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#1101 Posted: Sat, Jan 20 2018, 8:13 PM EST
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“There's never been any kind of a relationship that we've had with China. Look at what China's doing. They're turning back the coal ships from North Korea, they're putting a lot of pressure on North Korea.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

In 2016, China barred a North Korean freighter and blacklisted 31 vessels covered by United Nations Security Council sanctions, according to Reuters.
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#1102 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:23 PM EST
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“We never, ever seem to have a surplus with countries. Every country takes advantage of the United States, and it's not going to happen anymore.”
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Dec 8, 2017Nov 11Oct 22Oct 17Jul 28Apr 28Feb 23

Topic: Economy

Source: Interview

Not true. There’s barely a trade deficit in goods with the United Kingdom, according to the International Trade Commission, and the United States has a trade surplus with Hong Kong ($30 billion), Netherlands ($24 billion), United Arab Emirates ($21 billion), Belgium ($15 billion), Australia ($14 billion), Singapore ($10 billion) and Brazil ($4 billion), among others.
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#1103 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:24 PM EST
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“They ended up giving Nebraska -- the Nebraska deal was where, frankly, that senator, who wasn't even that popular, made one of the best deals, what they did for the state of Nebraska.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Interview

Actually, the so-called "cornhusker kickback" -- which would have provided additional Medicaid funding to Nebraska -- was removed from the Affordable Care Act before it was passed into law.
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#1104 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:25 PM EST
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“Democrats jeopardizing the safety of our troops to bail out their donors from insurance companies.”
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Apr 30, 2017

Topic: Health care

Source: Twitter

Trump suggests insurance companies are major backers of Democrats, but opensecrets.org says that 68 percent of insurance company contributions go to Republicans.
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#1105 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:26 PM EST
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“This is a website that works. This is not the $5 billion Obamacare website. Do we remember that? Nobody remembers that. Does anybody remember the $5 billion website? No, I don't think so.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

The Obamacare website did not cost $5 billion. The Department of Health and Human Services offered an estimate that topped $800 million. A study by Bloomberg News, with a more expansive definition of federal spending, came up with an estimate of $2.1 billion. Moreover, while the website had trouble in its early months, those were quickly fixed and it now works.
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#1106 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:26 PM EST
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“First the Ninth Circuit rules against the ban & now it hits again on sanctuary cities-both ridiculous rulings. See you in the Supreme Court!”

Topic: Immigration

Source: Twitter

The ruling blocking Trump's executive order on santuary cities was issued by a U.S. district court judge in San Francisco. It had not yet been taken up by an appeals court.
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#1107 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:27 PM EST
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“The U.S. recorded its slowest economic growth in five years (2016). GDP up only 1.6%. Trade deficits hurt the economy very badly.”

Topic: Economy

Source: Twitter

A trade deficit can reduce the gross domestic product, as the balance of trade is part of the GDP formula. But Trump greatly overstates the impact on economic growth. The United States has been running trade deficits for three decades, both when GDP growth was high and when it was low.
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#1108 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:27 PM EST
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“Out of our very big country, with many choices, does everyone notice that both the 'ban' case and now the 'sanctuary' case is brought in the Ninth Circuit, which has a terrible record of being overturned (close to 80%). They used to call this 'judge shopping!' Messy system.”
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Apr 26, 2017

Topic: Immigration

Source: Twitter

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San Francisco and Santa Clara County, the governments that sued over Trump's sanctuary order, are in California. So that's where they would need to file a lawsuit. They also did not get to choose the judge that ruled against Trump. We have earlier explored the claim about the Ninth Circuit being overturned 80 percent. The Ninth Circuit is not the most overturned court by the annual reversal rate. It does have a high raw number of reversals or number of cases on the Supreme Court docket. But it also reviews more cases than other circuits, is larger than other circuits and terminates far more cases than other circuits.
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#1109 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:28 PM EST
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“Sanctuary cities have been very, very dangerous, very, very bad.”
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Sep 22, 2017Apr 26Feb 16Feb 5

