Trump claims he forgot things

I think he’s lying. I wonder if his memory would get better if he testified under oath.

The Mueller report describes Trump's contributions as "inadequate" — perhaps because in 19 of Trump's 22 written responses he claims not to recall specific details. https://t.co/hLs07EQU54
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 18, 2019

“I have one of the great memories of all time,” Trump once said when rebutting the assertion of Army Sgt. La David Johnson’s widow that he couldn’t remember her husband’s name during his phone call to her. Here are 29 things he told Mueller that he forgot. https://t.co/kq0I5Bofy7
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) April 18, 2019

Trump provided 33 paragraphs of answers to Mueller. His memory failed him 34 times.https://t.co/n8mCI7EigL
— Eli Stokols (@EliStokols) April 18, 2019

One of the world’s greatest memories of all time failed 37 times when Mueller asked questions. @Fahrenthold on Trump’s written testimony https://t.co/JMbA89xogm
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) April 19, 2019

“I have one of the great memories of all time.”@realDonaldTrump 10/25/17

Check out this article from USA TODAY:
‘I do not recall': Read Trump's written answers to Mueller on Russian contacts, Trump Tower meetinghttps://t.co/JSUYbTAQEz
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 18, 2019

Trump once boasted he has “one of the great memories of all time,” but he told Mueller more than 30 times he did not remember key events in the Russia probe https://t.co/JysVVYZXBd
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) April 18, 2019

Bad memory.

"We noted, among other things, that the President stated on more than 30 occasions that he does not 'recall' or 'remember' or have an 'independent recollection' of information called for by the questions."

(Mueller, on Trump's responses to questions, App. C, p. 417) pic.twitter.com/9OK3u9DyV1
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) April 18, 2019

President Trump said he could not recall, remember or recollect more than 30 times in his answers to special counsel Robert Mueller https://t.co/ajdHXk0qm3 pic.twitter.com/cD0cHULk1H
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 19, 2019

For Trump, "the world’s greatest memory" failed repeatedly when prosecutors asked him those classic questions from decades of presidential scandals — what did he know and when did he know it? https://t.co/MleqeWdL3l
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 20, 2019

More than two dozen times, the president's answers to the special counsel included phrases like “I can’t remember” or “I do not recall” https://t.co/w75uMydH14
— POLITICO (@politico) April 21, 2019

Benefits from Trump’s NAFTA replacement will be much smaller than he claims

A government report concluded Thursday that the Trump administration’s revised North American trade agreement would offer modest benefits to the economy, challenging the president’s claims that the accord would make far-reaching changes https://t.co/g3qD17WCcb
— Ana Swanson (@AnaSwanson) April 18, 2019

The U.S. International Trade Commission estimates that the new NAFTA would, six years after it came into force, increase US GDP by 0.35% ($68.2 billion) and increase employment by 0.12% (176,000 jobs). So: a positive impact, but small. https://t.co/woi0rWIbD8
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 18, 2019

Speaking of NAFTA:

Context: the USMCA's onerous automotive rules of origin were, per the WH itself, drafted for American autoworkers. https://t.co/MPIqzZD2fX
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) March 5, 2019

Your periodic reminder that the USMCA has yet to be ratified by any of the three countries and has not taken effect https://t.co/yaqvwLJ6nf
— Megan Cassella (@mmcassella) March 14, 2019

Another Trump lie

Canada may tie its approval of trade deal to removal of Trump’s tariffs https://t.co/tXgMcJ2xKy
— MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) March 25, 2019

President Trump’s unpredictable style has brought foreign countries to the negotiating table. But will it result in the United States leaving with more? https://t.co/eHipIYapka
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 16, 2019

Trump lies about the New York Times

He lies when he says they apologized. He lies when he says they are failing. Sad!

As you can see from the old tweets, he has told these lies before.

Once again, never apologized, never had a reason to, subscribers way up. https://t.co/v2lQ91uqWg
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) April 14, 2019

Once again, does he know he’s lying? Probably, right? https://t.co/cn0IgW8m0L
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) April 14, 2019

The @NYTimes added 132,000 new subscribers the week after Trump’s victory in 2016.

