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Category: Trump Lies
Trump lies about the total of murders by immigrants
Short version: the President recited a completely fabricated (and ludicrous) statistic about immigrant murders today that originated with a Steve King blog post over a decade ago.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 22, 2018
Today Trump presented as fact a number so wildly wrong that even he found it hard to believe when he first heard it. https://t.co/hOTuYKVxwI
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 22, 2018
Trump is trying to distract from his cruel and avoidable family separation fiasco by parading people who have lost loved ones to crimes by illegal aliens, repeating his big lie that such immigrants commit a disproportionate share of all violent crimes. They do not.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) June 22, 2018
Trump repeated a parent's claim that 63,000 have been killed by illegal immigrants since 9/11. There's no apparent basis for this. That would be about a quarter of all murders; in Texas, which tracks this, illegal immigrants are charged with roughly 5% of homicides since 2011.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 22, 2018
This is not helpful
Democrats want open Borders, where anyone can come into our Country, and stay. This is Nancy Pelosi’s dream. It won’t happen!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 21, 2018
Trump blames Democrats for immigration problems but this is just an outrageous lie. How is this supposed to get bipartisan negotiations to occur? Liar!
Fact check on Trump’s blame of Democrats
Trump lied about his meeting with Republican House members last night
Liar!
All of the reporters who covered the meeting, including @kathrynw5, @AlexNBCNews and @jdawsey1, say they were told the room responded to the Sanford jab with boos, silence and groans, not applause and laughter. pic.twitter.com/svO40Dbygl
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 20, 2018
This is flat-out not true, according to people who were actually in the room. https://t.co/bEncFIaNgE
— Katie Watson (@kathrynw5) June 20, 2018
There was awkward silence and some boos. See story here. https://t.co/7vb12Xcqej https://t.co/ORR3qU4U25
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 20, 2018
House Republicans had front row seats to @POTUS’s dazzling display of pettiness and insecurity. Nobody applauded or laughed. People were disgusted. https://t.co/FvmDCxElgv
— Justin Amash (@justinamash) June 20, 2018
Sanford on this Trump tweet: "Another day running of dancing on the grave, or shooting the dead guy? I don't quite get what's going on. It's certainly entered the twilight zone." https://t.co/qAnAdbJcOl
— Paul McLeod (@pdmcleod) June 20, 2018
Mark Sanford weighs in on the last few days and Trump calling him a "nasty guy" pic.twitter.com/Lr0nXXtXsF
— Lauren Fox (@FoxReports) June 21, 2018
(This is not a controversial statement) https://t.co/bG4vCb21OU
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 21, 2018
Sanford: “Do we give a pass to the highest officeholder … who is constantly saying things that aren’t true? We are at an inflection point in American politics in how far we've gotten from Washington’s notion in we cannot tell a lie to it being the way things are done.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 21, 2018
Sanford also acknowledged he was “living a lie” in 2009 when he lied about his extramarital affair but said he was caught and acknowledge the lie – which he said Trump should do too. “It’s a problem because in a free and open political system, objective truth matters"
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 21, 2018
Update:
It gets worse. Now many Republicans who were there won’t admit what happened – they’re afraid to cross Trump.
Trump lied about how Republicans reacted to his jab at Sanford in a private meeting. A few call him out; Rep. Walter Jones says Trump “makes up a lot of things.” But WaPo finds a bunch of others unwilling to challenge even a lie about them personally: https://t.co/Ugchm5Emb9
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 23, 2018
Trump is saying more things that aren’t true. (That’s what I call lying.)
Trump is outdoing even himself with falsehoods these days. My look at the latest string in mistruths, obfuscations, and downright lies. https://t.co/cHWcrI82Qu
— Ashley Parker (@AshleyRParker) June 20, 2018
THEY ARE TOTALLY MAKING THIS UP AS THEY GO. Yesterday on Fox News Radio @hogangidley45: "The family separation part of it is horrible but it is the law. He won't take executive action that is unconstitutional. https://t.co/C5AMgfZ36C
— andrew kaczynski🤔 (@KFILE) June 20, 2018
Trump reversed his family separation policy
Trump reversed his policy about separating families after saying only Congress could do it. What a damn liar!
