Trump lies

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'Alternative facts' from Kelleyanne..

In an interview on "This Week," the ABC anchor pushed Conway to acknowledge that the bill proposes deep cuts to Medicaid, pointing out that during the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump promised he wouldn't cut the healthcare safety net program for low and middle-income Americans. "Why is the president going back on his promise?" Stephanopoulos asked.

Conway denied that the reductions were cuts, arguing that the administration was willing to consider giving more money to Medicaid than the Senate bill allowed. "This slows the rate for the future and it allows governors more flexibility, with Medicaid dollars, because they're closest to the people in need," Conway said. "We are trying to get Medicaid back to its original moorings."

The Senate healthcare bill unveiled last week proposes capping Medicaid spending, limiting the amount of federal government spending on the healthcare program. Stephanopoulos pushed back on Conway's claim that the reductions over time were not cuts. "Kellyanne, hold on a second. There's no way you could say that a 15-year-old on Medicaid is not going to be affected by the cuts in the future," Stephanopoulos said. "You said everybody who is on Medicaid now is grandfathered in and is not is not going to face any cuts. And that simply is not functional if you have more than $800 billion in cuts."

But Conway doubled down, and mockingly noted that a number of Americans paid a monetary penalty rather than paid for "this great thing called Obamacare." "You keep calling them cuts, but we don't see them as cuts," she said, reiterating that the administration saw the reduced spending as "slowing the rate of government in the future and getting Medicaid back to where it was."

Stephanopoulos grills Kellyanne Conway over Senate healthcare bill - Business Insider

And even her own party members disagree:

Asked just minutes later about her opinion on Conway's statement, Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine politely dismissed Conway. "I respectfully disagree with her analysis," Collins told Stephanopoulos.

Stephanopoulos grills Kellyanne Conway over Senate healthcare bill - Business Insider

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Trump is either lying or completely clueless, take your pick:

President Trump argued in a tweet Wednesday that Democrats are misrepresenting Medicaid cuts in the Senate's ObamaCare replacement bill. 

   

While Medicaid spending would still go up every year under the bill, a new cap put in place by the legislation would mean that Medicaid spending would not rise as fast as medical costs. States would therefore either have to find more money in their own state budgets to put into the program or cut back on enrollment or services.

The Congressional Budget Office finds that the bill would cut Medicaid spending by $772 billion over a decade. That reduction comes from both the new cap on overall Medicaid spending and reduced federal payments for ObamaCare's expansion of Medicaid. The CBO projects that the spending reductions would result in 15 million fewer people enrolled in Medicaid over a decade. 

Trump: Democrats 'purposely misstated' Medicaid cuts | TheHill

He argues that because Medicaid spending is still going up there are no cuts. Amazing.

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At it again..

Hillary Clinton's former campaign chairman, John Podesta, attacked President Donald Trump in a tweetstorm  Friday, calling the president a "whack job." Podesta was responding to a tweet the president sent earlier Friday morning in which he claimed that "everyone" at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, where the president is currently convening with world leaders, "is talking about why John Podesta refused to give the DNC server to the FBI and the CIA."

"Disgraceful!" he said. Podesta shot back by attacking Trump's refusal to unequivocally blame Russia for interfering in the 2016 US election. He referred to the finding of multiple US intelligence agencies, which concluded in a January report that the Russian government directed efforts to influence the election in favor of Trump, including cyberattacks targeting the Democratic National Committee and Podesta's email account. "Get a grip man, the Russians committed a crime when they stole my emails to help get you elected President," Podesta wrote. "Maybe you might try to find a way to mention that to President Putin." 

Podesta wrote that he "had nothing to do with the DNC," implying that he was not involved in the committee's reported refusal to grant the FBI access to its hacked computer server. Contrary to Trump's claim, there are no public reports that the CIA requested to investigate the DNC's server. A longtime Clinton aide and powerful Democratic operative, Podesta has never been a DNC official, and Clinton was not yet the Democratic nominee at the time the DNC was hacked.  

John Podesta fires back at Trump in tweetstorm - Business Insider

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Lying again in his latest pitch to get Trumpcare through the Senate..

