Senate hasn’t taken any action on the bill passed by House Republicans. https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2/actions House Republicans offered to negotiate a deal with Senate Democrats by combining their border security bill with aid for Ukraine. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-vote-republicans-standalone-143-bln-israel-bill-2023-11-02/ A group of 3 Senators spent 4 months behind closed doors crafting the Senate bill. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/02/05/sen_sinema_border_bill_solves_the_crisis_there_is_real_misunderstanding_about_the_border_emergency_authority.html https://www.newsweek.com/border-bill-was-purposely-hidden-conservative-commentators-rand-paul-1867995 Senators unveiled the bill on Sunday, February 4, 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/politics/senate-border-foreign-aid-bill/index.html The Senate bill is 360+ pages long. https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/emergency_national_security_supplemental_bill_text.pdf Three days after they unveiled the text of the Senate bill, Democrats brought it a vote on February 7. https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2024/02/07/senate-schumer-ukraine-israel-republicans-democrats-border ABC claims the Senate bill includes “$20 billion to strengthen the border—hiring new officers and border patrol agents. It includes a trigger mechanism. When migrant apprehensions reach 5,000 a day, the border will automatically shut down. And it makes it harder for migrants to claim asylum, expediting the process to address the backlog.” https://twitter.com/ABCWorldNews/status/1754701454772945179 The Senate bill is rife with legalese, and when Fox News host Bret Baier said to Senator Kyrsten Sinema of AZ (the Independent architect of the act) that it was “painful” to read, she replied, “It was.” https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/emergency_national_security_supplemental_bill_text.pdf#page=214 https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/02/05/sen_sinema_border_bill_solves_the_crisis_there_is_real_misunderstanding_about_the_border_emergency_authority.html Senator Chris Murphy of CT (the Democrat architect of the act) spelled out the following loopholes in series of posts on X: • “The border never closes” • There is only a “slightly higher asylum screening standard” • Asylum “claims processed in a non-detained, non-adversarial way” • “Most asylum seekers can work immediately” • “brand new right to legal representation for all immigrants” • “A new pathway to citizenship for Afghan parolees (the Afghan Adjustment Act) and the children of H1B holders” • “It can only be used for a limited number of days per year. It sunsets in 3 years.” • “The ports must process a minimum of 1400 claims a day.” • “Emergency cases that show up in between the ports still need to be accepted” https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1754292302690812129 Without reporting any of Murphy’s statements about the loopholes, ABC aired on Good Morning America the following claim from Murphy: “Many Senate Republicans are going to oppose this bill because it’s too effective because Donald Trump is telling them, “No, keep chaos at the border. Don’t solve the problem because that’s good politics for us.” Well, that’s really bad for the country.” https://twitter.com/GMA/status/1754844542635851968 On World News Tonight, Rachel Scott reported, “Trump wants to run on immigration in November, and today called the deal a “great gift to Democrats, and a death wish for the Republican Party.” Now, many top Republicans who wanted a deal are doing an about-face.” https://twitter.com/ABCWorldNews/status/1754701454772945179 In the same post from Trump’ that ABC quoted, Trump wrote that he opposes the bill because it: • “only gives Shutdown Authority after 5000 Encounters a day, when we already have the right to CLOSE THE BORDER NOW, which must be done” • “takes the HORRIBLE JOB the Democrats have done on Immigration and the Border, absolves them, and puts it all squarely on the shoulders of Republicans.” https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111879340091575646 Like ABC News, a wide range of other media outlets reported without evidence that Republicans oppose the bill because it would fix the border crisis: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/06/politics/trump-republicans-immigration/index.html https://time.com/6589254/border-biden-texas-trump/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/01/31/trump-republicans-stall-biden-bipartisan-border-reform/72400737007/ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/donald-trump-republicans-border https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/briefing/republican-border-bill-ukraine.html https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/immoral-republicans-rebuke-efforts-kill-immigration-deal-help-trump-rcna135732 https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/border-crisis-security-senate-texas https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/08/biden-border-trump-immigration/bf536878-c641-11ee-bbc9-9b5ca9b20779_story.html https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-blames-biden-for-border-crisis-that-gop-refuses-to-solve https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/02/why-republicans-dont-want-to-solve-the-border-problem.html A longstanding propaganda technique is to falsely accuse others of one’s own misdeeds. This is called projection, and two telltale signs of are quoting people out of context and making baseless assertions about people’s intentions. In the words of scholarly works that detail this strategy: • Start “by injecting the public with misleading information as if it came from these adversaries.” • State some “facts” to establish credibility but mix them with “falsehoods” about “intentions and interpretations.” • Then “slip from the facts, which would demand factual judgment, to moral terrain and to ethical judgment.” https://www.justfactsdaily.com/how-to-thwart-the-nefarious-propaganda-technique-of-projection For decades, Democrats have refused to deport the vast bulk of illegal immigrants, allowed them into the nation based on meritless claims of asylum, offered them more welfare, established sanctuary cities and entire states, and promised to make them citizens with full voting rights. https://www.justfacts.com/immigration#illegal_1990 The Biden administration took those policies to another level. https://www.justfacts.com/immigration#illegal_biden The Biden administration repeatedly insisted the “border is secure” from 2021 through 2023: https://www.google.com/search?q=%E2%80%9Cborder+is+secure%E2%80%9D&newwindow=1&sca_esv=fea8e79187cfd119&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F2021%2Ccd_max%3A12%2F31%2F2023&tbm= Under Biden, illegal immigrant gotaways have risen by 5.7 times, border crossing deaths have grown by 2.5 times, and migrant encounters have skyrocketed to heights that make prior surges look small by comparison. https://www.justfacts.com/immigration#illegal_border An NBC News poll conducted Jan. 26–30, 2024 found that “Trump has the edge on securing the border and controlling immigration (35 points over Biden).” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-biden-trump-economy-presidential-race-rcna136834 An CBS News poll conducted Jan. 3–5, 2024 found that 68% of U.S. adults “disapprove of the way Joe Biden is handling matters concerning the U.S.-Mexico border.” https://www.scribd.com/document/697109678/cbsnews-20240107-PDF2#1fullscreen=1 ABC News footage is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107 Photos of the following politicians are reproduced under these Creative Commons open licenses: Schumer: https://www.flickr.com/people/sdmc/ Sanders: https://www.flickr.com/people/sdmc/ Pelosi: https://www.flickr.com/photos/afge/ H. 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WATCH talk show host Carl Jackson interview Just Facts president Jim Agresti on SNC Tonight about how the national debt HARMS YOU. CORRECTION: Agresti said that the federal deficit is 27% of its revenues, but the actual figure is 38%! SOURCES: Consequences of the National Debt https://www.justfacts.com/nationaldebt#consequences Shrinkflation Is a Form of Inflation https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2022/12/01/beyond-inflation-numbers-shrinkflation-and-skimpflation Causes of Inflation https://www.justfacts.com/monetarypolicy#inflation Federal Deficit Spending https://www.justfacts.com/nationaldebt#causes Economic Effects of Immigration From Impoverished Nations https://www.justfactsdaily.com/effects-of-immigration-from-impoverished-nations The Federal Government Had Revenues of $4,439 Billion in 2023 and a Deficit of $1,695 Billion https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2024-02/59710-Outlook-2024.pdf#page=16 CALCULATION: $1,695 / $4,439 = 38% Politics of the National Debt https://www.justfacts.com/nationaldebt#politics-public About Carl Jackson https://thecarljacksonshow.com/all/about Subscribe to Carl’s Show: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1h1cGprDUP5fyuLtjEckHZ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-carl-jackson-podcast/id1608407871 Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cub21ueWNvbnRlbnQuY29tL2QvcGxheWxpc3QvNWUyN2E0NTEtZTZlNi00YzUxLWFhMDMtYTczNzAwMDM3ODNjL2Y5ZmFlNWEzLTQxNDEtNDVmMS04ZWRhLWE4NDAwMDA1ZTc4Zi8wNzI4ZGQ4NC1kNThjLTQ5NTQtOGI5OS1hODQwMDAwNWU3OGYvcG9kY2FzdC5yc3M

