What Trey Gowdy got wrong about the Mueller investigation

Gowdy is anxious for the 13-month Mueller investigation to end. The analysis notes that the Benghazi investigation lasted 25 months, the Whitewater investigation lasted 80 months, and the Iran-Contra investigation lasted 80 months.

Facts are facts https://t.co/U7dCsCwjFr

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 29, 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:

Fact Check Index

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

Fact check on total of immigration judges

Trump is repeating his almost certainly fictional claim that someone came to him and said they need 5,000 more immigration judges. One of his lie tells is when he tells a story about someone telling him something and calling him "SIR." "SIR, we need 5,000 judges."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 26, 2018

"There are actually fewer than 400 judges dedicated to such work, according to the website PolitiFact." Read @MiriamValverde's fact-check on President @realDonaldTrump saying "we have thousands of judges" for immigration claims in the U.S.https://t.co/yISIzQT4Y2 https://t.co/93sO0VFtEn

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) June 25, 2018

Fact-checking Trump

Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star discussing Trump’s lies about U. S. Steel

Here’s a little thread about a major corporation, Trump’s lying, and the weirdness of attempting to fact-check him.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 25, 2018

Read the whole thread but I liked this one:

Companies would sometimes prefer the president lie about them than confirm that the president is lying about them. The End.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 25, 2018

Fact check: Trump’s misconceptions about immigration and laws and court

Washington Post

Trump lies about the total of murders by immigrants

Short version: the President recited a completely fabricated (and ludicrous) statistic about immigrant murders today that originated with a Steve King blog post over a decade ago.

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 22, 2018

Today Trump presented as fact a number so wildly wrong that even he found it hard to believe when he first heard it. https://t.co/hOTuYKVxwI

— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 22, 2018

Trump is trying to distract from his cruel and avoidable family separation fiasco by parading people who have lost loved ones to crimes by illegal aliens, repeating his big lie that such immigrants commit a disproportionate share of all violent crimes. They do not.

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 22, 2018

Trump repeated a parent's claim that 63,000 have been killed by illegal immigrants since 9/11. There's no apparent basis for this. That would be about a quarter of all murders; in Texas, which tracks this, illegal immigrants are charged with roughly 5% of homicides since 2011.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 22, 2018

Fact checks on Trump’s policy of separating families at the border

Dallas Morning News fact check

Washington Post fact check

Fact checks have piled up discrediting the Trump administration’s justifications for family separation at the border https://t.co/5q0glXVRs3

— POLITICO (@politico) June 19, 2018

President Trump has blamed Democrats for the practice of separating children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.

But his administration put that policy in place. https://t.co/hO29tdrUWU

— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) June 18, 2018

MSNBC destroyed Trump’s lie that his policy of child separation at the border was the fault of Democrats with an immediate fact check while Trump was still talking. https://t.co/NOJXgkpUHG pic.twitter.com/r1VhocIS69

— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) June 18, 2018

Some Republican commentators argue the Trump admin’s policy of separating families at the border is essentially a continuation of previous administrations. It’s not: https://t.co/9WjOvrkNhR

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) June 19, 2018

New York Times fact check

Trump continues to blame Democrats

Fact check on Trump’s immigration rant today

CNN fact check

Trump lied when he said crime was up in Germany and blamed it on immigrants

First, I think what happens in Germany is none of his business. We see how he reacts when anyone criticizes him.

Crime in Germany is down – see the AP Fact check. This is just Trump spewing lies and bigotry. He is encouraging nationalism in Germany.

If the President is attacking one of our NATO allies and spewing Bannon-like talking points, it must be Monday. https://t.co/RMSpaPanIp

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) June 18, 2018

Is Putin interfering trying destabilize the politics of the EU? Yes. But Trump is at the moment far worse. This is unheard of. https://t.co/9k0PtMoxlP

— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) June 18, 2018

Continuing the remarkable pattern of Trump and his aides promoting the rise of the nativist right across Europe. He is not only attacking the American-led international order from the outside, but attempting to weaken it from within https://t.co/Wp1ARwi2aN

— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) June 18, 2018

Germany just recorded its lowest crime rate since 1992. The number of crimes dropped 10% from 2016 to 2017. https://t.co/8GyBYiaDd9 pic.twitter.com/GDwFbkw5hz

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 18, 2018

POTUS is now fomenting rebellion among our closest allies while he has also encouraged the rise of nationalism – in Germany. https://t.co/QIKsgURiLY

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) June 18, 2018

Crime rates in Germany are way down. But, more importantly: The US president wants to bring down the German chancellor. This is a turning point. https://t.co/koRei9Elio

— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) June 18, 2018

Trump’s PolitiFact scorecard

It's Donald Trump's birthday. Here's his PolitiFact scorecard.https://t.co/KrciaOw29Q pic.twitter.com/NUEgnwmu5w

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) June 14, 2018