Trump and the New York Times

Trump met with the owner of the New York Times. It was supposed to be off the record but Trump tweeted about it. Trump’s account and the Times account sound like they were from two different meetings. Since Trump is a liar, this has happened before with his meetings and calls. Of course, I believe the Times. Trump’s comments are dangerous. Sad!

Here’s Trump’s tweet and the response.

The publisher of the New York Times met with Trump to explain the dangers of his attacks on the free press. Trump’s response was to renew his attacks.

Trump’s attacks are a deliberate scheme to undermine trust in institutions that can hold him accountable. Treat them that way. https://t.co/vHmUXYsUG9

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) July 29, 2018

As usual with this WH, when you get a readout of a meeting make sure you also get a readout from the other side. https://t.co/aRvFR5Gacb

— Mark Mazzetti (@MarkMazzettiNYT) July 29, 2018

Our updated story on NY Times publisher Sulzberger directly warning Trump — at July 20 White House meeting POTUS requested — that his attacks on journalists could lead to violence https://t.co/nHalLiv51I

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 29, 2018

Just as an aside:
I spent 5 years as an @nytimes correspondent in Russia.
The phrase “enemy of the people” was a key propaganda weapon that the Soviet regime used against dissidents.https://t.co/Qi7KtZCFnk pic.twitter.com/94u9pX0CDH

— Clifford Levy (@cliffordlevy) July 29, 2018

NYT says the meeting was off the record at the request of White House aides…but then Trump tweeted about it this morning

— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) July 29, 2018

Worth understanding the context here: Earlier this month, WH asked the publisher of the NYT, A.G. Sulzberger, to meet with POTUS. They met July 20 along with editorial page editor James Bennet. Agreement was that the meeting was off the record. 1/ https://t.co/5BRzKrBPqQ

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) July 29, 2018

There’s no such thing as fake news. If something is false it doesn’t get printed. If something false slips through, it gets corrected. There is NO SUCH THING as fake news. You label unflattering news fake, but the news about you is horrible because you live your life horribly. https://t.co/UrT5fHddxi

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) July 29, 2018

This is horrible.

1) If this account is accurate, Trump was told directly that his attacks on media are prompting some news organizations to post armed guards outside newsrooms.

Trump's reaction? He suggests that should *already* have been the case:https://t.co/qvPMPcHIjw pic.twitter.com/hnUCUItU6M

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 29, 2018

NYT publisher disputes Trump's retelling of off-the-record conversation https://t.co/GszEGjZtBv

— POLITICO (@politico) July 29, 2018

Trump lies about polling numbers

Another Trump lie. This was said by him before and corrected before so it’s a lie. There was no polling back in Lincoln’s day. (There weren’t phones either.)

Trump’s numbers among Republicans are very high but that’s not enough for him. He has to lie to make it sound better.

The emperor is fully clothed (modern polling only goes back to the post-WWII era) https://t.co/7GnuDVPlBq

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) July 29, 2018

Donald Trump claims he's more popular than Abraham Lincoln. Truth is, he's not even as popular as George W. Bush after September 11. I get it, facts are hard for Trump to understand. https://t.co/1z1jdh7MYn

— James Kosur (@JamesKosur) July 29, 2018

The prior example

1) Trump compares his polling to Lincoln, who … lived when phones didn’t exist

2) A poll last year showed 75% of the UK had “no confidence” in Trump https://t.co/E4QnxwDle2 https://t.co/PVfu1n83AW pic.twitter.com/uxnoMmdYDn

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 13, 2018

update 7/31

another lie

No, polls don't show Trump is the most popular Republican president in history. We rate Trump's claim False: https://t.co/pJlUYJXR8C

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) July 31, 2018

You know, deep down, you want to read about the history of modern polling –> https://t.co/pJlUYJXR8C (It was not around for Honest Abe.)

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) July 31, 2018

Trump lied when he said he won the votes by women

Trump did win the votes of white women, the only women he cares about. Bigot. Liar.

