It's time for the White House and Senate Republicans to listen to the American people and end the disastrous #TrumpShutdown. https://t.co/Ps5ucZuAQp
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) January 8, 2019
Majority opposes Trump on the wall and shutdown
Month: January 2019
You can bet on how many false statements Trump will make tonight
I would take the over. He’s going to crush 3.5.
BookMaker, an offshore gambling house that claims 30 years in the business, is laying odds on how many times Trump will lie when he addresses the nation at 9 p.m.
Tell the Senate to end the #TrumpShutdown here: https://t.co/uqr0DalG2m https://t.co/nhGOcqEKLN
#NoWall— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) January 8, 2019
The impact of Trump’s shutdown
The impact is being felt by federal employees, contractors and users of government services. It is all Trump’s fault and totally unnecessary.
Government shutdowns cost our country billions in lost output and weakened economic growth.
Everyday the shutdown continues does real damage to our country and economy. https://t.co/4FQ1M6BXrq
— Nate Lerner (@NathanLerner) January 6, 2019
Trump, speaking to reporters about the shutdown, says the federal workers who are on track to miss a paycheck “will adjust.” Context: The head of the largest federal workers union says its members live paycheck to paycheck and take home an average of $500 a week.
— Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) January 6, 2019
Trump simultaneously claims most furloughed federal employees are democrats AND that those employees support his wall, over being paid. https://t.co/l5BjdNkzfg
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) January 5, 2019
President Trump insisted on Friday that most furloughed federal employees supported his wall, that Mexico is paying for it and that it would stop a horde of terrorists from crossing the border. None of that was true. https://t.co/4pt59wk5uc
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 6, 2019
I spoke to a couple of feds yesterday about how they felt about not getting paid and their words for Trump made Rashida Tlaib sound like Pollyanna https://t.co/92gNVyfru8
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) January 6, 2019
“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”https://t.co/31xvPe5Qyc
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) January 8, 2019
Secret Service agents, including members of the protective services division, are growing increasingly anxious and angry about working w/o pay.
“They are asking you to put your life on the line and not paying you — it’s ridiculous," a 20-year veteran says.https://t.co/W3jOn4i0TW— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) January 8, 2019
Lloyd Gardner, a unit counselor for the Bureau of Prisons, voted for Trump in 2016 and says he may not do so again. “This has been the breaking point. He’s saying the government workers are OK with this? I haven’t met one who say they are OK with it." https://t.co/S18qt1JoXu
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) January 8, 2019
Exclusive: TSA official warns of shutdown impact on security operations at California airport @CNN https://t.co/YjsCDsViY7
— Rene Marsh (@Rene_MarshCNN) January 8, 2019
We don’t need a wall
Only Trump’s cult wants the wall. It’s a phony crisis.
If the GOP wants a wall so badly, they can try to propose and pass a bill like anybody else.
Instead, they are seizing gov operations + innocent people’s pay until they get what they want.
This is called hostage-taking. And no one can compromise or negotiate with that. https://t.co/utYLL1k8m9
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 6, 2019
Ed Zarenski has spent 30 years estimating construction projects. A reality check here about the steel "wall" –> https://t.co/xG0u7DCUp8
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 6, 2019
I wonder if someone would get in trouble with Twitter if they suggested building the wall out of dead Republicans. Asking for a friend.
— Unko Tim (@timmyturmoil) January 7, 2019
I wonder if someone would get in trouble with Twitter if they suggested building the wall out of dead Republicans. Asking for a friend.
— Unko Tim (@timmyturmoil) January 7, 2019
Border wall funding fight is also a fight about basic facts https://t.co/tBw5r1ZpRC via @brianstelter
— Fuego (@NiemanLabFuego) January 7, 2019
"Yes, he can do it in part…on government property," says law professor @steve_vladeck on whether Trump can declare a national emergency to build a border wall.
