Trump lies about defeating ISIS

An interesting Trump lie. He said Feb. 6 that the 100% liberation of ISIS land would be declared "probably next week," Feb. 15 that it'd be declared in "the next 24 hours." Never happened. After the Kim summit, he just went and did it himself, falsely. https://t.co/a415qxqLt1
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) March 2, 2019

Trump won’t condemn North Carolina election fraud

He compared them to phony voter fraud claims in Texas and California.

Donald Trump on Friday declined to condemn the strong evidence of mass election fraud in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District, instead pointing to other questionable examples of voter fraud https://t.co/g3darLK1RF
— POLITICO (@politico) February 22, 2019

"Trump has been hypocritical on many things including this," says the Chair of N. Carolina's Democrats.

"He and the Republicans nationally and in North Carolina talked about voter fraud. This was election fraud. It appears that political karma kicked in." https://t.co/P54qwRgljo pic.twitter.com/3Xsm2gYC0Z
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) February 22, 2019

Wow. Asked about election fraud in North Carolina, Trump immediately pushes false equivalency with made up election fraud in California

"I condemn any voter fraud of any kind, whether it's Democrat or Republican," he says. pic.twitter.com/wSoTwDbrfj
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 22, 2019

Trump just claimed, falsely, that there were 1 million illegal votes in California. When the reporter tries to correct him, he shuts her down.

Trump effectively uses his “excuse me!” line to cut reporters off who try to hold him accountable for a lie. They shouldn’t stop. pic.twitter.com/8C2Vyw28sI
— John Aravosis 🇺🇸 (@aravosis) February 22, 2019

Trump, on why he hasn't condemned GOP fraud in NC: "I condemn any election fraud & when I look at what's happened in CA with the votes…There was just a case where they found a million fraudulent votes."

Reporter: "There haven't been those cases. This is an actual case, sir."
— Jackie Calmes (@jackiekcalmes) February 22, 2019

Trump lays some of the ol’ ‘both sides’ on alleged election fraud in North Carolina https://t.co/oCdODcWUTF
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) February 22, 2019

Trump’s endless lies

Some call them false statements. I call them lies. He says the same fake stuff over and over. That’s a lie.

Seventy-four false claims last week. Thirty-six on Monday alone. Twenty-seven in that Texas rally speech. Elite feat: he got corrected in a 24-hour span by both the government of South Korea and the El Paso Fire Department. https://t.co/F5eq2uhG11
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 20, 2019

759 days.

8,718 false or misleading claims.

1 Donald Trump.https://t.co/6PIpSsUm5p
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) February 19, 2019

There's always a tweet –> https://t.co/fcIM92WMLB
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 19, 2019

Trump attacked the Post’s Pinocchios but he was fine with them when they were given to Obama. Liar and hypocrite.

Trump keeps lying about Obama and North Korea

Trump has told the lie many times – he claims Obama was about to go to war with North Korea. This has been debunked but Trump keeps repeating it. Sad!

What happened here: Obama did tell Trump something to the effect of North Korea being the biggest or most difficult world problem. Trump initially recounted that…then started claiming, extremely dubiously, that Obama also said he was close to a war. https://t.co/rGHkeaFyHT
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 15, 2019

I asked Obama’s office about this claim. They wouldn’t comment themselves but referred me to former Obama security aide @nedprice, who told me it was ridiculous, at odds with everything Obama has always believed and done about North Korea. https://t.co/EuaCcT7uIY
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 15, 2019

Today was the 25th time Trump made a version of this claim about Obama supposedly being close to war with North Korea. He sometimes frames it as merely his opinion about what Obama would do, not something Obama told him, but usually reverts to the more dramatic version.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 15, 2019

I hope President Obama holds a press conference. I think former Presidents should be mostly silent and give speeches to donors and go make some money. But this is an exception. We need to know (1) if this is true, and (2) if it's not, we need the WH to explain itself. https://t.co/X32dfriAEY
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) February 15, 2019

Read this timely thread by @realBobWoodward, whose book FEAR has the details on what Trump and Obama really discussed during the transition regarding North Korea, and what military options the Obama administration did or did not consider: https://t.co/rzfnHEte7k
— Carlos Lozada (@CarlosLozadaWP) February 15, 2019

