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Letter: Half-truths are being repeated

By Tom Nelson, VANCOUVER
Published: December 30, 2022, 6:00am

I am glad that we have been blindfolded from the facts, because facts will only confuse issues!

Blindfolding is done in many ways, editing, exaggerating, and repeating half-truths until they become accepted. Editing President Trump’s speech of Jan. 6 on the ellipse is a good example. The Jan. 6 committee and many citizens in the media have repeated the edited speech so often that now it has been accepted.

President Trump’s collusion with Russia was repeated so often that even the intelligence community believed it after it was proven to be false. Rep. Adam Schiff said that he knew President Trump was guilty, but he could not tell us where the information came from, because of security reasons. And now Schiff and a panel of U.S. House Representatives are attempting to prove half-truths about President Trump’s involvement in the Jan. 6 event at the capital.

Has Schiff ever apologized to President Trump for the distortion of facts about Russia? Will the Jan. 6 committee ever let us citizens hear the part of the ellipse speech where President Trump says let us peacefully march to the Capitol. Probably not, as it would affect the tone of the kangaroo court.

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