BREAKING: President Trump just signed an executive order to keep families together at the border, reversing his position that he has no authority to do so https://t.co/lbfrZeJ4uR pic.twitter.com/gbOeJeEDA8
— CNN (@CNN) June 20, 2018
YOU DON’T THANK THE KIDNAPPER FOR RELEASING THE HOSTAGES https://t.co/ecLSmuiidc
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) June 20, 2018
At some point there will be a crisis that is not of the White House’s own making and they will need people beyond the president’s base to have faith in what they say. https://t.co/8d1AdeYm0w
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 20, 2018
It’s also an executive action she said that Trump couldn’t take, and “only” Congress could act https://t.co/x87efNrzgc
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) June 20, 2018
When we made this, people accused us of exaggeration, but it was really almost entirely rooted in Trump's campaign promises. It's remarkable how focused his administration has been on bringing so many of those pledges to bear. https://t.co/c13oHTOcYd
— Kathleen Kingsbury (@katiekings) June 20, 2018
9 months old. Someone’s 9 month old baby is here. In New York City. Without parents. https://t.co/jYSdm0i2YE
— Jamie Stelter (@JamieStelter) June 20, 2018
Here's a clue that the executive order was slapped together and posted on short notice: The White House misspelled "seperation" in the heading. https://t.co/R00q5wMUii pic.twitter.com/JABvXeJ9ha
— Gregory Korte (@gregorykorte) June 20, 2018
This is why Trump thinks he’s winning: by creating a crisis all now accept the idea that there is an immigration crisis… https://t.co/MD5LoE0QKJ
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) June 20, 2018
This tweet was just 3 days ago. https://t.co/TFGcpsJ6gT
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 20, 2018
POTUS created family separations at the border, and now he wants credit for ending them. This is how dictators operate. https://t.co/JiF9uCZwMv
— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) June 20, 2018
Key: trump ends separation policy. Remember – dhs secy said policy didn’t exist. Cites “zero tolerance” remains. Lack of tolerance is how we got in trouble w/ separation. Justice is about law and fairness. If potus doesn’t get that – doomed to repeat same mistake. #DOYOURJOB
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) June 20, 2018
Is there no one—not a single person—with a political appointment in this administration who has the soul, the decency, the moral backbone to quit over family separation? Not one?
— Ruth Marcus (@RuthMarcus) June 20, 2018
To be clear: This is not a story about the media. This is a story about the Trump administration’s decision to enforce a “zero tolerance” policy at the border https://t.co/4sujwcsJDn
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 20, 2018
About that Peace Prize nomination … https://t.co/nO07MyAL1r
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) June 20, 2018
The president’s order does not solve this problem. It does nothing to reunify the 2,300 children who have been taken from their parents. pic.twitter.com/jo2knb8eT8
— Senator Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) June 20, 2018
Per DOJ press call and convos with HHS, DHS: No one seems to have a plan for reuniting these 2300 kids with their parents
— Julia E. Ainsley (@JuliaEAinsley) June 20, 2018
Gene Hamilton, counsel to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, said he couldn't say when the migrant children separated from families right now will be reunited with their parents.
He referred reporters on a White House conference call to HHS and DHS officials. https://t.co/fPmcXqQtgr
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 20, 2018
That's one reason why Trump's executive order is worded to only require that the family be kept together "where appropriate and consistent with law and available resources." As a practical matter, children will still be taken from their parents under his new policy. https://t.co/YSCoBnGR9p
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) June 20, 2018
Trump administration memo creating the zero tolerance policy separating families
Trump keeps lying and blaming Democrats. It’s all his.
Here is @TheJusticeDept memo ordering the "zero tolerance" policy responsible for young children being forcibly separated from their parents.
Facts are stubborn things, @POTUS. And the facts here are clear: you, and you alone, own this cruelty. End it now. #KeepFamiliesTogether pic.twitter.com/VBIJFYj4WI
— Senator Ben Cardin (@SenatorCardin) June 19, 2018
“Infest”: Language as a weapon
Trump has called some illegal immigrants “animals” and today said Democrats want them to “infest” our country. It’s an effort to appeal to the bigots that are a large part of his base.
Here are some tweets on Trump’s disgusting language.
Important: In the past Trump has talked about "crime infested" areas. Today is the first time he's talked about PEOPLE as an infestation, saying Dems want illegal immigrants to "infest our country, like MS-13."
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 19, 2018
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Like your grandfather, my parents infested America. As their son with yellow skin, I now get to vote against your harmful policies. And after you leave due to either losing reelection or impeachment, I will still be here reversing your shit.
