NEW from me: I spent 5 months investigating how Trump and Republicans are sowing disinformation and creating panic about supposedly widespread voter fraud. Reporting included 100+ interviews with key players, review of 1000s of pages of records 4 @NYTmag https://t.co/ewJ2HRYvEZ
— jimrutenberg (@jimrutenberg) September 30, 2020
Category: Trump Lies
The Trump cult believes his lie that he will protect people with pre-existing conditions
A new report finds many Trump voters are certain he'd protect people with preexisting conditions. In other words, his health care stance is so awful that his voters simply don't believe he holds it. In 2012, something similar happened with Romney's plans:https://t.co/cE6DxNNnzZ
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 1, 2020
Trump lies when he says protesters are throwing tuna cans
Ridiculous and pathetic. Trump just makes stuff up and the media spreads his lies.
Trump insists protesters are now throwing Bumble Bee tuna cans, in the midst of pandemic tuna shortage https://t.co/gCcTrWxuAh
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 23, 2020
Eat em. Don't throw em.
— Bumble Bee Seafoods (@BumbleBeeFoods) September 23, 2020
antifa sent me on a run and i guess i screwed up and they’re all laughing at me pic.twitter.com/ACjv9pc0DD
— my pal andy (@andylevy) September 24, 2020
"They go out & buy tuna fish & soup, you know that, right? Goya, I hope. Good guy. Because they throw it. It's the perfect weight. Tuna fish, they can really rip it & it hits you. It's true … You can throw that sucker, you can put a curve on it." — Trump on protesters pic.twitter.com/FVkDLv1hdD
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 23, 2020
Trump: They have like 30 cans of soup. They have like 25 cans of tuna. They get caught. I’m bringing this home to my family… pic.twitter.com/765NrNytPb
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) September 23, 2020
What is wrong with him? https://t.co/ksgiDKZc5P
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) September 24, 2020
Trump lies update 9/23/20
Trump said he brought back 700K manufacturing jobs. It's negative-237K under Trump as of August. It was plus-483K as of February.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 23, 2020
Trump said he put coal miners back to work. It's negative-5.3K under Trump as of August. It was negative-1K as of February. https://t.co/7oyDoW4Mu6
Dishonesty chain – from Tom Elliott and Ian Miles Cheong to some conservative activists to Eric Trump to a Trump campaign senior advisor to a retweet from the president himself. https://t.co/0zEeAVZHf3 pic.twitter.com/y5AsfAKc32
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 23, 2020
Analysis: Tucker Carlson and Trump baselessly suggest Ginsburg’s granddaughter lied about Ginsburg’s dying wish https://t.co/etFoVtWsf4
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 22, 2020
Trump falsely claims covid-19 “affects virtually nobody” as death toll approaches 200,000… https://t.co/oSy9kWhXrw
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 22, 2020
Fact check: President Trump baselessly claims Democratic politicians wrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dying wish https://t.co/pblLSrwuv4
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 22, 2020
Trump lies from 9/16-17
Unlimited lies
"I counted at least 12 false or misleading claims from the President," CNN's @ddale8 fact checks some of President Trump's claims from Wednesday's news conference pic.twitter.com/McwJns15ip
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 17, 2020
Per word spoken or tweeted, Trump might be more dishonest about voting and election integrity than about any other subject.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2020
Trump, trailing in national polls and in polls of key swing states, on Fox Sports Radio this morning: "The only way they can win is to cheat, in my opinion." Entirely baseless.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2020
Trump repeats his usual lie about how “the cupboard was bare” of ventilators when he took office. His own admin acknowledges they inherited more than 16,000 ventilators in working order. https://t.co/RPKvDdX0sE
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2020
More Trump lies at his ABC town hall on 9/15/20
UPDATE
Update: Trump made at least 22 false or misleading claims at last night's ABC town hall.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 16, 2020
Fuller list: https://t.co/g1j7VaoBi9
You could save yourself time by instead writing an article on the things he said that were true. It would probably be very short.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 16, 2020
NEW –> Trump’s ABC News town hall: Four Pinocchios, over and over again https://t.co/hDWhy5RUYm
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 16, 2020
Another tour de force from @ddale8 fact-checking a torrent of lies pic.twitter.com/xDxKI32ef8
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) September 16, 2020
We’re 8 minutes into this town hall and Trump has already lied to the audience repeatedly about Covid, about masks, about his praise for China, about the travel ban, about Fauci, about Biden, and more. It’s an avalanche of lies. Period. So much of this is recycled lies.
