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Quote:President Donald Trump thinks social media giants are biased against him. But there’s no evidence it’s true. On Tuesday morning, Trump lashed out at Facebook, Twitter, and Google in a tweet, writing that the companies “are so biased toward the Dems it is ridiculous!”
Trump’s claim that Twitter has “removed” followers of his appears to be a reference to Twitter’s ongoing efforts to remove bot accounts, including a campaign ahead of November’s midterm elections to purge automated accounts linked with efforts to discourage Democrats from voting. In a statement sent to Vox following Trump’s Tuesday morning tweet, a Twitter spokesperson indicated Trump’s followers aren’t being targeted. “Our focus is on the health of the service, and that includes work to remove fake accounts to prevent malicious behavior. Many prominent accounts have seen follower counts drop, but the result is higher confidence that the followers they have are real, engaged people,” the statement said..
Trump’s social media conspiracy theory, briefly debunked - Vox
In fact, the social media are likely to actually favor Republicans, because of the enormous presence of Russian Trolls, a much bigger problem than thought before and the social media have to be dragged to provide information and even more to actually do something about this.
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Remember when Trump was going to take care of veterans..
Quote:The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) left millions of dollars unspent that were available for suicide prevention efforts this year, according to a report released Monday. The report, published by the Government Accountability Office, found that the VA had $6.2 million available for suicide prevention paid media in fiscal year 2018. The department had spent just $57,000 of that budget as of September, the report found. The GAO report notes that the VA identified suicide prevention as its highest clinical priority in 2018.
VA left millions unspent for veterans suicide prevention: GAO | TheHill
Amazing. Keep in mind that 20 veterans commit suicide each day..
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Ok, it's not the President, but his spokeswomen and these are big lies:
Quote:Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a legacy of lying to such a degree it’s become a farce. Credibility from the press podium has spent the better part of her term falling to 30 percent approval rating, lower than even her boss. According to YouGov surveys, her approval rating among the Millennial Generation is an embarrassing 21 percent.
The survey doesn’t breakdown trustworthiness, but throughout 2018, Huckabee Sanders’ lies from the podium couldn’t have helped with respectability. As we close out the year and the White House career of the staffer Stephen Colbert likes calling HuckaSand, these are the most egregious lies from her podium.
Here's a look at 6 of the most egregious lies in 2018 from Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders | Alternet
- Family separation at the border
- Attack on reporters and Jim Acosta
- The Rob Porter debacle
- Trump has done way more for African-Americans than Obama
- Trump has never incited violence against reporters
- The President didn't know about the payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal
See linked article for details..
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Quote:A leaked 2015 letter shows that Donald Trump signed off on the intent to begin negotiations over building a Trump Tower in Moscow, days after the president’s lawyer claimed on TV that no such signature exists. The letter of intent, obtained by CNN, was signed by the then-presidential candidate on October 28, 2015, around the same time that Trump began to speak positively about Russian President Vladimir Putin. The deal, which was eventually scrapped, would have opened up negotiations over Trump properties in the heart of Moscow, and included a hotel spa named after the president’s daughter, Ivanka. It would also have yielded the Trump administration a $4 million upfront fee with no upfront costs.
On Sunday, Rudy Giuliani, the president’s lawyer, admitted that the letter existed, but firmly maintained that “no one signed it.” Mere days later, however, Giuliani backtracked, telling the Daily News that Trump had actually signed the letter, but that it didn’t matter because it was “bullshit” and the letter didn’t go anywhere. Trump has repeatedly claimed that he had nothing to do with any sort of investments in Russia, making 14 statements in between July 2016 and November 2018 in which he denied any involvement. “I have nothing to do with Russia,” he said during a July 2016 press conference. “How many times do I have to say that?” Prior to his inauguration in January 2017, he said “I have no deals, I have no loans and I have no dealings [with Russia].”
Trump and Giuliani’s story on Trump Tower Moscow project just fell apart – ThinkProgress
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Quote:President Trump on Wednesday bragged to troops in Iraq that he had given them a 10 percent pay raise, calling it “one of the largest pay raises” the troops have ever received and calling it the first hike in more than a decade. The troops will actually receive a 2.6 percent raise in 2019, not 10 percent, and the Pentagon has enacted raises of at least 1 percent every year for the past decade, according to Defense Department figures.
Trump bragged to troops about 10 percent pay raise that they have not received | TheHill
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Quote:Michael Cohen’s testimony to the House Oversight Committee was uncontradicted. The former personal attorney of the president of the United States today accused him of a litany of crimes, improprieties, immoralities, and betrayals of national security. And not one Republican member of the committee breathed one word in defense of the leader of their party. Those Republicans have learned the hard way never to trust President Donald Trump’s denials.
Read: Eight striking moments from Michael Cohen’s testimony
Did he direct payoffs to a porn star? Trump denied it. It was true.
Was the Trump Organization pursuing a hotel project in Moscow while he was running for president? Trump denied it. That was true too.
Did his campaign meet with someone claiming to be an agent of the Russian state to seek dirt on Hillary Clinton? Denied. True.
Was there fraud at the Trump Foundation? Denied. True.
