Trump made 268 false claims in September

It is very bad right now. Trump made 268 false claims in September, tied for June as his third-most-dishonest month. #1 and #2? August and July. Here's the chart of his false claims by week: pic.twitter.com/mIq6lXhsKF

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 11, 2018

Republicans are fine with Trump’s corrupt activities

I just watched McConnell's AP interview.

McConnell is directly asked whether Trump's tax returns & biz dealings are legit lines of inquiry. He calls this "harassment."

Republicans keep openly stating they're just fine with Trump's corruption.

New piece: https://t.co/CpPII4ijMw

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 10, 2018

Trump’s Iowa rally 10/9/18

The usual lies over and over.

Daniel Dale’s thread:

Trump is doing a campaign rally around 7:30 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Tweets in this thread, mute thread if you hate thread.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 9, 2018

Troubling report from the front lines at tonight's MAGA rally https://t.co/td0ZFuSHYr

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) October 9, 2018

WATCH: Tonight at his rally in Iowa, Trump laughed as the crowd chanted "Lock her up!" about Dianne Feinstein just days after he said that Brett Kavanaugh was being treated as if he was "guilty until proven innocent." https://t.co/2QqUkkDyKQ #11MSNBC #11thHour pic.twitter.com/tU0TrW7NG9

— 11th Hour (@11thHour) October 10, 2018

The scene in Council Bluffs, Iowa ahead of tonight’s MAGA rally pic.twitter.com/Vm2vnSqz8q

— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) October 9, 2018

At a boisterous rally in Iowa, President Trump said that Democrats had become “totally unhinged" and “gone wacko” https://t.co/UHxFWTf9At

— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 10, 2018

.@realDonaldTrump just began his rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa. We'll be tweeting out our relevant fact-checks, so follow along! pic.twitter.com/lMbVDKthAN

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) October 9, 2018

Co-owner/columnist of @carrollspaper, who has covered #Iowa politics for many years. https://t.co/kssvu6gecR

— Bleeding Heartland (@desmoinesdem) October 10, 2018

I tried to watch all the Trump & Hillary rallies in 2016. Checked in on Trump in Iowa GOP rally and saw 2016 campaign-like enthusiasm. pic.twitter.com/tPSXkNTRLH

— Sharyl Attkisson (@SharylAttkisson) October 10, 2018

Trump lies about Medicare

Trump wrote a column in today’s USA Today which is full of lies about both the Democratic and Republican positions on Medicare.

Here's a full fact check of Trump's op-ed, just posted. https://t.co/yUgygTq73T

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 10, 2018

https://t.co/eGy2Ojla4m pic.twitter.com/r2L0vrl18l

— Share the Facts (@sharethefact) October 10, 2018

Another bruising fact-check of POTUS's "Medicare for All" column. Might be a net benefit for Dems hit with the "you'll kill Medicare attack" — that messaging, common in TV ads, getting high profile debunking.https://t.co/smvTk9f4J2

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) October 10, 2018

USA Today not only published a White House press release disguised as an “op-ed by Donald Trump,” it is using its Twitter account to blast out the article’s lies to 3.6 million followers. https://t.co/5qpjfDOWHh

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 10, 2018

well, this is embarrassing. How does he explain the fact that one of the links in the op-ed (to one of our fact checks) shows exactly the opposite of what the president asserted? https://t.co/JFXw2RcR6L

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) October 10, 2018

This up-is-down stuff on Medicare drives me nuts https://t.co/pUuDzHyQ0G

— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 10, 2018

I took a look at your op-ed, @realDonaldTrump. It needs some work.

