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Undated:
... when researchers refer to lying, they don't include the mindless
pleasantries or polite equivocations we offer each other in passing, such as
"I'm fine, thanks" or "No trouble at all." An "official" lie actually misleads,
deliberately conveying a false impression. So complimenting a friend's awful
haircut or telling a creditor that the check is in the mail both qualify ...
Although we're socialized from the time we can speak to believe that it's always
better to tell the truth, in reality society often encourages and even rewards
deception ... anyone under enough pressure, or given enough incentive, will lie
... the people least likely to lie are those who score high on psychological
scales of responsibility.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199705/the-truth-about-lying
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Trump Lies:
The falsehoods, mischaracterizations, and outright lies have become so common as
to be a kind of avalanche, burying the body politic in misinformation. The
intent is to blur, or erase, the line between fact and fiction, so that anything
can be "true" if enough of the president's supporters will believe it. The
question is whether we can weather the storm long enough to correct the record.
January 10, 2018
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15049822/trump-2000-lie/
Undated (ongoing): All False statements
involving Donald Trump
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/
-- 2011 --
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Spring: Under what circumstances, if
any, should lies be made criminal?
https://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7396&context=jclc
-- 2016 --
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December 26: Trump swears his administration
will only 'buy American and hire American'
What he didn't explain in his Instagram vow, however, is why his businesses
haven't yet followed those rules that he claims to be so "simple." In the last
15 years, Trump's businesses have hired "at least 1,256 foreign guest workers,"
CNN
reported. Since Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015, his
companies
have requested "at least 190 foreign visa workers."
Most recently, it was reported that the Trump Winery vineyard is looking to hire
six foreign workers to start just days after Trump is sworn in as president.
Trump also reportedly got approval from the U.S. Labor Department in October to
hire
64 foreign workers to fill temporary jobs over the winter at his Mar-a-Lago
Club in Florida.
http://theweek.com/speedreads/669936/trump-swears-administration-only-buy-american-hire-american
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January-February:
Trump’s Lies vs. Your Brain
... Unfortunately, it’s no contest. Here’s what psychology tells us about life
under a leader totally indifferent to the truth.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/donald-trump-lies-liar-effect-brain-214658
February 26: Trump understands the power of
using a tweet or claim "to divert attention, " and journalists can and should
outsmart such tactics by giving as little airtime as possible to any false
claims ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/26/us/trump-prof-fact-check-cnntv/index.html
February 26: How to effectively fact-check
Donald Trump
An American academic said Sunday that though fact-checking President Donald
Trump is essential, the media currently are getting it all wrong.
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From the crowd size at his inauguration to national murder rates, journalists
have tended to simply counter Trump's claims by first repeating them -- then
reporting that they are false. But that's not enough ... The central tenet of
his theory when it comes to fact-checking Trump ... is that
"if you just negate what he's saying, you're going to just strengthen him."
In short, "the very fact of repeating a falsehood in proclaiming it as incorrect
can actually have the opposite effect in terms of informing the public," the
professor said.
http://www.tristatehomepage.com/news/politics/how-to-effectively-factcheck-donald-trump/663222026
April 18:
... various right wing web sites ... reported a claim that Malcolm Nance, a retired Navy
intelligence officer, veteran counterterrorism expert and current MSNBC
commentator, called for the Islamic State, or ISIS, to bomb property belonging
to President Donald Trump.
[In fact,] Nance’s tweet was a “threat assessment” based on the fact that both
President Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are particularly
resented by ISIS, and that both have recently been in the news together, making
a location that both bears Trump’s name and is situated in Erdoğan’s country
vulnerable. On 18 April 2017, the news media widely
reported that President Trump had called to congratulate Erdoğan on a
referendum election that granted him expanded powers. In June 2016, the Turkish
president
called for Trump’s name to be removed from a building owned by a Turkish
conglomerate, because of the then-candidate’s derogatory comments about Muslims
while on the campaign trail.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/04/22/counterterrorism-isis-trump/
May 19: In 365 days, President Trump has
made 2,140 false or misleading claims
... The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made
by President Trump since assuming office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term=.ae7e935bed33
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July 24: Sunday [discussion] between
CNN "Reliable Sources"
anchor Brian Stelter and counselor to President Donald Trump Kellyanne
Conway:
STELTER: "The scandals are about the President's
lies. About voter fraud, about wiretapping, his repeated lies about those
issues. That's the scandal."
