Fact check: Trump’s misleading attack on Gov. Martinez

[WhiteTara]

http://www.wtsp.com/news/nation-now/fact-check-trumps-misleading-attack-on-gov-martinez/220821852

Donald Trump took several verbal jabs at Republican New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez after she declined to attend his rally in Albuquerque. But his criticism of her effort to keep Syrian refugees out of New Mexico was way off base.

Trump wrongly claimed that “Syrian refugees are being relocated in large numbers to New Mexico.” Only 10 Syrian refugees have been relocated to New Mexico while Martinez has served as governor.

Trump also missed the mark when he boasted that “if I was governor” the resettlement of Syrian refugees in New Mexico “wouldn’t be happening.” Governors have no legal authority to bar refugees from relocation to their state, as those who have tried found out. The resettlement process is guided by federal law.

Trump’s barbs at Martinez, who is chairwoman of the Republican Governors Association, came after the governor declined to attend Trump’s first New Mexico campaign event in Albuquerque on May 24. Martinez, the nation’s first Hispanic female governor, has criticized some of Trump’s immigration remarks and has, according to the Albuquerque Journal, been “noncommittal as to whether she will support him.”

good to see that there is some fact checking going about Daffy Donald.

[Thinkingabout]

1. Trump has his staunch supporters believing every thing he says, the chief clown.

[WhiteTara]

2. Yeah, I heard about Rolling Thunder

giving him a hearty welcome even though he is draft dodger. It's something.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. A draft dodger? Let's contact John McCain

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Who really first said John Kerry was "naive" about the internet?

[WhiteTara]

9. McCain has been bullied and beaten

into loving Drumpf.

[Bucky]

3. He turned this vicious and petty on her cause she wouldn't come to his rally.

impetuous spoiled brat

If you cross him--especially if you're a woman who irks his majesty--he just rips into you.

Ted Cruz was right about one thing. Trump has some serious problems with women and suffers from profound character flaws. It's not even a matter of politics anymore. Defeating Trump is a necessity for our democracy. Letting Trump win will cost lives, I'm sure of that now.

[WhiteTara]

6. You're right. It is imperative to defeat Trump

and we need everyone to do it. I hope we can heal our party in the next few months or it is going to be very tough and we will need to work very very hard to get out the vote.

[Major Nikon]

4. The complete inability to fact check is very telling of Trump supporters

It's not as if this is the first unsupportable claim Trump has made.

[Warpy]

5. Her problem: she told hin NO

and that she had no intention of running for VP, so he had a very public tantrum.

He will keep having tantrums over it. Best day's work Gov. Martinez has done.

[WhiteTara]

7. It seems to confirm

his first wife's allegations of him raping her.

He is a bully and a blowhard.

[AgadorSparticus]

10. That's exactly what this is: another tantrum! Nt