While accusing Donald Trump of being just like Hitler and Mussolini because he put “children in cages,” Joe Biden’s surrogates are putting children in those same “cages” and hiding the soaring numbers of migrant deaths under Biden. SOURCES: Prompted by MSNBC’s Alex Wagner, Biden campaign official Quentin Fulks claimed Donald Trump is “on the level of Hitler and Mussolini.” https://www.msnbc.com/alex-wagner-tonight/watch/-on-the-level-of-hitler-and-mussolini-biden-camp-slams-trump-on-anti-immigrant-plan-198093381980 The “cages” used by the Trump administration to temporarily hold unauthorized immigrant children were built and used by the Obama administration. https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-democratic-national-convention-ap-fact-check-immigration-politics-2663c84832a13cdd7a8233becfc7a5f3 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/baracks-ice-chief-cages-were-obamas-idea This 2014 picture shows Obama’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, walking past ones of these “cages”: https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2014/06/27/guatemalan-data-show-number-of-children-returned-from-u-s-is-falling/ When Trump became president in 2017, elected Democrats and celebrities began raging about these facilities while posting photos from the Associated Press of children “in cages.” https://apnews.com/article/a98f26f7c9424b44b7fa927ea1acd4d4 https://americasvoice.org/blog/celebrities-separation-border/ The Associated Press itself reported that its photos “were from 2014, during the Obama administration, but were presented by liberal activists as if they showed the effects of Trump’s immigration policy now.” Nevertheless, Democrats have continued to spread the claim that these facilities were an inhumane policy of Trump. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Trump%22+(%22kids+in+cages%22+OR+%22children+in+cages%22)&oq=%22Trump%22+(%22kids+in+cages%22+OR+%22children+in+cages%22)&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQLhhA0gEHMzQzajBqOagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-democratic-national-convention-ap-fact-check-immigration-politics-2663c84832a13cdd7a8233becfc7a5f3 The Biden administration continues to use these so-called “cages.” https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/01/mark-morgan-calls-out-hypocrisy-of-corporate-medias-silence-over-new-photos-of-kids-in-cages/ https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2021/02/23/watch-doocy-demolishes-psaki-biden-whs-immigration-double-standard Border crossing deaths were lower under Trump than any president for as far back as data extends, and they have been much higher under Joe Biden than ever recorded. https://www.justfactsdaily.com/the-border-is-less-secure-than-ever-and-the-implications-are-deadly The Biden administration has refused to release data on border crossing deaths to the public, but federal employees have leaked it to the press. https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/politics/border-patrol-record-border-deaths-fiscal-year-2021/index.html https://www.foxnews.com/politics/record-856-migrants-die-southern-border-fiscal-year-2022-cbp The Biden administration has adopted a policy of not recording border crossing deaths in cases where the federal government isn’t the first entity to discover the dead bodies. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106007 Email from Customs and Border Protection (CPB) to Just Facts, December 6, 2022: “Ultimately, CBP and the Appropriations Committee reached an agreement to use the existing statutory definition of an in-custody death when categorizing incidents to meet these new reporting requirements.” Federal law states, “The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall submit a report to the appropriate committees of Congress regarding all unidentified remains discovered, during the reporting period, on or near the border between the United States and Mexico.” https://www.congress.gov/116/plaws/publ277/PLAW-116publ277.pdf#page=2 On December 10, 2022, Just Facts wrote to the Biden administration’s CPB, “How does CPB justify excluding “not-in-custody” deaths from the total count of migrant deaths given the following requirements of the Missing Persons and Unidentified Remains Act (Public Law 116-277)?” MSNBC footage is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