CONWAY: "[Donald Trump] doesn't think he's lying
about those issues, and you know it."
The truth is determined by its
adherence to known facts, not by whether or not you think you are telling it.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/kellyanne-conway-trump/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
July 27: The 25 Worst Lies From Donald
Trump’s First 200 Days
https://www.vogue.com/article/donald-trump-lies-200-days
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October 9: [Fact Checker]
In 263 days, President Trump has
made 1,318 false and misleading claims
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.c4a883ef01f0
October 11: ... what Trump said ... about US taxes
... It's pretty simple: "We're the highest taxed
nation in the world."
That's not true --
as fact-checkers have said repeatedly. There's no way of crunching the
numbers where the US is
any higher than the 17th highest-taxed country in the world.
...
(The
US has the third highest corporate income tax rate in the world behind the
UAE and Puerto Rico.) ...
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/politics/sarah-sanders-trump-taxes/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
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October 11: [When it comes to the U.S. being
the highest taxed in the world] the President
is not telling the truth. And given that this claim has been fact-checked to
death, there's no way he thinks he is telling the truth. But he just
keeps saying it anyway [likely to please his base] ... Truth and facts are not
negotiable.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/11/politics/sarah-sanders-trump-taxes/?iid=ob_article_footer_expansion
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December 14: President Donald Trump has told
nearly six times more lies in the first 10 months of his presidency than former
President Barack Obama did in his entire 8-year term, according to data
collected and published Thursday in the New York Times.
The “Trump’s
Lies vs. Obama’s” piece, featured in the opinion section of the publication,
was a sequel of sorts to a list the NYT published over the summer
titled “Trump’s
Lies.” After the initial article’s publication, supporters pushed back
against the newspaper with one common response: “if you made a similar list for
previous presidents, it would be just as bad.”
And so newspaper set out to compare Trump and his predecessor.
The NYT says it applied the same standard to both presidents and
counted “only demonstrably and substantially false statements.” It didn’t count
repeated mentions of the same falsehood.
http://fortune.com/2017/12/14/trump-lies-new-york-times/
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December 15:
Donald Trump, Lying, and Eroding Social Trust
Are presidential lies pushing us toward a low-trust society?
Americans' trust in their national government hovers around
historic lows according to a Pew Research Center poll this month. The poll
reports that "only 18 percent of Americans today say they can trust the
government in Washington to do what is right 'just about always' (3 percent) or
'most of the time' (15 percent)." This is down from a post–September 11 high of
60 percent in 2001. In modern polling, public trust in the federal government
was at its zenith at 77 percent, in 1964.
http://reason.com/blog/2017/12/15/trump-lying-and-eroding-social-trust
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Undated:
President Trump’s torrent of misleading statements and flat-out
lies has an army of journalists working 24/7 to set the record straight.
https://www.nrdc.org/trump-lies
January 4: Donald Trump Lies About
Everything, Including Steve Bannon
It is absurd for the president to claim that “Steve Bannon has nothing to do
with me or my presidency.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-lies-about-everything-including-steve-bannon/
January 10:
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a15049822/trump-2000-lie/
January 25: One day after Donald J. Trump
offered to testify under oath for the special counsel, Robert Mueller, a newly
discovered video of Trump lying under oath has sent shock waves through
Washington.
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In the video, which experts believe was recorded approximately one year ago,
Trump places his left hand on a Bible and raises his right hand before uttering
a stream of falsehoods.
“The video shows him lying in front of what appears to be a substantial number
of witnesses, including his wife and a Supreme Court Justice,” Davis Logsdon, a
professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, said. “It does raise
questions about what, exactly, testifying under oath means to him.”
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/video-emerges-of-trump-lying-under-oath
January 27: Could lying about trying to fire
Mueller put Trump in even more hot water?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/27/could-lying-about-attempting-to-fire-mueller-put-trump-in-even-more-hot-water/?utm_term=.3129f995dd12
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January 28: It takes a White House village
to enable President Trump's serial lying
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-trump-lie-mueller-20180128-story.html
January
30: Reps. Maxine Waters and John Lewis Are Boycotting Trump's State
of the Union Speech
"Why would I take my time to go and sit and listen to a liar?"