Topic: Immigration

Source: Interview

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There is limited research on the impact of sanctuary policies and crime. And the research that does exist challenges Trump’s claim. There’s no official definition of “sanctuary,” but it generally refers to rules restricting state and local governments from alerting federal authorities about people who may be in the country illegally. A handful of studies looked at whether there is a causation between sanctuary cities and crime. They either found no statistically significant impact of sanctuary policies on crime, or a reduction in crime due to immigrant-friendly policing strategies.
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#1110 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:30 PM EST
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“New polls out today are very good considering that much of the media is FAKE and almost always negative. Would still beat Hillary in ........popular vote. ABC News/Washington Post Poll (wrong big on election) said almost all stand by their vote on me & 53% said strong leader.”
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Apr 23, 2017

Topic: Election

Source: Twitter

The final Post-ABC pre-election poll showed Clinton winning the popular vote by three percentage points in a head-to-head match-up. She won by 2.1 percentage points. Trump also falsely suggests he won the popular vote when in fact he lost it.
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#1111 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:31 PM EST
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“Because the hundred days is just an artificial barrier. The press keeps talking about the hundred days.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

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In a speech on Oct. 22, Trump issued an unusually detailed 100-day-plan of action, which he called the “Contract with the American Voter.” The Fact Checker has used the plan as a template for tracking in campaign promises.
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#1112 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:32 PM EST
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On NATO: "It's not fair that we're paying close to 4 percent and other countries that are more directly affected are paying 1 percent when they're supposed to be paying 2 percent. And I'm very strong on it and I'm going to be very strong on it when I go there in a month.”
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Dec 18, 2017Dec 8Nov 15Jul 6Jul 6Jun 9Jun 2May 30May 27May 25May 25May 25May 25May 8Apr 29Apr 29Apr 21Mar 22Mar 18Mar 17Feb 28

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

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The United States spends about 3.6 percent of gross domestic product on defense spending , far more that NATO’s guideline of 2 percent. The median spending level for the 28 NATO countries is 1.53 percent of GDP, though NATO members are not expected to reach the 2 percent level until 2024. Meanwhile, the United States has defense responsibilities around the world, especially in Asia, which accounts for why U.S. spending is higher. In fact, U.S. bases in Europe are often used to redeploy forces in other theaters, such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Africa.
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#1113 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:33 PM EST
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“You live by the sword, you die by the sword, to a certain extent. But we create a lot of jobs, 500,000 jobs as of two months ago, and plenty created since. Five hundred thousand. ... As an example, Ford, General Motors. I've had cases where the gentleman from China, Ma, Jack Ma (chairman of Alibaba Group), he comes up, he says, “Only because of you am I making this massive investment.” Intel, only because of you. ... The press never writes that.
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Topic: Jobs

Source: Interview

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Trump exaggerates the number of jobs created since he became president; the number of net new jobs since January 2017 is 317,000. Trump also continues to claim undue credit for corporate decisions that were made before he was elected president. Ford’s decision to expand in Michigan rather than in Mexico had more to do with the company’s long-term goals than with the administration. General Motors announced jobs plans in January and March 2017, but the company did not credit Trump or his election. Intel announced it would create at least 10,000 jobs at a “new” plant in Arizona but the investment was announced in 2011. Chinese e-company Alibaba's founder Jack Ma has been pitching his company as a U.S. job creator since as early as 2015.
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#1114 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:34 PM EST
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“When Wikileaks came out ... never heard of Wikileaks, never heard of it. When Wikileaks came out, all I was just saying is, 'Well, look at all this information here, this is pretty good stuff.'”

