President Trump on Wednesday denounced House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) as a “political hack” for opening a sweeping investigation into Trump’s ties to Russia and his personal finances.
“He has no basis to do that. He’s just a political hack who’s trying to build a name for himself,” Trump told reporters at the White House after announcing his pick to lead the World Bank.
“It’s just presidential harassment and it’s unfortunate and it really does hurt our country,” Trump said of the probe.
The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website May 15, 2018:
“The percentage of Americans who live out their religion on a weekly basis — praying, going to church, reading and believing in the Bible — has remained remarkably consistent over the decades, even as the population of the United States has grown by leaps and bounds. I mean, think about it, today, relative to the population, four times as many Americans go to church on a regular basis than at the time of our nation’s founding. Religion in America isn’t receding. It’s just the opposite. Faith is gaining new life across America every day.”
— Vice President Pence, remarks at Hillsdale College commencement ceremony, May 12, 2018
We spotted these remarks when the vice president, who is deeply religious, tweeted them out after giving a speech at a conservative Christian college in Michigan. There was a furious backlash by religious researcher Joshua Grubbs that in reality many studies showed the opposite of what Pence claimed — that religion is declining in the United States.
The following article by Salvador Rizzo was posted on the Washington Post website April 19, 2018:
The stimulus package included tax cuts along with increased spending. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
“So, look, the trouble I had with the Obama [stimulus] program was it was all spending. It was all spending and most of it was not spending for infrastructure. Most of it was spending for welfare programs and social spending. That’s not a growth prescription. It’s just spending.” — Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council, in a CNN interview, April 9, 2018
The Obama-era stimulus package pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into the U.S. economy to stave off the Great Recession. Kudlow, a former CNBC pundit, dismissed it as “all spending” that went mostly to “welfare programs and social spending.” Continue reading “Larry Kudlow’s claim that the Obama stimulus was ‘all spending’”