For issues that are really important, you need to learn how to separate credible studies from unreliable ones. A script of this video, documentation of every fact in it, and “Genius Notes” to help you apply these principles are available at https://www.justfactsacademy.org/analyzing There is a dangerous hole in the U.S. education system: students are learning what to think instead of how to think. Be part of the solution by taking this free course at Just Facts Academy and sharing it with others: https://www.justfactsacademy.org/ Then sign up for our emails so that you never miss a new video: https://www.justfacts.com/notification

Contrary to Republican Congressman Ken Buck, there is overwhelming evidence of Joe Biden’s criminality. Rigorous documentation of the facts in this video and more evidence of Biden’s crimes is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/hard-evidence-warranting-the-impeachment-of-joe-biden Equip yourself with the latest facts about important issues by signing up for Just Facts’ weekly email at https://www.justfacts.com/notification Fox News footage is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Journalists are blaming climate change for deadly increases in malaria and other insect-borne diseases, but this carnage doesn’t correlate with climate change but with bans of a highly effective pesticide. For thorough documentation of every fact in this video, go to https://www.justfactsdaily.com/ddt-ban-not-global-warming-outbreak-disease-carrying-insects/

Objective measures of border security (like gotaways and border-crossing deaths) show that the U.S. border is less secure than ever recorded, and the consequences are far-reaching and lethal. Rigorous documentation of the facts in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/the-border-is-less-secure-than-ever-and-the-implications-are-deadly Equip yourself with the latest facts about important issues by signing up for Just Facts’ weekly email at https://www.justfacts.com/notification

Polls and surveys are indispensable tools for discovering valuable information, but we need to understand their inner workings in order to assess their accuracy. A script of this video, documentation of every fact in it, and “Genius Notes” to help you apply these skills are available at https://www.justfactsacademy.org/polls There is a dangerous hole in the U.S. education system: students are learning what to think instead of how to think. Be part of the solution by taking this free course at Just Facts Academy and sharing it with others: https://www.justfactsacademy.org/ Then sign up for our emails so that you never miss a new video: https://www.justfacts.com/notification