Trump promised the new health care bill would “significantly lower premiums” and “stabilize the insurance market.” He shared horror stories of families who had relied on the Affordable Care Act for coverage but ultimately liquidated a 401(k) retirement account in order to cover their large deductibles.

The truth, however, is that the Senate bill will not lower premiums for many people. For low-income Americans, in particular, premiums could rise by as much as 700 percent. Nonpartisan analysis from the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Senate bill would destabilize the individual market. And those plans with large deductibles? They would become more common should the Senate bill become law.

Trump himself offered no proof for his claims: He was surrounded by supposed “victims of Obamacare,” who had seen their premiums and deductibles rise under the health care law, but he did not explain how any of these families would be better off under the Republican plan.

Trump’s final health care pitch makes promises he can’t keep - Vox

The excellent article explains these issues in a crystal clear way

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Another one down the drain..

President Donald Trump said he would be different — the first Republican president to embrace LGBTQ people. He said the key acronym (“L, G, B, T … Q”) at the 2016 Republican convention. He held up a pride flag at a campaign event. He initially defended the right of Caitlyn Jenner, a transgender woman, to use the bathroom that aligns with her gender identity. He tweeted, “Thank you to the LGBT community! I will fight for you while Hillary brings in more people that will threaten your freedoms and beliefs.”
And hey, Trump is from liberal New York — so how anti-LGBTQ can he be, really?
Yet six months into his administration, Trump has repeatedly proven his LGBTQ-friendly attitude was a farce.

While Trump is arguably a small step up from past Republicans, he is still very much against even basic LGBTQ rights. On Wednesday, Trump announced he will reinstate a ban on trans military service. Before that, his administration pulled back an Obama-era guidance that protected trans kids from discrimination in public schools, he appointed a Supreme Court justice who opposes LGBTQ rights, and he even failed to recognize Pride Month.

Trump promised to be a uniquely pro-LGBTQ Republican. It was total bullshit. - Vox

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From Vox:

• Trump’s tweet didn't just come out of nowhere; conservative House Republicans are trying to stop the Department of Defense from paying for gender reassignment surgery for transgender troops, saying it's too costly. That effort failed on a recent vote. [NYT / Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Helene Cooper]
  
• Trump’s statement is taking things about 10 steps further — mandating out trans military members to either leave or go back into the closet. [Rachael Bade via Twitter]
  
• Gender reassignment surgery is costly, but a recent study commissioned by the military shows transgender service members definitely aren’t breaking the bank, in part because there are so few of them. [Vox / German Lopez]
  
• Furthermore, men with erectile dysfunction actually cost the military millions of dollars more. [Washington Post / Christopher Ingraham]
  
• Trump announcing major policy change in a multi-part tweet reportedly came as a surprise to US defense officials, and at first it stoked fears that the president was getting ready to announce a strike on North Korea. [BuzzFeed / Cora Lewis, Dominic Holden, and Nancy Youseff]
  
• But just because the president tweeted about a ban, it doesn't mean changes are happening immediately. [BuzzFeed / Cora Lewis, Dominic Holden, and Nancy Youseff]
  

Turns out that:

• The military spends about 5x as much on Viagra, actually, make that 10x (see below).
  
• This is most likely just red meat for his base, some of which got upset at his treatment of Jeff Sessions.
  
• Or to save the border wall (see below).
  
• It's playing politics with people's lives, but after the Trumpcare circus, that should surprise nobody.
  

The Pentagon spent $84 million on erectile disfunction medications in 2014, 10 times the estimated annual medical costs for transgender services. Military Times reported in 2015 that the military spent $84 million on erectile disfunction medications such as Viagra and Cialis the year before. Meanwhile, a 2016 Rand Corporation study estimated that the maximum annual medical costs for transgender military members would be around $8.4 million, Business Insider reports. "You're talking about .000001% of the military budget," being spent on transgender services, Navy SEAL veteran Kristin Beck, who is transgender, told Business Insider.

Pentagon spends 10 times more on erectile disfunction meds than transgender services | TheHill

President Donald Trump's sudden announcement Wednesday morning that transgender people would be barred from serving in the US military may have been part of a last-ditch effort to save a House bill that partly funds a border wall, according to a Politico report.

