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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox's Shep Smith fact-checks Trump's Amazon claims: 'None of that was true'
http://thehill.com/homenews/media/381542-foxs-shep-smith-fact-checks-trumps-amazon-claims-none-of-that-was-trueFox News host Shephard Smith on Tuesday fact-checked President Trump's claim that the U.S. Postal Service was losing large amounts of money because Amazon was delivering packages at low cost.
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Smith responded to each of Trump's claims on Tuesday.
"The Postal Service's own numbers show it makes money by delivering packages for Amazon and other companies. As for taxpayers, the post office's own website points out, and I quote, 'the Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses.' None," Smith said.
"And a reference to that $1.47 the president came up with there? A Citigroup study last year showed on average that the Postal Service was charging a $1.46 below market rates for package delivery, but our researchers point out if that discount exists, it's not just for Amazon, it's a bulk rate discount," he continued.
"There is a great deal of confusion or something here regarding Amazon and the Post Office because none of that, none of that was true," Smith told Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts.
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Smith responded to each of Trump's claims on Tuesday.
"The Postal Service's own numbers show it makes money by delivering packages for Amazon and other companies. As for taxpayers, the post office's own website points out, and I quote, 'the Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses.' None," Smith said.
"And a reference to that $1.47 the president came up with there? A Citigroup study last year showed on average that the Postal Service was charging a $1.46 below market rates for package delivery, but our researchers point out if that discount exists, it's not just for Amazon, it's a bulk rate discount," he continued.
"There is a great deal of confusion or something here regarding Amazon and the Post Office because none of that, none of that was true," Smith told Fox News White House correspondent John Roberts.
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Fox's Shep Smith fact-checks Trump's Amazon claims: 'None of that was true' (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Apr 2018
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TomSlick
(11,100 posts)1. Trump lied?
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John Fante
(3,479 posts)3. With Trump it's sometimes difficult to tell
where the extreme ignorance stops and the lying begins. He's an abomination either way.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)2. How does this man still have a job on Faux?
BigmanPigman
(51,611 posts)4. One of the world's biggest mysteries.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)5. Wish he'd go to MSNBC
I would actually watch him