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In other words, their argument is lie by omission. Which is incredibly ironic, but more so, slimy, considering how these "fact-check" sites only practice this hyper-scrutiny against anything right-wing while being incredibly lenient otherwise. Just check the front page out, instead of highlighting news media, they go for FB comments which is the definition of low-hanging fruit. Or to sum it all up, cherry-picking. Never mind the fact that they remove the part of Trump's quote where he literally says "I guess; it looks like", or that in a general sense, Kyle was trying to get away from them since pedo manlet started chasing him. The article itself covers this, but the headline and blurb before it is much more misleading than what Trump actually said.They rated the claim as False because Trump did not mention Kyle's initial encounter. Of course this is true but most people don't read the details.
I know that it's beating a dead horse at this point, but I just find these fact-checkers more irritating than anything else, because they put on a face of bipartisanship that only cares about the truth, but they're blatantly as misleading as the mainstream media that they should be fact-checking- that is, if they weren't the same thing but dressed up for moderates.