👉🏻 https://t.co/GHRhl6QodF https://t.co/NK9SotIuvu
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) April 14, 2019

Trump says New York Times apologized to him for its bad coverage & is failing. NYT says they didn't apologize & subscriptions are booming.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) August 23, 2017

This extemporaneous Trump speech, including the usual Thing-That-Didn't-Happen (the NYT didn't apologize for anything) just confirms that we're in a state of political crisis and we're likely to be there for a while.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 5, 2018

Trump falsely claims that the @NYTimes "had to apologize because they covered it/us/me, all if it, so badly"

Not true. pic.twitter.com/tCWgkuP3Xt
— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) April 30, 2017

Trump on Twitter: The NYT apologized for its coverage! (They didn't apologize)

Trump, when he was at the NYT in November: "A world jewel" pic.twitter.com/jCm6tkoNvk
— Mark Berman (@markberman) March 29, 2017

Trump's tweet is a deliberate mischaracterization of a Nov. 13 letter from the @NYTimes to its readers. NYT was not "forced to apologize."
— Zach Schonfeld (@zzzzaaaacccchhh) February 4, 2017

Trump has no shame. He's now demanding that NYT apologize for critizing his mockery of a reporter with a disability: https://t.co/M4XXXTApX7
— Peter Sterne (@petersterne) November 27, 2015

Trump lies about 9/11

Trump distorted what Omar said about 9/11. He has a long history of lying about 9/11. Sad!

Trump also has trouble keeping his facts straight about 9/11. @maggieNYT & I wrote about how he has described the attacks happening while people were having dinner; another time, he said it was while people were having lunch. https://t.co/VtltyycHTj
— Patrick Healy (@patrickhealynyt) April 16, 2019

.@Lawrence says The NY Times list of Trump lies about 9/11 left out his most perverse lie. He claimed he "lost hundreds of friends" on 9/11. He lost none. https://t.co/FB7Ry8wBKF pic.twitter.com/qRyljnOQKW
— The Last Word (@TheLastWord) April 17, 2019

Donald Trump:
• falsely said “thousands” of Muslims in NJ cheered the fall of the Twin Towers
• claimed he saw people jumping from the World Trade Center from his Midtown apartment
• ignored pleas to pass a reauthorization of the James Zadroga Act
https://t.co/MoGTKdIRKN
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 17, 2019

President Trump's attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar over 9/11 ignores his own fraught history https://t.co/sJlgNA6hiV pic.twitter.com/z0RO0kyOjj
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) April 16, 2019

President Trump has a history of using the 9/11 attacks to make political points, either by trying to burnish his own reputation or by damaging others' https://t.co/TuuVxg1bm6
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 16, 2019

Trump doubles down on his terrible attacks on Representative Omar

He obviously doesn’t care if she gets death threats. Trump’s bigotry will get people killed.

He distorted her remarks on 9/11 through editing. I can’t forgive his disgusting behavior about 9/11. See below for details. What a self-centered lying bigot.

It's pretty amusing how regularly the Trump cultists manage to

1) thunder with great outrage at the very suggestion that Trump would ever attack Rep Omar in order to foment anti-Muslim hate

while in the same tweet

2) spewing disgusting, bigoted slurs about Rep Omar
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 16, 2019

For anyone who lived or worked in NY & the fact that the attacks occurred on a beautiful Tuesday morning during early rush hour is seared into our brain. How can one “forget” that? https://t.co/4EsXwNxGh9
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) April 16, 2019

“[I]f Omar is a target, it has little to do with what she said and everything to do with who she is: A black Muslim woman — and an immigrant — whose very person disrupts the exclusionary ideal of a white Christian America.” https://t.co/q07Vb4l3vA
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) April 16, 2019

.@ThePlumLineGS gets at Trump's real motivation in demonizing Ilhan Omar https://t.co/bdz8G1BWL1
— Peter Beinart (@PeterBeinart) April 15, 2019

Folks who have taken issue with politicians using 9/11 in political contexts over the years have been silent on POTUS tweeting a video of the burning twin towers https://t.co/HBPjxCmBSL
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 16, 2019

Trump was explicitly asked if he regretted his tweet about Ilhan Omar that led to threats.

No, he said, because she's "unpatriotic" and she's "got a way about her" that's bad for the country.
https://t.co/v2FVrRhy3q
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 16, 2019

REPORTER: Congresswoman Omar says your video led to direct threats on her life. Any second thoughts?

