Fact Checker

The Washington Post disputes Donald Trump's assertion that illegal immigrants have a higher crime rate than native-born Americans ... awarding him four Pinocchios after a obfuscating and wandering set of often-biased statistics and tables ... see: Wsshington Post Story. (For instance switching back and forth between legal and illegal immigrant categories.) If you can follow the logic of this rambling put-downs, then you probably also appreciate Hillary Clinton's way of (not) answering questions.

However, there is a much more lucid analysis of the real numbers which I have previously referenced in another blog (Trump d'Oeil) ... wherein I presented a short analysis of same by John Hinderaker in the Powerline blog ... see: Donald Trump Was Right. Somehow the Washington Post never found its way to these very revealing statistics from the U.S. Sentencing Commission that Hinderaker quotes. I can't help but wonder why?

Also I suggest that other Republican candidates, the Republican establishment, and media pundits also try to digest these numbers before they lash out at The Donald. (However there may be one flaw in Hinderaker's analysis ... and that is that he assumes that there are 11 million illegal immigrants in this country. If this number is 20 or 30 million, then the proportion of illegal immigrants who are criminals is a little more understandable ... but still unnerving.)

The real question is ... who fact checks the fact checker?