Trump lies and says immigrants bring communicable diseases

just more made up nonsense but his cult believes it

To get a green card you need to be vaccinated against DT, DTP, DTaP, Td, Tdap, OPV, IPV, MMR, Hib, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, varicella, pneumococcal influenza, rotavirus and meningococcal disease. Which means immigrants are more vaccinated than most of the US population.

— Sebastian McKenzie (@sebmck) December 4, 2018

This admin has consistently demonized immigrants & those seeking refuge. Their policies & actions have galvanized the anti-immigrant movement. We must call out this extreme ideology for what it is – cruel & xenophobic. America is a #NationofImmigrants https://t.co/Wh25i29qwJ

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) December 11, 2018

Trump spinning his case that immigrants represent "tremendous problems" with "communicable disease" and crime — none of which is born out by facts.

— Cathleen Decker (@cathleendecker) December 11, 2018

Something that shouldn’t be lost today—Trump said immigrants bring “large-scale crime & disease” into the USA while sitting next to the Archbishop of Erbil Iraq during the signing of a bill that “directs U.S. assistance toward persecuted communities” https://t.co/sXh9b9ipCt pic.twitter.com/Fvf5dbpApH

— Luke Russert (@LukeRussert) December 12, 2018

Yeah the doubling down on racist rhetoric about saying immigrants carry disease and are “invading” the country while focusing exclusively on immigration really worked well in the midterms, right? https://t.co/xReSEn6Bj6

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 11, 2018

Note: I interviewed senior citizens in a gated Florida retirement community who told me they were worried that the caravan was going to bring deadly diseases to America. Even without any evidence that immigrants will bring "communicable diseases," people believe the Pres Trump. https://t.co/jHDb4Odvsh

— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) December 11, 2018

How Republicans will make excuses for Trump

Here’s what Hatch said. I am sure many Trump cult members will echo this. They only care about the law when they think Democrats break it. The hypocrisy is overwhelming. Obviously, people like Hatch would not vote to convict Trump if he was charged by the House.

Hatch dismisses allegations of Trump crimes over hush money.
Asked if he had any concerns, Hatch said: “The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president.” Told it was alleged by SDNY, Hatch told me: “Okay but I don’t care; all I can say is he’s doing a good job as President”

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) December 10, 2018

Orrin Hatch 2018: I don't care if the President's own DOJ has implicated him in felonies. What is a "crime" anyway?

Orrin Hatch 1999: "crimes of moral turpitude such as perjury and obstruction of justice go to the heart of qualification for public office" pic.twitter.com/8K8NVZSntj

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) December 10, 2018

Orrin Hatch on Donald Trump directing Michael Cohen to commit a federal crime: “I don’t care.”

Orrin Hatch on Bill Clinton lying under oath about having sex with Monica Lewinsky: “Perjury and obstruct justice … rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.” https://t.co/vGsWGkTIPO

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) December 10, 2018

More Republican hypocrisy.

McCarthy 2015: "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee…. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping."

McCarthy 2016: "There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump…. Swear to God." https://t.co/vwjGPQEXqL

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) December 10, 2018

We see the Republicans’ response to the growing Mueller probe—who cares? “It’s just an FEC violation,” says one Congressman. “Nothing wrong with building a hotel [in Russia],” says Rand Paul. The law & order folks are looking away as the law closes in on Trump.

— Touré (@Toure) December 10, 2018

This is false—there can be little question, after the filing on Friday, that federal prosecutors have significant corroborating evidence above and beyond Cohen’s testimony. https://t.co/BugnbgqWK4

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) December 10, 2018

Is "campaign finance issues" the new polite way of saying "an illegal payment to a porn star to keep her quiet?" https://t.co/aJdcC4SDfS

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) December 10, 2018

Bottomless Pinocchios for repeated false statements

Trump says the same lies over and over.