Update 2/14/20 – he will never stop lying

The gender gap in 2016 tied for the largest of any presidential election since pollsters began tracking it 40 years ago. https://t.co/253s1N3jME
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) February 14, 2020

yeah, he just grabs ‘em by the ballot box, doesn’t he https://t.co/ZAj8GTfHlY
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) February 14, 2020

Trump: "I got a tremendous number of women. They said one of the reasons I won was women."

Women voters in 2016:

Clinton: 54%
Trump: 42% https://t.co/A38Q3JbzMZ
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) February 14, 2020

"And, you know, for women — as you know, I did very well with women last time. I was hearing I wouldn't have. I'd say, 'Why? Why? Explain.' I did very well with women. " — Trump

Note: he got 41% of the women's vote in 20916https://t.co/IajP0kH3Hm
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 17, 2019

He’s still telling this lie.

Clinton 54%
Trump 41%https://t.co/LkfrQWAz8O https://t.co/wIX7ObaSiQ
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 26, 2018

8/4/18:

Trump lies about it again:

“I am so sorry, women, I’ve let you down. I’ve let the women down.

“Even though I won the women. I won the women, ohhhhh.

“You know when those numbers came, how’s it possible? I never heard I was going to win the women.

…We won the women. That was a little surprise.” pic.twitter.com/mhPQnnbeyS
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 5, 2018

Trump just claimed that he won the women's vote in the 2016 campaign. He didn’t – and continues to struggle with women voters. But he did win the white women’s vote in 2016. https://t.co/2ippVTatqH
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) August 5, 2018

again

Trump again falsely claims that he got 52% of "the women's vote" in the election.

He got 52% of the *white women's* vote. About 42% of all women.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 24, 2018

10/11/18

He just keeps telling this lie

At his rally in Erie, Trump claims again that he won 52 percent of women in 2016. That's true only of white women. He doesn't count non-whites. Among all women he won 41 percent. https://t.co/hgab7fWe1Z
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) October 11, 2018

and again on 10/13

Trump once again falsely claiming he earned 52% of the women's vote. That's the percentage of white women who voted for Trump. A majority of women overall voted for Clinton over Trump.
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) October 14, 2018

and again on 10/16

He got 41% of the female vote in 2016 https://t.co/aqhtTMmlSq
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) October 17, 2018

Only Republicans believe Trump’s double negative nonsense

Republicans stand out as the only group believing #PresidentTrump’s double negative explanation https://t.co/n1drz9u4xD TABLE #Helsinki pic.twitter.com/tXh3U6lJgD

— Quinnipiac University Poll (@QuinnipiacPoll) July 24, 2018

Trump won’t attack Putin

Blaming Obama for Russian interference in 2016 is like blaming a bank for being robbed instead of the robber.

Donald Trump has attacked:

Amazon
NFL players who kneel
Judges
Robert De Niro
Harley Davidson
Mitch McConnell
The Red Hen
Jeff Sessions
UCLA basketball players
Oprah
Maxine Waters

But nary a negative word about Vladimir Putinhttps://t.co/A4hCw8eHQ6

Shouts to @gelles!!

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 23, 2018

Trump’s security clearance idea is just a distraction from the Helsinki fiasco

Trump politicizes everything. Now is he again attacking people who criticizes him.

4 reasons why Trump's security clearance gambit makes no sensehttps://t.co/srEVtXbNPQ pic.twitter.com/30TN6w1fNg

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) July 24, 2018

"Can Trump really revoke them?" and other questions about security clearances answered: https://t.co/ojVwZKZTJ2

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) July 24, 2018

Revoking clearances is also such a dumb self-own. Former officials' clearances largely help those still on the job, providing institutional memory and hard lessons from history. We will be less safe because of it. https://t.co/MQ4SNijfIs

— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) July 24, 2018

So we are going to start subpoenaing people for thought crimes? For disagreeing too strongly with the GOP? Full on Stalinism. https://t.co/9qc3w6Vwpv

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) July 24, 2018

Partisan differences in views of the FBI have increased

Thanks to Trump and his lying supporters who have trashed intelligence and law enforcement agencies for political gain.