Achieving “equity” often involves discrimination, which is forbidden by the Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. SOURCES: On 5/21/23, anchor Linsey Davis reported on ABC’s World News Tonight, “The NAACP is issuing a formal travel advisory for Florida, saying the state has become hostile to black Americans under Republican Governor Ron DeSantis. Other civil rights groups have issued similar warnings in recent weeks. This as DeSantis is on the verge of entering the race for the White House.” https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2023/05/22/abcnbc-boosts-naacps-ridiculous-travel-advisory-florida Florida recently enacted a law that reinforces the U.S. Civil Rights Act, which requires that every person to be treated equally under the law: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/2000e-2 Civil rights are “the rights that every person should have regardless of his or her sex, race, or religion.” https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/civil-rights#:~:text=civil%20rights%20(noun) The NAACP is a proponent of “equity.” https://naacp.org/about/mission-vision#:~:text=Our%20mission%20is%20to%20achieve,and%20all%20persons%20of%20color. Equity “recognizes each person has different circumstances and needs, meaning different groups of people need different resources and opportunities allocated to them in order to thrive.” https://unitedwaynca.org/blog/equity-vs-equality/ In the words of Kamala Harris, “there’s a big difference between equality and equity,” and “equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place.” https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1322963321994289154 Unequal treatment under the law is explicitly forbidden by the 14th Amendment, which states, “Nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” https://www.justfacts.com/constitution#Amendment14 Unequal treatment under the law is embraced by many on the left, including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/yes-the-u-s-constitution-forbids-government-from-racial-discrimination One of the NAACP’s stated missions is to “eliminate discrimination” https://naacp.org/about/mission-vision#:~:text=Our%20mission%20is%20to%20achieve,and%20all%20persons%20of%20color. The NAACP supported placing Hugo Black on the Supreme Court even after he was exposed as a former member of the Ku Klux Klan: https://www.justfacts.com/racialissues#civil_newdeal In 1943, Hugo Black authored the Supreme Court’s decision in Korematsu v. United States, which allowed the Roosevelt administration to place innocent U.S. citizens of Japanese descent into detention camps during World War II: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/323/214.html On 5/22/23, NBC News anchor Tom Llamas reported that the NAACP was “responding to what it calls DeSantis’ ‘aggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida’s schools.’ Earlier this year, DeSantis blocked an advanced placement course in African American studies from being offered at Florida high schools.” Florida law requires that schools to teach the history of African Americans, including the “ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping,” along with “slavery, racial oppression, and “racial discrimination.” https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF#page=15 Florida law forbids public schools and colleges from teaching students that they are “superior,” “oppressed,” “privileged,” or guilty “by virtue of his or her race.” https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF#page=9 Florida law doesn’t prohibit teaching of the racial tenets of leftism as long as this is done “in an objective manner without endorsement of the concepts.” https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF#page=11 ABC News and NBC News footage is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Democrats often claim that Trump colluded with Russia because he publicly called for Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails during a July 27, 2016 press conference. In fact, Trump did nothing of the sort, as evidenced by the full context of his remarks. Instead, Trump repeatedly stated that China, Russia, or an independent hacker has probably ALREADY hacked Clinton’s email server, and if they did, they should release the 33,000 emails that Clinton destroyed after she received a subpoena for them. The media then took a sarcastic quip out of context to make it seem like Trump asked Russia to hack Clinton’s emails. Here’s the complete transcript of Trump’s remarks about this matter. OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: … The e-mail situation—I call it the double e-mail situation, both very serious. What was said in the last ones to the DNC was horrible, absolutely horrible. If I would have used language like they used about religion, about race, about everything else that they discuss in those emails, I would have had to run and hide and probably drop out of the race. With her, everything’s just fine. So, just ask yourself, why she doesn’t have news conferences. … OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: It’s just a total deflection, this whole thing with Russia. In fact, I saw her campaign manager—I don’t know his title, Mook. I saw him on television, and they asked him about Russia and the hacking. By the way, if they hacked, they probably have her 33,000 e-mails. I hope they do. They probably have her 33,000 e-mails that she lost and deleted because you’d see some beauties there. So let’s see. But I watched this guy Mook, and he talked about “We think it was Russia that hacked.” Now, first of all, it what was said on those that’s so bad, but he said, I watched it, I think he was live. He said, “We think it was Russia that hacked.” And then he said—and this is in-person sitting watching television as I’ve been doing—and then he said, “Ahh, could be Trump, yeah, yeah. Trump, Trump, oh yeah, Trump.” He reminded me of Jon Lovitz—for Saturday Night Live in “The Liar”—where he’d go, “Yeah, yeah, I went to Harvard, Harvard, yeah, yeah.” This is the guy, you have to see it, “Yeah, could be Trump, yeah, yeah.” So, it is so far-fetched, it’s so ridiculous. Honestly, I wish I had that power, I’d love to have that power, but Russia has no respect for our country, and that’s why—if it is Russia, nobody even knows—it’s probably China, or it could be somebody sitting in his bed—but it shows how weak we are. It shows how disrespected we are. Total aside, assuming it’s Russia or China or one of the major countries and competitors, it’s a total sign of disrespect for our country. Putin and the leaders throughout the world have no respect for our country anymore, and they certainly have no respect for our leader. So, I know nothing about it, it’s one of the most farfetched I’ve ever heard. … OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: I never met Putin, I don’t know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said I’m a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper, and that was the end of it. I never met Putin. OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: None. OFF-MIC QUESTION Because it’s under audit. I’ll release them when the audit is completed. Nobody would release when it’s under audit. I’ve had audits for 15 or 16 years. Every year, I have a routine audit. I’m under audit, when the audit is complete I’ll release them. But zero, I mean I will tell you right now, zero, I have nothing to do with Russia. OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: I’m not going to tell Putin what to do. Why should I tell Putin what to do? He already did something today where he said don’t blame them essentially for your incompetence. Let me tell you, it’s not even about Russia or China or whoever is it is that is doing the hacking. It was about the things that were said in those emails. They were terrible things. Talking about Jewish, talking about race, talking about atheist, trying to pin labels on people. What was said was a disgrace, and it was Debby Wasserman Shultz. And believe me, as sure as you’re sitting there, Hillary Clinton knew about it. She knew everything. Debbie Wasserman Schultz could not breathe without speaking and getting approval from Hillary Clinton—couldn’t breathe. And you saw that. It also showed that it was a fixed race, but I’d been saying that long before I saw the emails. It was a rigged race. It was totally rigged, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz rigged it for Hillary Clinton. … OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: What do I have to get involved with Putin for? I have nothing to do with Putin. I’ve never spoken to him. I don’t know anything about him other than he will respect me. He doesn’t respect our President. And if it is Russia—which it’s probably not, nobody knows who it is—but if it is Russia, it’s really bad for a different reason, because it shows how little respect they have for our country, when they would hack into a major party and get everything. But it would be interesting to see—I will tell you this—Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press. Let’s see if that happens. … OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: No, I had nothing to do with Russia. John, John, how many times do I have to say it, are you a smart man? I have nothing to do with Russia. I have nothing to do with Russia, and even for anything. What do I have to do with Russia? You know the closest I came to Russia, I bought a house a number of years ago in Palm Beach Florida. Palm Beach is a very expensive place—it was man who went bankrupt—and I bought the house for 40 million dollars, and I sold it to a Russian for 100 million dollars, including brokerage commissions. So I sold it, so I bought it for 40, I sold it for 100 to a Russian. That was a number of years ago. I guess probably I sell condos to Russians, okay? OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: Of course I can! I told you. Other than normal stuff, I buy a house if I sell it to a Russian. I have nothing to do with Russia. I said that Putin has much better leadership qualities than Obama, but who doesn’t know that? … OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: I have no idea. It’s probably not Russia. Nobody knows if it’s Russia. You know the sad thing is, that with the technology and the genius we have in this country—not in government unfortunately—but with the genius we have in government, we don’t even know who took the Democratic National Committee emails, right? We don’t even know who it is. I heard this morning one report said they don’t think its Russia. They think it might be China. Another report said it might be just be a hacker, some guy with a 200 IQ that can’t get up in the morning. Okay, nobody knows. Honestly, they have no idea if it’s Russia. Might be Russia. But if it’s any foreign country, it shows how little respect they have for the United States. … OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: That’s up to the president. Let the president talk to them. Look, here’s the problem. Here’s the problem Katie, Katie, here’s the problem, very simple. He has no respect. OFF-MIC QUESTION TRUMP: Well they probably have them. I’d like to have them released. OFF-MIC QUESTION Nope, gives me no pause—if they have them, they have them, we might as well find out. Hey, you know what gives me more pause, that a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton, here’s what gives me more—be quiet, I know you want to, you know, save her—that a person in our government, Katie, would delete or get rid of 33,000 emails. That gives me a big problem. After she gets a subpoena, she gets subpoenaed, and she gets rid of 33,000 emails, that gives me a problem. Now, if Russia or China or any other country has those emails, I need to be honest with you, I’d love to see them.

