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banderl Offline
#1201 Posted: Sun, Jan 21 2018, 8:45 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“If it's off by 100th of a percent, it's like I end up getting Pinocchios.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Prepared speech

We would beg to differ. Trump has so many Four-Pinocchio ratings because many of his claims lack evidence or a factual basis. Under our standards, being off by 100th of a percentage point would likely result in a Geppetto Checkmark.
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#1202 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:30 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“I said, wait a minute. I’m approving the [Keystone XL] pipeline and they’re suing us for $14 billion, and I’ve already approved it, right? I said, I just heard it. Go back to them and tell them if they don’t drop the suit immediately we are going to terminate the deal. You have great — you know, being President gives you great power, right? So I just saw him this morning — I said, by the way, how did you do? He said, sir, they dropped the suit.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Prepared speech

This is false. Keystone did not drop the suit. The company had filed a $15 billion claim for arbitration under the North American Free Trade Agreement after President Barack Obama rejected the pipeline. When Trump said he would reinstate the deal, the company suspended the arbitration claim. But it says it will pursue it if Trump does not follow through with a permit.
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#1203 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:31 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Last year, our country lost almost $800 billion in trade.”
Repeated 6 times
Nov 20, 2017Nov 15Nov 11Apr 2Mar 20Mar 15

Topic: Economy

Source: Prepared speech

The trade deficit was about $500 billion in 2016.
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#1204 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:31 PM EST
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“With just one negotiation on one set of airplanes, I saved the taxpayers of our country over $700 million.”
Repeated 21 times
Oct 3, 2017Sep 29May 17May 8May 2May 1Apr 29Apr 21Apr 6Mar 21Mar 20Mar 15Feb 28Feb 28Feb 27Feb 23Feb 22Feb 18Feb 7Feb 6Jan 30

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

Trump takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive.
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#1205 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:32 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Our economy will be unleashed and millions will be lifted from welfare to work. Got to work on work. They're going to love it. They're going to love it. From welfare to work.”
Repeated 4 times
Feb 28, 2017Feb 24Jan 26Jan 20

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

Full story

“Welfare” is a broad term and can apply to people who are working but receiving government assistance. If someone is receiving means-tested assistance, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are not working.
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#1206 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:33 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Many of our best and brightest are leaving the medical profession entirely because of Obamacare.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Prepared speech

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There are anecdotes of some doctors, especially older ones, who are frustrated about adopting electronic health records under Obamacare. But physicians leave the industry for many reasons, mainly aging and burning out. As the baby boomer patient population gets older and has more complex conditions, there is greater demand on physicians and their services. Recent data from the Association of American Medical Colleges shows physicians are actually retiring two years later, and the group ahs not seen a significant number of physicians leaving the industry because of the Affordable Care Act.
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#1207 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:34 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“You know, Harley-Davidson makes great motorcycles. They were in my office. They were in my office. And they came in. I said, how are you doing? Great. How's business? Great. How do you do overseas? Well, it's tough. We have some countries that charge us a $100 import tax. I said a hundred -- a 100 percent. Think of it. They want a hundred dollars on that -- 100 percent. So I said, how do you do? Not so well, it's tough. They have other countries that charge a lot.”
Repeated 3 times
Jul 25, 2017May 1Feb 28

Topic: Economy

Source: Prepared speech

India imposes a 100 percent import tariff on motorcycles. But the company largely has been able to get around the tariff by assembling its bikes in India, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
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#1208 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:34 PM EST
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Since China joined, that's another beauty, the World Trade Organization in 2001, the United States has lost many more than 60,000 factories.
Repeated 4 times
Apr 18, 2017Mar 20Mar 15Mar 15