All of the false and misleading words in the world can’t cover up how your administration and Republicans in Congress are forcing millions of Americans to pay more for health care. pic.twitter.com/SjFjonVBef

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) October 10, 2018

Some thoughts on the GOP's new "Medicare for all will kill Medicare" argument: https://t.co/1n2u6i4cIm

— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) October 10, 2018

An interesting dilemma for opinion editors: The president of the United States writes a guest column for your publication, but it's filled with untrue statements. What do you do? https://t.co/U8pSmx2NE7

— Colleen Nelson (@ColleenMNelson) October 10, 2018

This is good, but not as good as, y’know, fact checking BEFORE you run the op-ed. https://t.co/hsXFeeZqLR

— Nicholas Bagley (@nicholas_bagley) October 11, 2018

Look what Republicans did today:

If you or someone you care about has health problems, they hate you, they really hate you https://t.co/gk6F4pD2on

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 10, 2018

Trump’s political event with Kavanaugh

Trump continues to politicize the Supreme Court. The TV event last night was totally inappropriate and unfair to the other justices who attended it.

Kavanaugh tried to say healing things and move on but Trump will continue to try to divide the country because he thinks it fires up his base. Trump has no interest in being president of the whole country – he only cares abut his cult. This is just like the 2016 election. Trump won but continues to whine and complain like a loser. He tried to make it seem that Kavanaugh, not Ford, was the victim.

He lied when he said Kavanaugh was proven innocent. That’s not true. The investigation was a sham. I hope Democrats dig further if they win the House and conduct the thorough investigation that should have been done before confirmation.

The swearing in of Brett Kavanaugh was an in-your-face-suckers taunt from President Donald Trump to all his critics, David Zurawik writes.https://t.co/RcMeW2peNf

— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) October 9, 2018

At the White House swearing-in, Trump obscenely made the occasion a purely partisan one with his ludicrous claim that Justice Kavanaugh had been “proven innocent” and his misogynistic apology for the Senate’s even having listened to Dr. Blasey Ford.

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) October 8, 2018

Following a limited one-week FBI investigation that drew no conclusions and was governed by strict conditions set by the White House, President Trump publicly declares that Justice Kavanaugh was "proven innocent."

— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) October 8, 2018

Trump, incredibly, starts Kavanaugh’s swearing in by apologizing to him. America’s women don’t count. And Trump’s claim that Kavanaugh was “proven innocent” by a process that didn’t involve a trial let alone a full investigation, is at odds with every precept of American justice.

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 8, 2018

Analysis: Trump said Kavanaugh was "proven innocent." He wasn’t. https://t.co/vSULx7jKB7

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 9, 2018

I’m having a hard time listening to the television media play into the Trump/GOP narrative-shifting tactic of painting Kavanaugh as the victim rather than reserving those sympathies for the actual victims. At some point, these people should get tired of being played for fools.

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) October 9, 2018

How Donald Trump turned a 'ceremonial' swearing-in of Brett Kavanaugh into a made-for-TV eventhttps://t.co/QJFtkxrU4w pic.twitter.com/rn2J6RFuAK

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) October 9, 2018

If Chief Justice Roberts is such an institutionalist, supposedly dedicated to an apolitical court, why did he attend Trump's gratuitous 2nd Kavanaugh swearing in?

Declining to participate in that partisan event would have sent a powerful message about judicial integrity. pic.twitter.com/VUI1zTLJk9

— David Cay Johnston (@DavidCayJ) October 9, 2018

Trump just said "On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure." Well on behalf of humankind I want to apologize for Trump belittling a sexual assault victim to get laughs

— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) October 9, 2018

Once more Kavanaugh flunks the judicial independence test.. appearing at a partisan fist-pumping event — He REALLY doesn't get it https://t.co/M8YR2sLZrp

— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) October 9, 2018

The President ripped the scab off in his remarks.” @HardballChris on Trump’s speech during the ceremonial swearing in of Kavanaugh. https://t.co/WWezMKziHX

— Hardball (@hardball) October 9, 2018

As Kavanaugh re-takes oath at White House this evening, worth noting that Sotomayor and Kagan didn't take oaths at White House. Obama wanted it that way as a symbol of their independence, administration officials said at the time. #SCOTUS

— Greg Stohr (@GregStohr) October 8, 2018

During a swearing-in ceremony on Monday, Trump ensured Kavanaugh will forever be associated with Trumpism. https://t.co/p15hp1tmMv pic.twitter.com/w4NOYTIXai

— The New Republic (@newrepublic) October 10, 2018

Trump, incredibly, starts Kavanaugh’s swearing in by apologizing to him. America’s women don’t count. And Trump’s claim that Kavanaugh was “proven innocent” by a process that didn’t involve a trial let alone a full investigation, is at odds with every precept of American justice.

