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banderl Offline
#1301 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:14 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“Years of getting approvals, nobody showed up to fight it, this company spends tremendous - hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars - and then all of a sudden people show up to fight it.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Remarks

As the Toronto Star's Daniel Dale notes, there were protests against the pipeline before it was granted approvals.
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#1302 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:46 PM EST
Joined: 09-09-2008
Posts: 10,153
“I don't know Putin, have no deals in Russia, and the haters are going crazy - yet Obama can make a deal with Iran, #1 in terror, no problem!”
Repeated 44 times
Feb 16, 2017

Topic: Russia

Source: Twitter

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Trump now claims he doesn’t know Russian President Vladimir Putin, but in the past, he had claimed he had spoken to him. Trump’s assertion he has “no deals in Russia” is misleading at best, since Trump has actively pursued deals there and has relied on Russia investors. As for the nuclear agreement with Iran, that agreement was forged with the assistance of diplomats from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, China, Russia and the European Union. Obama did not negotiate it alone.
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#1303 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:47 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“It is a disgrace that my full Cabinet is still not in place, the longest such delay in the history of our country. Obstruction by Democrats!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

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This is false. Bill Clinton did not have a cabinet in place until March 11, George H.W. Bush had to wait till March 17 and Obama did not get a full cabinet until April 28. Trump would not have grounds to complain that at this point he has fewer Cabinet members confirmed than his predecessors. While Democrats have put up roadblocks, part of the reason for the delay is because paperwork has been slow in coming from some of Trump’s wealthier nominees.
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#1304 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:47 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Many people have come out and said I am right...When you look at the registration, and you see dead people that have voted, that are on many, many dead people are on that have voted, when you see people that are registered in two states that voted in two states, when you see other things, when you see illegals, people that are not citizens, and they are on the registration rolls. See? What they do is they load up the registration rolls. There is a lot of bad things happening.”

Topic: Election

Source: Interview

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In defending his claim that millions of people illegally voted in the election, Trump cited problems with registration. He appears to once again cite a 2012 Pew report that found that 2.75 million people were registered in more than one state but there is no evidence that any of them voted twice. There is also little evidence that "many dead people" voted.
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#1305 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:48 PM EST
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“You've seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe it's happening. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Remarks

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The press is reporting these cases. The White House later clarified to say Trump was referring to attacks that were underreported.
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#1306 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:49 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.”
Repeated 1 time
Feb 16, 2017

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

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This odd tweet appeared aimed at reassuring Trump supporters after polls from CBS News, CNN/ORC, Gallup and Quinnipiac University showed majorities of Americans opposed to the order and its provisions. (Other polls indicated support for Trump’s order.) In the 2016 presidential election, while polls played down Trump’s chances of winning the electoral college, most nationwide polls actually were close to mark. The RealClearPolitics average showed Clinton ahead by 2.1 percentage points — exactly the margin she achieved in her popular-vote victory.
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#1307 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:51 PM EST
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“You had 109 people out of hundreds of thousands of travelers and all we did was vet those people very, very carefully. ... It was 109 people.”
Repeated 2 times
Feb 16, 2017Jan 30

Topic: Immigration

Source: Interview

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Trump’s figures on the scope of the travel ban were ludicrously low. The universe of people likely affected by the travel suspension was around 60,000, according to the State Department — not 109. The White House later admitted the 109 figure reflected only the number of people who were affected by the ban and were in-flight at the time the order was signed
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#1308 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:51 PM EST
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On 3 million illegal immigrants voting: "Well, many people have come out and said I am right, you know that.”
Repeated 1 time
Jan 23, 2017

Topic: Election

Source: Interview

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This is a fantasy, worthy of Four Pinocchios. Trump is obsessed with how he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, and so he keeps making this claim even though there is no evidence to support it.
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#1309 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:52 PM EST
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“Interesting that certain Middle-Eastern countries agree with the ban. They know if certain people are allowed in it's death & destruction!”
Repeated 1 time
Feb 2, 2017

Topic: Immigration

Source: Twitter

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Trump appears to referring to a news story he posted on his Facebook account — that Kuwait had issued “its own Trump-esque visa ban for five Muslim-majority countries.” Trump added: “Smart!” But it turned out this was fake news. Kuwait “categorically denies these claims,” the country’s foreign ministry said. Trump’s Facebook post has not been taken down.
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#1310 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:53 PM EST
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“What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?”

