Shep Smith calls out Trump for pushing racist myth about a general shooting Muslims and burying them with pigs

Smith: “Of course the problem with this is, it isn't true”

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From the August 17 edition of Fox News' America's News Headquarters:

SHEPARD SMITH: Well, that's what the president's tweeted, which, helpful? I don't know. 

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Of course, the problem with this is it isn't true. So the president has said, watch what General Pershing did to try to discourage Muslim terrorists, and the premise on which he is speaking is false, by Snopes. It's just not what happened, but there's the presidential input for the day. 

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Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught. There was no more Radical Islamic Terror for 35 years!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 17, 2017

Snopes: Pershing the Thought: U.S. General John J. Pershing did not effectively discourage Muslim terrorists