MILITARY/NONTRUTHS/TERRORISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump held a rally at Pittsburgh’s airport on Saturday [3-11-18] evening to try to shore up support for Rick Saccone, the Republican on the ballot in a special election on Tuesday to fill a House seat representing a conservative western Pennsylvania district.
But he spent most of his 75-minute speech veering into other topics, including foreign policy, trade and the economy. In doing so, he made a number of false or misleading claims, including some The New York Times has previously checked…
‘ISIS, we have 98 percent of the land back.’
True, but needs context.
Mr. Trump is correct to say that the Islamic State has been forced from 98 percent of the territory it previously held in Iraq and Syria. But he is reaping the benefits of a strategy begun during the Obama administration.”
-Justin Bank, “Six Claims Trump Made at His Weekend Rally That Were False or Lacked Context,” The New York Times online, Mar. 12, 2018