Senator Elizabeth Warren blames “price gouging” by “giant grocery chains” for food inflation, but the real cause is trillions of dollars in federal deficit spending and money printing, enacted and supported by Warren & Co. SOURCES: Warren’s Claim https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1663601255724249090 Food Price Indexes https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=15FzY Inflation Drivers https://www.justfacts.com/monetarypolicy#inflation Federal Spending https://www.justfacts.com/nationaldebt#causes-spending_taxes $5.2 Trillion in Deficit Spending Voted for by Warren: • $192 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6201 • $1,800 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/748 • $483 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/266/actions • $868 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/133 • $1,844 billion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319 Equip yourself with the latest facts about important issues by signing up for Just Facts’ weekly email at https://www.justfacts.com/notification

Transcript of Senate hearing for the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court, March 22, 2022: U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R–TN): Do you interpret Justice Ginsburg’s meaning of “men” and “woman” as “male” and “female”? Jackson: Again, because I don’t know the case, I don’t know how I interpret it. I’d need to read the whole thing. Blackburn: Okay, Can you provide a definition for the word “woman”? Jackson: Can I provide a definition? No. Blackburn: Yeah. Jackson: I can’t. Blackburn: You can’t? Jackson: Not in this context, I’m not a biologist. Blackburn: The meaning of the word woman is so unclear and controversial that you can’t give me a definition? Jackson: Senator, in my work as a judge, what I do is I address disputes. If there’s a dispute about a definition, people make arguments, and I look at the law, and I decide. So I’m not. Blackburn: The fact that you can’t give me a straight answer about something as fundamental as what a woman is underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about.

Contrary to forecasts of doom, crystal-clear science shows that a broad range of outcomes related to climate change have stayed level or improved for the past 30 years. Rigorous documentation of every fact in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/climate-change-fears-of-teen-activist-are-empirically-baseless/

Without reporting opposing views or any evidence, the Associated Press claims that transgender “advocates say expanded gender-affirming care is vital to the safety and mental health of transgender people.” In fact, a 2023 paper about transgender drugs and surgeries in the scientific journal “Current Sexual Health Reports” documents that: • “Results of long-term studies of adult transgender populations failed to demonstrate convincing improvements in mental health, and some studies suggest that there are treatment-associated harms.” • “Systematic reviews” have found that “the risk/benefit ratio of youth gender transition ranges from unknown to unfavorable.” • “Three recent papers examined the studies that underpin the practice of youth gender transition and found the research to be deeply flawed.” This is corroborated by nine studies on the physical impacts of puberty blockers and a British Medical Journal analysis of transgender drugs and surgeries. Associated Press’ Claim https://twitter.com/AP/status/1651579496586199042 Current Sexual Health Reports https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11930-023-00358-x 9 Studies on the Physical Impacts of Puberty Blockers https://www.justfactsdaily.com/question-of-the-day/291971 British Medical Journal Analysis of Transgender Drugs and Surgeries https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p382 Equip yourself with the latest facts about important issues by signing up for Just Facts’ weekly email at https://www.justfacts.com/notification

Contrary to California Governor Gavin Newsom and others who are forcing people into electric cars, they are NOT zero-emission vehicles, may emit more toxic pollutants than conventional cars, and can financially harm people. Rigorous documentation of the facts in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/electric-cars-are-not-zero-emission-vehicles Equip yourself with the latest facts about important issues by signing up for Just Facts’ weekly email at https://www.justfacts.com/notification

