Trump’s latest lies – update 8/12/20

Fact check: President Trump falsely suggests a large number of NYPD cops were fired and misleads on European coronavirus numbers https://t.co/vAWm5qWSPm pic.twitter.com/PdjbVsYLb7
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 12, 2020

This time, instead of saying China and Russia can easily print phony ballots (false), Trump nonsensically told Hannity China and Russia will "grab" real ballots. "People are gonna just grab batches of 'em. And you talk about China and Russia: they'll be grabbing plenty of 'em."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 12, 2020

No:
Russia doesn’t want Trump to lose
Trump didn’t “ban” China
Foreigners can’t easily mess with mail votes
No mass fraud in NY
Trump isn’t first to tariff China
Trump wasn’t left 0 ventilators
“1917” pandemic didn’t end World War 2
Obama didn’t do treason https://t.co/qwliJeu4IJ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 11, 2020

"We want to get football in colleges. These are young, strong people. They won't have a big problem with the China virus," Trump says. (Young people can and do experience serious problems from the virus, even some fit people.) "Most of them will never get it, statistically."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 11, 2020

Trump adapts his big red election map for the coronavirus: https://t.co/obvqFA5Zn2
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 11, 2020

Trump, serial liar and serial teller of fabricated stories, on Harris: "She is a person that's told many, many stories that weren't true."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 11, 2020

Donald Trump just said that carpenters, policemen, and farmers are the type of people who benefit from a good stock market "probably more than anybody else." That is very false. pic.twitter.com/uBMw3Zb4dA
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 10, 2020

Q: "If 160,000 people had died on Obama's watch, do you think you would have called for his resignation?
TRUMP: "No, I wouldn't have done that."

In 2014, Trump said Obama should resign for allowing a doctor who tested positive for Ebola to enter the U.S.https://t.co/FvyqRvZkBH
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 10, 2020

They’re all at least pretty bad, but that was one of the worst Trump press conferences in a while from a truth standpoint. Fast and furious lying.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 10, 2020

"It’s disappearing, it’s going to disappear," Trump said about the coronavirus Friday, following a week in which more than 5,000 Americans died of Covid-19. https://t.co/u0sHQud7Ar
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 8, 2020

Fact check: President Trump makes multiple false claims about Covid-19 relief as he signs executive actions https://t.co/bXfM5yaoxz pic.twitter.com/Di697KQ8Hv
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 9, 2020

The mainstream media is always extremely reluctant to say that Trump lies because they can’t prove that he knows something he’s saying is false.

Running away when he’s asked to explain a false statement is pretty good evidence that he knows it’s false—i.e., that he’s lying. https://t.co/uKuC03iqiZ
— Matt O'Brien (@ObsoleteDogma) August 8, 2020

QAnon’s obsession with fake pedophilia stories

Why are right-wing conspiracies so obsessed with pedophilia? https://t.co/gopbqEXRQM
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 10, 2020

I wrote about how QAnon followers are hijacking #SaveTheChildren as a recruiting strategy, and the chaos it’s causing for legitimate anti-trafficking groups. https://t.co/EpOtDmEEbO
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) August 12, 2020

this x1000 — have seen this stuff littered all over my feed in recent weeks from people who are anything but right-wing https://t.co/SYA8VkZMLu
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 12, 2020

"The R nominee in the 7th CD, Rich McCormick, has also repeated conspiracy theories tied to QAnon & appeared on a QAnon-affiliated Youtube show…A main tenet of the QAnon conspiracy theory is that liberal elites are facilitating a secret child sex ring" https://t.co/BUq8zioyuP
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 12, 2020

Trump supports the QAnon believer who won the primary in Georgia

QAnon is gaining popularity in the Republican party. This just gets worse and worse.

