"Quiet" now means a mere "28 false claims" in a week https://t.co/0DlYn4eYCL
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 30, 2019
Category: Trump Lies
More bad polls for Trump
Polls continue to be bad for Trump and Republicans. Of course, he lies about them.
“Don’t know how my poll numbers are so good.” We don’t either, Mr. President, @databyler writes https://t.co/b005Mwg7sQ Via @PostOpinions
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 30, 2019
Poll: Majority of Americans say they will "definitely not" vote for Trump's reelection https://t.co/EkuOmxv6xc via @nbcnews
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) January 30, 2019
U.S. Voters Trust #NancyPelosi More Than #PresidentTrump on Big Issues, Poll Finds; 2-1 Support for No-Wall Border Solution https://t.co/gXwVX7bhqC
— Quinnipiac University Poll (@QuinnipiacPoll) January 29, 2019
Poll: Support for building Trump's border wall drops https://t.co/xl1AVxL7Wr pic.twitter.com/taFeyMil20
— The Hill (@thehill) January 30, 2019
The shutdown has hurt the GOP. Americans viewed the parties equally before the shutdown and now Dems are viewed more favorably than GOP who have dropped 8 points https://t.co/uQw4bQSjDw
— John Anzalone (@JohnAnzo) January 30, 2019
Who came out of shutdown stronger? In @QuinnipiacPoll voters prefer @SpeakerPelosi over Trump on issues that matter to them by 26 points for 18-29; 13 points independents; 11 points college plus whites. Its 80 points among African-Americans & 35 w/Hispanics.
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) January 29, 2019
"Poll: Voters trust Pelosi more than Trump" #NoMoreShutdowns https://t.co/UUUdI7MlB3
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) January 30, 2019
Trump’s lie about women bound with duct tape
What it felt like to be in the Rose Garden today. “The entire extended, violent fantasy involving women bound with duct tape did not appear to be preprogrammed into the teleprompter at all.” @Olivianuzzi https://t.co/luPxgwcGvm
— Katie Rogers (@katierogers) January 26, 2019
Perspective: Why does the president keep talking about women and duct tape on the border? https://t.co/Qcp1doJe7v
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 26, 2019
Did @gop @potus @realdonaldTrump Get His Blue Duct Tape and Prayer Rug Border Tales From the 'Sicario' Sequel? https://t.co/DF3w3TmGUd @tommyxtopher @mediaite @foxnews @msnbc @cnn @abc @nbcnews @cbsnews @abcnews @nbc @cbs @usatoday @washingtonpost @nytimes @wsj @thehill @huffpost
— Geoff Ninecow (@geoff9cow) January 30, 2019
"Vox’s source indicated that they and others in their sector hadn’t heard anything that would back up Trump’s claims…"https://t.co/xcynj53xVS
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) January 29, 2019
Trump is telling his "four women" "duct tape" "backs or cars or trucks" "desert areas" human trafficking tale again. Again, human trafficking experts tells me they've never heard of this happening; just isn't how it usually works. https://t.co/ZQAF6bvbKV
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2019
#Trump is claiming:
1. Mexicans have amazing cars, better than the Border Patrol.
2. Women are crossing border bound up with tape.
3. Prayer rugs left in the desert.
Nobody has found ANY evidence, but all three can be found in #SicarioDayOfTheSoldado a recent fictional movie. pic.twitter.com/FyD6DkS6pF
— John Moffitt (@JohnRMoffitt) January 29, 2019
POTUS also told his tale of duct-taped women again, but in tonight's version there was also electrical tape, and he described it as "blue" at one point, per two attendees. One attendee thought blue was intended as a joke.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 29, 2019
Trump believes Putin and Kim Jun Un instead of the intelligence agencies
Putin must be thrilled with Trump’s disregard of American intelligence. Trump keeps helping Putin accomplish his goals.
Trump is wrong on Russia, Iran, North Korea and the border with Mexico.
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Here is the written statement submitted by DNI Coates. I suggest you read it. https://t.co/NlKbj5SM0B
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 31, 2019
His testimony, both in writing and in person, shows that you are lying. https://t.co/7ym2Wajek5
Your refusal to accept the unanimous assessment of U.S. Intelligence on Iran, No. Korea, ISIS, Russia, & so much more shows the extent of your intellectual bankruptcy. All Americans, especially members of Congress, need to understand the danger you pose to our national security. https://t.co/9iV3BTKiEv
— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) January 30, 2019
The president is trashing his intelligence leaders in response to their decision to tell the truth yesterday.
