A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they…
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out. Here are the real facts:
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CLAIM: “Mueller sent more armed FBI agents to arrest Roger Stone for NON VIOLENT charges than the military sent SEALS to get Osama bin Laden. Does that tell you how OUT OF CONTROL Mueller is.” – post on Facebook.
THE FACTS: The claim, which circulated widely on Facebook with photos of longtime President Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone and special counsel Robert Mueller, tries to equate the pre-dawn arrest of Stone with the highly sophisticated secret military mission to apprehend Osama bin Laden. On Jan. 25, about 12 FBI agents arrested Stone in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, according to The Associated Press. In contrast, some 48 members of SEAL Team 6 participated in the raid on bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan in 2011. According to the AP, two specially engineered Black Hawk helicopters carried “23 SEALs, an interpreter and a tracking dog named Cairo” to the compound under the cover of darkness.
