Trump lied about his meeting with Republican House members last night

Liar!

All of the reporters who covered the meeting, including @kathrynw5, @AlexNBCNews and @jdawsey1, say they were told the room responded to the Sanford jab with boos, silence and groans, not applause and laughter. pic.twitter.com/svO40Dbygl

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 20, 2018

This is flat-out not true, according to people who were actually in the room. https://t.co/bEncFIaNgE

— Katie Watson (@kathrynw5) June 20, 2018

There was awkward silence and some boos. See story here. https://t.co/7vb12Xcqej https://t.co/ORR3qU4U25

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 20, 2018

House Republicans had front row seats to @POTUS’s dazzling display of pettiness and insecurity. Nobody applauded or laughed. People were disgusted. https://t.co/FvmDCxElgv

— Justin Amash (@justinamash) June 20, 2018

Sanford on this Trump tweet: "Another day running of dancing on the grave, or shooting the dead guy? I don't quite get what's going on. It's certainly entered the twilight zone." https://t.co/qAnAdbJcOl

— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) June 20, 2018

Donald Trump loves to kick people when they're down. https://t.co/CxmVPvqrFh pic.twitter.com/RtqZ5XQ7sm

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) June 20, 2018

Trump is saying more things that aren’t true. (That’s what I call lying.)

Trump is outdoing even himself with falsehoods these days. My look at the latest string in mistruths, obfuscations, and downright lies. https://t.co/cHWcrI82Qu

— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) June 20, 2018

THEY ARE TOTALLY MAKING THIS UP AS THEY GO. Yesterday on Fox News Radio @hogangidley45: "The family separation part of it is horrible but it is the law. He won't take executive action that is unconstitutional. https://t.co/C5AMgfZ36C

— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 20, 2018

Trump reversed his family separation policy

Trump reversed his policy about separating families after saying only Congress could do it. What a damn liar!

BREAKING: President Trump just signed an executive order to keep families together at the border, reversing his position that he has no authority to do so https://t.co/lbfrZeJ4uR pic.twitter.com/gbOeJeEDA8

— CNN (@CNN) June 20, 2018

YOU DON’T THANK THE KIDNAPPER FOR RELEASING THE HOSTAGES https://t.co/ecLSmuiidc

— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) June 20, 2018

At some point there will be a crisis that is not of the White House’s own making and they will need people beyond the president’s base to have faith in what they say. https://t.co/8d1AdeYm0w

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 20, 2018

It’s also an executive action she said that Trump couldn’t take, and “only” Congress could act https://t.co/x87efNrzgc

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 20, 2018

When we made this, people accused us of exaggeration, but it was really almost entirely rooted in Trump's campaign promises. It's remarkable how focused his administration has been on bringing so many of those pledges to bear. https://t.co/c13oHTOcYd

— Kathleen Kingsbury (@katiekings) June 20, 2018

9 months old. Someone’s 9 month old baby is here. In New York City. Without parents. https://t.co/jYSdm0i2YE

— Jamie Stelter (@JamieStelter) June 20, 2018

Here's a clue that the executive order was slapped together and posted on short notice: The White House misspelled "seperation" in the heading. https://t.co/R00q5wMUii pic.twitter.com/JABvXeJ9ha

— Gregory Korte (@gregorykorte) June 20, 2018

This is why Trump thinks he’s winning: by creating a crisis all now accept the idea that there is an immigration crisis… https://t.co/MD5LoE0QKJ

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) June 20, 2018

This tweet was just 3 days ago. https://t.co/TFGcpsJ6gT

— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 20, 2018

POTUS created family separations at the border, and now he wants credit for ending them. This is how dictators operate. https://t.co/JiF9uCZwMv

— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) June 20, 2018

Key: trump ends separation policy. Remember – dhs secy said policy didn’t exist. Cites “zero tolerance” remains. Lack of tolerance is how we got in trouble w/ separation. Justice is about law and fairness. If potus doesn’t get that – doomed to repeat same mistake. #DOYOURJOB

— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) June 20, 2018

Is there no one—not a single person—with a political appointment in this administration who has the soul, the decency, the moral backbone to quit over family separation? Not one?

— Ruth Marcus (@RuthMarcus) June 20, 2018

To be clear: This is not a story about the media. This is a story about the Trump administration’s decision to enforce a “zero tolerance” policy at the border https://t.co/4sujwcsJDn

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 20, 2018

About that Peace Prize nomination … https://t.co/nO07MyAL1r

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 20, 2018

The president’s order does not solve this problem. It does nothing to reunify the 2,300 children who have been taken from their parents. pic.twitter.com/jo2knb8eT8

— Senator Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) June 20, 2018

Per DOJ press call and convos with HHS, DHS: No one seems to have a plan for reuniting these 2300 kids with their parents

— Julia E. Ainsley (@JuliaEAinsley) June 20, 2018

Gene Hamilton, counsel to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, said he couldn't say when the migrant children separated from families right now will be reunited with their parents.

He referred reporters on a White House conference call to HHS and DHS officials. https://t.co/fPmcXqQtgr

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 20, 2018

That's one reason why Trump's executive order is worded to only require that the family be kept together "where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources." As a practical matter, children will still be taken from their parents under his new policy. https://t.co/YSCoBnGR9p

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 20, 2018

Trump administration memo creating the zero tolerance policy separating families

Trump keeps lying and blaming Democrats. It’s all his.

