{"id":547144,"date":"2021-05-31T15:35:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T19:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=547144"},"modified":"2021-05-31T15:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T19:35:27","slug":"fact-check-no-john-podesta-was-not-sentenced-to-death-by-a-military-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-john-podesta-was-not-sentenced-to-death-by-a-military-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, John Podesta Was Not Sentenced To Death By A Military Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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-no-john-podesta-was-not-sentenced-to-death-by-a-military-commission%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=547144&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-621150438-scaled-e1622433330907.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CPdumdztZ8g\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;ig_rid=cc45c0f9-396e-4745-b63e-821176f1df6f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Instagram<\/a>\u00a0claims a military commission sentenced former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta to be executed on June 1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CPdumdztZ8g\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" readability=\"-9.2727272727273\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence Podesta has been indicted or sentenced for any crime punishable by death. The claim stems from a website that publishes \u201chumor, parody and satire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image in the May 29 Instagram post shows what appears to be part of a tweet sent the same day with photos of Podesta and Deputy Judge Advocate General of the Navy Rear Adm. Darse Crandall.<\/p>\n<p>The text of the tweet reads, \u201cRear Admiral Crandall; This commission decrees that John Podesta will face capital punishment by firing squad, the act to be carried out on the 1st of June. This session of the military commission on tribunals is concluded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence, however, that Podesta has been sentenced to death. Check Your Fact searched for news reports about such a sentence, yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Podesta+military+tribunal+Trump&#038;oq=Podesta+military+tribunal+Trump&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57.15519j0j7&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no such<\/a> reports appear to exist.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/01\/12\/fact-check-pope-indicted-charges-child-trafficking-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Was Pope Francis Arrested On Charges Including Human Trafficking And Fraud?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A search of the Department of Defense\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/search.usa.gov\/search?query=John%20Podesta&#038;affiliate=defensegov&#038;utf8=%26%23x2713%3B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/page\/114648515718\/search\/?q=John%20Podesta\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=John%20Podesta%20(from%3ADeptofDefense)&#038;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posts<\/a> also turned up no mention of Podesta undergoing a military trial, being indicted, convicted, sentenced or confessing to a crime punishable by death. Podesta, who founded the Center for American Progress, is still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/person\/podesta-john\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listed<\/a>\u00a0as a member of the organization\u2019s board.<\/p>\n<p>The claim appears to stem from a May 8 <a href=\"https:\/\/realrawnews.com\/2021\/05\/podesta-military-tribunal-day-3-guilty\/?fbclid=IwAR0trIfVDEZydG2UGaEXP_DvBvz-gstSmkihb_iV0TeMxyg9cUVEP5A3uCo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a> published by Real Raw News bearing the headline: \u201cPodesta Military Tribunal: Day 3 Guilty!\u201d While Real Raw News includes a <a href=\"https:\/\/realrawnews.com\/about-us\/\">disclaimer<\/a> that its articles may contain \u201chumor, parody, and satire,\u201d social media users have been sharing the claim without such a warning, seemingly believing the erroneous claim to be true.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time a false claim about Podesta that\u2019s circulating on social media has stemmed from a Real Raw News article. Check Your Fact in April <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/07\/fact-check-special-forces-arrested-john-podesta-huma-abedin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">corrected<\/a> a baseless claim stemming from a Raw News article that Podesta and Huma Abedin, an aide to Hillary Clinton, were arrested and taken to the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Instagram\u00a0claims a military commission sentenced former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta to be executed on June 1. Verdict: False There is no evidence &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278690,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-621150438-scaled-e1622433330907.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: No, John Podesta Was Not Sentenced To Death By A Military Commission","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-621150438-scaled-e1622433330907.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"FACT CHECK: No, John Podesta Was Not Sentenced To Death By A Military Commission","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547144","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}