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) January 30, 2019
Trump, believer in the reassurances he receives from Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un, calls US intelligence professionals ‘naive’
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) January 30, 2019
Ah, 2019.
Notice also that the intelligence officials did not repeat Trump’s nonsense about the border with Mexico such as the caravans, women who are taped up and his stupid border wall.
Everything Trump has been doing post-shutdown is to hold on to his base. Blasting intel chiefs on Iran, denying climate change, it's his greatest hits. https://t.co/m8MkpVRgMy
— Chris Matthews (@HardballChris) January 30, 2019
"Perhaps the strongest rebuke of Mr. Trump’s security priorities comes in what is missing from the report: Any rationale for building a wall along the southwest border, which Mr. Trump has advertised as among the most critical security threats facing the United States."
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) January 29, 2019
One big picture takeaway from this intelligence hearing: There are huge new challenges to the U.S. The president isn't talking about any of them. He's focused on the southern border, which doesn't come up in the threats assessment as a significant security issue.
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) January 29, 2019
Now would be a great moment for the President to thank the hard working members of the intelligence community who just delivered an important annual threat briefing.
— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) January 29, 2019
Let me get this straight:
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 30, 2019
Trump makes up shit like "ISIS has been defeated" & "North Korea is giving up their nukes."
Then yesterday under oath, Trump's own Intel Chiefs tell the truth about ISIS & North Korea.
So this morning, Trump trashes his own Intel Chiefs.
Normal, huh?
Turns out the real audience for the intelligence community's new Threat Assessment report is our conspiracy-addled commander in chief: @maxboot https://t.co/8gSFObYSmU
— Jonathan Rauch (@jon_rauch) January 30, 2019
Trump lies all the time
He lies about big things.
He lies about small things.
He uses numbers and provides no evidence that they are true.
He lies all the time – he’s a liar! Sad!
He lies about Obama:
You have to be really obsessed with black people to dream up this nonsense https://t.co/EGHae3BvbF
— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) January 28, 2019
He lies about the number of illegal immigrants and their cost to the country:
President Trump shared disputed figures about the number of undocumented immigrants, what they cost the country and how many had illegally voted in elections. “There’s a long history of these numbers being inaccurate." https://t.co/EUJmDKEx0u
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 28, 2019
Please note: the numbers @realDonaldTrump provides below are completely fabricated and should not be taken as true in any way. https://t.co/qmYdQvtHD4
— House Homeland Security Committee (@HomelandDems) January 27, 2019
What a crock of BS! Trump must think his followers are dumb enough to think these absurdly exact-looking strings of digits actually measure something. It’d be like saying everything Trump utters is approximately 97.46321954780214347% likely to be false. https://t.co/OmcR1FniPL
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 27, 2019
Nothing screams fake numbers than false precision (ie, the exact number to the dollar or illegal immigrant) in what can only be rough, disputed estimates https://t.co/G6ikOhlb0d
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 27, 2019
If these ludicrous figures are from the Department of Homeland Security, as the president seems to claim, shouldn't Secretary Nielsen be called before the relevant congressional oversight committees ASAP to explain where they come from and if they're correct? https://t.co/QYJiXwUN3h
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 27, 2019
He lies when he said women were taped:
After Trump repeatedly said, without evidence, that women were gagged with tape to cross border, @kmettler wrote about it. Then Border Patrol sent a message to agents asking if anyone had seen evidence of Trump’s claim. No evidence has been presented. https://t.co/8sPAdx7KqO
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 27, 2019
His soul is diseased and every once in a while we're forced to peer inside https://t.co/CWicFQyfZ2
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 27, 2019
He lies about voter fraud:
This is not true.
Read the facts here, from @TexasTribune: https://t.co/GPQHqFu9UM https://t.co/yUnMpL203s
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 27, 2019
He lies about Democrats:
The Democrats are named Jim. They do not have last names. They are big, strong Democrats who never cried in their lives, not even when they were babies, but cried when they made these calls to the White House.. https://t.co/TJetxke0nW
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2019
Trump says of Dems: "Almost all of them are breaking, saying walls are good, walls are good." 🤔 None have said that, and his bill got fewer votes than the Dem version after more Rs bolted from his side.
