Trump wanted Sessions to prosecute Hillary Clinton

This is a clear abuse of power. Will Republicans not even condemn this? https://t.co/ZOUr4LQGpV
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) April 24, 2019

They won’t. They let Trump do anything. They’re afraid of their voters who are more loyal to Trump than them.

The President asked his attorney general to prosecute Hillary Clinton.

Let that sink in.https://t.co/rZAarvkSQA
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) April 24, 2019

Trump tweets unfounded story from a known liar

No surprise that one liar would spread the lies of another one

Trump probably doesn’t care if it’s true or not – he just wants to make Obama look bad

This unfounded claim came up early in Trump admin. British officials angrily denied it. WH officials reportedly apologized, something Spicer denied at the briefing when he told me "I don't think we regret anything… we were just passing on news reports."https://t.co/JkWn67l48R https://t.co/yjE8XjNXdo
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 24, 2019

Wow. Just wow. Larry Johnson is the source of 3 major fake stories in the last 12 years. Now being cited as an authority by @POTUS. https://t.co/No5P594VUC
— Bret Stephens (@BretStephensNYT) April 24, 2019

The part of this insanity that won’t get enough attention, & will go right over the heads of #Cult45 is this…

He is president of the United States. If this nonsensical allegation was remotely true, he would have access to FAR better evidence/sourcing than Larry Johnson on OANN https://t.co/i9tR5a9N3E
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) April 24, 2019

Larry Johnson is the guy who pushed the lie that there was a Michelle Obama “whitey” tape back in 2008. https://t.co/y2TCQkT6Iv https://t.co/8wpSu3Lxsb
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 24, 2019

Considering Larry Johnson's track record of hoaxes, is this really who the president should be quoting? https://t.co/lZZXqsdNtS
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 24, 2019

Reliable source.https://t.co/x2mPcOjXR2
— Bob Young (@ryoung2332) April 24, 2019

This is the same conspiracy theory that spawned an international incident with the UK when Sean Spicer falsely said they helped Obama illegally spy on Trump, because he heard Andrew Napolitano say it on Fox News, who heard it from Larry Johnson on an RT clip. pic.twitter.com/d3F2YNWsTX
— Bobby Lewis (@revrrlewis) April 24, 2019

Here's how Twitter uses its platform a day after Trump summoned @jack to the White House to whine about his follower count. This debunked, fabricated conspiracy theory caused an international incident in 2017, and Larry Johnson is the racist sleaze behind the "whitey tape" lie. pic.twitter.com/DoOL4FpUHE
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) April 24, 2019

Trump promotes baseless accusation of British spying a day after accepting an invitation for a state visit from the queen https://t.co/bnKGCZ7aU9
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 24, 2019

Bots pushed pro-Trump Twitter posts

Of course, Trump won’t do anything about this since he benefits from it. Sad!

A network of more than 5K pro-Trump Twitter bots railed against the “Russiagate hoax” shortly after the release of Mueller’s report. The bots had ties to a social media operation that previously pushed messages backing the government of Saudi Arabia.https://t.co/LywZBR4fWL
— DASS (@DemsOfState) April 24, 2019

Trump makes up a story about Mexico

The U.S. military says the incident "was an honest mistake by the Mexican soldiers." Trump says the Mexican soldiers were probably trying to create a diversion to help drug smugglers. https://t.co/FBoXNJBvrw
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2019

He also made up another large caravan.

Trump’s false statements – update from Daniel Dale

I call them lies.

Dale does a great job tracking them.

Here's the updated database of all of Trump's false claims as president, fact-checked and sorted by subject: https://t.co/tUlVsaIQoY
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2019

From Star editor @EdTubb, here's the updated chart of Trump's false claims by week: pic.twitter.com/R4seuBYfpC
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2019

Trump is up to 4,913 false claims for his presidency, 6.0 per day. Breakdown:

2017: 2.9 per day
2018: 8.3 per day
2019 to date: 7.8 per day
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2019

Trump lies again about the VA

He has told this lie over and over.

You're claiming credit for the Veterans Choice and Accountability Act of … 2014? https://t.co/xfkSpJ8dRm
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 24, 2019

As always: Trump did not pass or sign the Choice bill. Obama did, in 2014. Trump signed the VA MISSION Act, which modified the Choice program. This is the 65th time he has made this claim.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2019

Conservative media outlets roundly mocked Ocasio-Cortez for saying the VA isn’t broken. Trump just said she was right (so he could take credit for the non-brokenness). pic.twitter.com/1RH0TIcdxa
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2019

It sounds like the Supreme Court will cave in on the census citizenship question

This sounds bad based on reports from yesterday’s court hearing. The Republican-selected judges will support Trump and damage Democrats. Ross has lied about the reason for the question. It will result in damage to the court’s credibility, too. Sad!

If #SCOTUS makes a habit of upholding Trump Administration policies on the basis of ostentatiously false explanations, it will encourage profound cynicism about the rule of law and justified doubt about its own legitimacy.#Census2020
— Joshua Matz (@JoshuaMatz8) April 23, 2019

Attempting court packing may be the only sensible response if the census case goes the direction it looks like it’s going to go. https://t.co/MA9iQOCgly
— Slate (@Slate) April 24, 2019

They put a citizenship question in the census to chill participation among immigrant communities – this is something Bannon and Miller and anti immigrant forces were pushing, and if you think the Trump DOJ wanted more data to better enforce the Voting Rights Act you are nuts.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) April 24, 2019

NEW: John Gore, head of the DOJ Civil Rights division, will not show up for a deposition tomorrow with Cummings' committee because they won't let him bring in DOJ lawyers. They want to ask him about the 2020 census citizenship question.

Story TK
— Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) April 24, 2019

How the citizenship question could break the census

I expected this from Roberts. Utterly disingenuous, and a part of his ongoing efforts to deny voting rights to minorities. We saw it in Shelby County. https://t.co/VQM170wSk5
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) April 23, 2019

With citizenship question on census, "California would probably lose a (House) seat, and other states with large immigrant populations, such as New York and Texas, could lose seats as well." https://t.co/hnItr3t0t6
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) April 22, 2019

At Supreme Court argument Tuesday on Census citizenship question, 9 justices and 4 Pinocchios: https://t.co/QbtjuOUmLr
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) April 22, 2019

The Trump administration and Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices Tuesday held a legal seminar on how to preserve white hegemony in four easy steps. https://t.co/Zzf0tvtwfi
— Dana Milbank (@Milbank) April 23, 2019

Why are they asking that? A guide to the 2020 census via @PRBdata https://t.co/zIWbX7cEQ0
— All Things Census (@allthingscensus) April 24, 2019

At SCOTUS this morning, Justice Sotomayor was not buying the Trump administration's representation that the census has been asking about citizenship for decades. She cut into the SG's argument almost immediately and noted it hasn't been asked on decennial census since 1950
— Sam Levine (@srl) April 23, 2019

Supreme Court appears likely to uphold Trump’s push to add census citizenship question https://t.co/HoqdGzhwtc
— David Savage (@DavidGSavage) April 23, 2019

According to this early oral argument report, Chief Justice Roberts says getting citizenship question on census is essential to enforcing the Voting Rights Act.
But experts have said it is not. And the evidence shows this was not the reason that Ross wanted to add the question. https://t.co/MoLL4y6tuJ
— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) April 23, 2019