PBS’s coverage of Tuesday night’s Trump-Harris debate included live fact-checking from its partner PolitiFact, which has racked up a liberally slanted record. But when Harris falsely claimed Trump had promised a “bloodbath,” no one at PBS or PolitiFact corrected her.
PolitiFact didn’t award Harris a False rating on its Truth-O-Meter for that lie (and went very soft on her otherwise), instead making do with a neutral tweet, and not even mentioning it in its debate roundup. It merely tweeted:
Harris said Trump said “there will be a bloodbath” if the “outcome of this election is not to his liking.” In an Ohio speech in April, Trump criticized Biden’s plans for electric vehicles. He called out China for building manufacturing plans in Mexico and promised to put a 100% tariff on cars crossing the border.
PBS has made the same fake “bloodbath” claim…
