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#851 Posted:
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“We’ve begun to process seamlessly transferring veterans’ medical records. Horrible situation. You couldn’t get your medical records. And now it’s so easy and so good. And the system is fixed, finally, after all of these years.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

According to the {Associated Press}, while VA Secretary David Shulkin "announced plans last month to overhaul electronic records by replacing VA’s aging information technology system, the multiyear effort has barely even begun. Shulkin has yet to negotiate pricing for the no-bid contract with the company that designed the Pentagon’s system. The costs of a new IT system are not accounted for in Trump’s proposed 2018 budget.
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#852 Posted:
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“We have Choice. ... We have nearly doubled the number of veterans given approvals to see the doctor of their choice.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

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Trump exaggerates the number of people who have signed up for the Department of Veterans Affairs's Choice program, which allows veterans to receive care from doctors outside of the VA network. While more veterans are using Choice now, the rate has not nearly doubled.
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#853 Posted:
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“And you know the numbers, and you saw for many, many years Democrats – and they're really great – but Democrats, they win in Youngstown. But not this time. Right?”

Topic: Election

Source: Remarks

Hillary Clinton won every precinct in Youngstown.


LMAO!

Sorry Frank
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#854 Posted:
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“Working on major Trade Deal with the United Kingdom. Could be very big & exciting. JOBS! The E.U. is very protectionist with the U.S. STOP!”

Topic: Economy

Source: Twitter

Britain and the United States cannot agree to any trade deal until Britain fully exits from the European Union, a process that will not be completed until March 2019.
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#855 Posted:
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“We’ve published wait times at every VA facility. I used to go around and talk about the veterans and they’d stand on line for nine days, seven days, four days … 15 days. People that could have been given a prescription and been better right away end up dying waiting on line. That’s not happening anymore.”
Repeated 2 times
Sep 22, 2017Aug 12

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

The VA started publishing wait times at its medical centers, but the effort to do this started more than a year and half ago under the Obama administration, following the 2014 Phoenix VA scandal. Wait-time issues persist at the VA. During his May 31 "State of the VA" speech, VA Secretary David Shulkin said the VA is "still in critical condition and require intensive care," and veterans are waiting more than 60 days for new appointments at about 30 of 168 VA medical centers.
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“When we talked during the debate [about corporate profits overseas, the number was] $2.5 trillion … I guess it’s $5 trillion now. Whatever it is, it’s a lot more. So we have anywhere from 4 [trillion] to 5 or even more trillions of dollars sitting offshore.”
Repeated 22 times
Dec 22, 2017Dec 13Dec 8Nov 29Nov 28Nov 27Nov 2Nov 2Nov 2Nov 1Oct 31Oct 25Oct 25Oct 24Oct 17Oct 11Oct 7Sep 22Sep 6Sep 5Aug 30Jul 25

Topic: Taxes

Source: Interview

There are no official, current numbers on the profits held overseas by U.S. companies, just estimates. The White House would not respond to a query on where Trump is getting these numbers, but his high-end figure appears to be an exaggeration. The Internal Revenue Service in 2012 said the figure was $2.3 trillion, and the Joint Committee on Taxation estimated that it had risen to $2.6 trillion in 2015. There are other estimates as well, but none top $2.8 trillion.
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#857 Posted:
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Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into Amazon no-tax monopoly?”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

The Washington Post is owned by Jeffrey P. Bezos, the founder of Amazon. Amazon does not own The Post, but in any case the president’s claims about “no-tax” Amazon are out of date. Amazon used to lobby to keep Internet sales free from state taxes, but no more. {As of March,} Amazon is collecting sales tax on purchases in every state that has one.
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#858 Posted:
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“They (senators) can now keep their promise to the American people to provide emergency relief to those in desperate need of help, and to improve health care for all Americans.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

The emergency relief in the Senate proposal that Trump is referring to would not go directly go to the American people, as Trump makes it seem. Instead, it would go to insurance companies. Moreover, the Senate bill would lead to 15 million fewer Medicaid enrollees by 2026 than there would be under Obamacare.
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#859 Posted:
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The GOP health bill provides "more flexibility for states to administer Medicaid to better serve their poorest citizens.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