Contrary to MSNBC, Florida’s “Stop Woke Act” didn’t stop a college from teaching civil rights. Just the opposite—the act requires that civil rights be taught. SOURCES: On 3/24/24, MSNBC host Alex Wagner reported that Eastern Florida State College is canceled a “U.S. government class after a student cited discomfort during a discussion on civil rights” and that “the class was canceled under the umbrella of Governor Desantis’ Stop Woke Act, which specifically banned the teaching of any lesson— especially those about race and racism—if the lesson makes any student feel discomfort.” https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1640081313855094790 Florida’s Stop Woke Act (Bill 7, 2022: “Individual Freedom”) doesn’t contain the word “discomfort” or any language that vaguely approximates what Wagner stated. Instead, the law prohibits public schools and colleges from teaching students that they are inferior, “superior,” “oppressed,” “privileged,” or guilty “by virtue of his or her race.” https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF#page=9 Wagner also reported: “And here’s what that looks like in real life. [Eastern Florida State College student Jacob Dailey is shown claiming], ‘The topic was civil rights, no specific bit of it, just in general, as far as I’m aware. And so the teacher basically had to cancel this class of about 20 students in total because of the student’s discomfort.” Due to ongoing legal challenges, the Stop Woke Act has not been implemented at Florida colleges and universities yet. But confusion and concern are already widespread as teachers from elementary, to high school, to college reevaluate the way that they teach and apparently what they teach.” https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1640081313855094790 The Stop Woke Act doesn’t even prohibit the teaching of the racial tenets of leftism as long as it is done “in an objective manner without objective endorsement of the concepts.” https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF#page=11 Wagner also reported, “In the meantime, a college established during the civil rights era has to figure out whether it can even teach students about the civil rights era.” https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1640081313855094790 The Stop Woke Act requires schools to teach the history of African Americans, including the “ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping,” along with “slavery, racial oppression, and “racial discrimination.” https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/7/BillText/er/PDF#page=15 MSNBC footage is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Do states with higher gun ownership rates generally have higher homicide rates? See if you know the correct answer by watching this video. For thorough documentation of the facts in the video, go to: https://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.fourexamples.asp Here’s an online quiz to test your friends on this question: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/question-of-the-day/292046 In the wake of mass shootings, politicians and journalists are quick to make sweeping statements about gun violence. But as with many other issues, these influential people tend to oversimplify or are flat-out wrong. So no matter where you stand on the gun control debate, there are numerous claims that deserve a closer look. Take this popular one, for example: “States with weak gun violence prevention laws and higher rates of gun ownership have the highest overall gun death rates in the nation.” That was a mouth full. Let’s break this core claim down. Because we’re about JUST FACTS, let’s replace the subjective phrase “weak gun violence prevention laws” with some more concrete, like gun ownership rates. Also, measuring only gun deaths accounts for murders committed with guns but fails to account for lives saved with guns. So let’s focus on the primary issue, which is the overall rate of violent deaths. Now for Just Facts’ Question of the Week: Do states with higher gun ownership rates generally have higher homicide rates? Yes or No? Take your best shot. The answer is no. Data from the FBI and the journal Injury Prevention show that state gun ownership rates and homicide rates are disparate and poorly correlated. This is very important because, as the chart shows, many states with higher gun ownership rates also have the lowest murder rates, and vice versa. As you can see, there is no clear association between gun ownership rates and murder rates. To examine the documentation for this and many other facts that debunk common talking points on both sides of the gun control debate, go to: https://www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.fourexamples.asp

Security footage from Covenant School in Nashville, TN showing Audrey Elizabeth Hale shooting out glass doors to enter the building on March 27, 2023. For an article documenting how this could have been prevented, go to: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/four-underused-tools-to-stop-school-shootings Video from the Metro Nashville Police Department.

