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banderl Offline
#1251 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:07 PM EST
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“But a few years ago, the EPA decided that navigable waters can mean nearly every puddle or every ditch on a farmer's land or anyplace else that they decide. Right? It was a massive power grab.”
Repeated 7 times
Jan 8, 2018Nov 29, 2017Jul 25Jul 19Jul 12Jun 21Feb 28

Topic: Environment

Source: Remarks

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Trump is referring to the Waters of the United States rule, which has been on hold since 2015 after legal challenges. As PolitiFact reported, the rule specifically excludes puddles and applies to certain ditches, including ones that could carry pollution downstream.
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#1252 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:30 PM EST
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“The EPA's regulators were putting people out of jobs by the hundreds of thousands and regulations and permits started treating our wonderful small farmers and small businesses as if they were a major industrial polluter.”

Topic: Environment

Source: Remarks

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Opponents of the EPA's Waters of the United States rule had argued it would cost taxpayer money and American jobs, the rule has not yet taken effect. So it's unclear what jobs Trump is referring to. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued a nationwide stay against the enforcement of this rule, after legal challenges.
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#1253 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:31 PM EST
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“In one case in Wyoming, a rancher was fined $37,000 a day by the EPA for digging a small watering hole for his cattle. His land.”

Topic: Environment

Source: Remarks

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Trump makes it sound like the rancher simply dug a small hole on his land. FactCheck.org looked into this case, and found it to be much more complicated. The rancher built a dam on a federal waterway without a permit, as required by the Clean Air Act, according to the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers.
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#1254 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:43 PM EST
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“We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a 5-year ban on lobbying by Executive Branch Officials – and a lifetime ban on becoming lobbyists for a foreign government.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Prepared speech

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Trump did sign an order that he said would result in a lifetime ban on administration officials lobbying for foreign governments. But his five-year ban on lobbying is less than advertised. Trump has originally promised to extend the ban to congressional officials, but he did not. Moreover, the five-year ban applies only to lobbying one’s former agency — not becoming a lobbyist. Moreover, Trump actually weakened some of the language from similar bans under Obama and George W. Bush, and reduced the level of transparency.
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#1255 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:44 PM EST
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“Ninety-four million Americans are out of the labor force.”
Repeated 1 time
Apr 4, 2017

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

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This is an absurd Four-Pinocchio claim, based on a real number. The 94 million "not in labor force" that Trump refers to are based on Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 2015. It turns out that 93 percent do not want a job at all. The picture that emerges from a study of the data shows that the 95 million consists mostly of people who are retired, students, stay-at-home parents or disabled.
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#1256 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:45 PM EST
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“I can tell you the money is pouring in. Very nice.”
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: Prepared speech

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NATO’s guideline, established in 2006, is that defense expenditures should amount to 2 percent of each country’s gross domestic product. In 2016, only four countries besides the United States met that standard, but NATO documents also show that defense spending has increased about three percent from 2015 to 2016. In any case, the money would not be going to the United States or even necessarily to NATO; this is money that countries would spend to bolster their own military.
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#1257 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:45 PM EST
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“More than 1 in 5 people in their prime working years are not working.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

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Trump plays a similar trick as he did with the figure of 94 million people not in the labor force. He’s again counting people who do not want to work, such as stay-at-home parents, the disabled and students. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 1 in 25 people in that 25-54 age group looked for work and could not find it.
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#1258 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:46 PM EST
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“I have ordered the Department of Homeland Security to create an office to serve American victims. The office is called VOICE, Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement. We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media and silenced by special interests.”

Topic: Immigration

Source: Prepared speech

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Actually, these stories have been covered a lot. The Washington Post's media columnist Erik Wemple took a close look and found that the media -- especially local outlets in immigrant-heavy communities like Phoenix -- meticulously chronicles crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
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#1259 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:47 PM EST
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“According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America’s taxpayers many billions of dollars a year.”