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The Senate bill would lead to 15 million fewer Medicaid enrollees by 2026 than there would be under Obamacare. It would force some states to make tough decisions that they otherwise would not have, such as reprioritizing their state budget, paying for Medicaid patients out of state funds or cutting Medicaid. Health-care analysts say it is "wishful thinking" that the bill would add greater Medicaid flexibility for states.
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#860 Posted:
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“19th Boy Scout Jamboree, wow, and to address such a tremendous group. Boy, you have a lot of people here. The press will say it’s about 200 people. It looks like about 45,000 people. You set a record today. You set a record. That’s a great honor, believe me.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Remarks

The figure of 45,000 is not official but if so, that would not be a record. The most-attended single-site jamboree was held in 1964, in Valley Forge, Pa., with 50,960 attendees. In 1973, the jamboree was held in two sites, in Idaho and Pennsylvania, for a total of 73,610 attendees. (Those are raw numbers. In terms of percentage of Boy Scouts attending, 2010 holds the record.) At last count, 26,000 Scouts were expected at the 2017 event, suggesting it would fall well short of the record.
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#861 Posted:
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“The Failing New York Times foiled U.S. attempt to kill the single most wanted terrorist,Al-Baghdadi.Their sick agenda over National Security”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

The Times reported off of information that was released by the Pentagon {more than three weeks} before the article ran.
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#862 Posted:
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“We believe that our country is stronger, safer, and more prosperous when we make more of our goods and our products right here in the USA. When we purchase products Made in America, the wealth, revenue and jobs all stay in our country – to be enjoyed by our people.”
Repeated 23 times
Nov 2, 2017Oct 11Sep 29Sep 22Sep 6Aug 22Aug 3Jul 26Jul 25Jul 21Jul 20Jul 17Jul 7Apr 29Apr 19Apr 18Apr 18Mar 28Mar 20Mar 18Mar 15Mar 15Mar 6

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

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Of course, Trump himself has a long history of outsourcing a variety of his products and has acknowledged doing so. Even during Trump’s “Made in America” week, when he urged manufacturers and consumers to “buy American, hire American,” his family’s company continued to rely on foreign workers. Another of Trump’s golf courses recently filed a request to hire 10 foreign workers to be waiters. Further, the fashion line of Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and adviser to the president, is out of step with the principles championed by her father.
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#863 Posted:
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“Today I’m proud to welcome three more great companies ... to the White House for really a major announcement which you’ll be hearing: Merck, Pfizer, and Corning. These three companies are announcing that pharmaceutical glass packaging will now be made in America. That’s a big step. That’s a big statement. We’re very proud of that. Thank you very much, by the way. And I know they wouldn’t have done it under another administration. I feel confident.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

This program has been in the works since 2012. "Merck was instrumental in working with Corning in the infancy of the project and heavily involved in the development of this new glass technology, dating back to 2012," Merck spokeswoman Pamela Eisele {told CNN Money}. Corning spokesman Dan Collins told CNN Money that the White House was "instrumental" in "getting us to today."
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“And that [allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines] will come, and your premiums will be down 60 and 70 percent.”
Repeated 1 time
Aug 22, 2017

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

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The Affordable Care Act actually encouraged regional intrastate insurance pacts and yet insurance companies have not shown much interest, saying the concept is unworkable for health insurance. If Trump were to push through a plan to sell health insurance across state lines, he would need to repeal all or part of the McCarran-Ferguson Act, a 1945 law that ensured that individual states remained the primary regulators of insurance. There is no evidence that allowing interstate sale of health insurance would reduce premiums by 60 to 70 percent.
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#865 Posted:
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“This issue is very important to me because throughout the campaign and even after, people would come up to me and express their concerns about voter inconsistencies and irregularities which they saw, in some cases, having to do with very large numbers of people in certain states.”
Repeated 4 times
Jan 4, 2018Jul 19, 2017Jul 1Jan 25