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) September 16, 2020
.@realDonaldTrump repeated several false and Pants on Fire claims during his ABC News town hall. Here’s a roundup of his claims, fact-checked and with context https://t.co/9mTQmalNmY pic.twitter.com/fE4jXW5L3M
— PolitiFact (@PolitiFact) September 16, 2020
Trump tells four lies in one sentence
This is an amazing achievement, even for him. Sad!
No, donations to Jill McCabe's 2015 campaign weren't illegal.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 14, 2020
No, Hillary Clinton didn't make the donations.
No, Andrew McCabe didn't get the donations.
No, Andrew McCabe wasn't head of the FBI at the time.
Fact check of ONE SENTENCE of a Trump tweet: https://t.co/niNohzI0SK
That is a lot of falsehoods.
— Del Quentin Wilber (@DelWilber) September 12, 2020
1) $675,000 to wife’s unsuccessful state sen campaign
2) NOT from Clinton. From a PAC controlled by Terry McAuliffe, clinton pal
3) came in 2015 when HRC was NOT under FBI investigation
4) McCabe was not running bureau at the time https://t.co/iN81GPHx58
Trump’s endless lies
And his cult lies right along with him
President Trump used a Labor Day press briefing at the White House to give a campaign-style address, attacking his political opponents, touting the alleged success the US has had against Covid-19 and repeating many false and misleading claims along the way https://t.co/hsAzz8pnKM
— CNN (@CNN) September 7, 2020
He's telling one lie after another and giving misleading statics about the pandemic and the economy. It is irresponsible to show this unfiltered to the public. People who don't usually watch TV all day are at home today and may not realize how pathological these "briefings" are
— digby (@digby56) September 7, 2020
Few would tolerate a co-worker, a boss, a friend, a spouse, a teacher, who constantly lied. Trump couldn’t get away with it if Republican leaders cared about truth. They don’t. They care about power. They should never be trusted. @JohnJHarwood https://t.co/8zNCHbkETU
— stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) September 7, 2020
“For the president and his top supporters, it was a campaign push brimming with disinformation — disseminating falsehoods and trafficking in obfuscation at a rapid clip, through the use of selectively edited videos, deceptive retweets and false statements” https://t.co/XOQ1RdSABY
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) September 6, 2020
"Why keep acting like things are normal after 20,000 false and misleading claims?" asks @brianstelter, as Pres. Trump's falsehoods continue to accrue. https://t.co/sE3dWvBU7l pic.twitter.com/416fwGRF21
— Reliable Sources (@ReliableSources) September 6, 2020
CNN's @ddale8 has fact-checked every false statement from Donald Trump since 2016. He takes you through his process and explains some of the President's biggest "tells" https://t.co/GDYh22FjOm
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 5, 2020
Trump blatantly lied about CNN on Thursday night. During a spiel about his Walter Reed visit, he confidently said that "CNN reported that I had a heart attack." The crowd booed. He said it again. CNN never reported such a thing. Search CNN's wbsite to see for yourself.
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 4, 2020
The president lies to the crowd in PA that CNN reported as fact that he'd had "mini-strokes." Crowd boos the media.