“I tried explaining the phenomenon to him as best I could, and told [Trump] it would be wise to stay the hell away from it," said a source who'd briefly spoken to Trump about QAnon. No dice. Now Team Trump is openly promoting QAnon kooks. https://t.co/gnHIY2flLd
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) August 12, 2020

Top Republicans, including Pres. Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, are embracing their party's nominee for a House seat in Georgia, despite her history of racist and anti-Semitic remarks and promotion of the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory https://t.co/dc6UsLhvSn
— CNN (@CNN) August 12, 2020

Trump campaign leaps to the defense of a group of conspiracy theorists considered a domestic terror threat by the FBI https://t.co/mGVa0xKHn8
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) August 12, 2020

When the GOP was under assault from the John Birch Society in the ‘60s, responsible conservatives marginalized them.

That isn’t happening today. Trump endorsed a QAnon House candidate & retweeted QAnon accounts. Eric Trump posted a giant Q on Instagram.https://t.co/pUWDkDMXnR
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) August 12, 2020

Republican congressman criticizes the QAnon nonsense, the Trump campaign responds by going after the congressman: pic.twitter.com/ZJLwXpCRCz
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 12, 2020

Greene is a supporter of the QAnon conspiracy nonsense who has made bigoted remarks about a variety of racial and religious groups. During the primary, senior House Republicans called her words "appalling" and "disgusting." pic.twitter.com/qsPSWSy1En
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 12, 2020

Trump embraces a racist anti-Semite who is a diehard conspiracy theorist. And it will barely cause a ripple in the press corps. Oy https://t.co/y7mVv27nuP
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) August 12, 2020

P.s. Those complaining about the normalization of Greene’s beliefs might want to go to rural GA and try changing voters minds/info flows.

If you’re familiar with NW GA, the views she’s expressed on race, “Deep State” and other topics are pretty standard GOP talk radio fare.
— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) August 12, 2020

This candidate won her primary last night, and will almost certainly be coming to Congress as a House Republican. Leaders say she’s welcome into the House Republican Conference. https://t.co/oZ3jMQxzC8
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) August 12, 2020

“Ms. Greene is all but assured of getting the chance to put into action her talk of rooting out an imagined deep-state cabal of pedophile Satanists who are trying to take down President Trump” https://t.co/fB0oyCn3l7
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) August 12, 2020

Read the legends @rachaelmbade @isaacstanbecker on the big QAnon win in Georgia tonight, by a candidate who called Nancy Pelosi a "bitch" and kicked @bluestein out of the room.
https://t.co/2XcnNLSbb2
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) August 12, 2020

If the GOP wants to be a relevant political force in the future, it cannot endorse those who embrace QAnon and other conspiracy theories. https://t.co/Kvxhiu1lRs
— Jeff Flake (@JeffFlake) August 12, 2020

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger tweeted that QAnon has "no place in Congress," a day after Marjorie Taylor Greene, a vocal QAnon conspiracy theorist, won the Republican nomination in a congressional runoff election in Georgia.https://t.co/QveCY7L1xD
— Axios (@axios) August 12, 2020

Covers: You Belong to My Heart

“You Belong to My Heart” was originally a Mexican song and was later made popular in English by Bing Crosby. There’s a rock version by the great band The Old 97’s from 1995.

QAnon followers on Facebook

This just gets worse and worse.

EXCLUSIVE: Documents from an internal Facebook investigation into Qanon show, for the first time, the massive scale of the conspiracy theory's community on the platform. We're talking thousands of groups, millions of members. From me and @ArijitDSen https://t.co/LElvZbXzpP
— Brandy Zadrozny (@BrandyZadrozny) August 10, 2020

Fake Jeffrey Epstein flight logs have become an obsession among the QAnon crowd, leading them to target Chrissy Teigen, Beyonce, and a host of others who have nothing to do with the late sex trafficker https://t.co/ziPUUHim2B
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) August 10, 2020

Facebook removes QAnon group with 200,000 members, cites harassment and misinformation https://t.co/ddPC8o2udd pic.twitter.com/5PIeZmUtZc
— The Hill (@thehill) August 7, 2020

Yesterday: Fringe QAnon candidate tweets about pizzagate…

Today: The president of the United States retweets her twice. h/t @AlKapDC https://t.co/BcnkPXF29V pic.twitter.com/FxQwckueYe
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) August 6, 2020