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 8, 2018

Trump lies about attendance at his Missouri rally

He lies about everything. He always wants to make the rally attendance sound big.

Last week, Trump claimed that there were "45,000" and "44,000" people stuck outside his September rally in Springfield, Missouri.

Springfield public information chief Cora Scott tells me: "There were about 11,000 inside and another 1,000 or so that were unable to get in."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 8, 2018

Trump wants to reinstate stop-and-frisk

Trump wants to reinstate stop-and-frisk policies. The way they were done in New York was unconstitutional and bigoted. His base will like the bigotry part.

Shootings are down in Chicago this year, according to police department statistics. Trump’s talk of a “shooting wave” is a political move to once again use Chicago as a scapegoat. https://t.co/yR7qYL3Bfw

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) October 8, 2018

Trump on stop and frisk policing: "It works, and it was meant for problems like Chicago. It was meant for it. Stop and frisk."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 8, 2018

What Trump got wrong about stop and frisk during the 2016 campaign.

from the article linked to above:

“Applied almost exclusively to minorities, the stop-and-frisk tactics in New York became an elephantine government project that wasted time and money, degrading both to the personhood of the men and women who were stopped and to the professionalism of the people doing the stopping.”

The way stop and frisk was carried out in New York was unconstitutional.

from the article:

“In 2013, U.S. District Court Judge Shira A. Scheindlin ruled that city police violated the U.S. Constitution in the way that it carried out its stop-and-frisk program, calling it “a form of racial profiling” of young black and Hispanic men. ”

This Washington Post article notes ” …there’s no real correlation between the use of stop-and-frisk and New York’s reduction in crime.”

Trump lies about Blumenthal

Senator Blumenthal lied about his military service. He did not serve in Viet Nam.

Trump has told outrageous lies that go far beyond the facts.

Trump's lying about Richard Blumenthal's lying is pretty wild.

Trump has made up long fake quotes he falsely claims Blumenthal uttered about being a war hero – insisting Blumenthal didn't merely lie about having been present in Vietnam, which is what Blumenthal actually did. pic.twitter.com/bDTJGZ7zT0

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 8, 2018

The news media must do more to challenge false statements, not just report them

When false statements and lies go unchecked, many readers and viewers wrongly assume they are true. https://t.co/TbeL09DESR

— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) October 7, 2018

Make sure to look at Daniel Dale’s thread which includes the tweet below

How Trump's rally lies are treated by almost all media: just ignored. Blumenthal didn't say many of the things Trump claimed he said; Feinstein didn't say the things Trump claimed she said; Trump still got the attacks into the New York Times unquestioned. https://t.co/Pz8T9CEsZ8 pic.twitter.com/viQhzdghzH

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 7, 2018

Trump’s Kansas rally October 6, 2018

Lies, lies and more lies.

The great Daniel Dale’s thread:

Trump is doing a campaign rally in Topeka, Kansas around 7:30. Tweets in this thread, mute thread if you don't want to read many tweets about a Trump rally, you know the drill.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 6, 2018

President celebrates Kavanaugh confirmation; slams democrats over opposition during Topeka rally: https://t.co/j1xunIaKgD @jonkarl reports this morning. pic.twitter.com/n8892XQvDB

— Good Morning America (@GMA) October 7, 2018

NINE HOURS ahead of President Trump’s #MAGA rally in Topeka, Kansas, folks are already lining up in the HUNDREDS outside the Expocentre. And it’s raining. Watch 🎥💦👇🏽 pic.twitter.com/CJPlNBeg0I

— Nicole D. Sganga (@NicoleSganga) October 6, 2018

Pres pumps fist in the air at rally in Topeka, as he ends one of his most partisan speeches since taking office. pic.twitter.com/08ViLVwzYD

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) October 7, 2018

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