Cheers. https://t.co/vN4fJfp4h9
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) June 19, 2018
As Trump uses words like "infest, animals and shithole countries" to talk immigration, worth remembering this story as language as a weapon in the Trump era immigration debates: https://t.co/jcUSfJqOfx
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) June 19, 2018
And folks who cry foul when the media points this out are willfully ignoring a very obvious patternhttps://t.co/tCrnjPTn6w
— Alex Burns (@alexburnsNYT) June 19, 2018
Trump’s statement that immigrants will “infest our Country” probably sounds better in the original German. https://t.co/k7FBgBkCHQ
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) June 19, 2018
1/2 This is a usage point I’ve actually studied over the years.
There are virtually no cases of “infest” being used in English in a neutral way. Almost always applied to vermin, pests, disease. See context notes from Am Heritage Dic: https://t.co/nQvQnkGvEG https://t.co/mitj7lI2jg— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 19, 2018
2/2 Of the 125,000+ words in ‘Our Towns,’ exactly two are “infest.” One refers to roaches that ate up a school’s garden; another, to an invasive plant now choking the surface of Caddo Lake, TX-LA.
Applying it to people is an undeniable tell, like “shiftless.”
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 19, 2018
Also – insects infest. This public language about immigrants from a US president after, say, 1970, is remarkable. https://t.co/xRhAUjqo5P
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 19, 2018
"Characterizing people as vermin has historically been a precursor to murder and genocide." https://t.co/p9setYAijA
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) June 19, 2018
Trump's tweet this AM about how immigrants will "infest our Country" speaks to this point. The family separation policy is unpopular, and has lukewarm support even among his base, so he turns up the racial anxiety dial several notches.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 19, 2018
Words like “infest,” even when you sprinkle in the MS-13 red herring, conjure thoughts of extermination. This is evil and dangerous. https://t.co/HB58AJlcns
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) June 19, 2018
Disturbingly apt: “ethnopartisanship” https://t.co/VIT6HKShpZ
— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) June 19, 2018
Language historically associated with de-humanization, from the head of govt, actually deserves note — in the context (which I and others have fully engaged in) of policy outrages that need to be opposed and reversed.
— James Fallows (@JamesFallows) June 19, 2018
Trump refers to deportees as "animals":
History and psychological science show that when we refer to people as “animals,” it flips a mental switch in our minds. It allows us to deny empathy to other people, makes us feel numb to their pain. https://t.co/5MjLlMsnYG
via @voxdotcom— Michiko Kakutani (@michikokakutani) June 18, 2018
update:
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) June 21, 2018
"Infest," "breeding," "violent," "shithole countries": The language Trump uses when he talks about immigrants. https://t.co/VDqaJSlymn
— Lisa Tozzi (@lisatozzi) June 19, 2018
Contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians
We keep finding out about more of them. This is an overview.
A new look at how widespread contacts with Russia and knowledge of Russian "dirt" were among Trump's team in 2016. https://t.co/0049WfH97N
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 18, 2018
According to CNN's latest count… at least 14 Trump associates had contact with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign and transition. Manafort, Gates, Kushner, Trump Jr., Papadopoulos, Page, Sessions, Stone, Gordon, Flynn, Prince, Cohen, Caputo, Berkowitz.
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) June 18, 2018
Outrageous comments by the right on Trump’s immigration policy
This is disgusting and pathetic. They can’t even accept reality, let alone discuss it. They follow Trump who has lied non-stop by blaming his policy on Democrats.
Limbaugh says it’s a made up crisis and that people are trying to invade the US:
Rush Limbaugh today: "This children and families being separated at the border? It is an entirely manufactured crisis. It’s entirely manufactured. … It’s all about people attempting to invade our country, not emigrate here." https://t.co/qIohNfTQl2 pic.twitter.com/a9VSSdPpSg
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 18, 2018
Ann Coulter calls crying children “child actors”:
WATCH: Ann Coulter calls immigrant children crying after being separated from parents “child actors” https://t.co/lVRY7irs2O pic.twitter.com/2GtLC5OhLI
— The Hill (@thehill) June 18, 2018
So, @DonaldJTrumpJr liked a tweet accusing caged immigrant kids of being crisis actors https://t.co/4tvPodpl7T pic.twitter.com/Pcwtm0xT2W
— Paste Magazine (@PasteMagazine) June 18, 2018
Sad! 