In 2010, Americans preferred the GOP to Dems on "border security" by 20 points.
Before the shutdown, the GOP led by double digits.
Today, Democrats lead Trump by 9 points.https://t.co/pWsPVYGvBr
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) January 29, 2019
American voters oppose 55 – 41 percent building a wall along the border with Mexico, compared to 55 – 43 percent opposition January 14.
https://t.co/rOoXEjxwYN— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) January 29, 2019
Donald Trump says it's cold in the Midwest so global warming isn't a thing.
Meanwhile, the last 4 years have been the hottest in the history of the planet.https://t.co/EvCRVeWrsL
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) January 29, 2019
Trump’s climate-trolling is such obvious outrage bait that you almost want to ignore it, but it’s also self-provided evidence of one of the most significant ignorance crises of his presidency, so I dunno. pic.twitter.com/oK5qGic5Dh
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2019
On climate change and local cold weather:
“This myth is like arguing that nighttime proves the sun doesn’t exist,” Cook said.https://t.co/lpVDwsmzYm
— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) January 29, 2019
“There are many reasons Trump may be against addressing climate change, but one thing is clear: he doesn’t understand the science behind it” https://t.co/JXDGIigdrv
— TIME (@TIME) January 29, 2019
The president tweets, for the umpteenth time, that climate change is not real because it's cold outside. https://t.co/v2whyZF3uZ
— Esquire (@esquire) January 29, 2019
“People who should (or do) know better keep confusing weather with climate. Weather is what happens day to day in one place. Climate is what happens over many years to a large geographic area, or the planet as a whole.”
— Bill Nye pic.twitter.com/Nd5hzJ8gvb
— David Priess (@DavidPriess) January 29, 2019
Fourteen hours in the U.S. government, 2019 pic.twitter.com/1Q8rCBo33P
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2019
Two House Democrats asked acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney to immediately revoke senior White House adviser Jared Kushner's security clearance https://t.co/tIuSNoSXEf pic.twitter.com/FSBctIXFr9
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 31, 2019
If you’re not paying attention to this story, you should be. Our intelligence and national security professionals recommended that Kushner and others should not receive a Top Secret clearance and they were overruled by the White House.
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 29, 2019
Our national security is at stake. https://t.co/L26eNwrV40
Officials rejected Jared Kushner for top secret security clearance, but were overruled https://t.co/4afEJbyEig
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 25, 2019
In May 2018, Kushner’s criminal defense lawyer said he’d received permanent clearance. What he didn’t say was that a Trump hire overruled two career adjudicators to grant the clearance & the CIA denied him a higher level clearance. https://t.co/QHL6mSYzue
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) January 25, 2019
Agreed. Anyone familiar with the process knows it's virtually impossibly Jared—or Ivanka for that matter—would be approved for a TS/SCI considering the known issues. To have it confirmed is still the makings of a massive scandal.
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) January 25, 2019
Get them out of the White House, immediately. https://t.co/tXfQwfUUOL
1/ Having worked on security clearance issues at the White House, this story is terrifying. It is not normal for the head of the Personal Security Office to ever overrule the career employees who adjudicate clearances. This says it's happened 30 times in the last 1.5 years! https://t.co/aO3hF9LDwZ
— Daniel Jacobson (@Dan_F_Jacobson) January 25, 2019
In other words, they got overrruled on determining Kushner was denied clearance. https://t.co/yCCJ01t6M8
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) January 29, 2019
.@realDonaldTrump's golf club in NY state employed undocumented workers for years — then fired 12 of them, en masse, during the shutdown.
Trump Org. said it had just discovered their papers were fake.https://t.co/skvSEuGwRe— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) January 28, 2019
Hear from Margarita Cruz, who was fired for being undocumented after working for Trump's Westchester golf course for eight years. And hear the audio she recorded of her own firing, in this amazing video from @DDaltonBennett and @jnebraska https://t.co/PCBUyxe88d
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) January 26, 2019
He could have joined e-verify. But he didn’t. https://t.co/gQgKDAkN82 https://t.co/9VFgKD6Qif
— Maria Sacchetti (@mariasacchetti) January 29, 2019
Trump has described them as rapists and thugs, but his golf courses have relied on undocumented migrants for years. "I'd never done anything wrong, only work and work," said one who worked 15 yrs at NJ course — until he was fired amid wall showdown. "I started to cry." @partlowj https://t.co/eJblLwCA1E
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) January 27, 2019
7 questions about Trump’s use of undocumented workers at his golf courses, answered by the reporters who broke the story, @fahrenthold and @partlowj. Starting with, "How did The Post find these workers?" https://t.co/gemX4OQ9BJ
— Peter Wallsten (@peterwallsten) January 28, 2019
Until Trump’s NY golf course fired a dozen undocumented workers in recent days, the odds of encountering an illegal immigrant there were much greater than at the one on the border https://t.co/5FDxKCk9FU
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 29, 2019
Undocumented workers get no gov’t benefits, yet many pay taxes. Today I met some of the undocumented women you hired at your golf club in my district. Your people arranged their fake papers and then withheld their Social Security taxes. https://t.co/bwbSCGhcv8
— Tom Malinowski (@Malinowski) January 29, 2019
Um….?
