Tag: Trump administration lies

Trump health office lies to millions with fake reports and data

The following article by Oliver WIllis was posted on the ShareBlue.com website July 28, 2018:

An office that is key to evaluating and implementing U.S. health care policy has been repeatedly pushing out bad information to aid Trump’s attack on Obamacare.

AP Photo, Alex Brandon

Trump administration officials running a key office within the health department have been caught manipulating studies and reports in an effort to undermine Obamacare, support the administration’s anti-refugee stance, and push an anti-abortion agenda.

According to a new Politico report, staff say “the political pressures to tailor facts to fit Trump’s message have been unprecedented.”

The office of the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation (ASPE) within the Health and Human Services (HHS) department traditionally works to track the effects of health care programs and to help inform the public on health care issues.

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Trump’s top economics adviser lies about ‘rapidly’ falling budget deficit

The following article by Ryan Koronowski was posted on the ThinkProgress website June 29, 2018:

There’s just one problem.

Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, said that the deficit is “coming down rapidly” in a Friday morning appearance on Fox Business.

The problem for President Trump’s top economic adviser is that the deficit is actually rising. Continue reading “Trump’s top economics adviser lies about ‘rapidly’ falling budget deficit”

The Trump administration changed its story on family separation no fewer than 14 times before ending the policy

The following article by JM Rieger was posted on the Washington Post website June 20, 2018:

The Trump administration changed its story on immigrant family separation no fewer than 14 times in one week. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)

First it was a deterrent. Then it wasn’t.

It was a new Justice Department policy. Then it wasn’t.

The Trump administration was simply following the law. Then it said separations weren’t required by law. Continue reading “The Trump administration changed its story on family separation no fewer than 14 times before ending the policy”

Sessions says family separation is ‘necessary’ to keep the country from being ‘overwhelmed.’ Federal immigration data says otherwise.

The following article by Christopher Ingraham was posted on the Washington Post website June 18, 2018:

Attorney General Jeff Sessions says the Trump administration’s tough approach on illegal immigration is the result of a crisis: a mass influx of people coming in over the country’s southwestern border.

“We are not going to let this country be overwhelmed,” Sessions said in a May 7 speech  announcing a new “zero-tolerance” policy on southwestern border crossings. “People are not going to caravan or otherwise stampede our border.” Continue reading “Sessions says family separation is ‘necessary’ to keep the country from being ‘overwhelmed.’ Federal immigration data says otherwise.”

Liar Lies

The following article by Paul Blest was posted on the Splinter website June 17, 2018:

Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, possibly in response to a calloutfrom GOP senators Jeff Flake and Susan Collins today, tweeted out a demonstrably false statement about the Trump administration’s family separation policy this evening: that it does not exist.

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Recidivism Watch: Trump administration again blames others for its own family separation policy

The following article by Salvador Rizzo was posted on the Washington Post website June 14, 2018:

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders blamed the separation of immigrant families on Democrats. (Reuters)

“It’s the law, and that’s what the law states.”
— White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, at a news briefing, June 14, 2018

The Trump administration seems to be caught inside a “Twilight Zone” episode, insisting without evidence that its own policy of separating undocumented immigrant children from their parents is somehow a long-standing law and that any blame should go to Democrats.

The president got this ball rolling himself in a series of tweets and statements over the past few months. Continue reading “Recidivism Watch: Trump administration again blames others for its own family separation policy”

‘Uncomplicatedly, Flatly Wrong’: Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Demolishes Trump’s Claim that Special Counsels Are ‘Unconstitutional’

The following article by Cody Fenwick was posted on the AlterNet website June 11, 2018:

He refutes the legal arguments — and also takes a few swipes at the president himself.

Credit: Gage Skidmore

The bizarre tensions between White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and her husband George Conway have been evident for a while now — but the sharp division in their views of President Donald Trump have perhaps never been as evident as they are now.

In a new article for Lawfare, George Conway dismantles the argument that special counsel Robert Mueller’s appointment is unconstitutional — one of Trump’s recent attacks on the Russia investigation. George Conway has been a notable critic of Trump for months, but nothing stands as quite a rebuke to a president as questioning his understanding of the Constitution, even while Kellyanne Conway remains one of Trump’s most fervent and shameless defenders. Continue reading “‘Uncomplicatedly, Flatly Wrong’: Kellyanne Conway’s Husband Demolishes Trump’s Claim that Special Counsels Are ‘Unconstitutional’”

Ivanka Trump Was In Contact With A Russian Who Offered A Trump-Putin Meeting

The following article by Anthony Cormier, Jason Leopold and Emma Loop was posted on the Buzzfeed.com website June 6, 2018:

Her contact, a Russian Olympic weightlifter, said a meeting between Trump and Putin could expedite a Trump tower in Moscow.

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Amid intense scrutiny of contacts between Donald Trump’s inner circle and representatives of Vladimir Putin, Ivanka Trump’s name has barely come up. But during the campaign, she connected her father’s personal lawyer with a Russian athlete who offered to introduce Donald Trump to Putin to facilitate a 100-story Trump tower in Moscow, according to emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News and four sources with knowledge of the matter.

There is no evidence that Ivanka Trump’s contact with the athlete — the former Olympic weightlifter Dmitry Klokov — was illegal or that it had anything to do with the election. Nor is it clear that Klokov could even have introduced Trump to the Russian president. But congressional investigators have reviewed emails and questioned witnesses about the interaction, according to two of the sources, and so has special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, according to the other two. Continue reading “Ivanka Trump Was In Contact With A Russian Who Offered A Trump-Putin Meeting”

In the Trump administration, the truth comes out after vigorous denials

The following article by Ashley Parker was posted on the Washington Post website June 4, 2018:

Both President Trump’s legal and political teams were vigorous in their denials: The president had absolutely not dictated a misleading statement on behalf of his oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., to explain away a controversial meeting he had with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower.

“Apart from being of no consequence, the characterizations are misinformed, inaccurate, and not pertinent,” Jay Sekulow, one Trump’s personal attorneys at the time, said in response to a Washington Post story last summer that first reported the president’s role in dictating his son’s response. Continue reading “In the Trump administration, the truth comes out after vigorous denials”