The QAnon crowd is obsessed with this completely bonkers "documentary" called OUT OF SHADOWS, alleging (without a shred of evidence) that Hollywood is run by satanist pedophiles. It's racked up tens of millions of views and YouTube refuses to ban it https://t.co/QSxuTkFgy3
— Marlow Stern (@MarlowNYC) August 6, 2020

My boss @Scott_Wiener has been dealing w/ some of the worst online harassment I've ever seen. Having never dealt w/ QAnon mobs before, I'll just say, it's terrifying and sad and dark. Thank you @alibreland for your excellent reporting.https://t.co/XkoUMX88JS
— Catie Stewart (@catrionastew) August 6, 2020

Terrorism experts say QAnon is a threat to national security https://t.co/6A6vYPj450
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) August 6, 2020

Trump wanted to be added to Mount Rushmore

You can’t make this up.

White House reached out to South Dakota governor about adding President Trump to Mount Rushmore, New York Times reports https://t.co/0MqdAsJfft
— CNN (@CNN) August 9, 2020

Trump’s sabotage of the post office

“How many ways can the new Postmaster General sabotage the @USPS?” https://t.co/lj4b0O9wqw
— Slate (@Slate) August 8, 2020

Trump and his political agent the POSTMASTER GENERAL are pulling apart the US Postal Service authorized by the Constitution. How can Republicans in Congress allow this to happen? 630,000 angry employees. Rural America in peril without USPS.
— Barry R McCaffrey (@mccaffreyr3) August 8, 2020

Trump’s Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and his wife, Aldona Wos, nominated to become our ambassador to Canada, own between $30 million and $75 million of assets in competitors to the US Postal Service. No problem there, right?
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 8, 2020

23 postal executives were reassigned or displaced in today’s shakeup. The new structure centralizes power around a Trump megadonor and de-emphasizes decades’ worth of institutional postal knowledge. ✉️ https://t.co/IZ2eLhtXQc
— James Hohmann (@jameshohmann) August 7, 2020

I asked a bunch of postal workers what’s wrong with the mail. Their answers were scarier than expected. https://t.co/56aAtqHofg
— Adam Clark Estes (@adamclarkestes) August 7, 2020

Democrats have an opportunity to save the mail before the election. They’re running out of time. https://t.co/pB8DyNU0WY
— Slate (@Slate) August 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/AdyBarkan/status/1291962702709919745?s=20

Top Democrats say postmaster general acknowledged new policies that workers say are delaying mail, @jacobbogage reports https://t.co/4v2a2h7frA
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) August 6, 2020

Senate Democrat launches inquiry into Postal Service delays https://t.co/F529y7WskI
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) August 5, 2020

President Trump and his appointees have begun taking cost-cutting steps that appear to have led to slower and less reliable Postal Service delivery https://t.co/3aRHpxQThW
— The New York Times (@nytimes) August 1, 2020

Let's see, it's safe to mail Social Security checks, prescription drugs, and your driver's license, but not to vote? Undermining the USPS is the backdoor of undermining the election. Support USPS. https://t.co/qh0igvHicy
— Richard Stengel (@stengel) August 1, 2020

Lies, lies, lies

Trump just keeps lying.

This tweet gives a year of Bush to Obama and a year of Obama to Trump…

Actual numbers:
Obama Inauguration Day 2009 open: 8,279.63
Obama last full day 2017 close: 19,732.40 (+138%)

Trump Inaug 2017 open: 19,795.06
Trump close yesterday: 27,791.44 (+40%) pic.twitter.com/Fn13cD7mEh
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 11, 2020

No:
Russia doesn’t want Trump to lose
Trump didn’t “ban” China
Foreigners can’t easily mess with mail votes
No mass fraud in NY
Trump isn’t first to tariff China
Trump wasn’t left 0 ventilators
“1917” pandemic didn’t end World War 2
Obama didn’t do treason https://t.co/qwliJeu4IJ
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 11, 2020