Topic: Economy

Source: Prepared speech

Trump hypes the possible connection between these trade deals and the loss of jobs and factories. The Congressional Research Service concluded in 2015 that NAFTA likely had little impact on jobs. Manufacturing jobs in the United States have been adversely affected by many factors, especially changing consumer tastes and technology. Similarly, drawing a connection between China’s entry in the WTO and factory loses is a stretch, especially because the Great Recession play a big role in factory closings.
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#1209 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:36 PM EST
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“We should never ever have left [Iraq], and the vacuum was created, and we discussed what happened.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Remarks

This is a flip-flop for Trump. Long before U.S. troops left Iraq in 2011, Trump had been urging they be removed immediately.
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#1210 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:36 PM EST
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“James Clapper and others stated that there is no evidence Potus colluded with Russia. This story is FAKE NEWS and everyone knows it!”
Repeated 38 times
Jan 6, 2018Jan 6Jan 5Dec 28, 2017Dec 28Dec 28Dec 15Dec 12Nov 26Nov 11Oct 27Oct 25Oct 25Oct 18Oct 16Oct 11Oct 10Sep 22Sep 22Aug 3Jul 29Jul 23Jul 12Jul 9Jun 22May 12May 10Apr 28Apr 5Apr 1Mar 20Mar 20Mar 20Mar 20Feb 26Feb 24Feb 16Feb 7

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

Full story

Intelligence officials have not focused on Trump's possible involvement in Russian efforts to sway the election but on associates of Trump and people involved in the campaign.
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#1211 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:37 PM EST
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“The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

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This was a strange claim, especially because if you watch the video, National Security Agency director Rogers makes clear that, when asked about whether Russian cyber-actors changed vote tallies in Michigan and other states, he replied: “I would highlight we are a foreign intelligence organization, not a domestic intelligence organization. So it would be fair to say, we are probably not the best organization to provide a more complete answer.” Indeed, when later asked about the presidential tweet, FBI director James Comey said it did not reflect what he and Rogers had said: “It certainly wasn’t our intention to say that today.”
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#1212 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:37 PM EST
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“FBI Director Comey: fmr. DNI Clapper 'right' to say no evidence of collusion between Russia and Trump Campaign.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

Full story

This was false. Comey was specifically talking about the Jan. 6 document issued by the intelligence agencies — a document that the Trump White House has largely ignored, except to suggest it was fake. Former director of national intelligence James Clapper later issued a statement saying it was “in the best interest of all Americans” to investigate possible Trump-R
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#1213 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:38 PM EST
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“FBI Director Comey refuses to deny he briefed President Obama on calls made by Michael Flynn to Russia.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

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Comey was very careful not to discuss individuals, such as fired national security adviser Michael Flynn. He noted that the listeners were not to draw any unwarranted conclusions from his refusal to comment. But apparently his warning fell on deaf ears at the White House.
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#1214 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:39 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Germany owes vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!”
Repeated 21 times
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: Twitter

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Germany provides in-kind services for the U.S. bases, and the cost of running them is a pittance of the U.S. militraty bases. Germany owes no money to NATO, but has not yet acheived a goal, set for 2026, to spend at least two percent of its gross domestic product on defense.
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#1215 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:39 PM EST
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“The first two job reports of my administration show that we’ve already added nearly half a million new jobs.”
Repeated 47 times
Mar 20, 2017Mar 15Mar 14Mar 13Mar 10

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

Full story

This is a clear flip-flop from the stance he held for many years prior to the release of the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment report in February, after his first full month in office. He repeatedly questioned the accuracy of BLS employment statistics, and called figures calculated by career economists as "phony." White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about this contradiction at a news briefing after the report’s release. His response: “I talked to the president prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly. They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.” Moreover, Trump is counting a job report that reflects jobs created when Obama was president.
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#1216 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:40 PM EST
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“We need a new economic model – let’s call it the American Model. Under this model, we will lower the burden on American Business but, in exchange, they must hire and grow America and American jobs. This will be a win-win for our companies and for our workers. Let’s buy American and hire American.”
Repeated 23 times
Mar 28, 2017Mar 20Mar 15Mar 15Mar 6