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/maxine-waters-john-lewis-boycotting-trump-state-of-the-union-speech
January 31: The political theater of the
State of
the Union is predictable. A President enters a joint session of Congress to
loud applause. He touts his accomplishments, puts forward an agenda for the
coming year, tells dramatic stories to illustrate policy positions and affirms
the greatness of America. During the spectacle, the side of the President’s
party repeatedly offers a standing ovation. The other sits with grim faces and
folded arms. Pundits try to make sense of it. Substance gets lost.
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What happens when a large swath of the audience for the State of the Union no
longer believes the theater? When the constant lies of politicians, especially
the lies of the President, have poisoned the body politic?
http://time.com/5127598/trumps-state-of-the-union-told-a-great-american-lie/
February 1: Trump's Lies Pave the Way for
War
There’s a likely ending to all this military bluster and buildup, and it’s one
that goes boom.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2018-02-01/national-security-lies-in-donald-trumps-state-of-the-union-address
February 1:
President Trump has told a lot of brazen lies in his first year in office, but
few are as easily exposed as the one he told Thursday morning about the
TV ratings for his first State of the Union address.
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TV-ratings information is public, and Trump’s tweet was quickly fact checked.
Unsurprisingly, it’s false.
Fewer people watched Trump’s first SOTU than the initial addresses of Presidents
Obama, Bush, and Clinton. Obama’s first SOTU in 2010 had just over 48
million viewers, while Bush’s, in 2002, had nearly 52 million. Clinton’s 1993
address just edged out Trump’s with 45.8 million viewers.
[Regardless of the "why" of Trump's lying,] what we know now is that this
President is saying things that aren't true at a remarkably fast pace. According
to stats kept by The Washington Post's Fact Checker,
Trump said more than 2,000 things that were either totally false or broadly
misleading before he had even spent a full year in office.]
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/trump-is-lying-about-his-state-of-the-union-ratings.html
February 1: Trump ends Twitter silence with
blatant lie, gets corrected by Fox News ... Even Trump's favorite network
acknowledges his SOTU audience was not the largest ever.
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-ends-twitter-silence-with-blatant-lie-gets-corrected-by-fox-news-3f9c8c4f4738/
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February 6: Trump’s Lawyers Seem to Think
He’s Incapable of Not Lying
Late last month, President Trump declared that he’s not only willing to answer
questions from Robert Mueller, he’s eager to sit down with the special counsel.
“I would love to do it, and I would like to do it as soon as possible,” Trump
said, adding, “I would do it under oath, absolutely.”
White House attorney Ty Cobb quickly
intervened, saying Trump meant that he was ready to meet with Mueller’s
investigators, but would be “guided by the advice of his personal counsel.”
Now the New York Times
reports that Trump’s legal team has reached an
unsurprising decision: They don’t want him talking to Mueller, especially
not under oath. The worst-case scenario is that Trump’s attorneys think he’s
guilty of some Russia-related crime. But the Times suggests there’s a
somewhat less damning explanation: They think the president of the United States
is innocent, but incapable of telling the truth. “His lawyers are concerned that
the president, who has a history of making false statements and contradicting
himself, could be charged with lying to investigators,” the paper reports.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/trumps-lawyers-seem-to-think-hes-incapable-of-not-lying.html
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February 8: Donald Trump Lied About How Much
Money He Paid for Melania’s Engagement Ring
For a 2005 story about his wedding with Melania Knauss,
Donald Trump told the New York Times that Graff Diamonds
gave him a $1 million discount on her $1.5 million, 15-carat engagement ring
because “only a fool” would pay “a million dollars more for a diamond.” Well,
color Trump a fool, because based on
new reporting from Forbes, the president blatantly lied about the
discount.
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Three sources confirmed to Forbes that Trump was — shockingly! — being
dishonest, including Graff Diamonds chairman Laurence Graff. The billionaire
said that Trump was “a pleasure to do business with,” but that he was given “no
favors” when purchasing the ring. Another Graff authority, CEO Nicholas Paine,
said, “We don’t sell items for publicity value.” A third unnamed source was able
to speak to the urgency of the purchase, claiming that Trump “paid for [the
ring] in full, and he paid immediately.”
Given that Trump
dropped another $3 million last year on a 25-carat ring for Melania, what
kind of fool does that make him now?
https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/donald-trump-has-been-lying-about-melanias-engagement-ring.html
February 9:
This administration has such respect for women. Why, one could
even argue that President Trump himself is
largely responsible for the #MeToo movement.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/02/09/shocking-that-this-white-house-would-defend-abuser/lfptGsUfFjktnsLhtOyZTO/story.html
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February 18: The Top 10 Lies In The Trump
Budget
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2018/02/18/the-top-10-lies-in-the-trump-budget/#7ea7e8845fd8
February 19: Trump spent the weekend
tweeting about Russia. He lied, a lot.
