{"id":1859612,"date":"2023-02-25T05:05:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T10:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1859612"},"modified":"2023-02-25T05:06:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T10:06:21","slug":"fact-check-pete-buttigieg-is-a-capable-and-competent-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-pete-buttigieg-is-a-capable-and-competent-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Pete Buttigieg Is a &#8216;Capable and Competent&#8217; Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-pete-buttigieg-is-a-capable-and-competent-leader%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1859612&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><strong>Claim<\/strong>Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is sometimes called Alfred E. Neuman. &#8220;capable and competent&#8221; A leader who is able to stand up against Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who said it<\/strong>: The Lincoln Project, also known as the Lincoln Pervert Project. &#8220;Until capable and competent leaders stand up to Trump, he will continue to deflect,&#8221; The controversial super PAC wrote the following: <a href=\"https:\/\/mobile.twitter.com\/ProjectLincoln\/status\/1628994381448417282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tweet<\/a> These are linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/3871219-buttigieg-calls-on-trump-to-back-reversing-deregulation-in-wake-of-train-derailment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Article<\/a> Trump blames Buttigieg, Ohio for the toxic train crash in East Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong>: The Lincoln Project is composed of Democratic activists and very online &#8220;former Republicans&#8221; They enjoy grifting as much or more than they enjoy acting. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/parody\/rick-wilson-wife-plunderer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boorish man-children<\/a>. They will support any politician who appeals to their donors\u2014rich liberals driven insane by Trump\u2014and Buttigieg is one of the most beloved Democrats among this particular demographic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-3 text-gray font-sanserif text-4xl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/buttigieg-rich-white-libs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>READ MORE: Pete Buttigieg is dominant in the &#8216;Boat Shoe&#8217; Strongholds at Nantucket and Martha&#8217;s Vineyard, Cape Cod<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Analyse<\/strong>: We could not find any evidence supporting the claim that Buttigieg was a &#8220;capable and competent&#8221; Just as we couldn&#8217;t find leader <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/fact-check-buttigieg-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Any evidence<\/a> Support claims that the transportation secretary was a &#8220;star of Biden&#8217;s cabinet.&#8221; There has been a multitude of transportation-related <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/pete-buttigieg-train-wreck-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scams<\/a> He has managed each of them with the political deftness and humanoid McKinsey consultant&#8217;s eye.<\/p>\n<p>This is not surprising. It is not enough to ride a bicycle and want to be president of South Bend (the fourth-largest Indiana city), are qualifications to lead the U.S. Department of Transportation. One of his accomplishments as mayor was the creation of a bike sharing program. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/as-mayor-pete-buttigieg-saw-his-own-street-repaved\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Repaving<\/a> The street in front his house and angered the black community while running for president at the tender age of 37.<\/p>\n<p> Verdict: This claim is rated 4 Clintons.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claim: Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, sometimes referred to as Alfred E. Neuman, is a &#8220;capable and competent&#8221; leader who can stand up to former president Donald Trump.<br \/>\nThe post FACT CHECK: Pete Buttigieg Is a &#8216;Capable and Competent&#8217; Leader appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1859615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[19679,4943,5335,10097,3939,8633],"class_list":["post-1859612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-capable","tag-buttigieg","tag-check","tag-competent","tag-leader","tag-pete"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1859615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}