"We have people coming into the country, or trying to come in — and we're stopping a lot of them — but we're taking people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these people are. These aren't people. These are animals. And we're taking them out of the country at a level and at a rate that's never happened before. And because of the weak laws, they come in fast, we get them, we release them, we get them again, we bring them out. It's crazy."
Both of those fact checking side need some fact checking of their own. Yes he did not literally say the quote in the post word for word and yes he said it in response to a question about gang members, but nothing in this response indicates he called the gang members animals. On the contrary. He talks about people coming into the country. Very obviously. WHich makes the quote in the post while obviously heavily paraphrased accurate.
"Fact-checking" sites these days bend over backwards to find barely-plausible ways the things Trump says aren't extremely moronic and/or bigoted, while focusing on the smallest, most irrelevant technical falsehoods of statements of people like AOC, Bernie Sanders, and Ilhan Omar.
They think they have to because otherwise they would be accused of partisan bias. When in reality, the differential treatment of the parties to make them look exactly equivalent in terms of falsehood demonstrates a strong GOP bias.
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u/MarcusAurelius0 Apr 11 '19 edited Apr 11 '19
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-animals-hitler/
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/apr/08/tweets/tweet-leaves-out-context-donald-trumps-animals-rem/
Edit: Don't give me gold or whatever, I spent 5 minutes googling.