Partisan differences in views of the FBI have increased markedly over the past year https://t.co/futnnyceXw pic.twitter.com/sDsrParQky

— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) July 24, 2018

Quinnipiac Poll: six in 10 whites who have graduated from college, and a larger share of blacks, say FBI is not biased against Trump and call Russia probe legitimate. majorities call it a "witch hunt" only among Republicans and whites without college degrees

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) July 24, 2018

Walk Back Week

Worst week for Trump since Charlottesville comments. Pathetic.

Trump is a Russian stooge and pathological liar. He is totally incompetent.

Inside Trump’s tumultuous “Walk Back Week.” Behind-the-scenes with a WH staff trying to manage, cajole, and placate an angry president. by ⁦@AshleyRParker⁩, ⁦@PhilipRucker⁩, ⁦@jdawsey1⁩, and ⁦@CarolLeonnig⁩, w/ an assist from me. https://t.co/nJtCMcspDU

— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) July 21, 2018

Fmr. W.H. official: "You have a lot of people who are just a bunch of small-timers and clowns, so when they fuck up a response, you almost can’t blame them because you knew what you were getting, you know?" https://t.co/WSYjxdbZXH

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 21, 2018

Trump digs into a familiar playbook of digging in. ⁦@katierogers⁩ and me https://t.co/YlqJ9izSlA

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 19, 2018

Trump complained about the coverage being “so negative.” But by late morning today, he knew he needed to course-correct, and Stephen Miller drafted a statement was repeatedly revised. W ⁦@MarkLandler⁩ https://t.co/9HF3upE9Pc

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 18, 2018

“By the time he arrived home, the parade of critical statements had become a stampede, leaving Trump the most isolated he'd been in the White House since last year's controversy over white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville” https://t.co/ofyibI8c3P

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) July 21, 2018

Did Trump mean his walk back today?

I don’t think so and I expect him to disown it. It wasn’t a full walk back – he will never admit that Russia and only Russia, meddled in the election. He wasn’t very convincing today reading from a script. Yesterday was the real Trump. He only walked it back because he was advised to.

If this is Charlottesville redux, then expect Trump to get mad tonight that this afternoon’s do-over, wrong-word excuse didn’t garner glowing headlines, and then come out tomorrow doubling down on what he really wants to say, which is what he said alongside Putin.

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 17, 2018

BREAK: Senior Trump official says his Putin walk back is a lie. “I think he was more truthful yesterday than today and is capitulating to an angry caucus.” https://t.co/Okz88hqdkW

— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) July 18, 2018

With @MarkLandler, the president calms almost no one by claiming he simply said "would" instead of "would not" alongside Putin https://t.co/V97PGQlL5y

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 17, 2018

Trump is deathly afraid of being laughed at. News flash, Mr President: The world is laughing at you. This is the silliest spin ever! https://t.co/a8F0eKPxVc

— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) July 17, 2018

MSNBC's @KatyTurNBC asks if Trump is 'peeing on our leg and telling us it's raining' https://t.co/4YJprBcC0N

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 18, 2018

Analyst: Trump looked like he was in hostage tape https://t.co/CZXhs1gHl8

— Harvey J Kaye (@harveyjkaye) July 17, 2018

Perspective: Trump’s attempt to clean up the Putin event was an insult to America’s intelligence https://t.co/awtOJPgPWS

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 17, 2018

Analysis: In his prepared remarks, Trump removed a line about bringing election hackers to justice https://t.co/vFFqprQb0L

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 17, 2018

Trump lied about not knowing Putin before 2016

Liar!

Trump is lying right now about not knowing Putin before the election. He bragged about knowing him in 2014. https://t.co/EuBBKIT4eD

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) July 16, 2018

Didn't realize at the presser yesterday Trump claimed again to have not known Putin prior to 2016. As we've reported Trump had previously claimed *NINE* times to have met or spoken with Putin through 2016.

The only explanation for it is the president is a repeated liar. pic.twitter.com/A9qSYwD3vr

— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) July 17, 2018