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 24, 2019
Republicans want to eliminate the estate tax
Wealthy people got enormous benefits from the Trump tax cut but that’s not enough for Republicans. Trump keeps lying and saying the estate tax was already completely eliminated. Sad!
Ending the estate tax would give a tax break of up to:
— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) January 28, 2019
– $63.6B for the Walton family, the owners of Walmart
– $39.1B for the Koch brothers
– $27.8B for the Mars candy bar family
– $13.4B for the Cox cable family
– $0 for more than 99.8% of Americans https://t.co/QCtAlcjzZ3
Since Trump's tax cuts went into law:
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 28, 2019
1) Wages have remained flat, adjusted for inflation.
2) The deficit has exploded.
3) Businesses didn't reinvest their savings.
Mitch McConnell's solution: Eliminate the estate tax for America's super rich, sending us deeper into debt.
Almost every time Trump talks about the estate tax, he lies that he's already eliminated it. "We got rid of it, folks," he told the American Farm Bureau convention two weeks ago. https://t.co/DHEUaIKvPN
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2019
Stunning. Estate tax is ZERO for about 99.9%. ZERO. Only hits 1700 couples yearly who leave estates OVER $22.4 million to heirs. Yet, Senate GOP calls for repeal – at cost of over $100 Billion for these wealthiest estates. Poor children can just eat cake. https://t.co/0YgdEzGviC
— Gene Sperling (@genebsperling) January 28, 2019
Why wasn't the estate tax fully eliminated in the Trump tax bill? Here's why –> two words in the GOP tax bill mean tens of billions for the superwealthy https://t.co/sHcm0R4omS
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 29, 2019
How many columns were written asking how Senators Thune and Grassley plan to pay for their estate tax repeal and questioning whether the GOP has become unrealistic?
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 31, 2019
Intelligence officials contradict Trump
They aren’t working for Putin’s interests like Trump is.
On these issues, Trump is ignorant or a liar. I think he is well informed so he must be a liar.
The nation's senior-most intel officials are making clear many of Trump's claims are not based on intelligence:
– ISIS is not defeated
– North Korea is not denuclearizing
– Russia still interfering in US elections
– Climate change is real & endangers US national security— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 29, 2019
Not likely- certainly. None of these assessments are new or surprising. All are known to the President and all senior national security officials. He simply chooses to ignore them or lie about them for his own purposes.
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) January 29, 2019
Intel officials contradict Trump on North Korea and Iran. https://t.co/gRPmG2RyX7
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 29, 2019
“It’s hard to imagine a bigger void between a sitting President and the US intelligence community," CNN’s @jimsciutto says about US intelligence leaders contradicting President Trump on key national security issues during a briefing today. https://t.co/dKGGQRsaV4 pic.twitter.com/acHNR9Fvt5
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) January 29, 2019
The most senior intelligence officials in the Trump administration suggested that many of the President's sweeping assertions related to national security are inconsistent with their own assessments https://t.co/LdaBQZwz1M
— CNN (@CNN) January 29, 2019
The nation’s top intelligence officials underscored the distance between the intelligence community and President Trump on several critical fronts. My report on today's worldwide threats hearing. https://t.co/PwZEpJdIbK
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) January 29, 2019
"President Trump’s own intelligence officials are publicly saying that he’s a moron." —@kdrum https://t.co/jOlaYNdeR3
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 29, 2019
Trump has no strategy beyond bullying and intimidation
McConnell and Ryan advised him against the shutdown but he did it anyway. He has not made any offer that Democrats could accept. He doesn’t have a plan if bullying doesn’t work. If he insists on the wall, I don’t see how this ends. It’s unfortunate that Trump is using 800,000 federal employees as hostages. I feel for them, not Trump.