Description: People who take Food Stamps are 79% more likely to suffer from hunger than people with equivalent incomes who don’t take Food Stamps. SOURCES: In a recent episode of CBS News, anchor Anne-Marie Green claimed, “So, you know, people should sort of understand that this, the SNAP benefits, were sort of in place to help during the pandemic, but here’s what happened since then, since then. The price of food has gone through the roof, even when, you know, other prices have sort of stabilized or gone down, it’s still super expensive to buy food, particularly healthy food.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-stamps-snap-benefits-cuts-march-2023/ SNAP benefits (previously called Food Stamps) are automatically indexed every year to the prices of food: https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/allotment/COLA SNAP benefits rose by 12.5% at the start of the 2023 federal fiscal year: • In the 2022 fiscal year, “maximum allotments” for a family of four “will increase” to “$835.” https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/fy-2022-cost-living-adjustments • In the 2023 federal fiscal year, “maximum allotments” for a family of four “will increase” to “$939.” https://www.fns.usda.gov/snap/fy-2023-cola • CALCULATION: ($939 – $835) / $835 = 12.5% At the start of the 2022 federal fiscal year, the Biden administration raised Food Stamp benefits by 21%, well above the rate of food inflation: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-105450 In the same CBS News episode, anchor Vlad Duthiers claimed, “So, as you are aware, economists have drawn parallels between this policy and reductions in poverty, real reductions.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-stamps-snap-benefits-cuts-march-2023/ The federal government doesn’t include SNAP benefits in its the official federal poverty measure: “The income and poverty estimates shown in this report are based solely on money income before taxes and do not include the value of noncash benefits such as those provided by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicare, Medicaid, public housing, or employer-provided fringe benefits.” https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2020/demo/p60-270.pdf A USDA measure called “very low food security” roughly corresponds to “food insecure with hunger”: https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2007/june/struggling-to-feed-the-family-what-does-it-mean-to-be-food-insecure/ Among households who are poor enough to receive Food Stamps, the rate of hunger is 79% higher for people who take Food Stamps than those who don’t: • “Table 8. Percentage of households by food security status and participation in selected Federal nutrition assistance programs, 2021 … “With very low food security … Received SNAP benefits [=] 17.0 … Did not receive SNAP benefits [=] 9.5” https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/104656/err-309.pdf • CALCULATION: (17.0 – 9.5) / 9.5 = 79% Scholars have attempted to explain why “the prevalence of very low food security among households participating in SNAP was double that of nonparticipating households in the same low-income range” by theorizing that those who take SNAP benefits have “greater difficulty meeting their food needs” than those who don’t take SNAP benefits. https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/79761/err-215.pdf Scholars assume the theory above must be true because there’s no reason why giving people Food Stamps could increase hunger: “Using a multivariate logit regression framework, for example, Wilde and Nord (2005) estimate a negative impact of food stamp participation on food security even after controlling for unobserved fixed effects. Given no plausible mechanism through which food stamps would diminish food security, they conclude that their estimated coefficient is biased due to unobserved time-varying household characteristics.” https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/212843728.pdf “Moral hazard” is “the risk that an individual or organization will behave recklessly or immorally when protected from the consequences.” https://www.thefreedictionary.com/Moral+Hazard CBS News footage is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Contrary to 60 Minutes, the facts are overwhelming that earth isn’t in the midst of an “extinction crisis.” SOURCES: On 1/1/23, 60 Minutes reported, “A World Wildlife Fund study says that in the past 50 years, the abundance of global wildlife has collapsed 69%.” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-mass-extinction-60-minutes-2023-01-01/ The World Wildlife Fund study cited by 60 Minutes is based on its “Living Planet Index.” https://wwflpr.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_2022_full_report.pdf#page=18 Scholars in academic journals have documented that the Living Planet Index (LPI) “does not measure abundance.” Yet, the World Wildlife Fund claims that it does and receives “high media coverage” that makes the “common mistake of interpreting the LPI as measuring abundance loss.” https://leung-lab.github.io/leunglab/articles/Leung_2022_601a.pdf https://wwflpr.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_2022_full_report.pdf#page=18 The claim that the Living Planet Index shows a “mean vertebrate decline of more than 50% since 1970” is “driven by less than 3% of vertebrate populations,” while “no global trend remained across typical populations.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2920-6 A study using the world’s largest database of long-term species abundances found, “Most populations (85%) did not show significant trends in abundance, and those that did were balanced between winners (8%) and losers (7%).” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13242 The figure of “up to 100 times” from Barnosky’s research actually “varied from 8 to 100 times.” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1400253 A Cambridge University Press book on biodiversity explains that no “serious” attempt has been made to “judge the reliability” of extinction rates based on fossils because the “uncertainties at each stage of the calculation” would make the effort worthless. Thus, the book states, “Probably no one will be surprised if this estimate is off by a factor of 10 or even 100.” https://www.amazon.com/Biodiversity-Environmental-Philosophy-Introduction-Cambridge-ebook/dp/B000SHMQES Barnosky’s research counts all “617” vertebrae species that have become extinct or “possibly extinct” since 1500. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1400253 An academic journal documents that 95% of bird and mammal extinctions since 1500 “were on islands.” Thus, “it is useful to consider islands as a special case” because species have “smaller geographic ranges” and other differences that make them more prone to extinction than continental species. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00856.x Per the textbook Conservation and Ecology, “The estimates of the background extinction rate” from fossils “derive from the abundant and widespread species that dominate the fossil record. By contrast, the species most likely to become extinct today are rare and local.” https://www.amazon.com/Conservation-Ecology-Living-Earth-Rafferty/dp/1615303073 Per the textbook Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, “A particularly important bias of the fossil record is expressed against organisms that are rare and/or geographically restricted.” https://www.amazon.com/Vertebrate-Paleontology-Evolution-Robert-Carroll/dp/0716718227 A 2011 paper in the journal Diversity and Distributions revealed that “only six continental birds and three continental mammals were recorded in standard databases as going extinct since 1500 compared to 123 bird species and 58 mammal species on islands.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00856.x A 2015 paper in the journal Science disclosed that there were “only 15 global extinctions of marine animal species in the past 514 years” and “none in the past five decades.” https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1255641 A paper in the journal Endangered Species Research by an Australian scientist states that certain scientists overstate “the risks of wildlife becoming extinct” by using “deliberate and gross” exaggerations. The paper also states that scientists who designate species as “endangered” are “often beneficiaries” of funding that flows as a result of these designations. Thus, “the potential for self-serving assessments has long been recognized.” http://www.int-res.com/articles/esr2008/6/n006p161.pdf The scientists who authored the paper in the journal Diversity and Distributions state, “Our results do not support statements or projections by others of grossly elevated extinction rates for continental bird and mammal fauna over the last 500 years compared with background rates.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2011.00856.x In 1977, President Jimmy Carter tasked the EPA, State Department, National Science Foundation, and several other federal agencies to produce a “study of the probable changes” to the “world’s population, natural resources, and environment” up through the year 2000. This turned into a herculean effort, involving hundreds of people, including “informal advisors” to the study representing the world’s leading environmental institutions. https://www.justfacts.com/document/global_2000_report_president_carter_1979.pdf#page=4 In 1979, the dream team of scientists released The Global 2000 Report to the President of the U.S., which stated that “at least 500,000–600,000” species “will be extinguished during the next two decades” under “continued technological progress” and “no departures from present public policy.” https://www.justfacts.com/document/global_2000_report_president_carter_1979.pdf#page=357 In 2004, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported, “At least 27 species are recorded as having become Extinct or Extinct in the Wild during the last 20 years (1984–2004). … For example, eight species of birds are thought to have become Extinct or Extinct in the Wild over the past 20 years, but they are not included, as further research is needed prove the last individual has died.” https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/RL-2004-001.pdf The Global 2000 Report to the President of the U.S. states, “How many extinctions are implied by the Global 2000 Study’s forestry projections? An estimate was prepared for the Global 2000 Study by Thomas E. Lovejoy of the World Wildlife Fund.” https://www.justfacts.com/document/global_2000_report_president_carter_1979.pdf#page=353 The 60 Minutes footage from CBS is reproduced under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107

