Trump falsely suggests large number of NYPD cops were fired

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I wish they would call falsely suggesting what it really is…a lie!
 
Back in July, it appears around 800 NYPD officers were resigning or taking early retirement or applying for the latter. And maybe the $1 billion budget reduction doesn’t mean any officers will be laid off, but it seems likely. I don’t know what the august numbers are.

But it’s CNN, so they should not be taken for truth. When the article says “suggests” that means they have interpreted something he said in a negative way. They do that all the time.
 
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But it’s CNN, so they should not be taken for truth. When the article says “suggests” that means they have interpreted something he said in a negative way. They do that all the time.
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So end of the day…were they “fired” or was Trump lying?
 
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But it’s CNN, so they should not be taken for truth.
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So, exactly what in the article is untrue? He specifically said the mayor should hire back “all of the police who were fired without justification. They were fired.”
 
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He specifically said the mayor should hire back “all of the police who were fired without justification. They were fired.”
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“He” is Trump, which brings yet another in a continuing series of false suggestions (aka LIES) to light…So, Ridgerunner, other than the word of Trump (which is always questionable) do you have any credible proof they were “fired”…Trump’s word is seldom accurate.
 
False choice. They really did let over 1,000 new and approved recruits go. I guess one could say they were “never hired” even though they were approved for hiring, told they were, and scheduled for the police academy. Most definitely if you were offered a job and then withdrew it for some prohibited reason, the EEOC would call it a “firing”.

That, I expect, is why CNN says “suggests”. You prefer “lie”.
 
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That, I expect, is why CNN says “suggests”. You prefer “lie”.
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I think in this political climate created by Trump, its fair game to instead of calling a spade a spade, calling it a what it is…a shovel!
 
I think it’s fair to say Trump has exacerbated the political climate, but he sure didn’t create it. It was just as hostile when Bush was president, it just wasn’t all day every day on the MSM. They actually had some other content back then as well between condemnations of Bush.

But Trump went beyond Bush in being prolife, nationalist, and populist, and those facts did cause a significant exacerbation of hostility against those who share those principles.
 
The article itself only said Trump’s remarks “suggested” firing. You want to call it a “lie” notwithstanding those people were hired, then terminated. I say the article was misleading inasmuch as it “suggested” that Trump lied.

You do know, don’t you, that you have to offer a person a job before you can further process them in any way under the Americans with Disabilities Act? So these people were all offered the job and took it. Then the city told them they were discharged. So I guess one could say they were “offered the job, then it was withdrawn”. But it’s a firing.
 
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CNN is the one who “suggested”, so if you want to call it a liar, that’s okay with me.

But the reality is that some 1100 rookies were offered jobs with the NYPD and accepted them. They were then vetted mentally and physically. That’s how it works under ADA. Before going to the academy for training, they were terminated.

I’ll do more than “suggest” it. They were “hired” and then they were “fired”.
 
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I’ll do more than “suggest” it. They were “hired” and then they were “fired”.
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And many will more than suggest that Trump does not mislead, does not stretch truth, does not present false narrative, but that he lies!
 
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