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1. Donald Trump is being taken out of context with 'Germany is totally controlled by Russia', 2. This Daily Beast fact check is wrong

At a breakfast this morning with NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg in Brussels, Donald Trump said that “Germany is totally controlled by Russia,” which makes for some great viral tweets.

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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, for example:

And MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell:

But, surprise! That’s not entirely what he said. Here’s the entire exchange (also note that John Kelly doesn’t take a “long drink of water”) where Trump says, “Germany is totally controlled by Russia because they are getting 60 to 70 percent of their energy from Russia and a new pipeline”:

To make matters worse, The Daily Beast has a fact check up that says Trump used the wrong statistics, but they’re wrong:

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Screenshot from the article where The Daily Beast, quoting the BBC, says “the latest official figure was actually 50.75%:

And now via the BBC, which The Daily Beast doesn’t link to so we had to search for it. The official estimate of Russian gas imports is 50% to 75% and it looks like The Daily Beast quoted the earlier version with a typo:

Man, it’s going to be a long day.

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