Here are the three biggest whoppers from a very long list.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/19/17027906/trump-russia-social-media-indictment-lies
February 20:
Donald Trump Lies: Electoral College Victory Exaggerated
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“One of the biggest Electoral College victories in history,” Trump says. In
fact, there have been few smaller margins—only twelve winners took in a smaller
share, while 45 winners enjoyed larger margins. Never mind the smashing 49-state
victories of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, Donald Trump (at 57 percent of the
electoral votes) came in well behind such mediocrities as James Polk (62
percent) and Bill Clinton (69 percent, then 70 percent). Trump came in well
behind Barack Obama, though he did best Rutherford B. Hayes.
https://www.nationalreview.com/blog/corner/donald-trump-lies-electoral-college-victory-exaggerated/
March 1: Omarosa Says
Hope Hicks' White Lies For Trump Included the Size of His Inauguration Crowd
http://people.com/politics/omarosa-trump-hope-hicks-inauguration-crowd-size/
March 2: How President Trump Lies About Guns
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We paired with PolitiFact to do some fact-checking.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/president-trump-lies-about-guns
March 9: Megyn Kelly
Reveals Putin Will Call President Trump Out on a Lie in 'Combative' New TV
Special
Kelly, who interviewed the Russian president in Moscow last week, tells PEOPLE
he “directly contradicts Donald Trump on something that Trump has been telling
us for a while and it is as plain as the nose on your face.”
Though Kelly declined to go into detail on Trump’s reported falsehood, she adds,
“It’s very clear that Trump lied and Vladimir Putin puts the lie to Trump’s
claim.”
http://people.com/politics/megyn-kelly-putin-interview-president-trump-lie/
March 11: Trump Says His Approval Rate Is
Near 50 Percent. It Is Not. ... On Sunday, President Trump made some ludicrous
comments on Twitter. In other news, the sun rose in the east.
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Ranking the president’s Sunday tweets in terms of importance, his
claim
that the New York Times was lying about his efforts to hire a new
lawyer to defend against Robert Mueller’s special investigation — which the
paper
vigorously denied — took the cake.
But in terms of sheer absurdity, it was a toss-up between Trump’s claim that
Republicans are 5-0 in congressional races since he became president (which
conveniently ignores a certain Alabama Senate race and a California
congressional seat) and his contention that the lying media is ignoring how
popular he actually is.
... multiple websites track Trump’s aggregate approval rating day by day, and
none of them have registered anywhere near 50 percent approval since … ever.
FiveThirtyEight
has him
at 40.7 percent — well under President Obama’s 49.1 percent rating at the
same juncture in his presidency — while RealClearPolitics
has him at 40.9 percent. These ratings are actually on the high side of
Trump’s persistently low ratings, which have usually hovered in the high 30s
since last summer.
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The president has been deeply unpopular for a long time. But Trump lies so much
to inflate his wealth, importance, and popularity that it’s sometimes hard to
remember
just how disliked he really is.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-says-his-approval-rate-is-near-50-it-is-not.html
March 17: If you
wanted to tell the story of an entire Presidency in a single tweet, you could
try the one that President Trump posted after Attorney General Jeff Sessions
fired Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the F.B.I., on Friday night.
On Twitter: Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for
the hard working men and women of the FBI - A great day for Democracy.
Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He
knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the
FBI!
@realDonaldTrump
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... Every sentence violates norms established by Presidents of both parties.
Every sentence displays the pettiness and the vindictiveness of a man unsuited
to the job he holds.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/donald-trump-and-the-craven-firing-of-andrew-mccabe
April 13: Trumps lies corrode democracy.
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/04/13/trumps-lies-corrode-democracy/
May 1: President Trump has made 3,001
false or misleading claims so far ... That’s an average of nearly 6.5 claims a
day.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
May 14:
Michael Bloomberg Slams ‘Epidemic’ Of Political Lies As Danger To
Democracy
http://www.johnlothiannews.com/2018/05/michael-bloomberg-slams-epidemic-of-political-lies-as-danger-to-democracy/
May 20: Donald Trump said 11 false things in
just 5 tweets Sunday morning
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Between 9:04 am and 9:37 am, Trump sent 5 tweets -- all around the same basic
theme: He is being unfairly persecuted by special counsel Robert Mueller even as
Mueller and the broader FBI overlook crimes by Democrats.
