62% view Planned Parenthood favorably (Gallup) https://t.co/O7IQyVzG7K
— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) June 27, 2018
Month: June 2018
Soybeans prices are down because of Trump’s trade war
ICYMI
The Trump Administration’s trade war is starting to have real impacts on farmers who grow everything from corn to cotton (@Dchinni @chucktodd) article & video: https://t.co/1cuXndv1hl pic.twitter.com/XYMplaBPqn— OpinionToday.com (@OpinionToday) June 28, 2018
Crowd cheers as Trump touts tariffs, but he doesn’t mention threats of retaliation from China already crippling soybean farmers.
Per ND Farmers Union: Price of soybeans DOWN 20% in last 40 days.
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) June 28, 2018
Manafort borrowed $10 million from a Russian
There can be little doubt Manafort was working for Deripaska — and thus Putin. He received a $10 million loan (payment) from Deripaska so he could work for "free" for Putin's boy Trump. Don't talk to me about no conspiracy. https://t.co/gZm707xtin
— John Weaver (@JWGOP) June 28, 2018
Federal court documents unsealed Wednesday reveal that Paul Manafort had much closer ties to a Russian oligarch linked to Vladimir Putin than had been previously disclosed. https://t.co/6GT6qOygfC
— POLITICO (@politico) June 28, 2018
It’s amazing that we’re still learning about the extent of his financial ties to Deripaska. https://t.co/qehpYiZXex
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) June 27, 2018
Another bigoted Republican candidate
Who would vote for this guy? At least the party repudiated him.
Who votes for this kind of bs? https://t.co/ANfGQl23KA
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) June 28, 2018
Economic growth was below expectations
Economic growth well below expectations in first quarter of 2018 https://t.co/CHhNUwGSsU pic.twitter.com/6bPZahayl0
— The Hill (@thehill) June 28, 2018
Debunking Trump’s doubts on Russian meddling
Since Trump keeps raising the questions, let's try to answer them once and for all — for those actually asking in good faith. https://t.co/CzFbSooCBi
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 28, 2018
Is Trump on our side or Russia’s side?
It sure looks like Russia has something on Trump. Putin could have written Trump’s tweet again challenging the fact that Russia meddled in our 2016 election. This also means Trump won’t stop Putin from meddling in the 2018 election.
We've been called "fake news" for reporting, accurately, that Trump still doubts that Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Hopefully this puts the issue to bed. Stunningly, Trump's rhetoric on this is closer to the Russian government position than the US government position. https://t.co/KgQ6hMe66K
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) June 28, 2018
Interesting worldview in which everyone else is lying, backstabbing and cheating us except one very specific country https://t.co/adgnOTJpLY
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) June 28, 2018
Seriously? Is potus really doing this again? Will sanders now echo by saying they are tougher on Russia than anyone? #truthabuse https://t.co/EWj7rRWDcx
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) June 28, 2018
Rubio is a spineless coward.
Interesting that in the midst of a tweetstorm about media bias and failure to report accurately etc, Rubio declines to call Trump out by name on this, even though he is pretty much the ONLY person regularly spreading this particular falsehood. https://t.co/VquUJPLV8J
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 28, 2018
Is @realDonaldTrump encouraging Russia to interfere in our elections again? https://t.co/sICHE5sUug
— Serge Kovaleski (@sergenyt) June 28, 2018
“Russia continues to say….” is not something we should ever hear from our Commander-in-Chief charged with America’s security. And if you don’t think it’s really weird I don’t know what to tell you but it is. https://t.co/EdJV7oS6br
— Brian Walsh (@brianjameswalsh) June 28, 2018
And remember, in this tweet, the President of the United States if America is siding with Putin and is denying the findings of his own Intelligence Community. A shocking moment in American history. https://t.co/ig6emsk2Zx
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) June 28, 2018
Hillary isn’t being investigated in part because she isn’t saying Russia is telling the truth and the CIA, FBI, and every major intelligence agency is lying – they ALL say Russia meddled in our elections, you corrupt, Russian-owned, traitorous douchebag. https://t.co/cvKgkXqeiL
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) June 28, 2018
I’m not that worried about Russia election interference 2018. What more could Putin want? @POTUS repeats Putin’s lies & seeks out a summit with Russia, a country that just attacked America. Aside from sanctions relief, Trump’s America is doing exactly what Putin wants. pic.twitter.com/gAbSolIgvi
— Clint Watts (@selectedwisdom) June 28, 2018
It is truly ominous that @POTUS would take the word of Vladimir Putin over the unanimous conclusion of his OWN Intel chiefs and SecState—even as they report that Russia is STILL meddling in our elections!
It only heightens suspicion about just what this is all about. https://t.co/u09Sr9YhtC— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) June 28, 2018
The President once again defending Russia’s innocence in electoral sabotage that *helped him get elected*, as he sets up a summit w Putin is the same as his “Russia, if you’re listening” moment. He’s telling them to keep going! He’s rooting them on.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 28, 2018
Not to state the obvious, but …
… a key reason Trump thinks he can keep inviting Russia to sabotage our next election on the GOP's behalf is that people like @DevinNunes and @RepMarkMeadows are working to undermine the Russia probe, with the tacit support of @SpeakerRyan. https://t.co/7U9vxwX1tq
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) June 28, 2018
I know it makes no difference to Trump's base, and they believe that the intelligence community is a malicious conspiracy against the Donald, but every American intel agency agrees that Russia meddled in the elections. I just feel it's necessary to say that for the 5000th time.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 28, 2018
Trump’s North Dakota rally
Click on the tweet below to get Daniel Dale’s running commentary on the rally.