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

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Trump falsely claims he had not heard of WikiLeaks prior to the 2016 campaign. As CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski found, Trump denounced WikiLeaks as early as 2010.
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#1115 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:35 PM EST
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“You know, back when they did NATO there was no such thing as terrorism.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

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When NATO was founded in 1949, terrorism long existed in Europe, often by separatist groups (such as Irish Republicans) or anarchists. A bombing in 1967 in London by the Irish Republican Brotherhood killed 12 people and injured 120.
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#1116 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:36 PM EST
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Cummings (D-Maryland) “said you will be the greatest president. He said you will be, in front of five, six people, he said you will be the greatest president in the history of this country.”
Repeated 1 time
Apr 5, 2017

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

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Cummings has disputed this account. Cummings told CNN that he said Trump he could become a good president “if . . . IF . . . he took steps to truly represent ALL Americans rather than continuing on the divisive and harmful path he is currently on.”
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#1117 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:37 PM EST
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“Somebody, yeah, somebody put out the concept of a hundred-day plan. But yeah. Well, I’m mostly there on most items.”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Interview

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Who was that “somebody” who put out the plan? It was somebody named Donald Trump. In a campaign speech on Oct. 22 delivered in Gettysburg, Pa., Trump outlined at substantive length each law he pledged to pass in his first 100 days.There were 60 promises embedded in the plan. According to our tally as of April 24, Trump has failed to meet most of his objectives.
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#1118 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:38 PM EST
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“I have, seem to get very high ratings. I definitely. You know Chris Wallace had 9.2 million people, it's the highest in the history of the show. I have all the ratings for all those morning shows.”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Interview

Trump is way off. Chris Wallace's exclusive December 2016 interview with Trump nabbed the show's second-highest rated broadcast ever, at 2.3 million total viewers.
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#1119 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:38 PM EST
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On Hillary Clinton: "So she had this massive advantage, she spent hundreds of millions of dollars more money than I spent. Hundreds of millions. ... Yeah. Or more, actually because we were $375 she was at $2.2 billion. But whatever.

Topic: Election

Source: Interview

Trump exaggerates Clinton's spending. As of Dec. 9, 2016, Clinton's campaign committee had $565 million in total expenses and Trump's campaign committee had $322 million in expenses.
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#1120 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:39 PM EST
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On Neil Gorsuch: "I mean, here's a judge who is No. 1 at Columbia, No. 1 at Harvard and an Oxford scholar. And he got three votes.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

As Daniel Dale at the Toronto Star noted, Gorsuch graduated "**** laude" from Harvard Law School, receiving high honors but not as impressive as "summa **** laude" or "magna **** laude."
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#1121 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:40 PM EST
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“Oh, I’m seeing numbers — $24 billion [for a border wall], I think I’ll do it for $10 billion or less. That’s not a lot of money relative to what we’re talking about. If we stop 1 percent of the drugs from coming in — and we’ll stop all of it.”
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Apr 23, 2017Apr 23

Topic: Immigration

Source: Interview

During the presidential campaign, Trump used to claim that he could build a 1,000-mile-long wall, made of precast concrete slabs 40 feet high, for $8 billion. The Fact Checker checked with construction experts and instead received estimates as high as $25 billion. A report issued by Senate Democrats in April came up with an even higher estimate: nearly $70 billion, before paying for land acquisition. The report said that maintenance costs would run about $150 million a year. Trump’s claim that the wall would halt the flow of drugs is dubious. Experts say that drugs are actually shipped through the border on the underside of vehicles that have permits to cross the border in a special lane.
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#1122 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:44 PM EST
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“On any, on air, [CBS ‘Face the Nation’ host John] Dickerson had 5.2 million people. It’s the highest for ‘Face the Nation’ or as I call it, ‘Deface the Nation.’ It’s the highest for ‘Deface the Nation’ since the World Trade Center. Since the World Trade Center came down. It’s a tremendous advantage.”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Interview

Trump is slightly off on the numbers. Then-presidential candidate Trump’s Jan. 3, 2016, interview with host John Dickerson on CBS’s “Face the Nation” had an audience of 4.6 million. Of the total audience, about 1 million were adults aged 25 to 54, the coveted demographic among advertisers. The overall audience was the largest since Sept. 16, 2001, and the rating among adults 25 to 54 years old was the best since Nov. 17, 2013, according to CBS News.
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#1123 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:45 PM EST
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“#BuyAmericanHireAmerican”
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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: Twitter

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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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#1124 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:45 PM EST
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“The weak illegal immigration policies of the Obama Admin. allowed bad MS 13 gangs to form in cities across U.S. We are removing them fast!”
Repeated 2 times
May 18, 2017Apr 29

