Trump lie (or false statement) about NATO

NATO members don't owe money for failing to meet the NATO guideline of spending 2% of national GDP on defence. That's not how it works. You can argue, if you want, that they've been metaphorically delinquent, but Trump regularly suggests they're in actual debt, which is not true. pic.twitter.com/ucAFSzOOTv

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 10, 2018

Once again, the 2% commitment is a goal set by NATO allies for 2024. https://t.co/0fIiCfyP5a

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) July 10, 2018

Once again, Trump has this wrong. The 2% spending target is not a current commitment but a goal set for 2024, still six years away. No one is "delinquent" or owes the US any payments. https://t.co/cmWjSPZBKk

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) July 10, 2018

Just for context, pls remember that “delinquent for many years in payments” does not apply to any real occurrence in the real world.
-NATO does not have “dues”
-Its “collective defense” clause has been invoked only once in history: for *other nations* to help the US after 9/11 https://t.co/WmiF59ZMjm

— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) July 10, 2018

There are no accounts by which the U.S. is "paying for 90% of NATO." In terms of total defence spending by members of the alliance, the U.S. is paying 72%, according to NATO's most recent annual report. And the U.S. pays an agreed-upon, consistent 22% of NATO's actual budget. pic.twitter.com/IXg9yEOUUs

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 9, 2018

The only way it's "Not fair to the U.S. taxpayer" is if Trump thinks that if European countries spent more on their militaries, we'd spend less on ours. Given that he wants US military spending to be as large as possible, that seems unlikely. https://t.co/efb6Jnhykn

— Paul Waldman (@paulwaldman1) July 10, 2018

What if Trump isn't trying to get NATO to pay more for defense? What if he's trying to precipitate a split? https://t.co/KSSseBSIG5 pic.twitter.com/3LCU95HW3R

— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) July 10, 2018

update 7/12 – almost identical to Trump’s lie documented by Dale on 7/9. Trump lies endlessly.

Daniel Dale has to be one of the most exhausted people on the planet. https://t.co/2iX26M7yBm

— Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch) July 12, 2018

Great article on too much Trump coverage

I totally agree. Everyone has made up their mind on whether or not Trump is a liar and bigot so we don’t need to hear the same stuff over and over. Let’s hear more about Democratic policies. Trump uses the media because he knows how to get attention by saying outrageous stuff.

The lies and other stuff should still be documented, just not given as much TV time.

"What are we crowding out when we let [Trump] decide what we cover, every time he does a rally?" @ezraklein asks on our podcast. If the U.S. knows less about Scott Pruitt than Trump's rally remarks, "I don't think we did a good job at our jobs," he says. https://t.co/iJ0OsnLnVq

— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) July 7, 2018

"Rethinking how Trump rallies are covered" — I'm seeing lots of Twitter chatter about @EzraKlein's comments on today's @ReliableSources — so here's the full segment https://t.co/KTml3cOPZn

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 8, 2018

Trump’s racist attack on Maxine Waters

Trump’s comment was racist and based on nothing. I don’t see any Republican leaders objecting to it. They know their base has lots of racists in it who approve of Trump’s attacks.

Trump says Maxine Waters's IQ is "in the mid-60s."

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 5, 2018

He keeps doing it and no Republicans object to his racism.

Trump calls Rep. Maxine Waters, a black woman, "a low-IQ individual." She's the only Democratic House non-leader he regularly disparages at his red-state rallies.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2018

Only one word for it: racist. https://t.co/fHPU136LvM

— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) October 23, 2018

Why does the GOP tolerate the disgraceful way Trump attacks @RepMaxineWaters? It makes me cringe every time I hear him disparage her, and we all know why he does it. There are no dog whistles here, only explicit calls to racism. https://t.co/yyRYZqZdeo

— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) October 28, 2018

Trump’s bigoted use of “Pocahontas”

I am skeptical of Elizabeth Warren’s claim of Native American ancestry. It sounds like it can’t be proven or disproven.

However, Trump’s behavior is disgusting. In addition to slurring Native Americans, he mocked the #MeToo movement.

Trump suggests he would like to test Elizabeth Warren for Native American heritage, "but we have to do it gently because we're in the MeToo generation." pic.twitter.com/kgQ54Lxqbo

— Axios (@axios) July 6, 2018

President Trump mocks the #MeToo movement in an attack on Sen. Elizabeth Warren's heritage during a Montana rally https://t.co/dfyEUAoGtY pic.twitter.com/AEyliWG8dn

— CNN (@CNN) July 6, 2018

Sen. Elizabeth Warren fires back at heritage challenges made at a Montana rally, telling President Trump to worry less about her genes and more about separated families at the border.