Former CIA Director John Brennan on Trump's claim about what Obama told him, per @JesseRodriguez:

"President Obama was never on the verge of starting any war with North Korea, large or small. "
— Josh Lederman (@JoshNBCNews) February 15, 2019

Jeremy Bash, former chief of staff at the CIA and Department of Defense, says that President Trump's statement that fmr. President Obama was "close to war" with North Korea is false.https://t.co/TMkSNuKBqB
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 15, 2019

President Obama’s national security spokesman responding to President Trump’s comments that the US was on the brink of war with North Korea until he became president. 👇🏽 https://t.co/iVxrIMmK3g
— Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) February 15, 2019

Watch Chuck Todd call out Trump's new big lie that Obama wanted to go to war with North Korea. https://t.co/9oZVd1ucOp pic.twitter.com/Z2Ln7XJEQN
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) February 15, 2019

Trump’s phony emergency

Since there’s no national emergency at border, Trump has to lie to make it seem like one. He gave his opponents plenty of ammunition by basically admitting this was a political move.

Trump used the families who have lost family members to murders by illegal immigrants. I am sorry for their losses but notice that Trump never does this for the victims of gun violence. That’s because the NRA spent $30 million to get him elected.

Fact-checking President Trump's speech declaring a national emergency to fund border wall. https://t.co/uZpdw8P9Qe
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 15, 2019

New #FactChecker –> Fact-checking Trump’s announcement of a national emergency https://t.co/UqH7DmeeD7
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) February 15, 2019

To summarize: he lied a lot. https://t.co/XPdej1pkdf
— paul stefanik (@daleks1973) February 15, 2019

Well, that was odd. My story on Trump ramblying through a national emergency declaration in which he undermined his case that this is an emergency: https://t.co/oTlGVFXpJp
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 15, 2019

One thing many articles and TV segments rarely convey, in my view, is how deeply bizarre some Trump appearances are. Lots of people will just hear a short clip of him saying he's calling an emergency because there's an invasion. https://t.co/ylz8QZFHy7
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 15, 2019

People often demand that reporters challenge Trump on the facts. They should — but today we saw what happens. https://t.co/z0CqRMbC3l
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 15, 2019

He is now talking about women who are duct taped and smuggled in. "Nancy knows it," he says. (No one has produced evidence for this, and experts say they haven't heard of it.)
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 15, 2019

Trump has lied about this over and over.

Fact Check: To justify redirecting federal funds to a wall, President Trump made a litany of assertions about crime, drugs and other issues on the southern border. Nearly all were misleading, exaggerated or false. https://t.co/bl2ZDLjCOs
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) February 15, 2019

Trump is repeating his falsehood about effect of wall on crime in El Paso. El Paso’s GOP Mayor has already rejected this – as has CNN fact check. https://t.co/WEbYnbXcOh
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 15, 2019

another repeated lie

NEW: Fact-check on @realDonaldTrump's announcement of a national emergency to build a border wall. https://t.co/08cD5aipzn pic.twitter.com/q1WiIJcDvL
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 15, 2019

Here's NYT's chief fact checker on all the claims Trump made to justify his national emergency:

"Nearly all were misleading, exaggerated or false."https://t.co/YGV46t3sch

Is there any point at which presidential bad faith matters? That's one of the big questions we now face: https://t.co/8XaEdQzjQ8
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 17, 2019

"And I don't have to do it for the election; I've already done a lot of wall for the election 2020." — President Trumphttps://t.co/Yd6siOnoYb
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) February 18, 2019

Trump lied in his El Paso rally

I worry about the 2020 campaign and election. How are Trump and his cult going to handle if they lose? During the campaign, his claims will get wilder if he is losing and desperate to motivate his base. If he loses, will he and his cult accept the result?? I have my doubts.