Topic: Immigration

Source: Twitter

The MS-13 gang far predates Obama, and has been active since the 1980s. According to the Congressional Research Service in 2005 and 2008, the gang had spread across the country since the 1980s. Moreover, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement under Trump has been arresting an increasing number of noncriminals, indicating that it's not just the gang members that are being targeted by his administration.
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#1125 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:46 PM EST
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“No administration has accomplished more in the first 90 days.”
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Apr 28, 2017Apr 28

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Remarks

Full story

By any standard, Trump's start of the presidency falls short of Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous first "100 days," as well as other presidents. Political scientists note that Trump has not signed into law any major piece of legislation.
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#1126 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:47 PM EST
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“I don't know it you noticed recently, I signed a very big order. We're going to spend again on NASA space program.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Remarks

This was a reauthorization bill, designed to constrain the administration from making wholelsale changes in existing projects. It was considered by lawmakers to be a staus quo bill. Actual funding would come from other legislation.
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#1127 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:48 PM EST
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“All pipelines that are coming into this country from now on has to be American steel.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Interview

Trump appears to refering to an executive action he issued but he exaggerates its impact. The revived Keystone pipeline would not have to meet this requirement. The president's memo also offer a lot of legal wiggle room, with phrases such as "to the maximum extent permitted by law."
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#1128 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:48 PM EST
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“I'm put in a position where he [North Korea's leader] actually has nuclear and we are going to have to do something about it.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

North Korea detonated its first nuclear test in 2006, during George W. Bush's presidency and conducted more tests during the Barack Obama administration. So North Korea long had nuclear weapons before Trump became president.
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#1129 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:49 PM EST
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“Nobody has ever seen such a positive response on our behalf [versus North Korea] from China.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

Trump oversells his diplomacy with China, which has barely begun, as superior to all previous presidents. China has interests in North Korea that it has always sought to protect, such as the preservation of the communist regime, leading to eventual disappointment by U.S, officials.
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#1130 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:51 PM EST
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“You know, they’ve been talking with this gentleman for a long time. You read Clinton’s book, he said, ‘Oh, we made such a great peace deal,’ and it was a joke. You look at different things over the years with President Obama. Everybody has been outplayed, they’ve all been outplayed by this gentleman. And we’ll see what happens. But I just don’t telegraph my moves.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

This is an odd statement. It's unclear whether Trump knows that there have been three North Korean leaders since Bill Clinton's presidency, all with the last name Kim. It's a misleading claim that the past three presidents have "all been outplayed by this gentleman." It's actually three men in the same Kim family: Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il and Kim Jong-Un.
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#1131 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:51 PM EST
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“I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?”
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Dec 28, 2017Nov 8Oct 25Sep 22Jul 24Jun 9May 10Apr 16

Topic: Election

Source: Twitter

Full story

This is not correct. Every Republican president since Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 won a larger share of the electoral college votes than Trump, with the exception of George W. Bush and Richard Nixon.
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#1132 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:52 PM EST
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Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem? We will see what happens!”
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Apr 12, 2017

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Twitter

Full story

This is a flip flop. Throughout the campaign, Trump falsely blamed China for being a “world champion” of devaluing the yuan.
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#1133 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:52 PM EST
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“Great win in Kansas last night for Ron Estes, easily winning the Congressional race against the Dems, who spent heavily & predicted victory!”

Topic: Election

Source: Twitter

Three things in this tweet are false. Estes, seeking a congressional seat long held by Republicans, did not have an easy win, Democrats did not spend heavily (Republicans did) and Democrats did not predict victory.
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#1134 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:53 PM EST
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“It's been very much misreported that we failed with health care. We haven't failed.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Interview

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The House Republican legislation to replace the Affordable Care Act was pulled from a looming House vote on March 24 after congressional leaders realized that it would fail to pass by a large margin. There’s no way to spin this except as a failure, especially since passage in the House would only be the first step on a long legislative journey. Senate Republicans generally are cool to the House proposal and are likely to pursue their own path. Then the two versions must be reconciled and pass both chambers before success could be declared. But Trump failed to advance even to first base. It’s true he might get another chance at-bat, but the effort is indeed a failure so far.
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#1135 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:53 PM EST
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“They'll say, why isn't Trump doing this faster? You can't do it faster, because they're obstructing. They're obstructionists.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