Read more: https://t.co/cBcxaBqb6T pic.twitter.com/sM5QF7zVlB

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 6, 2018

I don't know and frankly don't care whether or not Elizabeth Warren is native American. What I do care about is that my President looks like a racist when he calls her 'Pocahontas' on a national stage. 12 News #12news https://t.co/CfuIzdazRZ

— MARK CURTIS (@mcurtis12news) July 6, 2018

Donald Trump spends large amounts of time personally attacking women leaders (Warren, Waters, etc) and tonight he is making fun of the MeToo movement.

— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) July 6, 2018

Repeated attacks on Maxine Waters and Elizabeth Warren show, again, that Trump’s hostility toward women knows seemingly no bounds https://t.co/NcwXAacypO

— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) July 6, 2018

Fact check

Trump supporters don’t mind the lies

On my radio show earlier this wk, I asked Trump supporters if they were ok with Trump lying so much. I told them that I wasn't.

The consensus? The vast majority of callers said they're ok with all Trump's lying because he's "their guy."

Their response left me pretty damn sad.

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 5, 2018

Fascinating to hear Trump supporters’ responses when asked about his false statemnts. Responses tend to be:

—They’re not false. Fake news to say so.

—All pols lie. He’s no diffrnt.

—His falsehoods are trivial. Other pols lie about import stuff

—The economy’s doing great.

— Paul Farhi (@farhip) July 6, 2018

Trump lies about a lawsuit ruling

The judge did not say there was no collusion. Just another Trump lie!

Wrong. This was a jurisdiction issue. The judge herself wrote: "This Court’s ruling is not based on a finding that there was no collusion between defendants and Russia during the 2016 presidential election." https://t.co/QTm74XcIJI

— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) July 6, 2018

Lawsuit was filed by donors to the DNC and a former staffer, not the DNC itself. More importantly, judge's decision was about jurisdiction, not collusion. The judge wrote: "It bears emphasizing that this Court’s ruling is not based on a finding that there was no collusion…" pic.twitter.com/b2GtV9BGmL

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 6, 2018

The lawsuit wasn't filed by the DNC, and the judge dismissed it because it was brought in the wrong courthouse. The plaintiffs can just file the lawsuit in another jurisdiction. https://t.co/tMYOZwBMXa

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) July 6, 2018

Trump is making more false claims

The pace is picking up. Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star does a great job of tracking Trump.

Before this month, Trump had never made more than 60 false claims in a week. In the last two weeks, he's made 103 and 100. Here's the chart showing how exceptional these weeks have been: pic.twitter.com/aPY7L26ApS

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 6, 2018

CNN’s Jim Acosta on reporting about Trump

The conundrum: Fact-checking Trump's fictions is necessary, yet it leaves many people with the impression that "all we're doing all day long is bashing the president," @Acosta says. "We have to be fact-checkers." https://t.co/fLU94PbdYV

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 4, 2018

I have said this before. Trump makes it look like the media is against him by lying and then having them fact check him. By now, everyone has decided if he is a liar or if he tells the truth. I would still like the media to fact check him but de-emphasize it; just post the results online. Then they will have time to run stories on people who do tell the trust.

Trump’s tweetstorm of garbage

More lies and insults

A good @juliehdavis read on Trump's posts yesterday morning, filled with inaccuracies, innuendo and insults. See below what happened when government was asked to explain one of them. https://t.co/piWLYgykX4 pic.twitter.com/5jFngBvRMJ

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) July 4, 2018

Trump lie about Obama and Iran

Another in an endless series of lies

Trump relying on dubious Fox report to attack Obama is another example of him consuming RW media & echoing it to stoke conspiracies. He could have picked up phone & called his own gov't to see if claim was true, but chose to rely on Fox instead https://t.co/kMJQdPiLYB

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 4, 2018

Trump appears to have relied on a dubious Fox News story to attack Obama this a.m. The Fox story cited an Iranian news agency that cited an Iranian newspaper that quoted a single Iranian cleric. Obama officials say the cleric’s claim is false. My story: https://t.co/qoUeYRn1dt

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 4, 2018

New #FactChecker —> Trump falsely claims Obama gave citizenship to 2,500 Iranians during nuclear deal talks https://t.co/4RuYVUFYlj

— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) July 4, 2018

AP FACT CHECK: Trump says Iranians were made US citizens as part of 2015 nuclear deal, but nothing in the agreement speaks to naturalization: https://t.co/UNr2y5BsTK

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 4, 2018

update:

Experts aren't buying the claim, promoted by Diamond and Silk as well as Trump, that Obama secretly gave Iranians citizenship as part of the nuclear agreement. https://t.co/aDDsiQrpNL pic.twitter.com/WuvVSZCK5z

— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) July 6, 2018