Tag: Trump lies

Enraged Trump attacks Obama for separating children: ‘I’m the one that stopped it’

President Donald Trump charged his predecessor with separating families and putting children in cages, but insisted he was the one who stopped it.

The President is lying, as the AP and ABC News have previously reported.

The Trump administration, under Stephen Miller, created the “zero tolerance” policy of separating families at the border and caging children with the direct intention of deterring people from Central America attempting to come to the United States. He called it a “simple decision.”

View the complete April 9 article by David Badash of the New Civil Rights Movement on the AlterNet website here.

Trump’s false claims about Mexico’s immigration system


After a press conference with NATO’s secretary general, President Trump made two claims about Mexico’s immigration policies. (Joy Yi/The Washington Post)

“Mexico, as you know, as of yesterday, has been starting to apprehend a lot of people at their southern border coming in from Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador. And they’ve — they’re really apprehending thousands of people. And it’s the first time, really, in decades that this has taken place. And it should have taken place a long time ago. You know, Mexico has the strongest immigration laws in the world. There’s nobody who has stronger. I guess some have the same, but you can’t get any stronger than what Mexico has.”

— President Trump, in remarks at the Oval Office, April 2, 2019 Continue reading “Trump’s false claims about Mexico’s immigration system”

Trump’s biggest lie yet

He likes to claim he’s keeping his campaign promises, but let’s look at his record.

Donald Trump’s latest flip-flops on healthcare and the Mexican border continue a pattern of promises, and reversals, that gets far too little attention. His flip-flops show that Trump ignores the interests of the party he latched onto in favor of whatever crazy idea pops into his head.

Although at his rallies Trump delights his uninformed supporters with claims that he’s followed through on his campaign promises—The Wall—he is actually delivering very little.

View the complete April 3 article by David Cay Johnston of DC Report on the AlterNet website here.

Fact-checking President Trump’s latest tweetstorm

President Trump’s Twitter feed is like a fact-checking buffet sometimes, with all different kinds of false or misleading claims from which to choose.

But instead of choosing, we’re rounding up a bunch of different tweets. (Here are a few other roundups we’ve done of Trump’s rapid-fire Twitter bursts, including this one from exactly one year ago.)

Over the past two days, Trump tweeted a slew of suspect claims on immigration, Obamacare, the census, disaster relief for Puerto Rico and the Russia investigation. Each of them is worth a closer look.

View the complete April 3 article by Salvador Rizzo and Glenn Kessler on The Washington Post website here.

McConnell to Trump: We’re not repealing and replacing ObamaCare

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told President Trump in a conversation Monday that the Senate will not be moving comprehensive health care legislation before the 2020 election, despite the president asking Senate Republicans to do that in a meeting last week.

McConnell said he made clear to the president that Senate Republicans will work on bills to keep down the cost of health care, but that they will not work on a comprehensive package to replace the Affordable Care Act, which the Trump administration is trying to strike down in court.

“We had a good conversation yesterday afternoon and I pointed out to him the Senate Republicans’ view on dealing with comprehensive health care reform with a Democratic House of Representatives,” McConnell told reporters Tuesday, describing his conversation with Trump.

View the complete April 2 article by Alexander Bolton on The Hill website here.

Trump abandons plan for pre-election vote on health care after talking to McConnell

President Trump abandoned plans to press for a vote on a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act ahead of next year’s elections following a conversation with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday.

McConnell told reporters that he and Trump had “a good conversation” Monday afternoon in which he said that Senate Republicans had no intention of trying to overhaul President Obama’s signature health-care law during a campaign season — a move many in the GOP saw as politically perilous, given that the issue helped Democrats in last year’s midterm elections.

“I made it clear to him we were not going to be doing that in the Senate,” McConnell said, also pointing out the difficulty in crafting a bill that could pass the Democratic-led House. “We don’t have a misunderstanding about that.”

View the complete April 2 article by John Wagner and Erica Werner on The Washington Post website here.

President Trump has made 9,451 false or misleading claims over 801 days

It was only 200 days ago, on his 601st day in office, that President Trump exceeded 5,000 false or misleading claims.

Now, on his 801st day, the count stands at 9,451, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement the president utters. That’s a pace of 22 fishy claims a day over the past 200 days, a steep climb from the average of nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in Trump’s first year in office.

Of course, not every day yields 22 claims. The president’s tally expands when he’s giving a speech, usually at a campaign rally. At such events, he runs through many of his favorite lines, such as that he passed the biggest tax cut in history, that his U.S.-Mexico border wall is already being built and that the U.S. economy today is the best in history. All three of those claims are on The Fact Checker’s list of Bottomless Pinocchios.

View the complete April 1 article by Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo and Meg Kelly on The Washington Post website here.

‘Ridiculous bulls–t’ and other colorful moments from Trump’s Michigan rally

President Donald Trump greets supporters during a rally at the Van Andel Arena on Thursday evening in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Credit: Scott Olson, Getty Images

Fact check: President again twists truth and bends reality as supporters roar in key state

ANALYSIS — President Donald Trump mostly sang the hits with familiar themes Thursday night during his second re-election rally, but he sprinkled in plenty of eyebrow-raising lines and claims.

Trump took an early victory lap over Attorney General William P. Barr earlier this week concluding Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III failed to find criminal-level collaboration between his 2016 campaign and Russians. And he again twisted the facts by saying Mueller’s report, according to Barr, gave him “total exoneration” on obstruction of justice; Barr reported the special counsel found evidence on both sides of the obstruction argument.

From there, he made his usual boasts about the state of the economy and conjured more than one “lock her up!” chant when he mentioned Hillary Clinton and declared “walls work” when making yet another pitch for his proposed southern border wall.

View the complete March 29 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.

Trump’s outdated spin on the black unemployment rate

President Trump often takes credit for a decline in the unemployment rate for African Americans. (Joy Yi, Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)

“Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!”

— President Trump, in a tweet, Jan. 28, 2018

“African American unemployment has reached its lowest rate ever recorded — ever! Ever! Remember ‘What do you have to lose?’ What do you have to lose, right? ‘What do you have to lose?’ I said.”

— Trump, at a campaign rally in Southaven, Miss., Oct. 2, 2018 Continue reading “Trump’s outdated spin on the black unemployment rate”

Busted: Here’s the letter proving Trump lied about turning down George Conway for a job

President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, and claimed that Conway was bitter because the president refused to employ him in his administration.

“George Conway, often referred to as Mr. Kellyanne Conway by those who know him, is VERY jealous of his wife’s success and angry that I, with her help, didn’t give him the job he so desperately wanted,” the president wrote on Twitter. “I barely know him but just take a look, a stone cold LOSER and husband from hell!”

However, a letter sent by Conway to Trump in May 2017 shows that Trump is lying about what really happened.

View the complete article by Brad Reed of Raw story on the AlterNet website here.