Topic: Immigration

Source: Twitter

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Trump tweeted a number of critical comments about the “so-called judge” who halted the president’s travel ban of citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries. The judiciary was established in the U.S. Constitution as a third branch of government (along with the executive and legislative branches), part of the complex system of checks and balances that ensures the continuation of democracy. Marbury v. Madison, a Supreme Court case decided more than 200 years ago, helped establish the notion of judicial review and cemented the notion that the judiciary was equal in power to the president and Congress.
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#1311 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:53 PM EST
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“Because the ban was lifted by a judge, many very bad and dangerous people may be pouring into our country. A terrible decision”

Topic: Immigration

Source: Twitter

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There is little evidence that the ruling halting Trump’s order has allowed “very bad and dangerous people” to pour into the country. The practical effect of the order was to restore visas and refugee admissions. Being accepted as a refugee in the United States is a difficult, lengthy process. Obtaining a U.S. visa generally requires an in-person interview, unless you are a citizen of one of 38 countries that participate in the visa-waiver program. Under a 2015 law, however, four of the seven countries covered in the ban require even dual citizens to have an in-person interview.
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#1312 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:54 PM EST
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“Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

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Trump seems to be citing a segment of Sean Hannity’s show, during which Hannity questioned whether there was a paid effort to galvanize protesters showing up at airports in the wake of Trump’s immigration executive order. But there’s no evidence there were paid protesters at airports. There were reports that a group called “Demand Protest” was paying people to protest against Trump on the day of his inauguration, but Snopes.com debunked that claim.
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#1313 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:55 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“The January employment report shows that the private sector added 237,000 jobs last month. A lot of that has to do with the spirit our country now has.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

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Trump gives himself credit for the January numbers, but the data was collected when Obama still held office.
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#1314 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:56 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

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This is not how federal funding for public universities works.
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#1315 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:56 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Iran was on its last legs and ready to collapse until the U.S. came along and gave it a life-line in the form of the Iran Deal: $150 billion”
Repeated 9 times
Jan 12, 2018Jan 9Jan 2Oct 13, 2017Oct 11Aug 10Jul 25Feb 6Feb 2

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Twitter

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Trump always uses too high an estimate, $150 billion, and makes it sound like the United States cut a check to Iran. But this was always Iran’s money. Iran had billions of dollars in assets that were frozen in foreign banks around the globe because of international sanctions over its nuclear program. The Treasury Department estimated that once Iran fulfilled other obligations, it would have about $55 billion left. The Central Bank of Iran said the number was actually $32 billion. And it's a stretch to say Iran was "ready to collapse.”
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#1316 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:57 PM EST
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“I love Australia as a country, but we had a problem where for whatever reason, President Obama said that they were going to take probably well over 1,000 illegal immigrants who were in prisons, and they were going to bring them and take them into this country. And I just said, ‘Why?’…1,250. It could be 2,000, it could be more than that.”
Repeated 1 time
Feb 1, 2017

Topic: Immigration

Source: Remarks

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Trump is referring to the estimated 1,250 refugees and asylum-seekers that the United States, under Obama, agreed to accept from an Australian detention center. Refugees and asylum-seekers who arrive illegally by boat in Australia are called “illegal maritime arrivals.” They can apply for two types of temporary visas, and some may qualify to apply for permanent residency.
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#1317 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:58 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“Everybody is arguing whether or not it is a BAN. Call it what you want, it is about keeping bad people (with bad intentions) out of country!”

Topic: Immigration

Source: Twitter

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Trump and his administration have quibbled with the news media’s use of the word “ban” to describe the executive order. But Trump himself called it a ban.
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#1318 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:59 PM EST
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“Every other country lives on devaluation.You look at what China's doing, you look at what Japan has done over the years. They -- they play the money market, they play the devaluation market, and we sit there like a bunch of dummies.”
Repeated 1 time
Apr 2, 2017

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Remarks

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His rhetoric is way out of date. Not only is the United States not being hurt by China’s current currency manipulation, China is also not devaluing its currency anymore. In fact, China is selling foreign currency to prop up its own, in an effort to prevent the yuan from depreciating further and destabilizing the Chinese and global economy.
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#1319 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 6:59 PM EST
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“If the ban were announced with a one week notice, the 'bad' would rush into our country during that week. A lot of bad 'dudes' out there!”

Topic: Immigration

Source: Twitter

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It typically takes weeks or months to get a tourist visa to enter the United States. It certainly would take months for “bad guys,” presumably with records that would take longer for background checks, to receive a tourist visa.
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#1320 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:00 PM EST
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“My policy is similar to what President Obama did in 2011 when he banned visas for refugees from Iraq for six months.”