No, Democrats aren’t cheating in the election by negotiating a relief bill

No, Trump isn’t a pioneer in protecting people with pre-existing-conditions

No, foreign countries can’t easily forge and submit mail ballots

No, the virus isn’t “disappearing” https://t.co/gjnz6twVgF
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 8, 2020

Mary Trump’s book is number one — by hundreds of thousands of copies https://t.co/wdHIbEAAmK
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) August 6, 2020

This morning, President Trump is repeating many of the same falsehoods and misleading statements and numbers on Covid and mail-in voting. Not worth repeating here.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) August 5, 2020

Fact check: President Trump litters briefing with false, unsubstantiated claims on voter fraud, Covid response and Beirut explosion https://t.co/v8RQTsmnBR pic.twitter.com/oIEKUcmnZA
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) August 5, 2020

"You cannot just ignore B.S. You have to shovel it."

—@brikeilarcnn pushing back on the assertion that fact-checking Trump et al just "gives life to the lies"
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) August 5, 2020

I disagree. Stop broadcasting lies.

Hoover and Kennedy both donated their salary. Trump has said this four times since July 2019. https://t.co/MQcGt4WNwr
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 3, 2020

Trump falsely claimed Obama "never even tried" to do criminal justice reform (bipartisan bill died in 2016 amid opposition from many Republicans during the Trump campaign; Obama still took multiple measures through executive action).
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 11, 2020

Trump says he asked Steve Schwarzman of Blackstone if it's possible to legitimately do what Hunter Biden did in China, and Schwarzman said no, it's not possible.

Schwarzman's spokeswoman says he has never spoken to Trump about either Hunter Biden or Joe Biden.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 11, 2020

he has told this lie before

Trump told a detailed story last week about how he discussed Hunter Biden's business dealings with Blackstone Group founder Steve Schwarzman. Schwarzman's spokeswoman says, “Steve never spoke to the president about Joe Biden or his family." https://t.co/zOPBZF3eu0
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 1, 2019

Trump considers directing the postal service not to deliver mail in ballots

He will do whatever he can to sabotage voting by mail.

The White House is considering directing the postal service not to deliver mail in ballots. 23 postal execs were sacked this week. If this doesn’t scare you, democracy must be optional to you. https://t.co/Dm4oTgcdWI via @politico
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) August 8, 2020

The 2020 election will be a fiasco

Neither side will accept the results if they lose.

If Trump loses, he’ll blame illegal votes and mail voting.

If Biden loses, he’ll blame voter suppression and foreign interference.

Trump has told numerous lies about illegal aliens voting and voter fraud in order to undermine public confidence in the election. If he can’t win, he wants to take the country down with him. Sad!

“The president has very little, if any, power with how elections are conducted. Trump’s power is that he has no shame and that shamelessness has infected his entire political party,” said Democratic lawyer Marc Elias. w/@peterbakernyt @NYTnickc @maggieNYT https://t.co/G6AMS5gCPg
— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) August 8, 2020

The longer it takes to affirm the election result, the more doubt Trump can sow.

And the more effective he will be in doing so.https://t.co/GSvxikEpTO
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) August 11, 2020

Only one in five voters (21%) say they are "very confident" that the November election will be conducted fairly and accurately via new Monmouth poll.

42% say they are somewhat confident, 24% say not too confident and 12% so not at all confident.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 11, 2020

trump will almost certainly try to contest the election results regardless of what happens but the best way to rob the effort of any oxygen is to make sure he’s losing on election night. https://t.co/Ox804iOlSs
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 11, 2020

New Monmouth poll among voters concerned about election meddling in 2020: Who is most likely to be the source of any election meddling?

Republican voters:
55% Democrats
12% China
11% Post Office
6% Russia

Democratic voters:
40% Russia
31% Trump
16% Republicans
9% China
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 11, 2020

47% of Republicans say they are "very optimistic" about the 2020 presidential election vs. 24% of Democrats who say the same via new Monmouth poll out today.
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) August 11, 2020