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

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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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#1217 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:40 PM EST
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“I watched Bill Clinton saying, this is the craziest thing I've ever seen.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

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Trump takes this comment out context. Bill Clinton’s remark on Oct. 3 about “the craziest thing I’ve ever seen” did not refer to the Affordable Care Act. Instead, he was talking about the fact that people who did not qualify for insurance subsidies did not have a way to buy into Medicare or Medicaid. He noted that his wife, Haillary Clinton, had a plan to fix that defect.
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#1218 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:41 PM EST
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“I was in Tennessee -- I was just telling the folks -- and half of the state has no insurance company, and the other half is going to lose the insurance company.”
Repeated 9 times
May 1, 2017Apr 30Apr 29Apr 28Apr 5Mar 21Mar 17Mar 17Mar 17

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

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This is false. All eight of the state’s rating areas have at least one insurance carrier and three of them have two carriers.
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#1219 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:41 PM EST
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The Governor of Minnesota said that Affordable Care Act -- Obamacare -- no longer affordable. That's what he said.”
Repeated 1 time
Jan 26, 2017

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

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Trump takes this comment out of context. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Oct. 12 faulted Republicans in Congress for refusing to adjust the law, which he said was the reason why individual health insurance was “no longer affordable to increasing numbers of people.”
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#1220 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:42 PM EST
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“Our military is going to be strengthened -- it's been depleted.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: News conference

The United States spends far more on defense than any other country, or even the next seven countries combined. It's a stretch to say it is "depleted."
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#1221 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:43 PM EST
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“Germany has done very well in its trade deals with the United States, and I give them credit for it.”

Topic: Economy

Source: News conference

Germany has no trade deals with the United States.
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#1222 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:43 PM EST
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“All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn’t make an opinion on it. That was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on Fox. And so you shouldn’t be talking to me, you should be talking to Fox, okay?”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: News conference

Fox News said it has no evidence to back up claims by Andrew Napolitano, a judicial analyst and commentator on Fox News. Bret Baier said on his show: “We love the judge, we love him here at Fox, but the Fox News division was never able to back up those claims and was never reported on this show.”
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#1223 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:44 PM EST
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“Does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, "went to his mailbox" and found my tax returns? @NBCNews FAKE NEWS!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

The reporter in question, David Cay Johnston, has won a Pulitzer Prize and covered Trump when he was in the gambling industry. Johnston says Trump used to call him at home.
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#1224 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:44 PM EST
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“You see what's already been happening; plants are coming back, other plants that were expected to be built in other countries are not being built. … Ford has announced 700 new jobs coming back to their plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. Fiat Chrysler has announced that they will create 2,000 new jobs in Michigan and Ohio.”
Repeated 61 times
Dec 14, 2017Dec 13Dec 8Dec 5Nov 29Nov 23Nov 13Nov 2Nov 2Oct 18Oct 16Oct 10Oct 7Oct 6Sep 8Sep 6Sep 5Aug 23Aug 22Aug 15Aug 14Aug 12Aug 11Aug 10Aug 4Aug 4Aug 3Aug 2Jul 26Jul 26Jun 21Jun 15May 18May 17May 1Apr 29Apr 21Apr 12Apr 11Apr 4Apr 2Mar 31Mar 29Mar 28Mar 28Mar 24Mar 24Mar 23Mar 21Mar 17Mar 15Mar 13Mar 6Feb 28Feb 28Feb 24Feb 18Feb 17Feb 16Feb 10Feb 9