The tweets are riddled with misinformation and, in some cases, outright
falsehoods. Taken together, Trump said 11 things that aren't true. Here's the
breakdown -- tweet by tweet.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/politics/donald-trump-sunday-tweets/index.html
May 24: Jake Tapper Shreds Donald Trump With A Long List Of His
Conspiracy Theories
“I could go on, but this is just an hour show.”
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Lead,” Tapper dissected Trump’s latest
unsubstantiated “SPYGATE” claim that the
FBI conducted surveillance on his 2016 election campaign for “political
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As “we await the investigation into the matter,” said Tapper, it’s “worth
remembering that while we’re sticking to the facts and telling you just what we
know, President Trump apparently has no constraints since he simply makes stuff
up.”
“He frequently lies and has a long and well-documented career engaging in
conspiracy theories about all manner of subjects with no concrete evidence ever
provided,” Tapper added.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jake-tapper-donald-trump-conspiracy-theories_us_5b06598de4b05f0fc8448d0c
June 5: Jake Tapper Brutally Fact
Checks Trump’s Lies About The Philadelphia Eagles
,,, the president said in a Twitter post the White House would no longer honor
the team since Eagles players
kneeling during the National Anthem was disrespectful to the country.
“In point of fact, not once during the regular or post-season did any members of
the Philadelphia Eagles kneel during the National Anthem,” Tapper said. “Not
once!”
Trump also tweeted that “Staying in the Locker Room for the playing of our
National Anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling. Sorry!” Again,
Tapper set him straight.
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“Yeah, that was the
Pittsburgh Steelers who stayed in the locker room during the anthem, Mr.
President. Not the Philadelphia Eagles,” Tapper said, referring to one of the
early games in the 2017 season.
“Again, the suggestion that it was the Eagles that did that ― false, deceptive,
a lie,” he said.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jake-tapper-brutally-fact-checks-trumps-lies-about-the-super-bowl-champs_us_5b16fe15e4b0734a99386f25
June 18:
The
president of the United States told a blatant lie
about Germany on Monday, claiming that the nation’s crime rate — which is
at its lowest level in 25 years — has gone “way up” since Europe granted
asylum to
hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing the wars in Syria and Iraq.
The lie,
posted
on Twitter by Donald Trump, was an attempt to justify the exceedingly cruel
measures he ordered to deter unauthorized immigration, including the arrest of
asylum-seekers at the southern border and the removal of their children for
detention
in cages.
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It was widely debunked and criticized by Germans ...
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/18/donald-trump-angela-merkel-germany-refugees-immigration/
June 18: The Trump Administration Is Lying
About Its Family-Separation Policy
The policy is real. And Democrats
aren’t to blame—Donald Trump is.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/trump-administration-family-separation-policy-border
June 25: With help from Fox News, Trump
pushes brazen lie about his family separation policy
But it’s simply not the case that Trump’s policy is the same as Obama’s.
It is true that family separations happened during Obama. As former homeland
security secretary Jeh Johnson recently
explained to NPR, “I can’t say that it never happened. There may have been
some exigent situation, some emergency… There may have been some doubt about
whether the adult accompanying the child was in fact the parent of the child.”
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But ... separations did not happen “as a matter of policy or practice. It’s not
something that I could ask our Border Patrol or our immigration enforcement
personnel to do.”
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-fox-news-brazen-lie-immigration-family-separation-policy-b0aa1d66051d/
July 3: Reporter to Sarah Sanders: Why did
Trump lie?
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders defends President Donald Trump's
contradicting tweets on the immigration bill, placing blame for its failure on
Democrats.
http://www.wktv.com/content/national/487196771.html
July 5:
President Trump made waves at his Montana rally Thursday night while challenging
Senator Elizabeth Warren's claims of a Native American heritage.
"I shouldn't tell you because I like to not give away secrets," Trump said. "But
let's say I'm debating Pocahontas. I promise you I'll do this: I will take, you
know those little kits they sell on television... learn your heritage!"
"A guy says he was born in Scotland, turns out h was born in Puerto Rico, that's
okay, that's good, you know. A guy ways he was born in Germany, he was born
someplace else."
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"And in the middle of the debate, when she proclaims that she is of Indian
heritage because her mother said she has high cheek bones, that is her only
evidence, her mother said we have high cheek bones," Trump continued.