Eric Trump: It’s ‘truly heartbreaking’ that NBC made Trump golf course look bad for firing undocumented workershttps://t.co/255S3lVltz
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 29, 2019
He lies about big things.
He lies about small things.
He uses numbers and provides no evidence that they are true.
He lies all the time – he’s a liar! Sad!
He lies about Obama:
You have to be really obsessed with black people to dream up this nonsense https://t.co/EGHae3BvbF
— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) January 28, 2019
He lies about the number of illegal immigrants and their cost to the country:
President Trump shared disputed figures about the number of undocumented immigrants, what they cost the country and how many had illegally voted in elections. “There’s a long history of these numbers being inaccurate." https://t.co/EUJmDKEx0u
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 28, 2019
Please note: the numbers @realDonaldTrump provides below are completely fabricated and should not be taken as true in any way. https://t.co/qmYdQvtHD4
— House Homeland Security Committee (@HomelandDems) January 27, 2019
What a crock of BS! Trump must think his followers are dumb enough to think these absurdly exact-looking strings of digits actually measure something. It’d be like saying everything Trump utters is approximately 97.46321954780214347% likely to be false. https://t.co/OmcR1FniPL
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) January 27, 2019
Nothing screams fake numbers than false precision (ie, the exact number to the dollar or illegal immigrant) in what can only be rough, disputed estimates https://t.co/G6ikOhlb0d
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 27, 2019
If these ludicrous figures are from the Department of Homeland Security, as the president seems to claim, shouldn't Secretary Nielsen be called before the relevant congressional oversight committees ASAP to explain where they come from and if they're correct? https://t.co/QYJiXwUN3h
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 27, 2019
He lies when he said women were taped:
After Trump repeatedly said, without evidence, that women were gagged with tape to cross border, @kmettler wrote about it. Then Border Patrol sent a message to agents asking if anyone had seen evidence of Trump’s claim. No evidence has been presented. https://t.co/8sPAdx7KqO
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 27, 2019
His soul is diseased and every once in a while we're forced to peer inside https://t.co/CWicFQyfZ2
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) January 27, 2019
He lies about voter fraud:
This is not true.
Read the facts here, from @TexasTribune: https://t.co/GPQHqFu9UM https://t.co/yUnMpL203s
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 27, 2019
He lies about Democrats:
The Democrats are named Jim. They do not have last names. They are big, strong Democrats who never cried in their lives, not even when they were babies, but cried when they made these calls to the White House.. https://t.co/TJetxke0nW
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2019
Trump says of Dems: "Almost all of them are breaking, saying walls are good, walls are good." 🤔 None have said that, and his bill got fewer votes than the Dem version after more Rs bolted from his side.
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 24, 2019
Domestic manufacturers like Whirlpool had hoped that President Trump's tariffs on washing machines would help them. It hasn't worked out that way. https://t.co/n7uq7jH2Mi
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 26, 2019
60 Second Fact Check: Is America actually getting rich off President Trump's tariffs as he claims? https://t.co/Xbhy2v4WLF
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 9, 2019
and they lied about the contacts over and over, even under oath. Why?
Remember when the Trump campaign used to insist that it had had no contact whatsoever with Russia? Here's an illuminating @nytimes graphic noting more than 100 such contacts: https://t.co/4RMNlaQmlV
— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 26, 2019
Except that Michael Cohen had spoken to the Russians, too, about a Trump Tower Moscow—and testified to Mueller that he kept Trump and his family in the loop about it in 2016. https://t.co/XAHcSRjd9F
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) January 29, 2019
Wealthy people got enormous benefits from the Trump tax cut but that’s not enough for Republicans. Trump keeps lying and saying the estate tax was already completely eliminated. Sad!