Does the U.S. Constitution require that all people born in the U.S. have a right to U.S. citizenship? Rigorous documentation of all facts in this video is available at https://www.justfactsdaily.com/birthright-citizenship-debate/ TRANSCRIPT How much do you really know about birthright citizenship? A major point of controversy is whether US born children of illegal immigrants and temporary visitors should automatically be granted US citizenship. Is this a Constitutional right or not? Let’s take a closer look with Just Facts’ question of the week. Does the 14th Amendment award U.S. citizenship to all people born in the U.S.? Yes or No? The correct answer is “No.” In addition to being born in the United States, the 14th Amendment requires people to be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States in order to become citizens. The congressional record brings even more clarity. Jacob Howard, the U.S. Senator who proposed this language, stated, “This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.” Howard also said, “the word ‘jurisdiction,’ as here employed, ought to be construed as to imply a full and complete jurisdiction on the part of the United States …. that is to say, the same jurisdiction in extent and quality as applies to every citizen of the United States now.” The 14th Amendment was adopted to guarantee that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was constitutional. This law gave citizenship to people of every race and color “without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude….” It’s important to note, that This Civil Rights Act also explicitly excludes people who are “subject to any foreign power….” You can verify the primary sources by clicking the link in the description. Did you get the answer right? Share this question with your friends. See if they know as much as they think they do. Subscribe to Just Facts today to make sure you stay ahead of the spin from the media and politicians.

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While showing heartbreaking footage of children starving in Somalia, CBS News blamed their plight on climate change, but the facts reveal an entirely different story. SOURCES: CBS News segment by host Norah O’Donnell and correspondent Debora Patta: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kevin-tober/2022/11/14/cbs-blames-climate-change-starving-dying-children-poor-somalia Somalia has a long and terrible history of droughts, experiencing 10 severe droughts from 1964 to 2011: http://www.faoswalim.org/water-resources/drought/drought-monitoring Somalia contains 1/1,000th of the earth’s surface area: “Somalia … Area total: 637,657 sq km” https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/somalia/ “The surface area around the globe is 510,072,000 square kilometers.” https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-countries-in-the-world-the-biggest-nations-as-determined-by-total-land-area.html Rigorous studies show that earth’s rainfall patterns haven’t significantly changed over the past century: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9588423/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9588423/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11575 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022169415008744 The earth’s natural vegetation productivity has actually increased over the past several decades: https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate3004 https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1082750 The portion of the world’s population that is undernourished declined from 13% in 2001 to 9% in 2020: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS The average number of daily calories needed to lift the undernourished people of the world out of that condition declined from 172 in 1992 to 88 in 2016: https://www.justfacts.com/globalwarming#assertions-famine Somalia has a problematic climate and is experiencing a severe drought: http://www.faoswalim.org/water-resources/drought/drought-monitoring https://somalia.un.org/en/208004-somalia-hope-fades-famine-looms As a scholar explained in 2011, “Famine stops at the Somali border,” and “Rainfall is not the controlling variable for this differential outcome, because rainfall is not really variable across these borders where Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia meet: http://web.archive.org/web/20111120101837/http:/www.edwardrcarr.com/opentheechochamber/2011/07/21/drought-does-not-equal-famine/ https://edwardrcarr.com/downloads/Carr%20Vitae%2028%20February%202022.pdf Somalia is wracked by civil war and Islamic extremism that imposes Sharia law on large parts of the nation: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/somalia/ Somalia has one of the most corrupt governments in the world: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2021 The UN Food and Agriculture Organization complains that Somalia has “very high humanitarian access constraints” due to “armed hostilities, bureaucratic impediments and inference, and impassable roads during the rainy season.” https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000136243/download/ Covid-19 lockdowns have caused food shortages and prices to increase, hurting the world’s poorest people the most: https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Teachout-and-Zipfel-2020-policy-brief-.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7790064/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00368504211019854 Note that in the very first month of the Covid-19 pandemic, Just Facts warned about the effects of lockdowns on food and other necessities by writing this: “If certain industries adopted the social distancing extremes that many people have embraced, this would shut down food production and distribution, health care, utilities, and other life-sustaining services. Even under far more moderate scenarios where people who are not in these industries shun work, all of those necessities and many more aspects of modern life depend on the general strength of the economy. Thus, overreacting can ultimately kill more people than are saved.” https://www.justfactsdaily.com/vital-facts-about-covid-19 In 1989, William H. Mansfield III, the deputy executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme, wrote that “concern about climate change impacts has sent storm warning flags aloft in the United Nations” because global warming would “disrupt agriculture” and “adversely” affect “food supplies”: https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi/93000F7Z.PDF?Dockey=93000F7Z.PDF#page=39 In 2007, Newsweek reported that China was undergoing “serious food shortages due to global warming”: https://www.newsweek.com/growth-not-enough-98033 In 2008, Newsweek reported that “the potential nightmares of global warming” include “starvation due to drought”: https://www.newsweek.com/mckinsey-cutting-carbon-wont-cost-much-85391 CBS News footage reproduced under the “fair use” provision of U.S. copyright law for “purposes such as criticism” and “comment” (17 U.S.C. §107). https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107