Topic: Election

Source: Remarks

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In fact, it was Trump who paraded the unsupported theory that there is "large scale voter fraud happening on and before Election Day," for months leading up to the election and even after the election. Yet every time Trump's team was asked to produce data supporting this false claim, it became clear they were taking issue with isolated instances of voting irregularities and other instances that had nothing to do with fraud.
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#866 Posted:
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“If any state does not want to share this information, one has to wonder what they're worried about. And I ask the vice president and I ask the commission: What are they worried about?”
Repeated 1 time
Jul 1, 2017

Topic: Election

Source: Remarks

There are several lawsuits filed against the voting commission over concerns that the commission's demand for voter information may violate federal and state privacy laws. Yet Trump suggests that states deciding not to share the information are up to something nefarious.
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#867 Posted:
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“The way I looked at it, we have no Democrat help [on health care]. They're obstructionists.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

Trump has not reached out to Democrats, but pursued a Republican-only strategy. Democrats have said they are willing to negotiate if full repeal of Obamacare is taken off the table.
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#868 Posted:
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Comey "illegally leaks, and everyone thinks it is illegal, and by the way, it looks like it’s classified and all that stuff.”
Repeated 1 time
Jul 10, 2017

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

Former FBI Director James Comey said that {the president's tweet about possible "tapes" of their conversations led him to believe their might be corroboration for the memos} that he had written while still FBI director. Comey took contemporaneous notes following each of his meetings with the president and president-elect, which he shared with the senior leadership of the FBI. Comey intentionally wrote these in a way that the information wouldn't be classified.
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#869 Posted:
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Nixon came along [inaudible] was pretty brutal, and out of courtesy, the F.B.I. started reporting to the Department of Justice. But there was nothing official, there was nothing from Congress. There was nothing — anything. But the F.B.I. person really reports directly to the president of the United States, which is interesting.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

Congress established a ten-year term for the FBI director in 1976 in reaction to J. Edgar Hoover's 48-year tenure as FBI director. The president appoints the FBI director but the director has reported to the Attorney General since the 1920s.
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#870 Posted:
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“I just heard there was an email requesting a meeting or something — yeah, requesting a meeting. That they have information on Hillary Clinton, and I said — I mean, this was standard political stuff.”
Repeated 1 time
Jul 17, 2017

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

Ethics lawyers and campaign veterans say the sort of encounter between Donald Trump Jr. and the Russian attorney {is highly unusual.}
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#871 Posted:
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“We have a director of the F.B.I., acting, who received $700,000, whose wife received $700,000 from, essentially, Hillary Clinton. ’Cause it was through Terry. Which is Hillary Clinton.”
Repeated 6 times
Dec 24, 2017Dec 23Dec 3Jul 26Jul 25Jul 19

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

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Andrew McCabe, who is now the acting FBI director, became part of the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails long after his wife, Jill McCabe, unsuccessfully ran for a Virginia Senate seat. The political action committee of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) gave $452,500 to McCabe, and the state Democratic Party gave her campaign an additional $207,788. That was about one-third of the $1.8 million budget for her campaign. McAuliffe is close to Clinton, but there is no evidence she knew of the contributions. Moreover, it stretches the imagination that McAuliffe would know that the husband of someone he was supporting in a Virginia legislative race was going to be promoted months later to a position of authority in the email case.
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#872 Posted:
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“You are basically saying from the moment the insurance, you’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time you’re 70, you get a nice plan. Here’s something where you walk up and say, I want my insurance.'”

Topic: Health care

Source: Interview

It's unclear what Trump is referring to; he appears to be describing something similar to life insurance or Social Security. Of course, that's not how health insurance works. A 21-year-old doesn't pay into health insurance to collect at 70, but rather contributes to a risk pool that helps pay for the premiums of more costly people in the same risk pool.
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#873 Posted:
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“So, I was seated next to the wife of Prime Minister Abe [Shinzo Abe of Japan], who I think is a terrific guy, and she’s a terrific woman, but doesn’t speak English. Like, not 'hello.'”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

Akie Abe, the wife of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, does speak basic English, including greetings like "hello." However, in diplomatic settings, {she appears to be} more comfortable with speaking Japanese.
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#874 Posted:
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“She [Hillary Clinton] was opposing sanctions. She was totally opposed to any sanctions for Russia.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