TRUMP: "No, not at all." pic.twitter.com/wiSNptg0F3
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 16, 2019

Trump's history of inciting violence against Muslims started well before his recent attacks on Rep Ilhan Omar – he has been stoking hate versus Muslims for years and Trump's fans have answered by plotting to kill Muslims. My new @thedailybeast article: https://t.co/fecyKktUZ8
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) April 15, 2019

“It is cruel because Trump essentially delivered his political rant while standing on desecrated graves. The images he employed not only included burning buildings but burning human beings, drafted into a sad and sordid political ploy.” https://t.co/GKxAlKGnHx
— Michael Gerson (@MJGerson) April 15, 2019

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday flatly rejected charges of anti-Semitism against freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar amid verbal attacks by President Trumphttps://t.co/cTEkx5yIJq
— POLITICO (@politico) April 16, 2019

Don’t expect Trump to stop targeting Rep. Ilhan Omar. It looks like his newest 2020 strategy. https://t.co/FwRsZpCELB
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 16, 2019

Trump lies/false claims last week

Trump false claims last week:
– 34 to Republican fundraising dinner
– 19 to Republican Jewish Coalition
– 14 with NATO chief Stoltenberg
– 9 in Fox News interview at the border
– 9 at other border events

As usual, much of his lying was to his supporters.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 11, 2019

Trump's speech to that Republican campaign dinner was the third-most-dishonest event of his presidency: 34 false claims. He made 102 false claims in all. That's the 11th-worst week of his presidency, second-worst since the midterms. https://t.co/RGhCxriaZ9
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 11, 2019

Does anyone know if a Republican recently walked out of an interview when they were asked about health care, as the president claimed last week? pic.twitter.com/rXnxldP83P
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 10, 2019

Per the pool reporter, Trump has resumed his dishonesty about family separation, saying "I'm the one who stopped it" while not acknowledging he had started the policy he later stopped.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 9, 2019

Trump goes even further than Barr

Donald Trump's dangerous allegation of 'illegal' and 'unprecedented' spyinghttps://t.co/j2zGJHjpFJ pic.twitter.com/BiiNN5DvlS
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 11, 2019

Trump claims he’s victim of ‘illegal’ spying – but provides no evidence @abbydphillip reports @TheLeadCNN https://t.co/dyt5rzeNB5 pic.twitter.com/3Zl4y7WFyn
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 11, 2019

Barr spreads Trump’s “spying” conspiracy theory.

Trump has said, with no basis, that his campaign was spied on. Now, Barr backs him up. This undermines law enforcement. I have no trust in Barr now. He’s just another Republican liar sucking up to Trump.

As Philip Bump notes, Trump wins by making an “informant”(routine for law enforcement) into a more sinister sounding “spy”.

Second, I (and presumably others) take more issue with the "on the campaign" part of the assertion. Wrote about that last year.https://t.co/eA8zzq4NkJ
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 11, 2019

William Barr is redefining what it means to “spy” https://t.co/pMOydkMJ8Z pic.twitter.com/DUf9GGcaNr
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) April 11, 2019

Democrat @TedLieu to CNN: The FBI didn't spy on the Trump campaign, "This was authorized surveillance." 🤔 pic.twitter.com/hgDv4Tf587
— Matt Wolking (@MattWolking) April 11, 2019

Bill Barr could have said "surveillance approved by a FISA court."

Instead, he said "spying."https://t.co/2H5Hkmz5bX
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 11, 2019

– Attorney General publicly says the FBI “spied” on the Trump campaign

– Unnamed sources around the AG try to walk the comments back

– The President comes out the next day and praises the original remarks, insisting “I think what he said was absolutely true.”

Clear as mud.
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) April 11, 2019

It’s hard to call someone in Trump’s orbit even more dishonorable than Trump himself, but Bill Barr might meet that test: unlike the totally unmoored and immoral Trump, this Attorney General clearly knows better. He has to know how badly he is betraying the rule of law.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 11, 2019

DING DING DING. Also, Shaheen gave Barr a chance to take back "spying" and he paused and said it again.

Plus, he's an extremely accomplished lawyer and former AG who understands how to parse. https://t.co/77LT3vV5pj
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) April 11, 2019

I see the “spying” conspiracy is coming back in vogue, now from the AG himself. Reupping my tutorial on why and how sources are used in counterintelligence investigations https://t.co/9aHRdjw0cn
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) April 10, 2019

“I frankly don’t even recognize the guy anymore. I am outraged that he would do that, to law enforcement and to the criminal justice system of the USA.” @CynthiaAlksne on AG Barr saying, with no evidence, that he thinks spying occurred on the Trump campaign. #Hardball pic.twitter.com/tVXsFuCggb
— Hardball (@hardball) April 10, 2019

More on #Barr from @stevebenen:
He "must realize the political weight of a loaded term such as 'spying,' but Barr, already suspected of being overly concerned with the president's political interests, said it anyway." https://t.co/LrAlbirhKi
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) April 10, 2019

This gets at something that has become apparent the past two weeks: Barr is a smart lawyer who has been out of public service a long time and has no idea what he's doing in the modern political/media landscape. https://t.co/OQemcvdAk2
— Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) April 11, 2019

Have you noticed that at no time in the past two days did William Barr communicate any concern about Russia attackin' our election or Trump's campaign not once reportin' a single one of over 100 meetings with Russia?