Fact-checking President Trump's false claims during his El Paso rally last night. https://t.co/sFfcLYOrju
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 12, 2019

"The wall's being built. It'll continue. It's going at a rapid pace." — Trump

It's not.https://t.co/4p1uEN8wvU
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) February 12, 2019

Trump is doing a rally in El Paso. Tweets will be tweeted in this thread.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 12, 2019

Daniel Dale’s thread-always great stuff

.@JoeNBC on Pres. Trump’s El Paso rally: “The lies that tumble out of [Trump’s] mouth are extraordinary. Again, for those who can’t afford the Google machine … native born Americans commit crimes at a much higher rate than immigrants.”https://t.co/TQHcO9LcyN
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 12, 2019

FACT CHECK: El Paso Fire Department confirms @realDonaldTrump lied about his crowd size — only 6,500 attended his embarrassing rally.

Meanwhile, estimates say up to 15,000 turned out for Beto.#MarchForTruth #FightForTruth https://t.co/OToy55O1sV
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) February 12, 2019

Fact checking some of President Trump's El Paso speech https://t.co/rKuWl7B5QR pic.twitter.com/hoWCBFSV16
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 12, 2019

Going to El Paso to lie so transparently about El Paso suggests either a death wish or a complete loss of contact with fact-based reality https://t.co/fTyTRVmojY
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 12, 2019

Tonight in Texas, Trump repeated a false claim that a border wall made El Paso safer. Here are the facts:
Learn more: https://t.co/XDahNlsZsv #11MSNBC #11thHour pic.twitter.com/f6kEXoA2Wu
— 11th Hour (@11thHour) February 12, 2019

No, border barrier did not bring down crime in El Paso, despite @realdonaldtrump's claim https://t.co/4Ld3E9YYB3 pic.twitter.com/hRryHycZ1i
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 12, 2019

Beto O’Rourke fact-checked Trump’s rally live from across the street in El Paso https://t.co/Pq5zRbs0gO via @voxdotcom
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) February 12, 2019

most Americans have little reason to pay attention to his rants. He’s not setting policy nor saying anything new. In fact, he has become a bit of a bore. https://t.co/bUTnukrhzN
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 12, 2019

Fact check: Trump says 10,000 at El Paso County Coliseum rally; Fire Department says not true https://t.co/2ZPNQboUpL
— El Paso Times (@elpasotimes) February 12, 2019

Trump lies about everything.

El Paso update

Beto O’Rourke will be holding a rally tonight at the same time Trump’s rally is happening. Once again, le me point out that El Paso’s crime rate was declining before they built a barrier there. Trump is lying again.

https://twitter.com/ABCPolitics/status/1095067496023871489

Pres Trump tells visiting sheriffs there's a big line of people outside his event in El Paso waiting to get in, and that rival Beto O'Rourke has a line too but it's a "tiny little line."
— Steve Holland (@steveholland1) February 11, 2019

The comments are great.

No question what this @realDonaldTrump rally in El Paso is all about: pic.twitter.com/tTcIckusLp
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) February 11, 2019

Parked a couple blocks from the site of the ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ rally in El Paso. pic.twitter.com/jT28lADBZG
— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) February 11, 2019

Trump tells reporters that 75,000 people signed up for his campaign rally tonight in El Paso but the arena holds only 8,000.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) February 11, 2019

CNN's @betsy_klein spoke with a source about Trump's rally in El Paso tonight. When she asked about Trump's repeated usage of widely-debunked stats about violent crime in El Paso, the source sarcastically responded, "LOL."
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 11, 2019

The number of undocumented immigrants apprehended at the border has also declined in both cities. Apprehensions in El Paso have plummeted from nearly 120,000 in 2000 to 25,000 in 2017, according to US Border Patrol statistics. https://t.co/49OL01BIxa (6/8) pic.twitter.com/Z4mDIne5jT
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 11, 2019

.@realDonaldTrump claims El Paso, Texas used to be one of the nation's most dangerous cities, but became one of the safest after a border barrier was built. Crime data contradicts Trump's claim. His claim is False. https://t.co/zPylwuWuqE pic.twitter.com/v39Qnn4K05
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) February 11, 2019

Says Republican civic leader in El Paso: “Mexico is an economic and strategic ally of the United States, and an antiquated effort to place a barrier between us just won’t work.” https://t.co/kXatciMI09
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) February 11, 2019

The first photo is where @BetoORourke will speak tonight. The second is one of the many pro-Trump vendors set up across the street. The two sides will be thisclose together… with tensions high. pic.twitter.com/qQDehsg5HG
— Garrett Haake (@GarrettHaake) February 11, 2019

Fact check: Trump claims a wall made El Paso safe. Data shows he’s lying again https://t.co/fu09eFuQNq
— Ali Velshi (@AliVelshi) February 11, 2019

El Paso officials denounce Trump’s border comments ahead of his 1st 2019 campaign rally https://t.co/CHsSCPAP8J pic.twitter.com/PijYJe2NXj
— ABC News (@ABC) February 11, 2019

Even the Republican mayor of El Paso said Trump is wrong about El Paso.