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

Full story

Trump keeps taking credit for projects that were long in the works before he became president. For example, he repeatedly claims credit for Ford’s decision to abandon its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expand its Michigan plant. But analysts say Ford’s decision has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly, its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than the administration. It’s easier for companies to find highly skilled workers to build new products, such as electric cars, in the United States than in Mexico. Fiat Chrysler's plan to invest $1 billion for a factory in Michigan had been in the works for more than a year and had nothing to do with Trump.
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#1225 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:52 PM EST
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“I'm saving a lot of money. On the airplanes I saved $725 million. Probably took me half an hour, if you add it up, all of the times. We saved a tremendous amount of money in government already.”
Repeated 21 times
Oct 3, 2017Sep 29May 17May 8May 2May 1Apr 29Apr 21Apr 6Mar 21Mar 20Mar 15Feb 28Feb 28Feb 27Feb 23Feb 22Feb 18Feb 7Feb 6Jan 30

Topic: Jobs

Source: Interview

Trump once again takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive. Sometimes Trump says he saved $600 million, other times $700 million.
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#1226 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:53 PM EST
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“In the first two job reports since I took the oath of office, we’ve already added nearly half a million new jobs.”
Repeated 47 times
Mar 20, 2017Mar 18Mar 14Mar 13Mar 10

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

The first job report, released in February, was based on data that was collected when Obama was still president.
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#1227 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:53 PM EST
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“Tennessee has lost one third of its manufacturing jobs since the institution of NAFTA, one of the worst trade deals ever in history. Our nation has lost over 60,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization -- 60,000.”
Repeated 4 times
Apr 18, 2017Mar 20Mar 20Mar 15

Topic: Economy

Source: Remarks

Trump hypes the possible connection between these trade deals and the loss of jobs and factories. The Congressional Research Service concluded in 2015 that NAFTA likely had little impact on jobs. Manufacturing jobs in the United States have been adversely affected by many factors, especially changing consumer tastes and technology. Similarly, drawing a connection between China’s entry in the WTO and factory loses is a stretch, especially because the Great Recession play a big role in factory closings.
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#1228 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:54 PM EST
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“Hundreds upon hundreds of people from outside our country have been convicted of terrorism-related offenses in the United States courts.”
Repeated 1 time
Apr 28, 2017

Topic: Immigration

Source: Remarks

Full story

Of about 400 individuals charged with or credibly involved in jihad-inspired activity in the U.S. since 9/11, just under half (197) were U.S.-born citizens, according to research by the nonpartisan think tank New America Foundation. An additional 82 were naturalized citizens, and 44 were permanent residents.
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#1229 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:54 PM EST
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“It’s a catastrophic situation, and there’s nothing to compare anything to because Obamacare won’t be around for a year or two. It’s gone.”
Repeated 61 times
Dec 28, 2017Oct 17Oct 17Oct 16Oct 16Oct 16Oct 16Oct 10Oct 7Sep 21Aug 22Jul 28Jul 25Jul 24Jul 22Jul 19Jul 18Jul 18Jul 18Jul 14Jul 12Jun 28Jun 27Jun 25Jun 23Jun 23Jun 22Jun 21Jun 19Jun 19Jun 13Jun 8Jun 7Jun 7May 28May 18May 12May 7May 5May 5May 5May 4May 4May 1Apr 29Apr 28Apr 24Apr 23Mar 25Mar 21Mar 17Mar 17Mar 17Mar 15Mar 13Mar 11Feb 27Feb 18Feb 16Feb 10Jan 25

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

Full story

The Affordable Care Act is not imploding and is expected to remian stable for the foreseeable future, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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#1230 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:55 PM EST
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“Our budget calls for one of the single largest increases in defense spending history in this country.”
Repeated 14 times
Nov 7, 2017Nov 7Nov 5Oct 17Aug 22Jul 25Jul 12Jun 21May 27May 21May 17Mar 15Mar 2Feb 28

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Remarks

This is false. Trump's proposed ten 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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#1231 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:55 PM EST
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“JOBS, JOBS, JOBS!”
Repeated 47 times
Mar 13, 2017Mar 10