ICYMI –> We've introduced the Bottomless Pinocchio to deal with false claims endlessly repeated. https://t.co/SZ8gFM6ke6 pic.twitter.com/DFAlecXVCE

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) December 10, 2018

Headlines or tweets that don’t point out that Trump is lying

I am starting to see articles pointing out that if media outlets just quote Trump, they are not showing that he is not telling the truth. This applies to headlines and tweets.

Once again, a news feed injects an unadulterated lie into the political bloodstream, actively choosing to reward the liar for the original lie over informing its readers and viewers. https://t.co/ah1iS11Jog
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 11, 2019

The President has made 6000+ false claims and journalists are still writing “Trump said X” headlines? Really? https://t.co/A8buvcGOwc
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) December 9, 2018

Keep in mind that this sort of headline divides the journalism world. The people engaged in this practice think it's fine. What the president says is news, we reported the news. But increasingly their professional peers who are on social media object, and wish they would stop. https://t.co/EgzeeSLeYi
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) December 9, 2018

“I don’t know why journalists are still doing that! Why are we still publishing headlines that just quote a liar?” @brianstelter on simply citing Trump’s statements as news, on @ReliableSources this morning.
— Carlos Lozada (@CarlosLozadaWP) December 9, 2018

update 12/9/18

Stop doing this garbage. Add context to your tweets and headlines. This isn’t that hard. https://t.co/lC14g1Fw6n
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) December 8, 2018

Why is Trump writing your headline?
The headline is "Prosecutors name Trump as felon in Russia case." https://t.co/a8xODcxMPU
— Victoria Brownworth (@VABVOX) December 9, 2018

This happens *constantly* https://t.co/yN5UTYHptm
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) December 8, 2018

This headline, which borders on criminal negligence, is why Trump continues to tweet egregious lies. Fire the person who did this.
— Greg Olear (@gregolear) December 8, 2018

Go ahead news wires. Write headlines saying, “Trump says French are chanting ‘We want Trump!’” https://t.co/EEUwYKZBP0
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) December 9, 2018

STOP THIS, headline writers.

If you want to quote this president in a headline – in an age when many people read only headlines – you must write, “Trump (a proven, serial liar) says…”

But best not to quote him in a headline. https://t.co/spzVwONHCT
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) December 9, 2018

update 12/10

Great stuff from @ThePlumLineGS on an ongoing media failure. This strikes me as a problem that is very easy to solve — don't tweet Trump statements that are false without indicating as such — and yet they keep screwing this up. https://t.co/NPRrA8BZBk
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 10, 2018

Plenty of people have dumped on this & similar examples, but a point worth stressing is that the frequency with which these statements are issued is almost certainly a function of press willingness to parrot them in headlines like this. https://t.co/zUaVjQcOIN
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) December 10, 2018

Trump has made 6,420 false statements

I call them lies.

Trump, who has made more than 6,400 documented false or misleading statements as president, or roughly 10 a day, accuses Comey of lying. https://t.co/nBU8MaEVvm

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) December 9, 2018

Trump’s trade war has hurt stock prices

Nobody knows what he’s doing. He doesn’t tell the truth. The market hates uncertainty. Sad!

"Trump's trade war has cost the S&P 10% this year, JP Morgan estimates" https://t.co/CIuxlaTnPk

— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) December 7, 2018

Trump’s lack of credibility on China hurts the stock market

Trump lied about North Korea – they haven’t gotten rid of their nuclear weapons.

Trump lied about China – there is no deal.

By now, people who are not part of the Trump cult understand he lies and confuses issues. Since we don’t know what’s going on with China, the market tanked.

