Trump and Barr have totally outmaneuvered Mueller. They have lied and distorted his findings and he only objected behind the scenes until last week. His brief public statement was unsatisfactory. He was way too polite and not very blunt. He expects people to read his report – that’s not realistic. It’s over 400 pages. He allowed Trump and Barr to set the narrative and there are now millions of Trump cult members who believe Trump is innocent. I don’t blame Mueller for not wanting to make this political but it’s too late. Trump and Barr already have. Now, Mueller must answer questions in public.
Category: Trump Lies
The 23 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct
We should not forget them. The Democrats should do something similar to what Trump did in 2016 – they should invite the women to a general election debate to remind everyone what a bad person Trump is.
23 women have credibly accused Trump of sexual misconduct.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) May 13, 2019
Congress should open an investigation and hold hearings on all of the accusations immediately. https://t.co/xMGBxAdDM9
Can’t be this https://t.co/2ogv5sDTmX
— Erik Halvorsen (@erikhalvorsen18) July 10, 2020
There is no link between undocumented immigrants and crime
If Donald Trump cared about facts, he would stop repeating the lie that undocumented immigrants are to blame for crime. But we know he doesn’t, and he won’t. https://t.co/UZuOaATwUC
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) May 14, 2019
THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN VIOLENT CRIME AND UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS. NONE. https://t.co/pDSoLC9KwG
— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) May 13, 2019
It’s a widely held perception, but a new analysis finds no evidence to support it.
— MJ 'La Resistencia' Krey (@mjkrey) May 13, 2019
https://t.co/Tt1qfPQ3eD via @MarshallProj
Trump lies about Flynn
He was warned several times not to hire Flynn. He’s just lying.
Trump was warned about Flynn by Obama, Comey, and Yates.
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) May 17, 2019
His response was to attack all of them and stick with Flynn until he had already lied to the FBI and Pence.
Now Trump lies about ever being warned, knowing that supporters will believe him. https://t.co/On4sO441ul
Pence was warned, too, by @RepCummings in November 2016. https://t.co/ylLuYFsX2e https://t.co/7BGbOwy26e
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 17, 2019
Trump transition officials voiced concern about Flynn's contacts with the Russian ambassador. President Obama cautioned Trump in the Oval Office against hiring Flynn. FBI came to the WH to say Flynn was compromised. Trump kept him in job until all was exposed in the press. https://t.co/N7KuZPeTM1
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) May 17, 2019
Also – folks including former Obama officials, who fired Flynn, and former Trump aides like Christie, warned him against hiring Flynn. https://t.co/usYDoBJhsV
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 17, 2019
Trump was warned not to hire Flynn… by Obama. Our story about this —> https://t.co/DBfLvRm4zF https://t.co/QsArTfcpLr
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 17, 2019
Flynn himself told McGahn he was under investigation on January 4, 2017 — two weeks before Trump took office — and his lawyers discussed it with transition lawyers two days later. Not to mention Sally Yates's later warning that wasn't heeded. https://t.co/AKDHVHirmA
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) May 17, 2019
Major media outlets fail to debunk President Trump’s false or misleading statements in their tweets 65% of the time
New @mmfa study: Major media outlets fail to debunk President Trump's false or misleading statements in their tweets 65% of the time, amplifying his misinformation an average of 19 times per day. https://t.co/8OV2FGddbn
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) May 3, 2019
Trump lies at his rally in Wisconsin
He really liked about abortion.
Here's Trump making another false & unspeakably dangerous claim about abortion:
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) April 28, 2019
"The baby is born; the mother meets with the doctor. They take care of the baby. They wrap the baby beautifully. Then the doctor & mother determine whether or not they will execute the baby." pic.twitter.com/Hg6V6pjgpX
Wow.
— Jon Cryer (@MrJonCryer) April 28, 2019
So now lying is “reviving an inaccurate refrain”
Jesus @nytimes https://t.co/9dQGevRMrI
“Fake news. They’re fake,” Trump said during a roughly 90-minute rally. “They are fake. They are fakers.”
— POLITICO (@politico) April 28, 2019
The crowd broke into a chant: “CNN sucks! CNN sucks”https://t.co/ZuABuPEbsh
President Trump is the “say anything” president, says CNN’s @BrianStelter, bringing up Trump’s incorrect claims during a Wisconsin rally that mothers and doctors can decide to “execute” babies after birth. https://t.co/8m9pctOHnG pic.twitter.com/iKFTBtPh5W
— CNN (@CNN) April 28, 2019
Trump condemns anti-Semitism, hate crimes at rally after synagogue shooting https://t.co/gTOTPxmjgh
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 28, 2019
We led today's @ReliableSources with Trump's false, shocking statements about mothers and doctors choosing to "execute" newborns. Here's what @finneyk said. pic.twitter.com/DWwbG7g6iu
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 28, 2019
At the Trump rally in Green Bay Wisconsin, Kid Rock's "Bawitdaba" is playing on the jumbotron. It shows Trump as a WWE character body-slamming a CNN logo. The crowd got very excited.