Topic: Jobs

Source: Twitter

Full story

In this tweet, Trump included photos of the Bureau of Labor Statistics's employment report for Trump's first full month in office. This was a clear flip-flop from the stance he held for many years prior to this jobs report. He repeatedly questioned the accuracy of BLS employment statistics, and called figures calculated by career economists as "phony." White House press secretary Sean Spicer was asked about this contradiction at a news briefing after the report’s release. His response: “I talked to the president prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly. They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.”
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#1232 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:56 PM EST
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“First of all, it covers very few people. And it’s imploding. And ’17 will be the worst year. And I said it once, I’ll say it again -- because Obama is gone -- things are going to be very bad this year for the people with Obamacare. They’re going to have tremendous increases.”
Repeated 61 times
Dec 28, 2017Oct 17Oct 17Oct 16Oct 16Oct 16Oct 16Oct 10Oct 7Sep 21Aug 22Jul 28Jul 25Jul 24Jul 22Jul 19Jul 18Jul 18Jul 18Jul 14Jul 12Jun 28Jun 27Jun 25Jun 23Jun 23Jun 22Jun 21Jun 19Jun 19Jun 13Jun 8Jun 7Jun 7May 28May 18May 12May 7May 5May 5May 5May 4May 4May 1Apr 29Apr 28Apr 24Apr 23Mar 25Mar 21Mar 17Mar 17Mar 17Mar 15Mar 13Mar 11Feb 27Feb 18Feb 16Feb 10Jan 25

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

Credible estimates suggest the health-care law boosted the number of people with health insurance by 20 million. The Congressional Budget Office said that the individual market would be stable in most markets at least for the next ten years under the Affordable Care Act.
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#1233 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:57 PM EST
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“Americans were promised that Obamacare would bring premiums down $2,500 for a typical family. Instead, they’ve gone up by more than $4,000.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Prepared speech

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The baseline for the $4,000 figure goes all the way back to 2008, the year before Obama took the oath of office. To capture what happened after some of the Obamacare provisions went into effect, that's an increase of $1,761. Moreover, since the Affordable Care Act became law, the rate of increase in healthcare costs have slowed. It is still debated by experts about whether the law gets all of the credit, but if costs had continued on the previous path, premiums would have been $3,600 higher.
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#1234 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:58 PM EST
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“The House plan follows the guidelines I laid out in my recent address to Congress – expanding choice, lowering costs, and providing healthcare access for all.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Prepared speech

The House plan, as drafted, does not expand choice, lower costs and was estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to reduce the number of people with health insurance compared to current law.
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#1235 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:58 PM EST
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“LinkedIn Workforce Report: January and February were the strongest consecutive months for hiring since August and September 2015”

Topic: Economy

Source: Twitter

Trump failed to read the fine print of the LinkedIn Workforce report. The numbers were affected by seasonal hiring. When adjusted for seasonal hiring variations, hiring was down 1.3 percent from January to February, the first full month of Trump's term.
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#1236 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:59 PM EST
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“122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!" (@realDonaldTrump account)
Repeated 1 time
Mar 7, 2017

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

This is false. Only eight former Gitmo detainees "confirmed of reengaging" in terrorist or insurgent activities were released under Obama, and 113 were released under George W. Bush. Although this tweet, sent at 7:04 a.m., was immediately called out as false on Twitter, Trump repeated it on the @POTUS account at 8:03 a.m. Trump tweeted this on the same day from @realDonaldTrump and @POTUS. Therefore, we are counting the two tweets as separate entries in our database.
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#1237 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 4:59 PM EST
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“It's such spirit that we haven't seen in the country in a long time. Jobs are pouring back here. You saw what happened with Exxon, where they just announced a massive job program.”
Repeated 2 times
Mar 6, 2017Mar 6

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

Trump again takes credit for a project long in the works before he became president. ExxonMobil has been planning this since 2013.
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#1238 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:00 PM EST
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“Thank you for the great rallies all across the country. Tremendous support. Make America Great Again!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

Full story

The size of crowds holding "March 4 Trump" rallies varied, from about 30 people in Indianapolis to about 400 in St. Paul, Minn. Some rallies drew just as many protesters as supporters.
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#1239 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:01 PM EST
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“How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!”