Topic: Immigration

Source: Prepared speech

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Trump cherry-picks numbers from a lengthy and detailed report that used several different models of measuring the economic and fiscal impacts of immigrants, showing both the costs and benefits. The report found that first-generation immigrants incur costs to the government that are later balanced out by their descendants for a net positive to the U.S. economy.
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#1260 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:48 PM EST
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“I got involved in an airplane contract, I got involved in some other contracts and we cut the hell out of the prices. I mean, we saved a lot of money, tremendous amount of money, beyond anything that the generals that were involved -- they said they've never seen anything like this before. On one plane, on a small order of one plane, I saved $725 million and I would say I devoted about -- if I added it up, all (inaudible), probably about an hour. So I think that might be my highest and best use.”
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: Remarks

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Trump takes credit for the lowered cost, but the Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million on the F-35 before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive. Trump over time keeps increasing the money he allegedly saved.
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#1261 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:48 PM EST
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“We're getting the bad ones out and that's always where I said I was going to start. I was going to start with these bad players and they are bad. They are rough and tough and we're getting them the hell out of our country and we're bringing them to where they started out.”
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Mar 20, 2017Feb 28Feb 28Feb 24Feb 23Feb 13Feb 12

Topic: Immigration

Source: Remarks

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ICE has always targeted dangerous criminals in enforcement priorities. The recent arrests Trump is referring to did include people who would not have fallen under Obama’s narrower enforcement priorities. But such people — comprising 25 percent of the arrests — had lesser charges and noncriminal convictions and are not the “very, very hardened criminals” that Trump describes.
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#1262 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:49 PM EST
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“It has gotten so bad that nearly 20 million Americans have chosen to pay the penalty or received an exemption rather than buy insurance. That’s something that nobody has ever heard of or thought could happen, and they’re actually doing that rather than being forced to buy insurance.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Remarks

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Trumps slips in the word "exemption," which allows him to inflate the figure. Only 6.5 million taxpayers paid the so-called “shared responsibility” payments in 2015. That’s actually a decrease from 2014, when 8 million taxpayers made a payment. Another 12.7 million taxpayers received an exemption but the main reason is because they live in a state that choose not to accept the Medicaid expansion in Obamacare.
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#1263 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:50 PM EST
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“The race for DNC Chairman was, of course, totally 'rigged.' Bernie's guy, like Bernie himself, never had a chance. Clinton demanded Perez!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

Trump cites no evidence that the battle for Democratic National Committee chair, won narrowly by former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, was rigged. Indeed, there is no evidence and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), who backed Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), rejected Trump's claim. "No, he doesn't have a point," Sanders said when asked about the tweet.
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#1264 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:50 PM EST
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“The media has not reported that the National Debt in my first month went down by $12 billion vs a $200 billion increase in Obama first mo.”

Topic: Economy

Source: Twitter

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Trump is citing such a narrow window of time that the statistics he’s pointing to don’t mean very much. The level of debt fluctuates day to day and week to week, depending on seasonal changes in growth and when the government makes payments, collects tax revenue, issues new debt and other debt matures — making the data very susceptible to cherry-picking. Using the same logic, you could claim that after four days in office Trump increased outstanding public debt by more than $10 billion, and that Obama had reduced it by $6 billion.
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#1265 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:51 PM EST
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“I saw one story recently where they said, ‘Nine people have confirmed.’ There’re no nine people. I don’t believe there was one or two people. Nine people…. They make up sources.”
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Jan 16, 2018Jan 11Jan 10Jan 10Jan 10Jan 6Jan 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: Prepared speech