Topic: Immigration

Source: Statement

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This was a facile claim, as there were many differences. Obama responded to an actual threat — the discovery that two Iraqi refugees had been implicated in bombmaking in Iraq that had targeted U.S. troops. Second, Obama did not announce a ban on visa applications -- and in fact never banned visas in the first place. Third, Obama’s policy did not prevent all citizens of that country, including green-card holders, from traveling to the United States.
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#1321 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:01 PM EST
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“Thr coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost gas been so false and angry that the times actually apologized to its..... ...dwindling subscribers and readers.They got me wrong right from the beginning and still have not changed course, and never will. DISHONEST”
Repeated 16 times
Jan 5, 2018Jan 2Nov 30, 2017Oct 5Sep 27Aug 22Aug 7Jul 2Jul 1Jun 27Mar 29Feb 27Feb 16Feb 6Feb 4Jan 28

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Twitter

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The New York Times did not apologize to its subscribers for its coverage of Trump. Both the Times and The Post have seen spikes in audience and subscribers. (The Post announced at the end of 2016 that it is “profitable and growing.”)
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#1322 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:01 PM EST
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“They’ve been horribly treated. Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria, it was impossible, at least very tough, to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim, you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible, and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair.”

Topic: Immigration

Source: Interview

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Trump goes too far to claim that it is “very tough” for Syrian Christians to become refugees in the United States and that they have been “horribly treated.” While it is correct that a relatively small percentage of Syrian refugees have been admitted, the experience of Iraqi refugees is exactly the opposite, even though the same U.N. agency handles the refugee requests. The basic fact is that no one fully understands why there is such a disparity, though it appears connected to the roots the Syrians have with Lebanon.
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#1323 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:02 PM EST
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“They’ve been horribly treated. Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria, it was impossible, at least very tough, to get into the United States? If you were a Muslim, you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible, and the reason that was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair.”

Topic: Immigration

Source: Interview

Full story

Trump goes too far to claim that it is “very tough” for Syrian Christians to become refugees in the United States and that they have been “horribly treated.” While it is correct that a relatively small percentage of Syrian refugees have been admitted, the experience of Iraqi refugees is exactly the opposite, even though the same U.N. agency handles the refugee requests. The basic fact is that no one fully understands why there is such a disparity, though it appears connected to the roots the Syrians have with Lebanon.
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#1324 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:03 PM EST
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Posts: 10,153
“I won with a large percentage of Hispanic voters.”

Topic: Election

Source: Leaked transcript

This is a false claim. Trump did as well as Mitt Romney in 2012 and worse than John McCain in 2008. Hillary lost some Hispanic votes to third-party candidates and thus she did a little worse than Barack Obama.
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#1325 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:04 PM EST
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“I have been telling this to every group of 50,000 people or 25,000 people – because no one got people in their rallies as big as I did.”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Leaked transcript

Trump often boasted of the crowd size of his rallies, but has also eagerly inflated this number. The highest turnout would have likely been in Mobile, Ala., where an estimated 30,000 people attended. Other candidates also had large turnout. The campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders said its rally in Portland attracted 28,000 people, and the next day 27,500 came to an event in Los Angeles.
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#1326 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:04 PM EST
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“I have been given as President tremendous taxation powers for trade and for other reasons – far greater than anybody understands.”

Topic: Miscellaneous

Source: Leaked transcript

Trump exaggerates. Congress delegated some tariff and trade powers to the president but his actions may be challenged in court.
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#1327 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:09 PM EST
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“Here in Philadelphia, the murder rate has been steady — I mean just terribly increasing.”

Topic: Crime

Source: Remarks

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This is wrong. Murders have declined significantly in Philadelphia over the past decade, from 397 in 2007 to 277 in 2016; the number has been below 300 for four straight years in a city that neared 500 in 1990. The number of violent crimes, property crimes and robberies are lower than they've been in at least four decades.
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#1328 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:10 PM EST
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“We’ve taken in tens of thousands of people. We know nothing about them. They can say they vet them. They didn’t vet them. They have no papers. How can you vet somebody when you don’t know anything about them and you have no papers?”
Repeated 1 time
Feb 18, 2017

Topic: Immigration

Source: Interview

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Trump often claims there is “no system to vet” refugees. The process actually takes two more years, after vetting that starts with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and then continues with checks by U.S. intelligence and security agencies. (Our colleagues at PolitiFact did a good look at this process.)
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#1329 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:10 PM EST
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“And the audience was standing ovation. They actually -- they were standing from the beginning. They didn't even sit down. It was one standing ovation.”
Repeated 1 time
Jan 22, 2017

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Interview

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Trump appeared to be responding to criticism of his heavily political speech in front of the CIA’s memorial wall. He claimed to have received standing ovations, but he never invited the employees to take a seat. So they remained standing the whole time.
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#1330 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:11 PM EST
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“I just signed two executive orders that will save thousands of lives, millions of jobs, and billions and billions of dollars.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

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Trump lauded two executive actions regarding immigration and border security, including building a wall along the border of Mexico. The numbers appear to have little basis in reality. Just building the wall is estimated to cost as much as $25 billion -- before annual maintenance costs.
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#1331 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:11 PM EST
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“Before we go any further, I want to recognize the ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and Border Patrol officers in this room today and to honor their service and not just because they unanimously endorsed me for president.”
Repeated 4 times
Jan 11, 2018Sep 22, 2017Feb 24Jan 25

