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Want to Know More About: The Trump Shutdown and Its Impact

John Dickerson: “The Standoff Between The President And Democratic Leaders Over That Wall Has Shut Down Parts Of Government For 18 Days.” JOHN DICKERSON: “The standoff between the president and democratic leaders over that wall has shut down parts of government for 18 days. Democrats are demanding equal air time to respond to the president’s speech.” [CBS This Morning, CBS, 1/8/19; Video]

Mary Bruce: “The Air Line Pilots Association Says It Is Making The Air System More Dangerous Saying, Quote, The Shutdown Is Adversely Affecting The Safety, Security, And Efficiency Of Our National Airspace System.” [Good Morning America, ABC, 1/8/19; VIDEO]

The Real Impact of the Trump Shutdown

Tom Costello: “One Of The Programs In Jeopardy, Food Stamps. Nearly 39 Million People Use It To Feed Their Families, And It’s Quickly Running Out Of Funding.” Food Stamp Recipient: “I Won’t Be Able To Come In Here And Buy My Groceries.”[Today, NBC, 1/8/19; VIDEO] Continue reading “Want to Know More About: The Trump Shutdown and Its Impact”

Trump Admin Lies To Prolong Manufactured Crisis At The Border

Trump shut down the government over a manufactured crisis at the border. The Trump administration has continued to lie and spread misleading data to try and justify why they are keeping hundreds of thousands of workers from getting their paychecks.

Sarah Sanders was fact checked on Fox News Sunday for citing misleading data to falsely claim that terrorists are crossing the southern border.

Sarah Sanders: “We know that roughly nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally, and we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is southern border.”

Fox News’ Chris Wallace: “But they’re not coming across the southern border, Sarah, they’re coming and they’re being stopped at airports.” Continue reading “Trump Admin Lies To Prolong Manufactured Crisis At The Border”

A defensive Trump calls a Cabinet meeting and uses it to boast, deflect and distract

As the partial government shutdown continued on Jan. 3, senators discussed what it will take to reopen the government. (Zoeann Murphy, Rhonda Colvin/The Washington Post)

The Debrief: An occasional series offering a reporter’s insights

President Trump, 12 days into a government shutdown and facing new scrutiny from emboldened Democrats, inaugurated the new year Wednesday with a Cabinet meeting. It quickly became a 95-minute stream-of-consciousness defense of his presidency and worldview, filled with falsehoods, revisionist history and self-aggrandizement.

Trump trashed his former secretary of defense, retired four-star Marine Gen. Jim Mattis, as a failure after once holding him out as a star of his administration.

“What’s he done for me?” Trump said.

View the complete January 2 article by Anne Gearan on The Washington Post website here.

The lies Trump is using to justify his border wall shutdown

Credit: Evan Vuccil, AP Photo

Separating fact from fiction.

President Donald Trump rejected compromises from both Democrats and Republicans to re-open the federal government ahead of a border security briefing with Congressional leaders on Wednesday.

Democrats have offered $2.5 billion in border security funding, but because it is half of Trump’s $5 billion demand, it was not accepted. A compromise from some Senate Republicans, which would have given Trump his border wall money while also providing protections to young undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children, also failed to pass the Trump test.

Faced with a federal government shutdown entering into its 12th day, Trump maintained his hardline stance on immigration and request for $5 billion in border wall funding. By deploying fear-mongering tactics and lies about immigration, the president is attempting to gin up his Republican base while simultaneously trying to convince Democrats of the wall’s necessity.

View the complete January 2 article by Rebekah Entralgo website on the ThinkProgress website here.

Trump claims there’s a 10-foot wall around the Obamas’ D.C. home. He is wrong.

The Obamas’ home on Belmont Street in the Kalorama neighborhood of Northwest D.C. Credit: Ricky Carioti, The Washington Post

In one of his most recent arguments for a southern border wall, President Trump on Sunday falsely claimed that the Washington home of former president Barack Obama and Michelle Obama is surrounded by a 10-foot wall.

Trump’s tweet comes in the midst of a partial government shutdown, which was spurred Dec. 22 by Trump’s demand for $5 billion in funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. He alleged that the “wall” around the Obamas’ mansion was necessary for the former first couple’s “safety and security,” adding that the United States needs a “slightly larger version!”

Trump’s assertion came as a surprise to two of the Obamas’ neighbors Monday, who told The Washington Post that there is no such wall. The 8,200-square-foot structure, despite several security features, is completely visible from the street.

View the complete December 31 article by Michael Brice-Saddler on The Washington Post website here.

