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  • 2022-03-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Rep. Matt Gaetz’s ‘If Russia Wanted to Destabilize Ukraine, Putin... (en)
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  • Rep. Matt Gaetz’s ‘If Russia Wanted to Destabilize Ukraine, Putin Didn’t Need to Send Tanks’ Tweet Claim On February 28 2022, Rep. Matt Gaetz tweeted: If Russia wanted to destabilize Ukraine, Putin didn’t need to send tanks. We could’ve just sent Dr. Fauci. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting On March 1 2022, an Imgur user shared a purported screenshot from Twitter, apparently showing a tweet by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a response: In the top tweet, author Jessica Shortall (@jessicashortall) commented: This is weird, right? Underneath her tweet, a tweet attributed to Gaetz was quoted; the words Russia and We were circled in red. Gaetz’s tweet read: If Russia wanted to destabilize Ukraine, Putin didn’t need to send tanks. We could’ve just sent Dr. Fauci. In the screenshot of Gaetz’s tweet, he began with If Russia wanted to destabilize Ukraine, concluding with We could’ve just sent Dr. Fauci; his usage of we in proximity to Russia being the highlighted part. Commenters replied to the post, debating whether the inference was meaningful: So not They could have just sent Dr. Fauci We could have. Like Putin’s Russia and Trump’s GOP are on the same side. Telling language. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die I dunno, the guy’s an asshole, but he clearly means Americans. Pronouns are inherently vague when you’re discussing multiple entities ... No need to get creative and arbitrary about interpreting what they mean to score a gotcha wholly independent of what they intend. Yeah. He’s saying we as in we here in the US could have just sent... Gaetz is a piece of shit for sure but this is weak. True, but offering the idea of US actions to benefit Russian interests is weird. Yeah it’s just a bad joke, but that assumption is built in[.] Saying the quiet part out loud, again and again and again. And still people don’t believe. So I hate this dude with a passion. But this analysis is really stretching it. His grammar is correct here. Putin doesn’t have Fauci. We do. Thus, we could have sent Fauci is accurate. How dumb do you have to be not to realize that this ‘joke’ aligns you with a dictator trying to destabilize democracy? Shortall’s tweet was real, tweeted early on the morning of March 1 2022. Gaetz’s tweet also existed ; it was tweeted on the afternoon of February 28 2022: If Russia wanted to destabilize Ukraine, Putin didn’t need to send tanks. We could’ve just sent Dr. Fauci. — Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) February 28, 2022 A popular March 1 2022 Imgur post featured a real tweet by Rep. Matt Gaetz, in which he said if Russia wanted to destabilize Ukraine ... We could’ve just sent Dr. Fauci. Commenters debated whether the tweet hinted at an allegiance to Russia, but intent was largely impossible to verify. In any event, the tweet was real, unedited, and correctly depicted. Posted in Fact Checks , Politics Tagged gaetz russia we tweet , imgur , matt gaetz , Rep. Matt Gaetz , russia invades ukraine , ukraine , viral tweets (en)
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