"A majority of the property along the US/Mexico border is, in fact, private property." https://t.co/jRqHheJub5 pic.twitter.com/JjwUzwNx47
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) January 7, 2019
Trump lied this week that he never said he was going to build a concrete wall, just that he'd build a wall. Found this clip of him telling a little boy in 2015, "I'll tell you what it's going to made of: it's going to be made of hardened concrete." https://t.co/WFc44T1rJc
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 7, 2019
My thought exactly: https://t.co/pqv62hilEf
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 7, 2019
When I have done reporting trips to the border, I have been struck by how little enthusiasm I have found for a wall on the part of landowners and others who live there. Worth revisiting how much disruption we are talking about (1/2): https://t.co/yIzk56jneb via @TexasTribune
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 8, 2019
I’ve been on the Intelligence Committee for over 10 years. On terrorism and other threats, I’ve received more briefings from FBI, CIA, and DHS than I could count.
How many times have any of them said we need a wall across the southern border?
Zero.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) January 8, 2019
There are serious – if not dispositive – arguments that Trump could invoke emergency powers to build his wall. It would be a big court battle, but this may be another place where executive power has been held in check by norms, not bright-line rules. https://t.co/XBzuaZZgbl
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) January 7, 2019
Trump will lie about his phony border crisis tonight
At least, since he has lied so much, the network fact checkers will be ready.
The Democrats will rebut his lies – will Fox News carry the rebuttal?
President Trump will make his case for a border wall on Tuesday night. Here is what to watch for and some of the larger issues the president faces. https://t.co/tN2F6J8xik
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) January 8, 2019
Counter-programming: https://t.co/UEl0RH3CqE
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 8, 2019
In my experience, immediately fact-checking Trump's immigration lies is harder than immediately fact-checking most other Trump lies — they're often written into his speeches by people more sophisticated at deception than he is.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 8, 2019
I’m in what appears to be the limited media camp that this is the right call.
The federal government’s closing in on a historically long impasse. The person at the top of it should say *something* of substance, and people should easily be able to watch.
Go from there. https://t.co/SgGRROjLw5
— Ross Maghielse (@Maghielse) January 8, 2019
Opinion: Trump wants the networks to carry his speech live. They should look at these charts of his lies. https://t.co/qebN8kaqwY
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 8, 2019
As long as the legacy media cares more appearing balanced than accurately informing the public, Trump and the rest of the Republicans who act in bad faith are going to have a structural political advantage.
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 8, 2019
Op-ed: Free airtime for President Trump? Not so fast. https://t.co/67gF4QlChQ
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) January 8, 2019
The fact that Trump told a huge lie in the *announcement* of his address — that there's a "national security crisis" at the border — means the networks cannot pretend to have any illusions about the level of deception he will employ.
That should figure in their "deliberating." https://t.co/n4zG8QtRfQ
— CEO TESLA (@CEOTESLA5c3f) January 7, 2019
https://twitter.com/jonfavs/status/1082359022865461249
Journalists are going to fact-check every word of Trump's nationally televised speech. And it won't mean a thing to his supporters. Which tells you everything you need to know about 2019.
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 8, 2019
CNN, NBC and CBS all say that they'll carry the Democratic response to Trump live tonight. My impression is that the other major networks will do the same. But some of the details are still being worked out.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 8, 2019
Fact checkers, eat your Wheaties. #POTUS #governmentshutdown #primetime pic.twitter.com/GiO0lfeb9Q
— Brooke Baldwin (@BrookeBaldwin) January 8, 2019
If Trump doesn’t declare a national emergency tonight, it doesn’t mean he won’t in the coming days, aides say. But the president was growing frustrated that the argument for his border wall wasn’t being made effectively enough, so he decided to do it himself. https://t.co/hjVk925sej
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 8, 2019
"It is remarkable how much we now shrug when the President of the United States delegitimizes and dehumanizes our work. The things he said today were so hateful about journalists, and we call that Monday," @brianstelter tells @IChotiner. https://t.co/VMDlqGRZi4
— Michael Kruse (@michaelkruse) January 8, 2019
Prime-time Trump faces credibility crisis | Analysis by CNN's Stephen Collinson https://t.co/A7U9iQOT1I pic.twitter.com/FqoALLzxEA
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 8, 2019
People who believe Trump is a dire threat to the country think that TV networks should not help spread his propaganda. People who believe Trump is saving the country think this debate is ludicrous — and indicative of liberal media bias… https://t.co/keyPCJmcuW
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 8, 2019
"Don't put the President of the United States on TV because he might lie" is a pretty weird position for a journalist to take. Most people know that Trump is not honest. His policies are not popular (certainly, the wall isn't popular)… https://t.co/wCB7iwFgqg pic.twitter.com/oPQfp1XY9R
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) January 8, 2019
White House officials, aware of their credibility problem, are stressing the importance of internally fact-checking any stats ahead of Trump's address tonight. Trump aides have been repeatedly challenged on the numbers they're using to argue for a wall. https://t.co/F1Fdkq6Ydq
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) January 8, 2019
Majority of Democrats identify as liberal
"Majority of Democrats Identify as Liberal for First Time" per Gallup… Talk about a trendline… https://t.co/REF4NO5YQR pic.twitter.com/tSa0WTMICk
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) January 8, 2019
Trump administration lies about terrorists coming across the border
The 4,000 figure includes people arriving at other US locations. The actual total for the Mexican border is 6 or 12. I have seen both numbers but that’s way below 4,000. The border crisis is phony. It’s another Trump lie.
