Tag: Trump lies

#LostTrumpHistory: Trump’s 9/11 claims become a George Conway-pushed meme

Washington Post logoAnd the tweets are so funny.

President Trump, who this month told Americans about the airports taken over in the Revolutionary War, had a new contribution to the historical record Monday at the signing of the Sept. 11 victims compensation fund extension.

“Many of those affected were firefighters, police officers and other first responders. And I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder. But I was down there. I spent a lot of time down there with you,” he said to a Rose Garden crowd that included 9/11 first responders.

There is no evidence that Trump went to Ground Zero after the 2001 terrorist attacks, but the president does have a long history of inserting himself into it, as The Fix’s JM Rieger details here.

View the complete July 30 article by Gillian Brockell on The Washington Post website here.

‘Delusional’ Trump trashed after telling 9/11 first responders that he too went to Ground Zero

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump on Monday got called out for making a “delusional” statement to a group of first responders during a signing ceremony to commemorate legislation that will permanently authorize the September 11th victim compensation fund.

During the ceremony, Trump claimed that he was at the site of the World Trade Center after the 9/11 attacks nearly 18 years ago assisting the police and fire fighters who were helping to rescue people.

“Many of those affected were fire fighters, police officers, and other first responders,” the president said. “And I was down there also, but I’m not considering myself a first responder, but I was down there, I spent a lot of time down there with you.”

There is no evidence that Trump helped search for survivors at Ground Zero, and retired New York City Fire Department Deputy Chief Richard Alles told Snopes last year that he never heard of a group of rescuers hired by Trump to help out. Additionally, Alles said that additional help from private responders was not necessary.

View the complete July 29 article by Brad Reed from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

Trump’s bizarre tweet about alcohol is raising many new questions

AlterNet logo“I never had a glass of alcohol,” President Donald Trump said at a press conference in 2018. It’s a claim that he’s made many times before that’s as much a part of his persona as are his golfing and incessant tweeting. In 2017 Trump made a toast at a UN dinner (photo), and drank “maroon liquid” from the glass. The White House would not respond to questions, according to reports.

Earlier this month Vice News reported on Trump’s claim he doesn’t drink and never has. In a lengthy exposé, the news media outlet interviewed people who say tea-totaling Trump is a myth.

“I served him. And he drank at the bar. He’d come in with John Casablancas. He’d go to the side of the bar [at Spy] by the waitress station, because he liked the waitresses. He would order light beer. It was usually Miller Lite or Bud Light,” the bartender, named Laraby, told Vice. “If they could get some large-breasted beautiful young European girl’s attention, they would get a nice bottle of wine, sometimes champagne, and move to a table. He drank his beer out of the bottle. He would nurse his beer. Even if they were there for hours, he would have three beers at the most.”

Laraby was one of nine people who described Trump’s drinking.

View the complete July 26 article by David Badash from the New Civil Rights Movement on the AlterNet website here.

Mueller says he did not meet with Trump to apply for FBI director job, countering Trump’s claims

The president wanted Mueller to say it under oath. On Wednesday, he did.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that Robert Mueller was unsuited for the role of special counsel because, as he stated Monday, “He wanted the job of FBI director and he didn’t get it” — a conflict of interest, according to the president.

Testifying before Congress Wednesday, Mueller rejected that premise.

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) asked Mueller whether he and Trump had discussed the vacancy left by fired FBI Director James Comey when the two men met in May 2017, shortly after Comey was dismissed.

View the complete July 24 article by Zack Ford on the ThinkProgress website here.

Trump claims he didn’t use ‘talking points’ to degrade Democratic congresswomen. This photo proves he’s lying

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump furiously denied reporting that his aides had supplied him with “reams of opposition research” about four Democratic congresswomen.

The president has been lobbing racist attacks at the first-year lawmakers since last weekend, and the Washington Post reported that aides had supplied the background research to urge Trump to question their patriotism and political ideas, rather than calling on them to leave the country.

“The Amazon Washington Post front page story yesterday was total Fake News,” Trump tweeted Monday morning. “They said ‘Advisors wrote new talking points and handed him reams of opposition research on the four Congresswomen.’”

The president then accidentally mocked his public persona as a man who does not read, as he attempted to push back against the reports.

View the complete July 22 article by Travis Gettys from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

Trump blames his supporters for echoing his racist words

The president waited until the crowd at his North Carolina rally finished chanting “send her back” before he resumed speaking.

President Donald Trump on Thursday attempted to distance himself from the racist “Send her back!” chant supporters shouted at a rally in North Carolina the night before.

The president specifically blamed his supporters for starting the chant, saying he was unhappy with their words, ignoring the fact that they were simply a repetition of his own racist tweets days earlier.

When asked why he didn’t stop the chant, Trump pushed back. “Number one, I think I did. I started speaking very quickly,” he said.

View the complete July 18 article by Zack Ford on the ThinkProgress website here.

CNN compiles a ridiculous video revealing a top fact-checker’s ‘telltale sign’ that Trump is lying

AlterNet logoCNN fact-checker Daniel Deale discussed the bizarre telltale sign that President Donald Trump is lying Wednesday on Jake Tapper’s show “The Lead.”

“You may have noticed that the president tells a lot of stories in which he recounts somebody telling him something,” Dale said. “And I found that the stories in which that unnamed person — usually doesn’t have a name — calls him ‘sir,’ that story is almost certain to be inaccurate in some way.”

Tapper then cued for the control room to play a montage of Trump telling such stories.

View the complete July 17 article by Cody Fenwick on the AlterNet website here.

 

President Trump accuses Rep. Omar of supporting al-Qaeda

Washington Post logo“I look at Omar. I don’t know. I never met her. I hear the way she talks about al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda has killed many Americans. She said, ‘You can hold your chest out, you can — when I think of America, huh, when I think of al-Qaeda, I can hold my chest out.’ When she talked about the World Trade Center being knocked down, ‘Some people.’ You remember the famous ‘some people’?”

— President Trump, in remarks at the White House, July 15, 2019

“When I hear people speaking about how wonderful al-Qaeda is, when I hear people talking about ‘some people,’ ‘some people’ with the World Trade Center. Some people? No, not ‘some people.’ Much more than ‘some people’.”

— Trump

“A politician that hears somebody, where we’re at war with al-Qaeda, and sees somebody talking about how great al-Qaeda is. Pick out her statement. That was Omar. ‘How great al-Qaeda is.’ And we’re losing great soldiers to al-Qaeda.”

— Trump

The president accused Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) of supporting the terrorist group behind the 9/11 attacks.

Omar, a Somali American and practicing Muslim, was elected to Congress in 2018. She’s a member of “the Squad,” an informal group of liberal Democrats that also includes Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (Mich.).

Trump lashed out at the foursome in a Twitter statement Sunday, telling them to “go back” to their countries. Asked about those racist comments the next day, Trump alleged that Omar has voiced support for al-Qaeda. “When I think of al-Qaeda, I can hold my chest out,” Trump quoted Omar as saying.

View the complete July 17 article by Salvador Rizzo on The Washington Post website here.