ABC News Chief Political Analyst Caught Pushing Fake Terrorism Claim

Statistics are apparently hard to understand if you're part of the media cartel talking about terrorism, because, as I've reported many times here at PJ Media, they keep getting it wrong.

Today's contestant is Matthew Dowd, chief political analyst at ABC News, who on Twitter yesterday made this astounding claim:

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Tomi Lahren 

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Well Matt ISIS explicitly said it places sleeper cells in refugee population while law abiding gun owners DO NOT promise to murder. Got it? https://twitter.com/matthewjdowd/status/917110220945592320 …

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Matthew Dowd 

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More Americans were killed in Las Vegas in one night than have been killed by radical islam in last ten years.

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This claim, that more were killed in the Las Vegas shooting last week than by Islamic terrorists over the past decade, is flatly untrue, as I'll show you in a minute.

But when people began to push back on his false claim, he asserted it was a fact (!!!) and then repeated the claim:

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