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) April 27, 2019
That's how this #WHCD night is gonna go out here in Wisco.
Holy hell. Trump just told the crowd at his Wisconsin rally that after women give birth, the baby is "wrapped in a blanket" and then "the mother and the doctor decide whether to execute the baby."
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) April 28, 2019
Trump gleefully admits it was his "sick idea" to use immigrants as pawns in his games of political retribution. Disgusting pic.twitter.com/xQHq3s76xC
— DNC War Room (@DNCWarRoom) April 28, 2019
“You have people wanting to cut off Saudi Arabia. They bought $450 billion. I don’t want to lose them.” — Donald Trump
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 28, 2019
The number is exaggerated – I have a post on that.
President Trump is holding a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Meanwhile, in Washington, journalists are attending the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Trump is skipping the event for the third year in a row.
— CNN (@CNN) April 28, 2019
Follow for live updates: https://t.co/iy0sQ8efgQ
Trump lies about Charlottesville
Trump lies about the white supremacists and his reaction to Charlottesville. His supporters try to say he didn’t defend white supremacists when he clearly did. Sad!
Trump defends his “very fine people” comments on Charlottesville: “People were there protesting the taking down of the monument of Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that.” Fact check: There were many neo-Nazis and white supremacists.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) April 26, 2019
Robert E. Lee owned 200 slaves (which he famously tortured) then led a rebellion to extend slavery which killed 620,000 people.
— Mikel Jollett (@Mikel_Jollett) April 26, 2019
Saying you're not a racist, you just love Robert E. Lee is like saying you're not an antisemite, you just love Hitler. https://t.co/K3jEHpZFSD
Robert E. Lee owned slaves and brutalized them.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) April 26, 2019
Lee led an armed revolt against the United States to preserve and expand slavery.
And during that armed revolt, Lee's army captured free blacks in the North and enslaved them. https://t.co/hYRFhcn0tq
So let me get this straight: When federal law enforcement investigates a foreign attack on our democracy it's "treason," but a rebel leader who tried to topple the nation in a civil war is a "great general"…
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) April 26, 2019
Fox News reporter goes off on colleagues, saying their comments about Charlottesville on an internal email thread were like "something you’d read on a White Supremacist chat room.”https://t.co/EqP7LtLJfZ
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) April 26, 2019
NEW: Fox News was set to claim Trump didn't say "both sides" about Charlottesville, until a White House reporter called them out for sound like a "white supremacist chat room." https://t.co/LvBqUjra9q
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) April 26, 2019
A must read in light of Trump’s comments on Charlottesville this morning. https://t.co/RLWDlkQyWW
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) April 26, 2019
Trump defends Charlottesville comments by praising a Confederate general https://t.co/ciQX9couB4
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 26, 2019
Today, President Trump said his Charlottesville comments referred to people who supported the “great general” Robert E. Lee. In 2017, @AdamSerwer wrote that “Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery”: https://t.co/36Sr9cr6X1
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 26, 2019
No better guide than @AaronBlake on how this revisionist history makes no sense –> https://t.co/HcSrvAEEbF https://t.co/XHSRcmOOTh
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) April 26, 2019
"The 'fine people' the president defended in 2017 were the same people chanting 'Jews will not replace us' and 'blood and soil.' Is this really a debate #Trump is eager to engage in? Again?"
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) April 26, 2019
V-good piece @stevebenen https://t.co/1iRH6JgZYV
Robert E. Lee was a traitor and a slaver. And as @AdamSerwer reminded us in 2017, “Lee’s elevation is a key part of a 150-year-old propaganda campaign designed to erase slavery as the cause of the war and whitewash the Confederate cause as a noble one.” https://t.co/mHx16L9IGn
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) April 26, 2019
I think about this exchange whenever people praise Lee and denigrate Grant. The Civil War did produce a brave, honorable general who fought for the right cause for the right reasons. That general was not Bobby Lee. https://t.co/kFh5bYvK1t pic.twitter.com/5w5l143z4o
— Adam Serwer🍝 (@AdamSerwer) April 26, 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…
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) April 24, 2019
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
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
Trump’s false statements – update from Daniel Dale
I call them lies.
Dale does a great job tracking them.
This omission, in both local and national news, is the reason I started listing his lies in 2016. And it persists. Most of the rally coverage is still “Trump speaks to big excited crowd, insults X and Y, talks policy Z.” “Trump says 24 untrue things” goes entirely unmentioned. https://t.co/uPtJjCEIv0
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 28, 2019
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:
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 24, 2019
2017: 2.9 per day
2018: 8.3 per day
2019 to date: 7.8 per day
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
Sad! 