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Trump is referring to a Washington Post article that disclosed that then-National security adviser Michael Flynn privately discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with that country’s ambassador to the United States during the month before President Trump took office, contrary to public assertions by Trump officials. That article prompted a firestorm that led to Flynn’s firing by Trump, because it turned out that Flynn had misled Vice President Pence and other administration officials about whether he had discussed sanctions. The article cited information provided by “nine current and former officials, who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls.” (Calls by the Russian ambassador are monitored by intelligence agencies.) No White House official has disputed the accuracy of the article – and indeed, it resulted in Flynn’s departure from the administration.
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#1266 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:51 PM EST
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“The dishonest media did not explain that I called the fake news the enemy of the people. The fake news. They dropped off the word ‘fake.’ And all of a sudden the story became the media is the enemy.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Prepared speech

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Trump listed five mainstream media organizations –The New York Times, NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN – as the “fake news media” and declared they are the enemy of the American people. By listing major media organizations as the enemy, Trump was clearly making a statement about the broader news media.
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#1267 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:52 PM EST
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“But it was a little rigged against him [Bernie Sanders], you know, super delegate, super delegate. She [Hillary Clinton] had so many delegates before the thing even started, I actually said to my people, how does that happen?”

Topic: Election

Source: Prepared speech

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Trump says the system was rigged against Sanders because of the superdelegates. In June 2016, when the media began declaring Clinton the presumptive nominee, Clinton was on track to win the nomination even without superdelegates. We dug into this in depth in a separate fact-check.
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#1268 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:52 PM EST
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“Obamacare covers very few people — and remember, deduct from the number all of the people that had great health care that they loved that was taken away from them — it was taken away from them.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Prepared speech

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Trump essentially repeats a false GOP talking point that previously earned Four Pinocchios.
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#1269 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:55 PM EST
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“It’s time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work, you’re going to love it, you’re going to love it, you’re going to love it.”
Repeated 5 times
Mar 20, 2017Feb 28Feb 24Jan 26Jan 20

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

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“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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#1270 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:55 PM EST
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“People don't realize how bad it [sex trafficking] is in this country.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Remarks

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Though human trafficking is a major issue in some regions of the world, experts and available evidence indicate trafficking for sexual exploitation is not a serious problem in the United States. A recent study funded by the Justice Department concluded the total number of juveniles in the sex trade in the United States was about 9,000 to 10,000.
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#1271 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:55 PM EST
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The United States has "fallen behind on nuclear weapon capacity.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

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The United States has significant nuclear weapons capacity, more than it needs for its security. Trump appears to be referring to a temporary and insignificant gap in the number of deployed weapons between Russia and the United States. Under the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which Trump says is "one-sided," by February 2018, neither country can have more than 1,550 warheads on 700 deployed launchers and no more than 800 total deployed and non-deployed launchers.
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#1272 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:56 PM EST
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“Gary Cohn just paid $200 million in tax in order to take this job, by the way.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Remarks

Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, sold about $220 million in Goldman Sachs stock before joining the administration. He also received a $65 million payment that was tied to future performance. Given that the capital gains tax rate is capped at 20 percent, there is no way Cohn paid $200 million in tax on a $285 million payout, particularly because he can defer capital gains if the proceeds are invested in approved securities such as Treasury bonds.
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#1273 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:57 PM EST
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“We've already saved a lot -- billions and billions of dollars have been saved.”
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: Remarks

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From the context of his remarks on the federal budget, Trump is referring to the Lockheed F-35 program and also seems to be adding in a pending contract for a new Air Force One. Again, he is taking credit for something that had already been negotiated, a claim that had previously earned him Four Pinocchios. The Pentagon had already announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump had met with Lockheed’s chief executive. The contract with Boeing for Air Force One had not been negotiated.
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#1274 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:57 PM EST
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“Oh, of course. And I do it — wherever I get a chance, I do it [denounce anti-Semitism].”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Interview

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Since his presidential campaign, Trump was asked repeatedly to address anti-Semitic incidents and other racial or religious harassment incidents. As The Fix blog found, many of his answers left something to be desired.
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#1275 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:58 PM EST
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“Give the public a break - The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!”
Repeated 4 times
Mar 22, 2017Feb 24Feb 19Feb 18