"We will take that little kit -- but we have to do it gently. Because we're in
the #MeToo generation, we have to do it gently," the president trolled. "And we
will very genlty take that kit, and slowly toss it, hoping it doesn't injure her
arm, and we will say: I will give you a million dollars to your favorite
charity, paid for by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an Indian."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/07/05/trump_offers_1_million_for_pocahontas_elizabeth_warren_to_take_dna_test.html
July 27: The 25 Worst Lies From Donald
Trump’s First 200 Days
https://www.vogue.com/article/donald-trump-lies-200-days
July 30: Donald Trump didn't tell the whole
truth about the Russia investigation 7 times in 1 tweet
"There is No Collusion,"
wrote the President of the United States. "The Robert Mueller Rigged Witch
Hunt, headed now by 17 (increased from 13, including an Obama White House
lawyer) Angry Democrats, was started by a fraudulent Dossier, paid for by
Crooked Hillary and the DNC. Therefore, the Witch Hunt is an illegal Scam!"
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That tweet totals 47 words (and 277 characters -- sliding just under Twitter's
280-character limit). And despite its relative brevity, there are at least seven
examples of exaggerations, mischaracterizations and outright falsehoods
contained in it. That's one for every seven words!
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/30/politics/donald-trump-tweets-mueller-russia/index.html
August 27: To hear President Donald Trump
tell it on Monday, the
United States is abandoning the NAFTA free trade deal between the US, Canada
and Mexico in favor of a bilateral agreement between the US and Mexico. And
possibly a second bilateral deal with Canada.
But none of that is happening.
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There is no formal free trade deal between the US and Mexico, only an agreement
between the two countries on how to resolve key issues in their trade
relationship as part of the NAFTA talks. The US trade representative's office
officially described the agreement as "a preliminary agreement in principle ...
to update the 24-year-old NAFTA with modern provisions representing a 21st
century."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/27/politics/trump-nafta-deal/index.html
September 7: In the battle for control of
Congress, President Donald Trump's weapon of choice is fear.
At a rally for Republican Senate nominee Matt Rosendale in Billings, Montana, on
Thursday night, the president warned his faithful that Democrats would raise
their taxes, take their guns, block his wall, abolish the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement agency, open U.S. borders, end Social Security and cut
Medicare.
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He's also warned supporters this summer that the outcome in November could spell
trouble for freedom of speech and religion and the First Amendment — and that if
the GOP loses, violence could follow.
The overwhelming majority of the claims are patently false, but with two months
to go — and analysts in both parties convinced that there’s a nonremote chance
Republicans could lose at least the House — Trump is in desperation mode.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/fear-loathing-trump-campaign-trail-n907521
September 9:
A government photographer told
investigators that he intentionally cropped photos of President Donald Trump's
inauguration to remove empty space and make the audience look larger, according
to newly released documents.
Trump claimed footage of the
event did not jibe with the number of people he saw from the stage. His
then-press secretary, Sean Spicer, gathered reporters the following evening and
claimed, "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration --
period."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/trump-inauguration-photos/index.html
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September 11:
2 new polls show sharp drops in Trump's approval, honesty, intelligence ratings
Americans are happy with the economy, according to two polls released Monday.
With President Trump? Not so much.
https://theweek.com/speedreads/795233/2-new-polls-show-sharp-drops-trumps-approval-honesty-intelligence-ratings
September 13: Trump lied about Puerto Rico's
death toll after Hurricane Maria. But island officials enabled that behavior.
The local government clearly felt it had to cozy up to the president for funds
to rebuild. This is the inevitable result.
President Trump is finally feeling the pressure for never formally acknowledging
the fact — yes,
despite his tweets, the fact — that the number of people who died as a
result of Hurricane Maria and its aftereffects was never just the 16 lives, a
number about which he so proudly bragged about last October in San Juan.
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But his tweets on Thursday morning essentially rejecting the local government’s
official death count of 2,975 lives and blaming Democrats, with no evidence, for
inflating the numbers are the most insulting and shameful comments about Puerto
Ricans since Maria destroyed the island last September.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-lied-about-puerto-rico-s-death-toll-after-ncna909296
October 15: At
a July 5 rally in Montana, President Trump went on a lengthy rant about one
of his favorite targets: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and her claim to Native
American ancestry.