Trump is referring to unproven claims that Clinton opposed the 2012 Sergei Magnitsky Act, which imposed sanctions on Russia, because Bill Clinton gave a lucrative speech in Moscow. Clinton had already imposed a ban on travel to the U.S. by several dozen officials believed to have been involved in Magnitsky’s death, but Congress wanted to go further. In the end, the bill was signed into law by President Barack Obama.
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#875 Posted:
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“They — now, that was before Russia was hot, don’t forget. You know, Russia wasn’t hot then. That was almost a year and a half ago. It wasn’t like it is, like it is radioactive, then. Russia was Russia.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

This is incorrect. By the time Trump's son secretly met with a Russian official, there had been numerous news stories about Trump's apparently pro-Russian tilt in the campaign.
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#876 Posted:
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“Who is he? [Rod Rosenstein] And Jeff [Sessions] hardly knew. He’s from Baltimore. There are very few Republicans in Baltimore, if any.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein previously worked in Baltimore, Md., which is overwhelmingly Democratic. But Rosenstein lived in Bethesda, Md., where there are Republicans but still is strongly Democratic. Rosenstein grew up in Philadelphia. Rosenstein was appointed by Republican President George W. Bush, but he has not identified with a political party publicly.
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“Well, Napoleon finished a little bit bad. But I asked that. So I asked the president, so what about Napoleon? He said: 'No, no, no. What he did was incredible. He designed Paris.' [garbled] The street grid, the way they work, you know, the spokes. He did so many things even beyond. And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death. How many times has Russia been saved by the weather?”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

This is strange and nonsensical history told by Trump. It's unclear what he means by Napoleon's "extracurricular activities." As the {New York Times noted}: "While he identified the correct Napoleon, his version of the 18th-century conqueror’s failed attempt to invade Russia is garbled. Napoleon’s 1812 campaign into Russia lasted about six months, not, as Mr. Trump suggested, one night. And the French emperor did take Moscow in September, before withdrawing a month later as food supplies began to dwindle. Of nearly half a million men under his command, only about 6,000 made it back home and the others died in battle or succumbed to disease or the weather."
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#878 Posted:
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Peter Baker, New York Times: "Did you shoo other people out of the room when you talked to Comey?"
Trump: "No, no.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

This is inconsistent with testimony under oath by former FBI Director James B. Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Comey testified to Congress that Trump asked everyone (including Sessions ) to leave the room after a group meeting in February 2017, before Trump talked to Comey about the FBI's investigation of fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Trump denies asking others to leave the room. But in his Senate testimony, Sessions did not deny this detail, and instead said that Comey expressed "concern" to Sessions about being left alone with the president.
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#879 Posted:
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“She (Hillary Clinton) did the uranium deal, which is a horrible thing, while she was secretary of state, and got a lot of money.”
Repeated 10 times
Nov 3, 2017Oct 25Aug 3Jul 25Jul 22Jul 19Apr 30Mar 28Mar 27Feb 16

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

Full story

Trump suggests the State Department under Hillary Clinton had sole approval authority on a uranium rights deal with a company largely owned by Russia’s nuclear energy agency. But the State Department is one of nine agencies in the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States to vet and sign off on all U.S. transactions involving foreign governments. There is no evidence Clinton herself got involved in the deal personally, and it is highly questionable that this deal even rose to the level of the secretary of state. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission also needed to approve, and did approve, the transfe
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#880 Posted:
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“I’ve given the farmers back their farms. I’ve given the builders back their land to build houses and to build other things.”
Repeated 7 times
Jan 8, 2018Nov 29, 2017Jul 25Jul 19Jul 12Jun 21Feb 28

Topic: Environment

Source: Interview

Full story

Trump likes to say that the Obama-era Clean Water Act rule, also called Waters of the United States, prohibited farmers, ranchers, agricultural workers and homebuilders from doing work on their land. But this claim is nonsensical because the rule never went into effect, and it got blocked by the courts.
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#881 Posted:
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“This health-care is a tough deal. I said it from the beginning.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Interview