Full story

Trump suggests that he isn’t filling administration posts because of Democratic obstruction. Democrats have slow-walked many of his cabinet nominees, but Trump has been much slower than his predecessors in filling sub-cabinet posts and other positions. Out of 553 key positions requiring Senate confirmation, 478 still have no nominee, according to the Partnership for Public Service. Another 29 have been announced but not formally nominated; only 22 positions have been confirmed. Republican senators have said they are growing impatient with the White House’s slow pace. So Trump really should be pointing the finger at his own staff.
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#1136 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:54 PM EST
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When he [FBI Director James Comey] was reading those charges, she was guilty on every charge. And then he said, she was essentially OK. But he — she wasn't OK, because she was guilty on every charge.”

Topic: Election

Source: Interview

Full story

Trump has it backward. On July 5, 2016, Comey issued a tough statement about Clinton’s actions concerning her private email server, saying she was “extremely careless” in the handling of classified information, but he said it is “our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” Comey added that the FBI looked back at previous cases involving the handling of classified information. “We cannot find a case that would support bringing criminal charges on these facts,” he said. “All the cases prosecuted involved some combination of: clearly intentional and willful mishandling of classified information; or vast quantities of materials exposed in such a way as to support an inference of intentional misconduct; or indications of disloyalty to the United States; or efforts to obstruct justice. We do not see those things here.”
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#1137 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:55 PM EST
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“When you look at Susan Rice and what's going on, and so many people are coming up to me and apologizing now. They're saying you know, you were right when you said that. Perhaps I didn't know how right I was, because nobody knew the extent of it.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

Full story

Trump continues to grasp on slim reeds to claim he was correct when he falsely tweeted that former president Barack Obama “tapped” his phones at Trump Tower. No evidence has emerged to support that claim and it was denied by Comey. But in recent days he has claimed former national security adviser Susan Rice may have violated laws because she requested the identities of U.S. citizens who were incidentally recorded or referenced in surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency. Numerous former national security officials said that Rice had every right to make those requests. CNN reported that a review of classified documents by both Republican and Democratic documents found no evidence that Rice and other Obama administration officials did anything unusual or illegal.
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#1138 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:56 PM EST
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'The New York Times' said the word wiretapped in the headline of the first edition. Then they took it out of there fast when they realized.”
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Mar 22, 2017

Topic: Russia

Source: Interview

Full story

Trump is mixing up different headlines for the print and Internet editions. In print, the headline was: “Wiretapped data used in inquiry of Trump aides.” Online, the headline read: “Intercepted Russian Communications Part of Inquiry Into Trump Associates.” The headlines were not changed as part of any stealth editing. In any case, the text of the New York Times article under either headline was identical.
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#1139 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:56 PM EST
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“What I did should have been done by the Obama administration a long time before I did it and you would have had a much better — I think Syria would be a lot better off right now than it has been.”
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Apr 12, 2017Apr 6

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

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This is a flip-flop. In 2013 and 2014, Trump repeatedly tweeted against Obama launching air attacks against Syria for allegedly deploying chemical weapons. Trump repeated this in more than a dozen tweets, saying Obama should “stay the hell out of Syria,” and that it would be “stupid” and that “very bad things will happen.” He urged Obama to instead “fix U.S.A.” and “focus on making our country strong and great again.”
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#1140 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:57 PM EST
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“Look at what's going on in Michigan with the expansion of the plants by Ford, by General Motors, yesterday Toyota announced that they're going to spend $1.3 to $1.9 billion in Kentucky.”
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Topic: Jobs

Source: Interview

Full story

Trump continues to falsely claim credit for a host of corporate decisions that had nothing to do with his election or his policies.
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#1141 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:58 PM EST
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“The secretary general and I had a productive discussion about what more NATO can do in the fight against terrorism. I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change, and now they do fight terrorism. I said it was obsolete. It’s no longer obsolete.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: News conference

