{"id":11654,"date":"2026-07-24T00:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/crocketts-history-fail-and-lefts-war-on-words-this-week\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:14:08","slug":"crocketts-history-fail-and-lefts-war-on-words-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/crocketts-history-fail-and-lefts-war-on-words-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Crockett&#8217;s History Fail and Left&#8217;s War on Words This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rep. Jasmine Crockett<\/strong> of Texas sparked confusion on Tuesday when she alleged a racist history connected to Argentina, claiming the vast majority of the world supported Spain against Argentina during a World Cup final due to this supposed background. The assertion falls apart under basic scrutiny, as <em>New York Post<\/em> reports, given that Argentina only began abolishing slavery after gaining independence from Spain itself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/strong> defended his imprecise use of political terminology on Sunday, suggesting critics suffer from an unhealthy fixation on definitions. The mayor has regularly deployed charged terms including socialism, genocide, working class, and the rich without offering clear explanations of his intended meanings.<\/p>\n<h2>Defense Bill Mischaracterized<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/strong> of New York claimed on Tuesday that the National Defense Authorization Act contains provisions to merge portions of the U.S. military with the Israel Defense Forces. The actual provision, as <em>New York Post<\/em> reveals, establishes a technology collaboration program between the United States and Israel that involves less integration than existing partnerships with Japan, Australia, India, and Canada.<\/p>\n<h2>Unsubstantiated Murder Allegations<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Rep. Seth Moulton<\/strong> of Massachusetts alleged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is conducting widespread killings of immigrants across the country, with the Trump administration actively concealing these deaths. When pressed on his evidence, Moulton cited vague stories he heard while in Minneapolis\u2014third-hand accounts that a sitting congressman has ample resources to verify before broadcasting on national television.<\/p>\n<p>The string of misstatements underscores ongoing concerns about elected officials making inflammatory claims without factual foundations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four Democratic lawmakers made disputed claims this week, including false historical assertions about Argentina, mischaracterizations of a defense bill, and unsubstantiated allegations about ICE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":11653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[466,790,9961,9510,6259,1831,209],"nfg_topic":[137],"class_list":["post-11654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-argentina","tag-democratic-party","tag-historical-misinformation","tag-jasmine-crockett","tag-political-rhetoric","tag-texas","tag-united-states","nfg_topic-culture-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11654"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=11654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}