This is the opposite of what Trump said during the campaign. "You’re going to have such great health care, at a tiny fraction of the cost—and it’s going to be so easy,” he told one campaign rally. He also repeatedly said he would accomplish the repeal on "Day One" of his presidency.
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#882 Posted:
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“It would be nice to have Democrat support. But really, they're obstructionists. They have no ideas. They have no thought process. All they want to do is obstruct government and obstruct period.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

Trump has not reached out to Democrats, but pursued a Republican-only strategy. Democrats have said they are willing to negotiate if full repeal of Obamacare is taken off the table.
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#883 Posted:
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“Fake News story of secret dinner with Putin is 'sick.' All G 20 leaders, and spouses, were invited by the Chancellor of Germany. Press knew!”

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

News media did not say it was a secret dinner. It was a previously undisclosed one-hour meeting, accompanied only by Putin's translator.
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#884 Posted:
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“And, by the way, Obamacare isn't failing – it's failed. Done.”
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Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

The Affordable Care Act is expected to remain stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Moreover, Trump only backed off of his pledge to repeal and replace Obamacare after he supported the failed attempts in both chambers of Congress to push through the legislation.
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“Most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one Don jr attended in order to get info on an opponent. That's politics!”
Repeated 1 time
Jul 19, 2017

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

Ethics lawyers and campaign veterans say the sort of encounter between Donald Trump Jr. and the Russian attorney {is highly unusual.}
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#886 Posted:
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Jul 17 2017

“We've signed more bills -- and I'm talking about through the legislature -- than any president ever.”
Repeated 15 times
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Topic: Biographical record

Source: Remarks

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This is wrong. Just among recent presidents, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton had signed more bills than Trump at this point in their presidencies.
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“We picked up 45,000 mining jobs in a very short period of time. And everybody was saying, well, you won’t get any mining jobs. We picked up 45,000 mining jobs, and the miners are very happy with Trump and with Pence.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

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Trump is not specific, but administrations officials have previously suggested that these are coal mining jobs. But most of the so-called gain in “mining” jobs has nothing to do with coal. Most of the new jobs were in a subcategory called “support activities for mining,” and 75 percent of the jobs in the “support for mining” subcategory are in oil and gas operations. The plunge in oil prices that started in 2014 wiped out nearly 200,000 jobs in the oil and gas support sector by October, but a recent stabilization in oil prices has helped bring some of those jobs back. It has little to do with administration policy — and nothing to do with coal mining. The reality is that fewer than 1,000 coal jobs have been added since Trump became president.
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“Remember the old days? They used to have made in the USA, made in America. But made in the USA. We're going to start doing that again. We're going to put that brand on our product because it means it's the best.”
Repeated 23 times
Nov 2, 2017Oct 11Sep 29Sep 22Sep 6Aug 22Aug 3Jul 26Jul 25Jul 21Jul 20Jul 17Jul 7Apr 29Apr 19Apr 18Apr 18Mar 28Mar 20Mar 18Mar 15Mar 15Mar 6

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

Full story

Trump now calls for Americans to “buy American, hire American.” But this is misleading. Trump has a long history of outsourcing a variety of his own products. The Fact Checker has counted a total of 12 countries where Trump products were manufactured (China, the Netherlands, Mexico, India, Turkey, Slovenia, Honduras, Germany, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam and South Korea).
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“He said, our business is a whole different business now because you got China [beef] approved; the other administrations couldn’t even come close. And I told him, you know how long it took? One sentence. I said, President Xi, we’d love to sell beef back in China again. He said, you can do that. That was the end of that.”
Repeated 2 times
Jul 25, 2017May 12

Topic: Economy

Source: Remarks

China had already agreed to allow the sale of U.S. beef under a deal brokered by the Obama administration. The only thing new was that a definite date was set for when sales would begin.
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#890 Posted:
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“But I will tell you, if you look at Michigan, if you look at some states that have really moved – you know, in Pennsylvania, two weeks ago they opened the mine – the first mine that was opened in decades. Opened a mine.”
Repeated 4 times
Jun 13, 2017Jun 12Jun 7Jun 1

