The week in whoppers: Chuck Schumer boasts about the shutdown, Greta Thunberg rebuts her own case and more

Diary of disturbing disinformation and dangerous delusions

This boast:

“Every day gets better for us.” — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Wednesday

We say: Schumer crows that extending the shutdown — which Dems routinely claim is the Republicans’ fault — is politically positive for his party.

Forget the real suffering it’s imposing on travelers, members of the military and federal employees: Democrats have found something to weaponize!

How sad that Schumer, terrified of a primary challenge from his left, is rushing to obstructionism to shore up his anti-Trump credibility.

This charge:

“Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war.” —  Mayoral wannabe Zohran Mamdani, Tuesday

We say: Sorry, Zo: Israel did not launch a war but merely responded to a savage act of terrorism after Hamas massacred 1,200 innocent Israelis and kidnapped 251 others.

Nor was Israel’s counterattack even close to “genocidal”; in fact, the Jewish state has gone out of its way to protect civilians in Gaza, even at the cost of its own soldiers, as it hunts down Hamas perpetrators there.

This headline:

“House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze” — Yahoo, Monday 

We say: Yahoo joined numerous outlets suggesting that a (pro-Trump) arsonist burned down Judge Diana Goldstein’s home in revenge for a ruling Team Trump criticized.

Oops: Mark Keel, chief of the state’s law enforcement division, clarified that “no evidence” exists to indicate the fire “was intentionally set.”

This claim:

“The suffering of Palestinian prisoners” — Greta Thunberg, activist, Monday 

We say: Thunberg was aiming to smear Israel for creating hunger in Gaza, but the most horrifying of the photos she posted on social media of “suffering Palestinian prisoners” showed an emaciated Evytal David, an Israeli hostage that Hamas starved and even filmed being forced to dig his own grave.

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board