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 3, 2020
Biden wants to raise taxes on Americans who make more than $400,000 a year. (And as you might have guessed, 82% of Americans do not make $400,000 a year, so this is a lie). https://t.co/tnmvHKHgDv
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) September 2, 2020
Biden campaign wants pro-Trump ad on FRACKING removed in battleground PA, telling TV stations it "makes up a policy, ascribes it to Vice President Biden, and then says the nonexistent policy will result in job losses of 30 times more people than actually work in the industry.” pic.twitter.com/bVQspPOl7x
— Jacqui Heinrich (@JacquiHeinrich) September 2, 2020
Officials in Wisconsin continue to stress that Pres Trump is not telling the truth when he says law enforcement in Kenosha has been federalized. Gov Evers deployed Wisconsin National Guard troops & got National Guard troops from other states.
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) September 1, 2020
FBI & US Marshals are also helping.
Twitter deletes Trump’s retweeted claim minimizing coronavirus death toll https://t.co/o7OlIFiV1g
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 31, 2020
Trump on Portland: “The entire city is ablaze all the time.”
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) August 31, 2020
Fact-check: 100% flat out lie.
Lost in all of Trump's tweets about the protests were a pair of tweets in which the President is once again downplaying the coronavirus threat. Both tweets (one has been taken down by Twitter) falsely claimed the coronavirus death toll is in fact a fraction of what it is.
— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) August 30, 2020
Trump retweeted two tweets featuring an egregious false claim about Covid data.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 30, 2020
One was from a supporter of the QAnon idiocy; now been deleted. The other was from campaign advisor Jenna Ellis, who linked to a piece by conspiracy site Gateway Pundit, which cited the QAnon tweet.
More on Trump’s attacks on the military
Of course I believe he said it. I assume Trump’s lying now like he does most of the time. It shows how he thinks people who are patriots are really suckers. More stuff will keep coming out…..
Update — it's now been 72 hours. https://t.co/eoebegKsKb
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) September 6, 2020
Add CNN to the list:
— Ryan Goodman (@rgoodlaw) September 5, 2020
“The former official … largely confirmed reporting from Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic magazine.”
From @Acosta
Headline: “Trump Referred to Marines Buried at Cemetery in France in Crude and Derogatory Terms”https://t.co/8YHHuMoA4I https://t.co/M9GAh6KtE7
JUST IN: President Trump referred to Marines buried at a cemetery in France in crude and derogatory terms, a former senior administration official confirms to CNN https://t.co/EyhTRKZ6nE pic.twitter.com/Y95R6iouwM
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 5, 2020
Fox News Channel’s @JenGriffinFNC stands by her reporting on Trump repeatedly insulting U.S. military heroes.
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) September 5, 2020
She circled back with one source today, who firmly said “this was not a one-off.” Her source says Trump repeatedly called John McCain and veterans “suckers.” pic.twitter.com/aPXSHKSeCR
What the military came to understand over the past four years is that, for all Trump’s talk of patriotism, he truly is transactional. Throughout his career, he has always believed that loyalty was for chumps. https://t.co/NUzBszGQA8
— David Ignatius (@IgnatiusPost) September 5, 2020
Trump claims he "called home, I spoke to my wife and I said 'I hate this. I came here to go to that ceremony.'"