This is hilarious. The Trump Admin has been using a 4K number that wasn't "sensitive." Sanders gets challenged on it. NBC News first disclosed, and @CNN confirms, that its fewer than 10 (and those are people on a flawed watch list, likely). Anyway the number is now "sensitive"? https://t.co/nqwrwBWjcC
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) January 8, 2019
Can't make this up.@JuliaEAinsley learned only *SIX* immigrants in U.S. terror database were stopped by CBP at southern border in first half of 2018.@PressSec had said 4,000.@VP, @SecNielsen call it a "security crisis" and Trump wants to declare a national emergency.
— Jacob Soboroff (@jacobsoboroff) January 7, 2019
NBC report blows up Trump's wild claim that 4,000 terrorists were stopped at the border https://t.co/kgrqwTmsrX
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 8, 2019
Roughly 12 individuals on the terror watchlist were encountered by federal officials at the US southern border from October 2017 to October 2018, according to an administration official familiar with data from Customs and Border Protection https://t.co/FnskHvaf3X
— CNN (@CNN) January 8, 2019
Not 4,000. Six. https://t.co/XNwdGZsugc
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) January 7, 2019
"Nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists were apprehended attempting to come into the United States through various means in the last year," Pence said on ABC's "Good Morning America."
That number, however, is deeply misleading, per @Betsy_klein https://t.co/PEZwKoatl8— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 8, 2019
Trump lied about former presidents supporting the wall
Why does he lie about things that can be checked out?
Then his administration and supporters lie to cover for his lie.
Pence apparently did not learn from the Michael Flynn affair. Still parroting lies other people told him… https://t.co/nmGJg5zBCB
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) January 8, 2019
So many members of this administration devote so much time and energy to figuring out ways to try to explain blatant lies as remotely resembling something in the neighborhood of a mere miscommunication. https://t.co/BtNfzM7qfd
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 8, 2019
"I know the President has said that that was his impression from previous administrations, previous presidents." — Mike Pence trying (and failing) to clean up a Donald Trump messhttps://t.co/zIgLCmsXkC
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) January 8, 2019
All four living Presidents call @realDonaldTrump a liar.
He lied about having their support.
He lies about everything. https://t.co/3kZLPCNvb0
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) January 8, 2019
Manafort shared polling data with a Russian intelligence operative
update:
A spokesman for Manafort clarified the wording in the filing on Tuesday about the Madrid meeting. Jason Maloni, the spokesman, said Manafort’s meeting with Kilimnik in Madrid happened in January or February 2017, after the Trump was elected. https://t.co/cKloTCrld5
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) January 8, 2019
Why would a Russian want campaign data unless they were going to use it for their interference efforts? This sure looks like collusion to me.