His only worry was about a Trump conspiracy theory.
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) April 10, 2019

This is the sort of thing that the "spying" comment buys us. There will be a lot more where that came from. https://t.co/yAPHlGMr7Y
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) April 10, 2019

AG Barr’s “spying” remark is a “classic demonstration of the Fox-newsification of the Republican party,” says CNN’s @JeffreyToobin. “His use of this term shows how much the paranoid lunacy of the right wing is now moved right in” to the Justice Department. https://t.co/m1qULaNutV pic.twitter.com/kjRx7ldgar
— CNN (@CNN) April 11, 2019

Barr was quick to criticize the agency he now leads, despite having no evidence to support the accusation. Career public servants deserve leadership that supports them. https://t.co/ItT4VEp6ol
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) April 11, 2019

If Barr had a concern about the investigation and wanted the truth, he'd cite facts and rely on the IG. If he wanted to provide his boss political cover or intimidate investigators so they won't investigate his boss again, he'd cite a conspiracy theory and launch his own inquiry.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) April 11, 2019

Trump lies about WikiLeaks

Now that Assange has been arrested, Trump says he knows nothing about WikiLeaks. He’s just lying again. I don’t know he lies about things that are easily verified. I guess it’s because there have been no bad consequences for him and no reason to stop lying.

Trump has mentioned WikiLeaks quite a few times for someone who claims to "know nothing about" it https://t.co/JmcncJpopT pic.twitter.com/Yi53D3uoSR
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 11, 2019

He invoked Wikileaks well over 100 times in over 50 appearances during campaign 2016. https://t.co/LS2shBICrC
— Carrie Cordero (@carriecordero) April 11, 2019

Nice work by @PostOpinions here: A video compilation of Trump repeatedly talking up Wikileaks, which he now claims he doesn't know anything about: https://t.co/JcaBxucBmF
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) April 11, 2019

gosh do you think he’s … fibbing? https://t.co/7BwdbgrZJy
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 11, 2019

Asked if he still loves WikiLeaks, Trump tells the pool, “I know nothing about Wikileaks. It’s not my thing.” He previously called it “amazing” and a “treasure trove.”
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) April 11, 2019

WikiLeaks? I haven’t heard that name in years. https://t.co/Q1Wxj6ErHp
— Slate (@Slate) April 11, 2019

Trump says he knows "nothing about WikiLeaks." He's lying. We made a video: https://t.co/V68xVIWT2E
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 12, 2019

Trump lies – We’re not full

"A recent study by the Economic Innovation Group found that 80% of American counties, with a combined population of 149 million, saw a decline in their number of prime working-age adults from 2007 to 2017." https://t.co/Nl0Dp7Fkfi
— UW-APL (@AppliedPopLab) April 9, 2019

These reality checks should get as much airtime as Trump's "our country is full" soundbites https://t.co/vZvfRB0f9E
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 9, 2019

Our country isn’t full, and ironically Homeland Security is empty. https://t.co/a3BBolNXN5
— Madeleine Albright (@madeleine) April 8, 2019

I am chilled to the bone by the idea that any Jewish person of conscience could applaud Trump saying “Our country’s full, you can’t come in,” much less cheering raucously. Not long ago, it was we who were turned away from these shores by such prejudiced sentiments. For shame.
— Rep. Andy Levin (@RepAndyLevin) April 8, 2019

"They see ample evidence of a country that is not remotely “full” — but one where an aging population & declining birthrates among the native-born population are creating underpopulated cities & towns, vacant housing and troubled public finances" https://t.co/uoXZgqZ3uV
— Michael Tackett (@tackettdc) April 9, 2019

Only about 3 percent of the country’s land is urbanized….. Nationwide, the United States has less than one-third of the population density of the European Union, and a quarter of the density of China. https://t.co/vPfvdK8lwL
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) April 9, 2019

The president says the country is "full."

In fact, there's no such thing as a full city, a full country. Pretending there is is disguising your politics as physics. https://t.co/nC6AnjcbPW
— Emily Badger (@emilymbadger) April 8, 2019

You know what I only just put together? "The country is full" as a statement to brown folks is basically the exact thing the DOJ sued Trump for in 1973, but now at a national scale. It's redlining. https://t.co/b5FFD4e96h
— Amanda Katz (@katzish) April 8, 2019