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 5, 2020
Facts First: Melania Trump was on the same trip with Trump and was scheduled to attend the cemetery visit. She was not in the U.S. https://t.co/CNsLWL7JMA
A lot of people keep saying @TheAtlantic story about Trump won't matter because "nothing matters" when it comes to Trump. This notion is self-defeating and wrong, so I took a break from Labor Day weekend to write up how we can make sure it matters https://t.co/I8BIyZoxhR
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) September 5, 2020
"Amid all the furious responses to the Atlantic article alleging that President Trump had called American troops 'suckers' and 'losers,' one thing leaps out: You didn’t see Republican members of Congress leaping to defend the president’s character." https://t.co/uSfEV4iZLT
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 5, 2020
President Donald Trump, who received a draft deferment for bone spurs, has suggested that Vietnam veterans didn't know how to exploit the system to get out of serving, according to someone who has heard him make the remarks. https://t.co/Fh1uFU8mH0
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 5, 2020
This is how former generals in politics create accountability problems in a democracy. Kelly took outright political positions – as a Cabinet secretary and Chief of Staff – but now he retreats behind the argument that he's a general, first and foremost, and will not speak up. https://t.co/BS8jcwscF8
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 5, 2020
Here's the problem for Donald Trump with the Atlantic story | Analysis by CNN's Chris Cillizza https://t.co/hnEIdd1sxq pic.twitter.com/BvWijv90Pz
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 4, 2020
.@JenGriffinFNC and I have been friends for 30 years, across several continents. We have indeed argued when she would critically cover Obama Administration's national security policies. She is a pro; she knows Pentagon; no agenda; @TheAtlantic story holds. This is just her.🇺🇸🇺🇸 https://t.co/32qXVbwJVQ
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) September 5, 2020
Please read this. It is from a calm and measured man. He is the quintessential American hero. He is a calm, humble, heroic, competent man. @Captsully. He was tested and measured up. Trump has failed history’s test. Trump is the greatest failure in Presidential history bar none https://t.co/iCBvufAP1y
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) September 5, 2020
Trump official: “The president means no disrespect to our troops; it’s just that the way he speaks, he can sound like an asshole sometimes.”
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) September 5, 2020
Their defense is that Trump means no disrespect because he’s just an asshole. What kind of defense is that? https://t.co/MpsqJMDvOB
Might be harder to dismiss had Sanders not conceded to Mueller inquiry that she lied in telling reporters a "large number" of FBI agents had cheered Comey's firing.
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) September 4, 2020
Reporter: Like 50.
HUCKABEE SANDERS: Yes.
She later conceded she had none. She said it was "slip of the tongue." https://t.co/y5iVJZYDIz
NEW TODAY: Trump's alleged comments about 'losers' buried in military cemeteries leave military leaders off-balance
— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) September 4, 2020
In which @missy_ryan and I assess the state of play around the military community after @JeffreyGoldberg’s article in @TheAtlantic.https://t.co/gm6czEZtkY
Much being made of why former or current Trump administration officials won’t go on the record. As someone who has occasionally quoted such sources in essays, the reasons they have given me for anonymity include concern for their personal safety and that of their families.
— Tom Wright (@thomaswright08) September 4, 2020
It's a bit harder to educate readers/the public on this when the president, who has often been an anonymous source for folks over decades, disparages anonymous sourcing as people who don't really exist. https://t.co/EXp8SguU1T
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 4, 2020
The president raged about the article Friday morning & advisers were panicked about how to counter it. They feared it heralded a drip of damaging stories from disenchanted former administration officials that could sway voters. @peterbakernyt @maggieNYThttps://t.co/k21AEEOIPA
— rickgladstone (@rickgladstone) September 4, 2020
If @TheAtlantic story is false, and it never happened, and John Kelly knows that, then it's kind of mystifying why Trump just now went completely apeshit on John Kelly. I mean, not just a little, but a full-on Trump broadside.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) September 4, 2020
I’ve worked for no one with more integrity than Gen. John Kelly…and no one with less than @realDonaldTrump. https://t.co/PIDoQZs7Pe
— Miles Taylor (@MilesTaylorUSA) September 4, 2020
As @maggieNYT & @jmartNYT reported a ways ago, Trump also told people it wasn’t him on the Access Hollywood clip, and that was was *on tape.*
— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) September 4, 2020
It’s ideal to get sources on the record but let’s not play pretend.https://t.co/p8zwQMr6G9
President Trump tried to rescind an order that lowered flags to half-staff across the U.S. to honor the late Sen. John McCain in August 2018, according to a former senior official at the Department of Homeland Security. https://t.co/M7rp1ptDB4
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 4, 2020
Trump denies attack on the military but I think he’s lying
I don’t think it will affect the election much. His white supremacist base will brush it aside because their racism is a higher priority. I have no doubt he said these things and is lying now. I agree with the media people who say the anonymous people should come forward but they don’t apply the same standard to Trump. They didn’t push him to say who was on the plane with the terrorists because they know he’s lying.
