Fact checks on Trump’s rally this week. I don’t think he can give a speech without lying. It’s scary when he incites the crowd to call MS-13 animals. They’re bad people but they’re still people.
and there’s this:
Category: 2018 elections
Trump’s latest effort to discredit the 2018 elections
I have said before that Trump will try to discredit the results of the 2018 congressional elections if the Democrats win. His latest effort is a tweet saying the Mueller team will meddle in the elections.
There is absolutely no basis for this. It follows his claim that millions of illegal votes were cast in California and Republican claims that there were many illegal votes in Pennsylvania.
Here’s an analysis from the Washington Post which states: “It’s possible Trump is… looking around for a reason to cast doubt on the results of an election in which his side potentially loses.”
I really believe that Trump will try to invalidate the results if the Democrats win the House and or Senate. This is just groundwork for that.
Sad!
Many Republicans believe in massive voter fraud
This article cites a poll that indicates that “Forty-eight percent of Republicans said they believe between 3 million and 5 million people voted illegally in 2016.”
Even “Just under one-quarter of Democrats said they believed the allegations that millions of votes were cast illegally…”
The article links to a Quinnipiac poll from 2017 (question 78).
The poll found that 50% of Republicans, 24% of Independents, and 14% of Democrats believed there were 3-4 million illegal votes.
For more background on why this theory is nonsense, read this.
I am concerned that Trump will again claim there were illegal votes if the Democrats win the House and/or Senate this year. Trump has already said recently there were millions of illegal votes in California and there are false claims of illegal votes in Pennsylvania. These are the two states most critical for Democrats to gain seats in to win the House. I am afraid Trump will try to invalidate the results if the Democrats win. This is what his dictator pals would do.
Sad!
Democrats think teachers should get a raise by canceling tax cuts for the rich
Democrats proposed funding teacher raises by restoring tax cuts given to the top 1%.
I have not seen any mention of this on television. They are too busy covering Trump. How can Democrats win if the media does not cover their views on issues not strictly Trump-related?
Either she’s lying or she doesn’t know what’s going on
This article states: “Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Tuesday that she was unaware of intelligence assessments concluding that Russia favored President Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.”
I find that hard to believe. She doesn’t know what the intelligence agencies think about the most important security issue of recent years? Either she’s lying (my opinion) or incredibly uninformed. She’s just going along with Trump’s view. We are never going to have secure elections with these people in charge.
Sad!
update:
All Trump, all the time
I watch a lot of CNN and this article is right on the money. The media only wants Democrats to talk about Trump, not their policies.
Sad!
DACA
Most Americans support DACA. The most recent poll I could find shows 83% approval. Even 67% of Republicans support it.
However, Trump created a crisis by trying to end the program and Republican congressional leadership is not willing to let the House vote on bills to decide the fate of DACA.
Conservative Republicans don’t want a vote – they only care about politics. From this article:
“McCarthy had a blunter message, according to two members present who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private meeting and as first reported by Politico: Signing the discharge petition and paving the way for passage of a moderate immigration bill could hurt Republicans in November’s elections by depressing conservative turnout and upending leadership’s plans to focus on tax cuts and other GOP successes.”
This is a pathetic effort to avoid doing what the public wants. Sad!
Wealthy donors from both parties
This analysis states: “Wealthy donors who have given more than $1 million contributed one-third of the $383 million that flowed this election cycle into super PACs, which can accept unlimited contributions from individuals and corporations.”
It covers wealthy donors from both parties. We need to reduce the influence of rich people on our elections.
Sad!
Wealthy Republican donors
More on wealthy Republican donors:
Sheldon Adelson contributed $30 million to prevent Democrats from taking over the House.
9/24/18 update on Adelson:
The law prevents Paul Ryan from directly soliciting this large a donation so Ryan stepped out of the room when someone else asked for and received the money. How sleazy can you get? And yes, the Democrats would do it too.
Ryan gave them credit for supporting the law.
Democrats are questioning the influence of the Koch brothers.
An opinion column by Senator Whitehouse about the influence of billionaires on Trump.
The EPA granted a hardship waiver to Icahn, a former Trump adviser.
The Mercers helped fund Project Veritas
Mercers update 12/29/18:
Richard Uihlein, a relatively unknown donor
update on Uihlein
Another article on Uihlein and his wife
Don’t tell me about George Soros funding liberal causes. Look what these people are doing. We need the Supreme Court to get big money out of politics by reversing the Citizens United decision but that won’t happen anytime soon.
Sad!
Trump is campaigning using tax dollars
Trump turns almost every speech into a campaign rally. He did it again in Cleveland yesterday.
From this article: “Though billed as an official White House event, and therefore funded with taxpayer money, Trump was overtly political in his remarks ahead of Tuesday’s primary election. He celebrated his own poll numbers, repeatedly attacked Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and urged Ohioans to elect Rep. James B. Renacci (R-Ohio), who is running against Brown.”
This is obviously wrong. Trump needs to separate campaign events from presidential ones. Taxpayers should not be paying for his campaign.
Any network that covered the campaign part of his speech should give equal time to the Democrats.
Sad! 