Trump transgender ban part of border-wall save attempt? - Business Insider

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Consider President Donald Trump’s promises on health care, made mere days after he won the presidential election:

President-elect Donald Trump said in a weekend interview that he is nearing completion of a plan to replace President Obama’s signature health-care law with the goal of “insurance for everybody,” while also vowing to force drug companies to negotiate directly with the government on prices in Medicare and Medicaid. ... Trump said his plan for replacing most aspects of Obama’s health-care law is all but finished. Although he was coy about its details — “lower numbers, much lower deductibles” — he said he is ready to unveil it alongside Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Or take this tweet:

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Donald J. Trump 

✔@realDonaldTrump
I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.
12:38 PM - May 7, 2015

Every single one of these promises was a lie. Trump did not write or release a bill. The bills he endorsed do not provide insurance for everybody, or for more people, or even for as many people as have it today. All of the bills he endorsed are built around much, much higher deductibles, as well as massive Medicaid cuts. Trump’s words — which were reported widely, including at Vox — offered no guide to the policies he would ultimately make; they served only to mislead anyone who heard them.

From day one, the argument all Republicans could agree on was that their replacement bill was needed because Obamacare’s individual markets were collapsing — too few young and healthy people were buying insurance, and a fix was needed. This was false as a broad claim but true in some markets.

But now Senate Republicans look to be ending their process with a bill that mainly repeals the individual mandate, and thus sends far more markets into collapse. And so the one vaguely real problem they identified and repeatedly promised to solve they are now making much, much, much worse.

Republicans’ Obamacare repeal drive has revealed a political system where words have no meaning - Vox

This got to be one of the sickest jokes around. Literally nothing of it is true, and insofar as there are Republican plans, they do exactly the opposite..

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Apparently, government by Tweet doesn't work..

The highest-ranking military officer in the country said that the military’s transgender policy won’t actively change until President Trump sends specific directions to the Pentagon. “There will be no modifications to the current policy until the president’s direction has been received by the secretary of defense and the secretary has issued implementation guidance,” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford wrote in a letter. The letter comes a day after Trump tweeted that he would ban transgender people from serving in the military.

Joint Chiefs: No change in transgender policy until Trump sends Pentagon direction | TheHill

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President Donald Trump celebrated a bullish stock market on Monday and asserted: “No WH chaos!”

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Donald J. Trump 

✔@realDonaldTrump
Highest Stock Market EVER, best economic numbers in years, unemployment lowest in 17 years, wages raising, border secure, S.C.: No WH chaos!
9:28 AM - Jul 31, 2017

He’s right about the market: The Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ Composite all hit record highs in recent days. And unemployment is low, though when similar lows were recorded during the Obama administration then-candidate Trump said the unemployment rate was an inaccurate measure of the economy..

‘No WH Chaos!’ Trump Brags In Tweet On Stock Market, Employment Records – Talking Points Memo

Let's see, shall we..

• On the campaign, Trump claimed the unemployment figures were doctored and real unemployment was MUCH higher, like 42%. Now he embraces the same numbers and claims credit for them even before any of his policies could have taken effect.
  
• On the campaign, Trump said the stock market was a giant bubble and only driven by the ridiculous Fed policies and he called Janet Yellen the worst Fed president in its history. Now he's claiming the stock market is his success (even before any of his policies have taken effect) and ponders to keep Yellen on.
  

Can this guy just keep on lying without paying any price for it??

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“26 hours, 29 Trumpian False or Misleading Claims. "That was the headline on a piece last week from the Washington Post, whose reporters continued the herculean task of debunking wave after wave of President Donald Trump’s lies. (It turned out there was a 30th Trump falsehood in that time frame, regarding the head of the Boy Scouts.) The New York Timeskeeps a running tally of the president’s lies since Inauguration Day, and PolitiFact has scrutinized and rated 69 percent of Trump’s statements as mostly false, false, or “pants on fire.””

A Chilling Theory on Trump’s Nonstop Lies – Mother Jones