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

Full story

Trump takes credit for a new mine opening up, but the digging of this coal mine began two months before the presidential election. Moreover, these mines are for metallurgical coal, which is used to make steel. It's not relevant in the context of the Paris agreement, in which this claim was made, because the agreement has to do with carbon emissions from thermal coal, which produces heat and electricity.
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“The ABC/Washington Post Poll, even though almost 40% is not bad at this time, was just about the most inaccurate poll around election time!”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Twitter

Independent researchers who examined polls from the election season and found that the ABC News/Washington Post poll was among the polls that were closest to the final result. Moreover, the poll that Trump was referring to found that his overall approval rating dropped to 36 percent from 42 percent, and his disapproval rating rose five points to 58 percent.
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“And I think [France and the U.S. are ] together, perhaps, more so than ever. The relationship is very good.
Repeated 1 time
Jul 12, 2017

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: News conference

Since the president announced he would pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, many European leaders, including the {president of France} and {German chancellor}, have publicly distanced themselves from Trump. It's certainly a stretch to suggest that relations between the U.S. and Europe are as strong as they have ever been.
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“We also have cut regulations at a level that we've never seen before. So we're very proud of that over the last six months.”
Repeated 1 time
Jul 10, 2017

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: News conference

The administration has proposed eliminating major rules but much has not been finalized. Meanwhile, 124 regulations with an estimated cost of $32 billion have been issued in 2017.
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#894 Posted:
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“We’ve got underneath us more oil than anybody, and nobody knew it until five years ago.”

Topic: Environment

Source: Remarks

{Led by the hydraulic fracturing techniques}, the United States and the rest of the world have been in the midst of an energy revolution, but that began nearly 15 years ago. The U.S. has exported more energy than it has imported since 2015. Saudi Arabia leads the world with one-fifth of the world's oil reserves.
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#895 Posted:
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“South Korea, we protect, but we're losing $40 billion a year with South Korea on trade. ”

Topic: Economy

Source: Remarks

The U.S. trade deficit in goods with South Korea in 2016 was $27.5 billion, but when trade in services is includes, the trade deficit shrinks to $17 billion. A trade deficit does not mean a country is losing money on trade.
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“It's a good thing I have a good relationship with every one [the leaders of the G20] of them — Modi — you saw that.”
Repeated 2 times
Jul 13, 2017Jul 6

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Remarks

Since the president announced he would pull the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord, many European leaders, including the {president of France} and {German chancellor}, have publicly distanced themselves from him. It's certainly a stretch to suggest that relations between the U.S. and Europe are as strong as they have ever been.
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#897 Posted:
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“I have built up — we’re getting $57 billion more for the military.”
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Nov 7, 2017Nov 7Nov 5Oct 17Aug 22Jul 25Jul 12Jun 21May 27May 21May 17Mar 15Mar 2Feb 28

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Remarks

Trump's proposed 10 percent increase is actually relatively modest. In the past 30 years, at least one-third of the time the core defense budget was boosted more than Trump's request -- in some cases more than double the percentage requested by Trump.
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“We’re going to have clean coal, and Hillary wasn’t.”
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Oct 17, 2017

Topic: Environment

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"Clean coal" is not a thing. It is rhetoric often used to describe carbon capture and storage, a technique to capture carbon emissions from power plants, transport it through pipelines and inject it deep into the ground to make oil wells more productive. This technology has been developing in the U.S. since 2015 but it remains expensive and not viable economically without being linked to an enhanced oil recovery project.
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#899 Posted:
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“Hillary was going to stop fracking. She was going to stop coal totally.”

Topic: Environment

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Throughout the campaign, Clinton supported fracking as long as there is environmental oversight, no contamination of water or release of methane, and no local opposition.
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#900 Posted:
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“I don’t want that taken away by the Paris Accord.”

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Each country set its own commitments under the Paris Accord, so Trump's comment is puzzling. He could unilaterally change the commitments offered by former President Barack Obama, which is technically allowed under the Accord.
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