Here is @TheJusticeDept memo ordering the "zero tolerance" policy responsible for young children being forcibly separated from their parents.

Facts are stubborn things, @POTUS. And the facts here are clear: you, and you alone, own this cruelty. End it now. #KeepFamiliesTogether pic.twitter.com/VBIJFYj4WI

— Senator Ben Cardin (@SenatorCardin) June 19, 2018

“Infest”: Language as a weapon

Trump has called some illegal immigrants “animals” and today said Democrats want them to “infest” our country. It’s an effort to appeal to the bigots that are a large part of his base.

Here are some tweets on Trump’s disgusting language.

Important: In the past Trump has talked about "crime infested" areas. Today is the first time he's talked about PEOPLE as an infestation, saying Dems want illegal immigrants to "infest our country, like MS-13."

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 19, 2018

Dear @realDonaldTrump: Like your grandfather, my parents infested America. As their son with yellow skin, I now get to vote against your harmful policies. And after you leave due to either losing reelection or impeachment, I will still be here reversing your shit.

Cheers. https://t.co/vN4fJfp4h9

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 19, 2018

As Trump uses words like "infest, animals and shithole countries" to talk immigration, worth remembering this story as language as a weapon in the Trump era immigration debates: https://t.co/jcUSfJqOfx

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 19, 2018

And folks who cry foul when the media points this out are willfully ignoring a very obvious patternhttps://t.co/tCrnjPTn6w

— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) June 19, 2018

Trump’s statement that immigrants will “infest our Country” probably sounds better in the original German. https://t.co/k7FBgBkCHQ

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 19, 2018

1/2 This is a usage point I’ve actually studied over the years.
There are virtually no cases of “infest” being used in English in a neutral way. Almost always applied to vermin, pests, disease. See context notes from Am Heritage Dic: https://t.co/nQvQnkGvEG https://t.co/mitj7lI2jg

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 19, 2018

2/2 Of the 125,000+ words in ‘Our Towns,’ exactly two are “infest.” One refers to roaches that ate up a school’s garden; another, to an invasive plant now choking the surface of Caddo Lake, TX-LA.

Applying it to people is an undeniable tell, like “shiftless.”

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 19, 2018

Also – insects infest. This public language about immigrants from a US president after, say, 1970, is remarkable. https://t.co/xRhAUjqo5P

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 19, 2018

"Characterizing people as vermin has historically been a precursor to murder and genocide." https://t.co/p9setYAijA

— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) June 19, 2018

Trump's tweet this AM about how immigrants will "infest our Country" speaks to this point. The family separation policy is unpopular, and has lukewarm support even among his base, so he turns up the racial anxiety dial several notches.

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 19, 2018

Words like “infest,” even when you sprinkle in the MS-13 red herring, conjure thoughts of extermination. This is evil and dangerous. https://t.co/HB58AJlcns

— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) June 19, 2018

Disturbingly apt: “ethnopartisanship” https://t.co/VIT6HKShpZ

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) June 19, 2018

Language historically associated with de-humanization, from the head of govt, actually deserves note — in the context (which I and others have fully engaged in) of policy outrages that need to be opposed and reversed.

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 19, 2018

Trump refers to deportees as "animals":
History and psychological science show that when we refer to people as “animals,” it flips a mental switch in our minds. It allows us to deny empathy to other people, makes us feel numb to their pain. https://t.co/5MjLlMsnYG
via @voxdotcom

— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) June 18, 2018

update:

"Infest," "breeding," "violent," "shithole countries": The language Trump uses when he talks about immigrants. https://t.co/VDqaJSlymn

— Lisa Tozzi (@lisatozzi) June 19, 2018

Contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians

We keep finding out about more of them. This is an overview.

A new look at how widespread contacts with Russia and knowledge of Russian "dirt" were among Trump's team in 2016. https://t.co/0049WfH97N

— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 18, 2018

According to CNN's latest count… at least 14 Trump associates had contact with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign and transition. Manafort, Gates, Kushner, Trump Jr., Papadopoulos, Page, Sessions, Stone, Gordon, Flynn, Prince, Cohen, Caputo, Berkowitz.

— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) June 18, 2018

80+ contacts

Outrageous comments by the right on Trump’s immigration policy

This is disgusting and pathetic. They can’t even accept reality, let alone discuss it. They follow Trump who has lied non-stop by blaming his policy on Democrats.

Limbaugh says it’s a made up crisis and that people are trying to invade the US:

Rush Limbaugh today: "This children and families being separated at the border? It is an entirely manufactured crisis. It’s entirely manufactured. … It’s all about people attempting to invade our country, not emigrate here." https://t.co/qIohNfTQl2 pic.twitter.com/a9VSSdPpSg

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 18, 2018

Ann Coulter calls crying children “child actors”:

WATCH: Ann Coulter calls immigrant children crying after being separated from parents “child actors” https://t.co/lVRY7irs2O pic.twitter.com/2GtLC5OhLI

— The Hill (@thehill) June 18, 2018

So, @DonaldJTrumpJr liked a tweet accusing caged immigrant kids of being crisis actors https://t.co/4tvPodpl7T pic.twitter.com/Pcwtm0xT2W

— Paste Magazine (@PasteMagazine) June 18, 2018