Who wants to be the member of Congress recorded for posterity rejecting Cohen’s testimony that Roger Stone informed Trump in advance of the impending WikiLeaks dump? Who doubts that Trump helped shape Michael Cohen’s false testimony to Congress? Who wants to take the other side of the bet from Representative Ocasio-Cortez that Trump provided false financial information to insurance companies and local tax authorities? Who feels confident that Donald Trump Jr. did not lie to Congress when he denied that Trump had foreknowledge of the June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting?
Evidently, no Republican on the Oversight Committee..
Michael Cohen's Uncontradicted Testimony to Congress - The Atlantic
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Quote:One particular untruth from President Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday at a tank factory in Lima, Ohio, illustrates just how audaciously he lies.
As part of his bizarre, one-sided feud with the late Sen. John McCain, Trump boasted about an expansion of Veterans Choice legislation he signed into law last May that allows veterans to see doctors and go to facilities outside the VA system, and contrasted that with McCain’s purported failure to pass the law. “McCain didn’t get the job done for our great vets and the VA, and they knew it,” Trump said, before continuing:
Quote:That’s why, when I had my dispute with him, I had such incredible support from the vets and from the military. The vets were on my side because I got the job done. I got Choice and I got accountability. Accountability — meaning, if somebody mistreats our vets — for 45 years they were trying — they mistreat our vets, and we say, “Hey, you’re fired. Get out.” You can’t mistreat our vets. They never got it done. [applause]
And Choice — for years and years, decades, they wanted to get Choice. ... For many decades, they couldn’t get it done. It was never done. I got it five months ago. ...
Instead of waiting in line for two days, two weeks, two months — people in line, they’re not very sick. By the time they see a doctor, they’re terminally ill. We gave them Choice. If you have to wait for any extended period of time, you go outside, you go to a local doctor. We pay the bill; you get yourself better. Go home to your family. And we got it passed. We got it done.
Here’s footage
Despite what Trump would have you believe, McCain was far more instrumental than Trump in getting Veterans Choice legislation passed. Back in 2014, before Trump was even a presidential candidate, McCain and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) co-sponsored the bill, which was signed into law by then-President Obama. It allows veterans to see doctors outside the Veterans Affairs system if they have to wait a long time for an appointment or travel a long way to a VA facility.
Not only that, but the expansion of the program that Trump signed into law last year is named after McCain. Speaking on the floor of the Senate after the bill was passed, Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) credited McCain for the legislation, saying, “I want to thank John McCain, whose idea this was originally. ... John is the one who started the movement toward Choice, and he deserves the credit for it.”
Trump’s lie about McCain and Veterans Choice is one of his most brazen - Vox
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Quote:President Donald Trump on Tuesday launched his latest wild attack on wind turbines, an energy source that has long attracted his ire. "They say the noise causes cancer," the president remarked of the turbines at the National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser in Washington DC. Trump linked the technology to ex-presidential rival Hillary Clinton, who he claimed "wanted to put up wind." "If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations your house just went down 75 per cent in value. And they say the noise causes cancer, you tell me that one, OK?" remarked Trump, imitating the whirring noise made by the turbines. He went on to express concern for the effect of turbines on wild bird populations. "The thing makes so much noise, and of course it's like a graveyard for birds. If you loved birds, you'd never want to walk under a windmill again."
Trump claims wind turbines cause cancer, reigniting long feud - Business Insider
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We can't keep up with all the lies, but here is a particularly effective demonstration, one columnist reminds us of how Trump started his career with the birther nonsense, and then goes on to exchange Trump's continuous innuendo's that there must be something bad in Obama's birth certificate and why doesn't he show it (he did).
Exchange Obama's birth certificate for Trump's tax returns and apply the same rhetoric and it gets funny..
Quote:That’s what Michelle Obama said about Individual 1’s leading role in spreading the racist falsehood known as birtherism: the lie about President Obama’s birthplace that sought to inflame hatred and to ‘other’ the man who, unlike Trump, actually won the presidency with a popular vote majority—twice. As I’ve written elsewhere, Trump managed to go from birther-in-chief to commander-in-chief. As birther-in-chief, Trump set a standard, if one can call it that, for what passed as truth and fact. It seems appropriate that we apply that same standard to him, now that he is facing questions regarding his tax returns and financial records. These are far more substantive questions deriving from a significantly firmer foundation of evidence than the wild rumors he spewed regarding where Barack Obama was born. You’ve probably heard the old saying about the goose and the gander. Let’s hope the American people eventually get to see those financial documents, and that they thoroughly cook Trump’s goose.
The case for treating Trump’s tax returns like he treated Obama’s birth certificate – Alternet.org
And there is a lot more evidence that there is something dodgy in Trump's tax returns, as compared to Obama's birth certificate..
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Quote:President Donald Trump spread shoddy information about Syria, the economy and matters at the heart of the impeachment inquiry against him in a week of caustic rhetoric.
AP Fact Check: Trump’s shoddy info on Syria, impeachment | PBS NewsHour Weekend
Numerous incredible and often outrageous claims without any basis or substantiation, most of which easily
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