Ending the estate tax would give a tax break of up to:
— Warren Gunnels (@GunnelsWarren) January 28, 2019
– $63.6B for the Walton family, the owners of Walmart
– $39.1B for the Koch brothers
– $27.8B for the Mars candy bar family
– $13.4B for the Cox cable family
– $0 for more than 99.8% of Americans https://t.co/QCtAlcjzZ3
Since Trump's tax cuts went into law:
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) January 28, 2019
1) Wages have remained flat, adjusted for inflation.
2) The deficit has exploded.
3) Businesses didn't reinvest their savings.
Mitch McConnell's solution: Eliminate the estate tax for America's super rich, sending us deeper into debt.
Almost every time Trump talks about the estate tax, he lies that he's already eliminated it. "We got rid of it, folks," he told the American Farm Bureau convention two weeks ago. https://t.co/DHEUaIKvPN
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 29, 2019
Stunning. Estate tax is ZERO for about 99.9%. ZERO. Only hits 1700 couples yearly who leave estates OVER $22.4 million to heirs. Yet, Senate GOP calls for repeal – at cost of over $100 Billion for these wealthiest estates. Poor children can just eat cake. https://t.co/0YgdEzGviC
— Gene Sperling (@genebsperling) January 28, 2019
Why wasn't the estate tax fully eliminated in the Trump tax bill? Here's why –> two words in the GOP tax bill mean tens of billions for the superwealthy https://t.co/sHcm0R4omS
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 29, 2019
How many columns were written asking how Senators Thune and Grassley plan to pay for their estate tax repeal and questioning whether the GOP has become unrealistic?
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 31, 2019
They aren’t working for Putin’s interests like Trump is.
On these issues, Trump is ignorant or a liar. I think he is well informed so he must be a liar.
The nation's senior-most intel officials are making clear many of Trump's claims are not based on intelligence:
– ISIS is not defeated
– North Korea is not denuclearizing
– Russia still interfering in US elections
– Climate change is real & endangers US national security— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 29, 2019
Not likely- certainly. None of these assessments are new or surprising. All are known to the President and all senior national security officials. He simply chooses to ignore them or lie about them for his own purposes.
— John Sipher (@john_sipher) January 29, 2019
Intel officials contradict Trump on North Korea and Iran. https://t.co/gRPmG2RyX7
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 29, 2019
“It’s hard to imagine a bigger void between a sitting President and the US intelligence community," CNN’s @jimsciutto says about US intelligence leaders contradicting President Trump on key national security issues during a briefing today. https://t.co/dKGGQRsaV4 pic.twitter.com/acHNR9Fvt5
— The Situation Room (@CNNSitRoom) January 29, 2019
The most senior intelligence officials in the Trump administration suggested that many of the President's sweeping assertions related to national security are inconsistent with their own assessments https://t.co/LdaBQZwz1M
— CNN (@CNN) January 29, 2019
The nation’s top intelligence officials underscored the distance between the intelligence community and President Trump on several critical fronts. My report on today's worldwide threats hearing. https://t.co/PwZEpJdIbK
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) January 29, 2019
"President Trump’s own intelligence officials are publicly saying that he’s a moron." —@kdrum https://t.co/jOlaYNdeR3
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 29, 2019
He’s a phony – he doesn’t know much about the Bible.
I was @realDonaldTrump's pastor for 5 years @MarbleChurch. I assure you, he had the "option" to come to Bible study. He never "opted" in. Nor did he ever actually enter the church doors. Not one time. https://t.co/hf06e6LyRz
— David Lewicki (@dlewicki) January 29, 2019
Trump gives his blessing to allowing states to teach Bible literacy in public schools https://t.co/ATjctZhBh2
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 28, 2019
Trump is touting "bible literacy" classes this morning. This raises disingenuousness to a whole new level. Trump never reads any books. He is the least religious man alive, and he has certainly never read the Bible voluntarily.
— Tony Schwartz (@tonyschwartz) January 28, 2019
In case you're wondering about the president's sudden interest in the Bible.
Left, Fox & Friends, 7:53 am
Right, Trump, 8:21 am pic.twitter.com/VynQvYQTJQ— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) January 28, 2019
A reporter really should ask Trump to name, specifically, his favorite passage of the Bible. https://t.co/cOmiRemU9U
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 28, 2019
Oh, and that North Dakota bible bill that Trump heard about on Fox and Friends and which made him tweet this nonsense? It failed. Miserably. Going down after its second reading in a 5-42 vote.https://t.co/Bq3dHuGzOK
— Andrew L. Seidel (@AndrewLSeidel) January 28, 2019
The closest Donald Trump has come to reading the Bible is when Sean Hannity reads one of Marco Rubio’s tweets on his show.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) January 28, 2019
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