Deciphering the Patterns in Trump’s Falsehoods

We review how President Trump bent the truth this year by repeating and inflating falsehoods, shifting his statements, embellishing or omitting details, and offering misleading attacks.

President Trump has a well-documented problem telling the truth.

Fact checkers have compiled lists of all of Mr. Trump’s falsehoods since he took office (The Washington Post counts over 7,500, and The Toronto Star over 3,900), rounded up his most egregious whoppers in year-end lists and scrutinized his claims in real time with television chyrons.

Here at The New York Times, we have also fact-checked countless campaign rallies, news conferences, interviews and Twitter posts. After nearly two years of assessing the accuracy of Mr. Trump’s statements, we can draw some conclusions not just about the scale of the president’s mendacity, but also about how he uses inaccurate claims to advance his agenda, criticize the news media and celebrate his achievements.

View the complete December 29 article by Linda Qiu on The New York Times website here.

A year of unprecedented deception: Trump averaged 15 false claims a day in 2018

President Trump’s year of lies, false statements and misleading claims started with some morning tweets.

Over a couple of hours on Jan. 2, Trump made false claims about three of his favorite targets — Iran, the New York Times and Hillary Clinton. He also took credit for the “best and safest year on record” for commercial aviation, even though there had been no commercial plane crashes in the United States since 2009 and, in any case, the president has little to do with ensuring the safety of commercial aviation.

The fusillade of tweets was the start of a year of unprecedented deception during which Trump became increasingly unmoored from the truth. When 2018 began, the president had made 1,989 false and misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database, which tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. By the end of the year, Trump had accumulated more than 7,600 untruths during his presidency — averaging more than 15 erroneous claims a day during 2018, almost triple the rate from the year before.

View the complete December 30 article by Glenn Kessler on The Washington Post website here.

Trump Lies Again About 19,000 ‘Deleted’ FBI Text Messages

The inspector general of the president’s own Justice Department concluded the texts were missing due to technological glitches; 20,000 were recovered.

As President Donald Trump raged against “angry Democrats” in a tweet Saturday, he repeated a lie that 19,000 FBI texts had been deliberately deleted and were missing. More than 20,000 FBI agent texts lost in a technological glitch were recovered, which was clearly stated in a report early this month by the Office of the Inspector General in Trump’s own Justice Department.

“All Texts Demanded!” Trump tweeted, claiming “Mueller Angry Democrats” recently “deleted approximately 19,000 Text messages” between former FBI agent Peter Strzok and his girlfriend, FBI lawyer Lisa Page. “This is a total Obstruction of Justice,” he added.

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The Mueller Angry Democrats recently deleted approximately 19,000 Text messages between FBI Agent Lisa Page and her lover, Agent Peter S. These Texts were asked for and INVALUABLE to the truth of the Witch Hunt Hoax. This is a total Obstruction of Justice. All Texts Demanded!

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Strzok was fired in August for derogatory comments about Trump he sent to Page, who resigned in May.

View the complete December 29 article by Mary Papenfuss on the Huffington Post website here.

Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting

WASHINGTON — A mobile phone traced to President Donald Trump’s former lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen briefly sent signals ricocheting off cell towers in the Prague area in late summer 2016, at the height of the presidential campaign, leaving an electronic record to support claims that Cohen met secretly there with Russian officials, four people with knowledge of the matter say.

During the same period of late August or early September, electronic eavesdropping by an Eastern European intelligence agency picked up a conversation among Russians, one of whom remarked that Cohen was in Prague, two people familiar with the incident said.

The phone and surveillance data, which have not previously been disclosed, lend new credence to a key part of a former British spy’s dossier of Kremlin intelligence describing purported coordination between Trump’s campaign and Russia’s election meddling operation.

View the complete December 27 article by Peter Stone and Greg Gordon on the McClatchyDC website here.

Trump’s arguments about the wall are mostly exaggerated or false

A broad debunking.

President Trump’s sales pitch for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico hasn’t really changed much since he first launched his presidential campaign in 2015. He summarized it in a tweet Thursday meant to pressure Democrats into acquiescing to his demand for billions in dollars of funding for its construction.

“Need to stop Drugs, Human Trafficking, Gang Members & Criminals from coming into our Country,” Trump wrote with his idiosyncratic capitalization. Later in the day he added that Democrats want an “Open Southern Border and the large scale crime that comes with such stupidity.”

Democrats don’t want “open borders,” of course, but oppose the construction of the wall in part because it’s so central to Trump’s priorities. But the bigger reason Democrats oppose construction of the wall is that Trump’s arguments about what the wall will prevent are inflated or incorrect.

View the complete December 27 article by Philip Bump on The Washington Post website here.