The president, who never served in the military, canceled a visit to a cemetery where American troops are buried, saying: “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” https://t.co/5V0WNfQnVb
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) September 3, 2020
Conservatives love to talk about how much they supposedly care about the troops and the vets. Well, we can safely say now that was a load of crap, because they're sticking by Trump, who thinks soldiers are "suckers" and "losers". https://t.co/c58dRu0O96
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) September 4, 2020
The AP has now confirmed this reporting.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) September 4, 2020
I mean, seriously, no matter whether you agree w Biden on all his beliefs and priorities, how can anyone rationalize voting for someone to lead our troops who thinks they are “suckers” and “losers”. https://t.co/l9HSJvGijB
A senior Defense Department official I just spoke with confirmed this story by @JeffreyGoldberg in its entirety. Especially the grafs about the late Sen. John McCain and former Marine Gen. John Kelly, President @realDonaldTrump former chief of staff. https://t.co/ol2lhBbgv8
— James LaPorta (@JimLaPorta) September 3, 2020
The initial besmirching of McCain’s service and war heroism was on the record in front of cameras: “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”https://t.co/8hVw6WQpcB https://t.co/W8wY860Kag
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 4, 2020
By the way, much of the Atlantic story has been confirmed by other outlets and the president denied something about his handling of McCain’s death that was widely reported at the time and still true. I’ve also got reporting on Trump disparaging people who served in Vietnam. https://t.co/f9zVlKLThD
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 4, 2020
This is beyond sickening. https://t.co/wM7ZX1rHjY
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) September 4, 2020
Also why Trump won’t say anything about two Marine veterans imprisoned by Putin on trumped-up charges. Presumably he thinks they’re losers too.
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) September 4, 2020
As I noted in @PostOpinions: https://t.co/WizZrzjX1h https://t.co/hK5oT9O6Aq
Yes, and if #Trump is now lying about what he said about John McCain on camera, why should anyone believe his denials of @JeffreyGoldberg’s story? https://t.co/P0GAYQ2KOZ
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) September 4, 2020
Seriously, @JeffreyGoldberg piece is important and terrific reporting. Where the hell were these sources when it happened? Did I miss the part where any of those who heard the President attack war heroes quit in protest, or went on the record to tell us about this now?
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) September 4, 2020
A confident White House would have simply said, "This story is untrue."
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) September 4, 2020
The frenzied, rabid pushback is because the story is true, they know it, and they're trying to work the media refs with screams of "Duh Liburl Media!"
Trump heatedly denies that he referred to American soldiers killed in combat during World War I as “losers” and “suckers,” moving quickly to avoid losing support among the military and its allies just two months before an election. @maggieNYT https://t.co/bR1gEKxzYp
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) September 4, 2020
Even Fox News confirms that Trump tried to keep wounded veterans out of military parades. https://t.co/uaQ0FTF5m6
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) September 4, 2020
FOX confirmed it? Wow https://t.co/FhhPJ3hWLR
— Jason Cole (@JasonCole62) September 4, 2020
Fox confirms the story as well. Trump can't keep denying it. https://t.co/d1hWGzwRcp
— Drew Savicki (@SenhorRaposa) September 4, 2020
Joe Biden called President Trump’s reported insults of fallen soldiers “disgusting” on Friday. “It is deplorable. It is so un-American. It is so unpatriotic,” he said. https://t.co/00KJRkwbzE pic.twitter.com/7x8HR3j21S
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 4, 2020
Sad! 