BREAKING NEWS: This is the previously missing link in the Trump/Putin conspiracy. The secret polling data enabled Kremlin to help Trump win in exchange for Trump help to Putin vs Ukraine. All that’s missing is a ribbon to tie it together. THIS IS HUGE!!https://t.co/T37Ry01xwV
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 8, 2019
.@maggieNYT tweeted this the day after the election
Today we learned that Manafort shared election polling data with a Kremlin-linked associate in Ukraine and for some reason felt the need to lie about it. https://t.co/3vaHpCugCB
— 🗽 (@Anthony) January 8, 2019
Why would Manafort share 2016 polling data with a Russian intelligence operative? One could draw the conclusion that the Kremlin had a stake in the outcome of the election or that Manafort sought aid to the campaign from the Kremlin. https://t.co/HuuVt4KuBV
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 8, 2019
These failed redactions show Manafort had a meeting with Kilimnik in Madrid, gave him campaign polling data, and discussed a Ukrainian peace plan with him – then lied about all of it. Very normal contacts between a US presidential campaign manager & a Russian intelligence asset. https://t.co/9tt5sjdVVb
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) January 8, 2019
Things we learned today from Manafort's lawyers' redaction errors: Manafort is alleged to have met in Madrid w/Kilimnik; shared polling data with him; and discussed a Ukraine peace plan w/him more than once. Is that the same peace plan that Cohen delivered to Flynn in Jan 2017?
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 8, 2019
A Madrid meeting between Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, a man the FBI believes to be Russian intelligence, during the 2016 campaign was not publicly known.
They have previously acknowledged they met in the US while Manafort was with the campaign.The Madrid meeting is new— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) January 8, 2019
Trump Campaign Chairman shared 2016 polling data with Russian connected with Russian Intelligence. https://t.co/gIFylJVRTI
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) January 8, 2019
Trump considers declaring a phony national emergency to build his wall
Today Trump claimed he will seize large swaths of land from private citizens at gunpoint and declare a “state of emergency” to build a wall without Congressional approval.
In the face of tyranny, Republicans are outraged … by a freshman Member of Congress using profanity.
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 4, 2019
I assume this is just talk. If it’s not, Trump would be provoking a constitutional crisis that would lead to resignations of senior officials, not just civilian but also military if he sought to use the military illegally, and the start of impeachment proceedings. https://t.co/oSJSMzaZJC
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 5, 2019
.@MichaelSteele: People just put your pants back on and calm down. The fact of the matter is, there is no national emergency… No terrorists are coming across the Mexican border… We've got to get #Trump out of our head when it comes to this issue. #AMJoy pic.twitter.com/qhkqbrjE1P
— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) January 5, 2019
Emergency powers offer a broad array of tools that would otherwise be unavailable to the executive branch. Some are highly potent and subject to abuse, while others are already being misused as convenient fixes to non-emergency problems. https://t.co/8iTLx6m1L9
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) January 5, 2019
A core principle of the Tea Party and the broader “constitutional conservative” movement has always been that if he wants to the president can declare a state of emergency and undertake an illegal $20 billion construction project complete with seizures of private land.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 5, 2019
President Trump apparently imagines that declaring a national emergency to get his border wall built would allow him to govern by barking commands rather than by throwing tantrums. https://t.co/3bQTdMwfZb
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) January 5, 2019
No, @realDonaldTrump, you can’t declare “emergency” to build vanity wall. BTW, want to know what’s a real emergency? Poverty & inequality in America. 4 in 10 don’t have $400 to deal w/ emergency. 3 richest ppl have as much wealth as bottom 50%. Shameful. https://t.co/QA6UDRqQZj
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) January 5, 2019
Factual basis for a national emergency:
-Violent crime DROPPED according to latest FBI data.
-Property crime also DROPPED.
-Immigrants, both documented a
& undocumented, commit LESS CRIME than native-born Americans.Courts would strike down this @realDonaldTrump power grab. https://t.co/sCNKBmCLIl
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 4, 2019
President Trump, yesterday: "We can call a national emergency….I may do it….I am allowed to do that."
Well, it's reassuring that the Justice Department is under the control of a respected and Senate-confirmed attorney general who'd never acquiesce in something like this.— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 5, 2019
If POTUS is willing to continue the shutdown for “months, even years,” isn’t he conceding that building a wall really isn’t an emergency? 🤔
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) January 5, 2019
When you push reckless policies that squander our resources, defy our values, leave 800,000 federal workers unpaid and millions of Americans without needed services, you don’t need to declare a national emergency.
You are the national emergency.
— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) January 4, 2019
Having covered the Tea Party very closely, I just tried to imagine the reaction if Obama threatened to use emergency powers like this, and my head exploded. https://t.co/roHofVh1Uz
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 5, 2019
Sad! 