Trump said China had agreed to end auto tariffs. They haven't. The president and his administration have rattled markets — and at times each other — with muddled and contradicted messaging since returning home, while Trump trumpets success. Our latest: https://t.co/WR0eNK0pGf

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) December 5, 2018

1) Trump: China is removing auto tariffs.
2) Kudlow: Hopefully, but no agreement.
3) China: <crickets>
4) WH: 90-day clock starts Dec 1
5) Kudlow: Jan 1
6) WH: ahem, Dec 1
7) Toomey: USMCA won't pass Congress.
8) Lighthizer has to sort it all out.
https://t.co/zk4pG0Uge0

— Damian Paletta (@damianpaletta) December 4, 2018

Daniel Dale on Trump’s dishonesty

With 59 false claims, last Monday was the second-most-dishonest day of Trump's presidency. The record was the day before the midterm, with 74. He just beat the day three days before the midterms, which had 58. https://t.co/XHQEYBCBHe

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 6, 2018

Trump’s Twitter rant 11/28/18

All kinds of lies and other garbage today:

It's sort of remarkable that we treat as normal the president's sharing false memes on Twitter, but, in this case, that it's false information about *government programs* kicks it up a notch. https://t.co/H0afwDoIpg

— Philip Bump (@pbump) November 28, 2018

The president just retweeted a vice presidential parody account. https://t.co/HDNMo2y46m

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) November 28, 2018

This insane thing was retweeted by the president. Presidential panic isn’t pretty. https://t.co/QRonI3jg9z

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) November 28, 2018

Trump retweeted a claim this morning that "Illegals can get up to $3,874 a month under Federal Assistance program[s]." Not only is this based on a document about a refugee family (not illegal immigrants), but the case was in Canada, not in the U.S. pic.twitter.com/LZ6E6k3qDb

— David Martosko (@dmartosko) November 28, 2018

The president's morning on Twitter:
– Retweeted call to imprison his deputy attorney general and various former officials for treason
– Retweeted a fake Mike Pence
– Retweeted a lie about assistance for illegal immigrants
– Retweeted dishonest criticism of a Hillary Clinton joke

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 28, 2018

"Donald Trump is a president who acts like an Internet troll. He finds nuggets, shapes them to his liking and then shares them. Facts, context and fairness are secondary concerns — if they are concerns at all."https://t.co/k4vbEAIgpU

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 28, 2018

Last 24 hours, Trump has:

-Suggested Clinton campaign emails may not have actually been stolen (a nod to Seth Rich conspiracy)
-Cited Jerome Corsi as a “major player” whose word can be trusted over Mueler
-Accused his own deputy AG of treason

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 28, 2018

Trump interviews with the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post

Trump has often struggled mightily to enunciate his trade strategy and acumen.

The struggle was magnified in a WSJ interview all about trade with China.https://t.co/KKhxbOmoR0

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) November 27, 2018

Trump to the Journal on GM: 1) “They better damn well open a new plant there very quickly.” 2) “I told them, ‘You’re playing around with the wrong person.’” https://t.co/grwGHi5yem pic.twitter.com/IgSPjLjBhr

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 26, 2018

Analysis: Trump’s Wall Street Journal interview on China is a mess https://t.co/8zjihhPzvE

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 27, 2018

Trumps claims he loves to talk about trade but when he's being interviewed by a skilled reporter like @bobdavis187, he demonstrates how little he really knows. Jeez, read it with a stiff drink –> https://t.co/N2Bax3iLld via @WSJ

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) November 27, 2018

1) For at least the third time, Trump wrongly calls tariff rates "interest rates." 2) The Wall Street Journal corrects him. 3) Trump says "sorry," yes, right. 4) Trump wrongly calls them interest rates again. https://t.co/TI61Zm7B1y pic.twitter.com/Xf8aw5lfjG

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 27, 2018

Trump explains why he doesn't believe in climate change, blames Fed chair for economic woes and and threatens to cancel Putin meeting in wide-ranging interview. by @PhilipRucker & me: https://t.co/MObO8iXl8b

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) November 27, 2018

"If you go back and if you look at articles, they talked about global freezing, they talked about at some point the planets could have freeze to death, then it's going to die of heat exhaustion." — Donald Trump on heat exhaustionhttps://t.co/GSxBbUX8jp

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 28, 2018