Trump is about to start a rally in Fargo. I am going to tweet tweets. Mute this thread if you want to not see the tweets.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 27, 2018
"So, we're not starting a trade war, but we'll finish it." — Trump
Um, ok?https://t.co/vFfSEsvJwj
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 28, 2018
Trump thanked his donor/supporter Harold Hamm from the podium this evening in North Dakota. Perfect time to post this image which is one of my all time favorites….Hamm paid out one of the largest divorce settlements in history and he did it via personal check. Yes, this is real pic.twitter.com/02EU4f9ehO
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 28, 2018
Crowd cheers when @realDonaldTrump mentions tariffs on imports…But he doesn’t talk about the retaliations that could cripple soy bean farmers here in North Dakota. The majority of the state’s crops are exported to China. pic.twitter.com/FF30ZIOYoN
— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) June 28, 2018
At North Dakota rally, Trump again singles out McCain (without saying his name) for voting against the GOP’s skinny repeal. Though he continues to assert that was the vote to repeal and replace – when it was just a narrow repeal to get to a House-Senate conference
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 28, 2018
Trump lied about US Steel
US Steel is afraid to correct Trump’s lie because they know he would attack them.
In the most inoffensive possible way, US Steel confirms to @GlennKesslerWP that Trump is wrong about the company opening “six” (or, last night, “seven”) plants. Trump keeps saying the company CEO called to tell him about these fictional openings. https://t.co/45NJA2j3qE pic.twitter.com/5aEDjCvlYr
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 28, 2018
“What’s interesting here is not that Trump is making up random shit. He does that all the time. The interesting thing is that US Steel’s CEO, Dave Burritt, is terrified of contradicting him.” https://t.co/2kxngMra73
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 28, 2018
Trump appears to make up a phone call about a made up U.S. Steel announcement, reports @GlennKesslerWP. https://t.co/WJStVwQDoT
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) June 28, 2018
update 7/31/18
He’s still lying
This afternoon the president told steelworkers that their employer is opening up seven plants it is not opening https://t.co/HJaVLXqF4h
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 27, 2018
Trump just said (again) that US Steel was opening six new steel mills. From a CNN fact check: "As a publicly traded company, US Steel is required to announce major changes, such as opening new plants. So far, they have not made any such announcements." https://t.co/nR7gfusTVK
— Kyle Blaine (@kyletblaine) July 31, 2018
update 8/2/18:
.@realDonaldTrump said @U_S_Steel just announced that they are building six new steel mills. But they're not building a single one. Check out our fact-check: https://t.co/hHq8eamqkR pic.twitter.com/PqYxxWoM1c
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) August 2, 2018
and another lie (8/6 update):
Trump lied in June that U.S. Steel was opening "six" plants. Then he made it "seven." Last week, at a meeting with inner city pastors, he said, "United States Steel just announced another two plants. They're up to eight."
It is restarting blast furnaces at one plant.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 7, 2018
8/11/18 update – Trump just keeps lying
Trump, touting US steel as “one of the hot industries in the world,” told CEOs at Bedminster tonight that “plants are opening up literally on a daily basis.”
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) August 8, 2018
9/7 in North Dakota
"U.S. Steel is opening up eight plants," Trump lies again. It's announced major investments in two plants since he announced his tariffs.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 7, 2018
9/18/18 Trump’s false claims on steel:
Select steel
9/26/18: Trump lies again about US Steel:
Trump again upgrades his U.S. Steel lie, which started at "six plants" and went to "seven plants" and then "eight plants." Just now: "U.S. Steel is opening up a minimum of eight plants."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 26, 2018
10/1/18 Trump lies again
It wasn't true when Trump claimed U.S. Steel was opening six new plants, and it wasn't true today when he bumped that number to "eight or nine" pic.twitter.com/dVQfIqviAr
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 1, 2018
11/2/18:
.@realDonaldTrump repeated a false claim about U.S. Steel opening a half dozen or more new mills: https://t.co/QkJp8DbFF1
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) November 2, 2018
Republicans have had the majority on the Supreme Court for 46 years
Talk about the countermajoritarian difficulty: There has been a Republican majority on the Supreme Court for 46 years. A Democrat has held the White House for 20 of those years, and won the popular vote for presidencies with terms spanning 25+ years. https://t.co/lYroLTJL73
— Robert Gordon (@robertmgordon) June 27, 2018
This has slightly different dates but the basic fact of long-term Republican control remains.
Reminder: the last time the US Supreme Court had a majority of justices appointed by Democratic presidents was just before the resignation of Abe Fortas on May 14, 1969, over 49 years ago. https://t.co/MYKeYFAng0
— L. David Baron (@davidbaron) June 27, 2018