Topic: Immigration

Source: Twitter

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Trump referred to rising crime rates in Sweden, but the country's overall rate has fallen in recent years. Sweden has welcomed refugees and immigrants, but Swedish crime experts do not agree that the country's immigration policies are linked to crime.
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#1276 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:58 PM EST
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“The dishonest media, which has published one false story after another, with no sources, even though they pretend they have them. They make them up in many cases.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Prepared speech

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It is unclear what stories Trump is referring to here, but mainstream news organizations do not publish articles with “no sources” and certainly do not “make them up in most cases.” That is grounds for firing. Certainly, sources can be misinformed, and respected news organizations strive to correct or update stories if a mistake has been made.
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#1277 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 5:59 PM EST
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“When Thomas Jefferson said ‘nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself,’ he said, ‘becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.’ That was June 14 — my birthday — 1807.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Prepared speech

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Trump selectively quotes from Jefferson here, who for most of his life was a fierce defender of the need for a free press. When Jefferson wrote to 17-year-old John Novell, urging him to avoid a career in journalism, he was embittered by reports spread by his political opponents that he had slept with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves. Today, most historians now believe she was the mother of six of his children.
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#1278 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:00 PM EST
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“They were close to signing a $4.2 billion deal to have a new Air Force One. Can you believe this? I said no way. I said I refuse to fly in a $4.2 billion airplane. I refuse.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

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Trump is exaggerating here. Boeing only had a $170 million contract to begin designing a replacement for Air Force One, and the cost of the project had not been set. The Defense Department’s five-year plan indicated a cost of $2.9 billion over the next five years for design and development. It’s logical to assume at least another $1 billion in additional expenses to complete and procure the aircraft. An estimate of $4 billion — for design, testing and manufacture of at least two jets — was not completely out of line. But the budget was subject to approval by Congress and the actual design of the aircraft. So Trump is taking credit for cutting a price that had not been negotiated yet.
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#1279 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:00 PM EST
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“You look at what’s happening last night in Sweden. Sweden. Who would believe this? Sweden. They took in large numbers. They’re having problems like they never thought possible.”
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Mar 22, 2017Feb 24Feb 20Feb 19

Topic: Immigration

Source: Prepared speech

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This was a very strange comment. Nothing had happened the night before in Sweden, as Swedes quickly noted.
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#1280 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:01 PM EST
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“We’ve allowed thousands and thousands of people into our country. And there was no way to vet those people. There was no documentation. There was no nothing.”
Repeated 1 time
Jan 26, 2017

Topic: Immigration

Source: Prepared speech

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This is false. The vetting of refugees is careful and takes about two years, including FBI screening, Department of Homeland Security interviews and extensive security and background checks.
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#1281 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:01 PM EST
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“Believe me, I and we inherited one big mess. That I can tell you.”
Repeated 1 time
Feb 16, 2017

Topic: Economy

Source: Prepared speech

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The economy was in pretty good shape when Trump became president, especially compared with the economic crisis that Obama inherited in 2009. In January 2009, coinciding with the last labor report of the George W. Bush administration, nearly 800,000 jobs disappeared, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared with the nearly 230,000 jobs added in January 2017. (Trump has given himself credit for the January numbers, but the data was collected when Obama still held office.)
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#1282 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:02 PM EST
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“Look at what's happening to the stock market.”
Repeated 95 times
Jul 6, 2017Mar 2Feb 28Feb 16Feb 16

Topic: Economy

Source: Prepared speech

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This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before he was elected, he dismissed the stock-market performance under Obama as “artificial” and “a bubble."
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#1283 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:03 PM EST
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“We got 306 [electoral college votes] because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before, so that’s the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan.”
Repeated 1 time
Jan 25, 2017

Topic: Election

Source: News conference

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Trump was wrong on the size of his electoral college win. Of the nine presidential elections since 1984, Trump’s electoral college win ranks seventh. When a reporter pointed out his error, Trump first indicated that he was talking about Republican candidates. But George H.W. Bush received 426 electoral votes in 1988. Trump’s response: “I don’t know; I was given that information.”
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#1284 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:04 PM EST
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“You [the media] have a lower approval rate than Congress. I think that’s right.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: News conference

