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Trump claims he signed a law that’s been on the books for decades
President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he signed legislation that has, in fact, been law for many years:
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Secured $86.5 billion for the VA
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Trump Complains: ‘I’ve Been Attacked For Giving $19M To Charity’
Donald Trump released a statement on Thursday, after agreeing to pay $2 million to settle a lawsuit against his now-defunct namesake foundation, complaining that he had been “attacked by political hacks” for donating $19 million to charity.
“I am the only person I know, perhaps the only person in history,” he claimed, “who can give major money to charity ($19M), charge no expense, and be attacked by political hacks in New York State. No wonder why we are all leaving!”
Trump recently declared himself a resident of Florida, after decades as a New Yorker. According to the New York Times, a source close to Trump said the change was for tax purposes.
View the complete November 8 article by Josh Israel on the National Memo website here.
In latest China pivot, Trump says partial trade deal might not be completed this year
Speaking on the south lawn of the White House, the president added to confusion over the state of the roller coaster talks. He denied reports — which the White House had confirmed one day earlier — that he had agreed to remove some tariffs as part of an initial deal.
View the complete November 8 article by David J. Lynch on The Washington Post website here.
Trump rails against House Democrats, impeachment inquiry during campaign rally: ‘It’s all a hoax’
President Trump spent the outset of a campaign rally Wednesday evening railing against House Democrats, accusing them of pursuing a “deranged, delusional, destructive and hyperpartisan impeachment witch hunt.”
“It’s all a hoax. It’s a scam,” Trump told a cheering crowd at the Monroe Civic Center in Louisiana.
“I had a perfect phone call, a totally perfect phone call,” he added, referring to his July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Trump also continued his attacks on the credibility of the anonymous whistleblower who raised alarm about the call, accusing the individual of making a “horrible statement” about the call and claiming without evidence that the person had “disappeared” after the White House released a transcript of it.
View the complete November 6 article by Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.
Rand Paul blocks Senate resolution backing protection for whistleblowers
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blocked a resolution Wednesday reaffirming the Senate’s support for whistleblower protections and accused Democrats of “fake outrage.”
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) had asked for unanimous consent to pass the resolution, which “acknowledges the contributions of whistleblowers” and throws the chamber’s support behind protecting whistleblowers from retaliation.
“The threats we have seen over the last few days are so egregious they demand bipartisan outrage from one end of this chamber to the other, whether you’re a Democrat, Republican, independent, liberal, moderate or conservative,” Schumer said on the Senate floor. “What’s happening here is another erosion of the values of this republic for political expediency.”
View the complete November 6 article by Jordain Carney on The Hill website here.
Social psychology shows ‘repeated exposure to a claim increases the likelihood you think it’s accurate’ — and Trump knows how to use that to his advantage
President Donald Trump is a master of delivering talking points on repeat — however misleading or false they may be. And in a report for the Washington Post, journalists Toluse Olorunnipa and Philip Rucker deliver some bad news: it works, at least with some people.
Repeating bogus talking points over and over, the journalists note, is “a form of gaslighting that has become the central defense strategy for the president as he faces his greatest political threat yet.” The political threat Olorunnipa and Rucker are referring to is an impeachment inquiry, and they note Trump routinely tries to undermine that inquiry with false statements — for example, claiming that only “Never Trumpers” have complied with inquiry-related subpoenas or insisting that polls that show a growing support for impeachment are “fake.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed that a whistleblower’s account of his July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky “bears no resemblance” to what was actually said that day. But Olorunnipa and Rucker note that the whistleblower’s assertions have been “corroborated by the reconstructed transcript released by the White House” — and that witness testimony in the impeachment inquiry has “backed up most of the whistleblower report’s main conclusions.”
View the complete November 6 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.
Reporter corners GOP’s Jim Jordan after he says Trump’s word is sufficient evidence of no quid pro quo
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) insisted on Wednesday that he takes Donald Trump’s word over the word of four other witnesses who indicated that the president pushed Ukraine for a quid pro quo in order to receive promised aid.
While speaking to reporters at the U.S. Capitol, Jordan was asked how he weighs the words of different witnesses with regard to Ukraine.
“If one witnesses says there’s no quid pro quo but multiple others say there is, what do you do with that?” the reporter wondered.
View the complete November 6 article by David Edwards from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.
Trump’s false claim about what the Ukrainian president said about the U.S. ambassador
“I really don’t know her. But if you look at the transcripts, the president of Ukraine was not a fan of hers, either. I mean, he did not exactly say glowing things. I’m sure she’s a very fine woman. I just don’t know much about her.”
— President Trump, in remarks to reporters about former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, Nov. 4, 2019
“Even if you listen to the very good conversation that I had — a very, very good, no-pressure, congenial conversation with the new president of Ukraine — he had some things that were not flattering to say about her. And that came out of the blue.”
— Trump, in a Fox News interview, Oct. 12, 2019
Trump keeps telling people to “read the transcript” of his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, insisting that the July 25 conversation did not include any impeachable conduct.
Trump also keeps saying that Zelensky voiced dissatisfaction with Marie Yovanovitch, a career U.S. diplomat who until recently was the American ambassador in Kyiv, on that phone call.
We read the transcript. Trump criticized Yovanovitch first, and Zelensky, seemingly under pressure, said he agreed.
View the complete November 6 article by Salvador Rizzo on The Washington Post website here.
Trump makes falsehoods central to impeachment defense as incriminating evidence mounts
“The whistleblower said lots of things that weren’t so good, folks. You’re going to find out,” Trump said Monday at a campaign rally. “These are very dishonest people.”
Behind him were men and women in “Read the Transcript” T-shirts — echoing through their apparel Trump’s attempt to recast an incriminating summary of his July 25 call with Ukraine’s president as a piece of exonerating evidence.