Notable about the shutdown battle is how transparently Trump is flailing. You can usually see some crude political logic in his moves even if he’s lying, inflaming, race-baiting. Once he played his crime card and it didn’t work, this one has been pure flail.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2019
"Trump has boxed himself into a position he can't get out of because at a very basic level, he has no idea what he's doing. He started a bad fight over an unpopular wall and can't admit he's wrong." https://t.co/0mF8AeT77L
#NoWall #TrumpShutdown— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) January 16, 2019
It's incredible to me that so many smart people don't understand that if Trump reopened govt tomorrow without any strings attached, he would *not actually have surrendered anything or made any concessions.*
Agreeing to stop hurting the country to get your way isn't a concession.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 23, 2019
White House aides say the disorganization and lack of discipline feels like early 2017. Hill aides say no one — including Pence — can speak for Trump. And 30 days in, no one says a deal is close to end the shutdown. https://t.co/xLRThfyR5G
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 21, 2019
Twice in the past 5 prez elections, Rs have won the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. Their Senate edge is centered on small states. But is it a sustainable long-term strategy to aim an agenda at 45% or less of the country? Trump is testing. https://t.co/LNlQSN08WD
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) January 17, 2019
If Trump now reopens Govt, he visibly surrenders to Pelosi.
If Trump keeps Govt closed, he bleeds support faster. Workers miss next paycheck, air travel delays, govt services fail, and economy stalls.
Trump built the trap and walked into it. Pelosi just locked it behind him.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) January 16, 2019
"Trump wants rational people to be so horrified at the damage he’s willing to inflict that they’ll cave in…Giving in to such behavior is not moderate, reasonable or sensible."
Good @EJDionne piece calling for mere accuracy in describing Trump tactics: https://t.co/k4jinHEPr0
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 23, 2019
The Art of the Why Can’t We Get a Deal https://t.co/4BAgVydWJm
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 17, 2019
On Radio Atlantic this week, @maggieNYT explains how President Trump's dealmaking as a businessman parallels his time presiding over the shutdown https://t.co/XjzPzPL7S4 pic.twitter.com/JvZ5YHn30T
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) January 24, 2019
The fight over the wall and shutdown has done more to unify Dems that it has to 'rally' the Trump base. https://t.co/rpqM4r7cKp
— amy walter (@amyewalter) January 17, 2019
McConnell answers to Trump and Trump answers to Coulter https://t.co/ub4vp3Gnls
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 16, 2019
The Wall is a device, a sales pitch, a bottle of snake oil, a Fyre Fest. Trump never intended to actually build it, because he did not expect to actually become president. The many subsequent scams were concocted to keep the original scam going. https://t.co/q8HMfwlhaf
— Jack Holmes (@jackholmes0) January 23, 2019
Update on Trump’s false or misleading claims
He’s getting worse.
I call them lies. I think he deliberately says things he knows are not true.
Analysis | President Trump made 8,158 false or misleading claims in his first two years https://t.co/ucsCDjAQE0 He almost tripled his pace of false claims in his second year.
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 21, 2019
Donald Trump said more than 6,000(!) untrue things in 2018https://t.co/pKD0dE17WE pic.twitter.com/Nnr3u1mnYa
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) January 21, 2019
President Trump said more than 6,000(!) untrue things in 2018 | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN https://t.co/MtyOD7SQJx pic.twitter.com/wi0qZs3y9l
— CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) January 22, 2019
A Harvard and a Yale psychiatrist on Trump: "He is unimpeded by empathy, duty, or shame and is wedded, in dangerous ways, only to what nurtures his exaggerated self-image … As things stand, his disregard for truth imperils our country and the world." https://t.co/krGNkNNPFv
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 21, 2019
Today is Tuesday. That means @realDonaldTrump is lying, again.
Multiple Trump associates have pled guilty as a result of evidence in the possession of the @FBI. Does @POTUS attack the evidence? No. He attacks law enforcement.#TuesdayThoughts https://t.co/FuQFzINsu1
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 22, 2019
Trump responds to the Buzzfeed story with lies
✅ Russia probe didn’t start from the dossier.
✅ Dossier not discredited.https://t.co/D6vHkt4WGq
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 19, 2019
Please stop lying. The Russian probe was not entirely based on the Steele memos. And please explain why you lied to voters about your business interactions with Russia—and why you falsely claimed Russia was not attacking the election. Thank you. https://t.co/Jj3vCFUOb3
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 19, 2019
Sad! 