President Trump's distorted view of life in El Paso | By Erin Coulehan for @CNNOpinion https://t.co/HTubxGBkRK pic.twitter.com/xHJWnxSh1k
— CNN (@CNN) February 11, 2019

Expect a very interesting discussion of crowd sizes Monday night. The El Paso County Coliseum, site of the @realDonaldTrump rally, can seat 5,000 to 6,000 depending on configuration. The outdoor counter rally has no real limitations and the forecast is clear and temps in the 50s. https://t.co/peJEdk2UOh
— Bob Moore (@BobMooreNews) February 10, 2019

The real dangers locals in El Paso say they confront: Lowriders. Dehydration. A sizzling car steering wheel in the middle of summer.

Residents here are used to their city being mischaracterized as a war zone by outsiders. https://t.co/oX4qhmLKQP
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) February 11, 2019

The major context behind Trump's visit to El Paso tonight: The city is one of the safest metropolitan areas in the country — before and after the fencing was completed there in 2009 https://t.co/WO71C347bn pic.twitter.com/85hbDhbEkl
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) February 11, 2019

El Paso’s GOP Mayor Dee Margo just told us President was “wrong” when he claimed El Paso one of America’s most dangerous cities before border barrier. CNN fact-checked this after SOTU. Data shows crime fell long before construction, flat after installation. pic.twitter.com/DPAJBkAWol
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) February 11, 2019

El Paso mayor says President Trump is “wrong” to connect the city’s crime drop and border barrier https://t.co/qoquo6YuYv pic.twitter.com/Hj5aVBrHnP
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 11, 2019

Trump lies about job creation

His administration is just continuing the job creation trend under Obama. Liar!

We have a great economy DESPITE the Obama Administration and all of its job killing Regulations and Roadblocks. If that thinking prevailed in the 2016 Election, the U.S. would be in a Depression right now! We were heading down, and don’t let the Democrats sound bites fool you!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2019

Today is Saturday. That means @realDonaldTrump is lying, again.

FACTS:
-More jobs created under Obama in 2016 than Trump in 2017
-More jobs created under Obama in 2015 than Trump in 2018

This Forbes article shows job gains are a continuation of Obama's.https://t.co/6toWEwm17t https://t.co/fbUz4BBBMy
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 9, 2019

Would Trump have won?

Would Trump have won in 2016 if we knew then what we know now? We’ll never know but I don’t think so. I don’t think any one of these items would have cost him the election but cumulatively, they would have hurt him. The one with the least impact was the payouts to the two women. If Trump voters were ok with the Access Hollywood tape, this would not have changed their vote.

Here’s a list:

Payouts to two women over alleged affairs
Lies about campaign’s many contacts with Russians
Dishonest about how much money he got from his family
Turned down for loan by Deutsche Bank
Efforts to build hotel in Moscow
Corrupt Trump Foundation

Trump lies about defending pre-existing conditions

This is the same lie Trump and many Republicans told during the 2018 elections. They are not defending coverage of pre-existing conditions. Republican states have a lawsuit which would end it and the Trump administration is not defending Obamacare. Trump lies all the time but this is one of his worst lies.

Repealed individual mandate. Trying to replace real health plans with “junk plans.” Actively supporting TX court case which would eliminate #ACA & protections for pre-existing conditions. Slashed funding for staff who sign people up for insurance. Sounds like sabotage to me. https://t.co/FqotmeEk95
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) February 8, 2019

Dear @realDonaldTrump: You stated in the #SOTU that it's your "priority" to protect patients with preexisting conditions. That means you need to direct the @TheJusticeDept to stop trying to strip people of preexisting conditions coverage.

Or was that just another lie from you? https://t.co/pWAcuOX4Iy
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 6, 2019