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Trump indicated that he wasn’t sure if this assertion is correct. It is not. The public’s trust in the media has certainly fallen over the years. But a 2016 Gallup poll shows that Congress is viewed positively by 9 percent of respondents, compared with 20 percent for newspapers and 21 percent for television. That’s not a high confidence level — besides Congress, only “big business” ranks lower than the media — but it’s enough to make Trump’s claim incorrect.
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#1285 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:04 PM EST
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“When WikiLeaks, which I had nothing to do with, comes out and happens to give, they’re not giving classified information.”

Topic: Russia

Source: News conference

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WikiLeaks actually released hundreds of thousands of classified State Department cables, in a significant blow to U.S. diplomacy.
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#1286 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:05 PM EST
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“You know, they say I’m close to Russia. Hillary Clinton gave away 20 percent of the uranium in the United States. She’s close to Russia.”
Repeated 10 times
Nov 3, 2017Oct 25Aug 3Jul 25Jul 22Jul 19Apr 30Mar 28Mar 27Feb 16

Topic: Russia

Source: News conference

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Trump’s claim suggests the State Department 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. As we’ve noted before, 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 transfer.
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#1287 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:05 PM EST
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“We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. But we had a bad court. Got a bad decision.”

Topic: Immigration

Source: News conference

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Trump appears to have forgotten that imprecise wording in the executive order led to confusion over whether U.S. permanent residents — green-card holders — were also banned from returning to the United States. The White House counsel later issued guidance making clear that they were not covered. The Court of Appeals later said that the counsel’s statement was not a sufficient fix.
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#1288 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:06 PM EST
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“Russia is a ruse. I have nothing to do with Russia. Haven’t made a phone call to Russia in years. Don’t speak to people from Russia.”
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Jan 16, 2018Jan 11Jan 10Jan 10Jan 10Jan 6Jan 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: News conference

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Trump met with the Russian ambassador before an April 2016 speech, according to news reports. He's being misleading when he says he has "nothing to do with Russia." Trump repeatedly sought deals in Russia. In 1987, he went to Moscow to find a site for a luxury hotel; no deal emerged. In 1996, he sought to build a condominium complex in Russia; that also did not succeed. In 2005, Trump signed a one-year deal with a New York development company to explore a Trump Tower in Moscow, but the effort fizzled.
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#1289 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:06 PM EST
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“Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and others) must apologize!”
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Jan 5, 2018Jan 2Nov 30, 2017Oct 5Sep 27Aug 22Aug 7Jul 2Jul 1Jun 27Mar 29Feb 27Feb 16Feb 6Feb 4Jan 28

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

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This is a flip-flop for Trump. Before becoming president, Trump heartily endorsed WikiLeaks and the release of classified information, particularly about his then-rival Hillary Clinton. During a July 2016 news conference, Trump even called on Russia to hack Clinton’s email account. Now, facing information leaks out of his own administration (including information that led to the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn), Trump decided it’s a bad thing.
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#1290 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:07 PM EST
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“I will say that I never get phone calls from the media. How did they write a story like that in the Wall Street Journal without asking me or how did they write a story in the New York Times, put it on the front page?”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: News conference

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It is false that these newspapers did not call for comment.
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#1291 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:08 PM EST
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“That’s the other thing that was wrong with the travel ban. You had Delta with a massive problem with their computer system at the airports.”
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Feb 5, 2017Jan 30

Topic: Immigration

Source: News conference

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Trump’s order, signed on the evening of Friday, Jan. 27, sparked delays, confusion and protests in airports that night and throughout the weekend. Delta’s computer glitch on the night of Sunday, Jan. 29, led to cancellations that night and into Monday morning — days after the first protests and delays due to Trump’s order.
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#1292 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:08 PM EST
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“Overregulation costs our economy an estimated $2 trillion a year, which is incredible -- $2 trillion -- and it costs your businesses a lot of money, tremendous amounts of money and time.”

