The Congress has passed resolutions calling what the Turks did genocide.
The BBC headline says "Trump says Armenia massacres were not genocide, directly contradicting Congress"
That's an out and out lie.
The only statement from Trump that the article cites was made back in April where he called what the Turks had done "one of the worst mass atrocities of the 20th century"; ie Trump put it on par with the Holocaust and the mass murder of 100,000,000 people by various communist regimes.
Trump did not say that what the Turks did wasn't genocide which means that the headline is a lie. We can be sure that if Trump ever actually said what the Turks did to the Armenians wasn't genocide that the BBC would have published it. Hence we know that they knew that they were wrong and hence it's not a misstatement but an out and out deliberate lie.
The Holocaust was an atrocity precisely because it was genocide. No one would think that calling the Holocaust an atrocity would mean that one thought that it wasn't genocide. Clearly the BBC was attempting to interfere in the upcoming election by lying about Trump. It's unlikely that Adam Schiff will mind though.
The complete dishonesty of the BBC can be seen when one reads the last sentence in the article:
"Mr Trump predecessor, Barack Obama, promised as a presidential candidate to recognise the massacres of Armenians as genocide but after his election did not use the word."
What the article didn't mention is that Obama referred to the Turks action as a "mass atrocity" and in his eight years as President he never referred to it as genocide.
So the BBC is lying about what Trump said and covering for Obama.
That's why we can't trust the #FakeNews media.
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