Full story

This is a flip flop. Throughout the campaign, and as recently as March 22, Trump declared the trans-Atlantic alliance “obsolete, because it doesn’t cover terrorism.” Of course, this was factually incorrect: NATO has been involved in counterterrorism since 1980, and especially since 9/11.
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#1142 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:59 PM EST
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On China: "They're not currency manipulators.”
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Apr 16, 2017

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

Full story

This is a flip flop. Throughout the campaign, and as recently as 10 days before this announcement, Trump falsely blamed China for being a “world champion” of devaluing the yuan.
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#1143 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 7:59 PM EST
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“I don't know Putin.”

Topic: Russia

Source: News conference

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This is a flip flop. But as recently as November 2015, Trump repeatedly claimed he not only knew Vladimir Putin, but knew him “very well,” and that he had a relationship with the Russian president. Trump changed his stance in July 2016, while facing criticism about his relationship with Kremlin: He declared he didn’t know Putin, after all.
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#1144 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 8:00 PM EST
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On Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen: “I like her, I respect her. ... I do like a low-interest-rate policy, I must be honest with you.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

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This is a flip flop. In May 2016, Trump said he would “most likely” replace Federal Reserve Chair Janet L. Yellen. During a September 2016 general-election debate, Trump criticized Yellen and the Fed for low interest rates, implying it was politically motivated: “This Janet L. Yellen of the Fed. The Fed is doing political — by keeping the interest rates at this level.”
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#1145 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 8:01 PM EST
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On Export-Import Bank: “It turns out that, first of all, lots of small companies are really helped, the vendor companies.”

Topic: Economy

Source: Interview

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This is a flip flop. On the campaign trail, Trump criticized the bank and said he found it unnecessary: “It’s a one-way street also. It’s sort of a featherbedding for politicians and others, and a few companies. And these are companies that can do very well without it. So I don’t like it. I think it’s a lot of excess baggage. I think it’s unnecessary. And when you think about free enterprise it’s really not free enterprise. I’d be against it.”
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#1146 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 8:01 PM EST
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“We are sending an armada, very powerful. We have submarines, very powerful, far more powerful than the aircraft carrier.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

Contrary to Trump's claim, the carrier group was not headed toward the Sea of Japan to deter North Korea but instead was steaming in the opposite direction to engage in exercises in the Indian Ocean, some 3,000 miles away.
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#1147 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 8:02 PM EST
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“Korea actually used to be a part of China.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

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Trump, apparently quoting the president of China, left out a significant amount of context that distorted the relationship between the two countries. Korea and China have long been intertwined, geopolitically and culturally. But Korea was not a spinoff of China,
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#1148 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 8:02 PM EST
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“Already, we've created more than almost 600,000 jobs.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

Trump again is counting the January jobs report, even though that concerns data for the period of Dec. 12 to Jan. 12, before he became president. Moreover, even if you counting January jobs, that brings the total to 533,000. The correct figure is 317,000.
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#1149 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 8:03 PM EST
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“Yesterday, Toyota just announced that it will invest more than $1.3 billion -- it's probably going to be $1.9 billion -- into its Georgetown, Kentucky plant, an investment that would not have been made if we didn’t win the election.”
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Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

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Trump continues to take credit for corporate decisions made separate from his election. Asked whether Trump’s policies played a role in the company’s investment decision, Toyota’s spokesman said: “No, but we do share his goal of growing the economy and jobs in the U.S.”
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#1150 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 8:03 PM EST
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“You saw the new survey that came out. It's at 93 -- which is the highest it's ever been -- 93 percent of manufacturers are optimistic about the future. It was a 27 percent increase over two months ago when it was also high because of the administration, and much higher than it's ever been -- 93 percent. Highest it's ever been.”
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Topic: Economy

Source: Remarks

Trump is citing a survey by the National Association of Manufacturers but that is not necessarily representative of all manufacturers. NAM declined to say whether NAM members are randomly surveyed -- and NAM members make up just six percent of manufacturing firms. This is a very low level of coverage for a survey of any population attempting to represent all industries.
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