Topic: Election

Source: Twitter

Full story

There is no evidence that Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump's calls. Trump seized on reports in the right-leaning media, but even the reports cited by the White House did not make this allegation.
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#1240 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:01 PM EST
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“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
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#1241 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:02 PM EST
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“Is it legal for a sitting President to be 'wire tapping' a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!”
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#1242 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:02 PM EST
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“I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election!”
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#1243 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:02 PM EST
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“Just out: The same Russian Ambassador that met Jeff Sessions visited the Obama White House 22 times, and 4 times last year alone.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

This is a misleading comparison. Sessions appears to have misled the Senate about his meetings, while the meetings at the White House were recorded in a public log that Trump has now eliminated.
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#1244 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:03 PM EST
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“Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

Schwarzenegger said he was leaving of his own accord, blaming animus toward Trump for the show's sagging ratings. “You should think about hiring a new joke writer and a fact checker," Schwarenegger tweeted back.
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#1245 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:03 PM EST
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“We should start an immediate investigation into @SenSchumer and his ties to Russia and Putin. A total hypocrite!”

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

Full story

Trump makes a misleading comparison between Attorney General Jeff Sessions's meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Sen. Charles E. Schumer's meeting Vladimir Putin at a pu blic event in 2003. Sessions, who was a Trump campaign surrogate, misled Congress by not disclosing that he met with Kislyak on at least two occasions during the 2016 presidential campaign, including one private meeting at Sessions's Senate office.
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#1246 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:04 PM EST
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“I hereby demand a second investigation, after Schumer, of Pelosi for her close ties to Russia, and lying about it.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

Full story

Trump makes a misleading comparison between Attorney General Jeff Sessions's meetings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Rep. Nancy Pelosi's 2010 meeting with then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Sessions, a Trump campaign surrogate, misled Congress by not disclosing that he met with Kislyak on at least two occasions during the 2016 presidential campaign, including one private meeting at Sessions's Senate office. Pelosi and other House leaders met with Medvedev, who brought Kislyak and other top Russian officials to the meeting.
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#1247 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:04 PM EST
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“It is so pathetic that the Dems have still not approved my full Cabinet.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

Full story

The Senate Democrats did hold up Trump's Cabinet picks at one time. But as of Trump's tweet, there were two empty slots; the administration had not sent the rest of the paperwork for one and had not sent a nominee to fill the other slot. Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted the prior evening, on March 2: "After the votes taken earlier this afternoon, the U.S. Senate has now confirmed all of the available Cabinet nominations."
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#1248 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:05 PM EST
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“When they [the news media] make stories up, when they create sources -- because I believe that sometimes they don't have sources, you know, the sources don't exist, and sometimes they do exist.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Interview

This is an irresponsible and false statement. Major news media organizations do not make up sources. That is grounds for firing.
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#1249 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:06 PM EST
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“The fact is, I did pretty well, much better than past people in the Republican Party in the recent election, having to do with Hispanics, having to do with African-Americans.”
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Feb 1, 2017

Topic: Election

Source: Interview

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Trump got 8 percent of the African American vote versus 6 percent for Mitt Romney in 2012 and 4 percent for John McCain in 2008. But Romney and McCain were running against the first African American candidate, Obama. Strictly by the numbers, Trump actually did worse among blacks than any Republican running against a white man, though in effect he came close to tying George W. Bush in 2000 and Ronald Reagan in 1984.
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#1250 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:06 PM EST
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“They get a lot of information [in the Yemen raid], a lot of -- a lot of different things that they really wanted to get.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

The administration has provided no evidence for this claim and NBC News reported that the raid that led to the death of a Navy SEAL "yielded no significant intelligence." The U.S. Central Command in January released a video seized in the raid that purportedly held valuable information — only to later acknowledge that the video was already available online and had not been thoroughly analyzed before its release. A press conference to play up the value of the information was canceled.
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