Topic: Economy

Source: Remarks

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Trump presents an unbalanced figure. Various organizations have come up with similar estimates on the cost of regulations. But there is an important element missing in the use of this somewhat sketchy figure — the benefit side of the analysis. Every regulation has costs — but also benefits.
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#1293 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:09 PM EST
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“Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia”

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

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Actually, The Post is doing great. The Times, like The Post, has seen spikes in audience and subscribers.
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#1294 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:09 PM EST
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“So what’s going on with autism? When you look at the tremendous increases, really, it’s such an incredible -- it’s like really a horrible thing to watch, the tremendous amount of increase.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Remarks

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There’s not enough research and no medical consensus to determine whether autism is on the rise. The 2016 rates were consistent with the last published rate in 2014. The rate has gotten worse since 2000, but it's unclear how much of that is due to greater awareness, early detection, and the expansion of disorders included on the autism spectrum.
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#1295 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:10 PM EST
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“While on FAKE NEWS @CNN, Bernie Sanders was cut off for using the term fake news to describe the network. They said technical difficulties!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

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This is not true. In an interview with Erin Burnett, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made a joke about Trump labeling CNN as “fake news.” After he made the joke, the audio cut off, and CNN cut to a commercial. Upon returning from the commercial, Burnett picked up where they left: “Senator, you were just talking — joking — about CNN, fake news.” Then Sanders went on to criticize Trump’s labeling of CNN as “fake news.”
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#1296 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:10 PM EST
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“I am so proud of my daughter Ivanka. To be abused and treated so badly by the media, and to still hold her head so high, is truly wonderful!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

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Trump exaggerates by saying that Ivanka Trump was "abused and treated so badly by the media." His tweet was referring to news coverage about Nordstrom dropping her brand. There was no evidence that Nordstrom acted out of political considerations, or that news coverage attacked Ivanka Trump over the news. The company has maintained for months (including in internal emails) that it will base its decisions on sales performance. Internal records reviewed by the Wall Street Journal show the sales of Ivanka Trump's brand fell 32 percent at Nordstrom last fiscal year.
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#1297 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:12 PM EST
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“Sen.Richard Blumenthal, who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie),now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

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Trump is wrong that the Connecticut Democrat had misrepresented Gorsuch’s remarks. Blumenthal’s account was immediately confirmed by Ron Bonjean, a member of the group guiding the judge through his confirmation process on behalf of the Trump administration.
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#1298 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:13 PM EST
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“Chris Cuomo, in his interview with Sen. Blumenthal, never asked him about his long-term lie about his brave "service" in Vietnam. FAKE NEWS!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

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Cuomo’s first question to Blumenthal was: “What is your response to the president of the United States saying you should not be believed because you misrepresented your military record in the past?” Blumenthal ducked the question, but contrary to Trump’s tweet, the issue was raised.
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#1299 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:13 PM EST
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“My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person -- always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

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There is no evidence that Nordstrom acted out of political considerations. The company has maintained for months (including in internal emails) that it will base its decisions on sales performance. Internal records reviewed by the Wall Street Journal show the sales of Ivanka Trump's brand fell 32 percent at Nordstrom last fiscal year.
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#1300 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:14 PM EST
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“The murder rate in our country's the highest it's been in 47 years, right? Did you know that -- 47 years? I'd say that in a speech and everybody's surprised. Because the press doesn't tell it like it is. It wasn't to their advantage to say that.”

Topic: Crime

Source: Remarks

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Trump often gets this statistic wrong. In 2015, there was the biggest percentage jump in a single year since 1970-1971, or 45 years ago. It was not the highest rate in 45 or 47 years. Overall, the rate of homicides and violent crimes are back down to the levels they were 45 years ago, and are at about half the rates at their peak in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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