Laura Ingraham just lied to the American people about the level of respect our country is given by our own allies.
LIE: Laura Ingraham: “And many of our allies, they don’t respect us anymore.”
THE TRUTH
FactCheck.org: “U.S. is viewed more favorably now than it was before Obama took office in 2009.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama said that ‘respect for America has fallen. Crime is rising.’ Neither statement is true. As we’ve written before, the U.S. is viewed more favorably now than it was before Obama took office in 2009. According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project’s June 2016 update, the percentage of those with favorable views of the U.S. increased in countries such as Japan, Italy, France, Britain, Germany and China. Among the few countries in which the U.S. favorable rating has slipped is Russia, where U.S. favorability plunged to 15 percent in 2015, down 31 percentage points from 2008.
When Hillary Clinton left office, the world viewed the United States more favorably than it did before she took office. A Pew Research poll measuring favorable opinions of the United States found that the international community’s opinions of the United States were higher when Sec. Clinton left office than it was before she took office