“I’m going to get one of those little [DNA testing] kits and in the middle of
the debate, when she proclaims she’s of Indian heritage...," Trump said. “And we
will say, ‘I will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for
by Trump, if you take the test and it shows you’re an Indian.' "
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/15/trump-dared-elizabeth-warren-take-dna-test-prove-her-native-american-ancestry-now-what/?utm_term=.a3c7701985b1
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October 15:
President Donald Trump claims he "didn't say" that he would pay $1 million
to Democratic Sen.
Elizabeth Warren for taking DNA test to review her Native American heritage,
after she released the results of one on Monday morning.
"Who cares?" Trump said when asked about the DNA test. When pressed on the
once-promised $1 million payment, Trump responded: "I didn't say that. You
better read it again."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/15/politics/donald-trump-elizabeth-warren-dna-1-million/index.html
October 22: Some Presidential Lies Are
Impeachable Offenses
Will Trump’s statements on Russia come back to haunt him?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/some-presidential-lies-are-impeachable-offenses/573421/
November 1: Trump: 'When I can, I tell the
truth'
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/01/politics/donald-trump-truth/index.html
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December 13: George Conway: Why take Trump's
word over prosecutors' if he 'lies about virtually everything'
“Given that Trump has repeatedly lied about the Daniels and McDougal
payments—and given that he lies about virtually everything else, to the point
that his own former personal lawyer described him as a “f****ing liar”—why
should we take his word over that of federal prosecutors?” Conway tweeted.
December 14: Michael Cohen On Trump In TV
Interview: 'The Man Doesn't Tell The Truth'
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Michael Cohen, President Trump's onetime lawyer and fixer, says his former boss
knew it was wrong to order hush-money payments made during the 2016 presidential
campaign to two women who allege they had affairs with Trump --but he directed
Cohen to do it anyway to help his election chances.
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/676672787/cohen-on-trump-the-man-doesn-t-tell-the-truth
Undated: All False statements involving
Donald Trump
https://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/statements/byruling/false/
Undated: We are not holding our breath that
President Trump will start backing up his administration’s environmental agenda
with scientific facts. But we are holding him accountable for what he says.
President Trump’s torrent of misleading statements and flat-out lies has an army
of journalists working 24/7 to set the record straight. To help those who focus,
as we do, on climate, energy, and other environmental issues, NRDC will call out
Trump whenever he distorts the facts about such matters. Here, we offer our
inaugural edition of Trump Lies. We expect to update it regularly.
https://www.nrdc.org/trump-lies
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December 17: Rudy Giuliani's truly
remarkable answer on Donald Trump's lying
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani spent his Sunday "defending" Donald
Trump and "advocating" for the President's innocence as it relates to the
ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
He did an extremely poor job of it -- creating any number of problematic
storylines for the President, including an acknowledgment that Trump's team had
conversations with Russians about a business venture in Moscow far longer into
the 2016 election than had been previously known.
Let's start with the fact that Giuliani is admitting that Trump lied.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/17/politics/donald-trump-rudy-giuliani-robert-mueller/
December 18: Fox News Contributor: Lying To
FBI Is Like ‘Pulling Off Mattress Tags’
By contrast, the judge sentencing Michael Flynn for lying about his contact with
Russians said he “sold [his] country out.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/matt-schlapp-fox-news-michael-flynn_us_5c192a07e4b02d2cae8dc9b2
-- 2019 --
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January 1:
Former presidents deny praising Trump's wall
Living former presidents have denied President Donald Trump's claim that they
had commended him for his commitment to build a wall along the nation's southern
border. CNN's
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/08/erin-burnett-monologue-donald-trump-former-president-border-wall-ebof-vpx.cnn
May 24:
Fact-checking Trump, Sanders' claims that House Dems getting nothing done
While defending President Donald Trump's decision to stop work on infrastructure
legislation until House investigations into his administration stop, White House
press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday morning
argued on CNN that House Democrats have not accomplished anything
legislatively.
Both Sanders' claim and Trump's are misleading. While the
Democratic-controlled House is pursuing
11 investigations relating to the President, House Democrats
have also passed 235 pieces of legislation since January, including several
major bills. Of those, only a handful have been taken up by the Republican-held
Senate.
According to Congress.gov, the House has passed
235 pieces of legislation during the current session of Congress. That
includes big items on the Democratic agenda as well as smaller bipartisan bills
that get passed in any Congress, like the naming of post offices.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/sarah-sanders-trump-house-democrats-do-nothing-fact-check/index.html
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