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Remarks

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The unions for ICE agents and Border Patrol officers did endorse Trump in the 2016 campaign. But they did not do so unanimously. The National Border Patrol Council endorsement was based just on the vote of 11 union leaders, which sparked controversy among union members. Agents in El Paso, in a 14-to-13 vote, narrowly failed to have the local union disavow the endorsement.
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#1332 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:12 PM EST
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“We ended up winning by a massive amount, 306. I needed 270. We got 306.”
Repeated 1 time
Feb 16, 2017

Topic: Election

Source: Interview

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Trump’s electoral college margin was relatively narrow by historical standards. He ranks 46th out of 58 elections. A switch of about 40,000 votes in three states would have swung the election to Clinton.
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#1333 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:13 PM EST
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“Then he’s groveling again. You know I always talk about the reporters that grovel when they want to write something that you want to hear but not necessarily millions of people want to hear or have to hear.”

Topic: Election

Source: Interview

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Trump attacked the author of a 2012 Pew Center on the States report for saying his report did not back up Trump’s claims of voter fraud. Trump suggested the researcher had changed his tune, but when the report was issued, the author repeatedly explained it did not reflect voter fraud.
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#1334 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:13 PM EST
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“Of those [allegedly illegal] votes cast, none of ’em come to me. None of ’em come to me. They would all be for the other side…They all voted for Hillary.”
Repeated 4 times
Jan 4, 2018Jul 19, 2017Jul 1Jan 25

Topic: Election

Source: Interview

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Not only is there no evidence of massive voter fraud, but there is also no way Trump could possibly know this.
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#1335 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:14 PM EST
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“They say I had the biggest crowd in the history of inaugural speeches…we had the biggest audience in the history of inaugural speeches.”
Repeated 3 times
Jan 22, 2017Jan 21Jan 20

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Interview

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Crowd estimates are difficult, but attendance for Trump’s speech appears to be at least 80 percent smaller than Obama’s 2009 swearing-in, 70 percent smaller than Lyndon B. Johnson’s inauguration and 60 percent smaller than Obama’s second inauguration in 2013. In terms of TV viewership, Trump ranks fifth, far behind Reagan. Even online estimates don’t boost him to “biggest audience.”
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#1336 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:15 PM EST
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“When President Obama was there [Chicago] two weeks ago making a speech, very nice speech, two people were shot and killed during his speech.”

Topic: Crime

Source: Interview

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This is wrong. No one was shot and killed in Chicago that day, according to the Chicago Police Department. Four shootings occurred that day, with a total of six people shot, but no one died.
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#1337 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:16 PM EST
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“We should’ve taken the oil. And if we took the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS. And we would have had wealth.”
Repeated 1 time
Feb 9, 2017

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Interview

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In 2015, Iraq produced about 4 million barrels a day, enough crude oil to fill more than 700 Trump Towers. Securing all of the oil, including in northern Iraq where the Islamic State exists, would require a military force larger than the one that invaded Iraq in 2003. It would also be considered a war crime.
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#1338 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:17 PM EST
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“You had millions of people that now aren’t insured anymore.”

Topic: Health care

Source: Interview

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In attacking the Affordable Care Act, Trump repeats a Four-Pinocchio whopper. Some 20 million people have gained health coverage because of the law. About 2 million people were told their old plans no longer qualified under the law, but after an uproar, most received waivers that kept the plans going until the end of 2017. In any case, anyone whose plan was terminated could buy new insurance.
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#1339 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:19 PM EST
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“No, no, you have to understand, I had a tremendous victory, one of the great victories ever. In terms of counties I think the most ever, or just about the most ever.”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Interview

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Trump's electoral college victory was relatively narrow, ranking 46th out of 58 electoral college results. He also lost the popular vote by 2.1 percentage points. The focus on winning counties is misleading, as Clinton won the counties with the most people, which is why she had such a commanding popular-vote margin.
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#1340 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:19 PM EST
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“This is on the Keystone pipeline…A lot of jobs, 28,000 jobs. Great construction jobs.”
Repeated 21 times
Jan 16, 2018Dec 8, 2017Nov 6Nov 2Sep 29Sep 27Sep 22Sep 6Jul 12Jul 12Jun 29Jun 21Jun 7Apr 29Apr 4Mar 28Feb 28Feb 24Feb 18Feb 16Jan 24

Topic: Jobs

Source: Remarks

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In contrast to Obama, who always played down the number of jobs that would be created by the Keystone XL Pipeline, Trump inflated the numbers. The project would create part-year work in four states for 10,400 workers, the State Department determined. That added up to 3,900 annual construction jobs. About 12,000 other annual jobs would stem from direct spending on the project. So that adds up to 16,000, most of which are not construction jobs. (This statement earned Three Pinocchios.)
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#1341 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:21 PM EST
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“We think we can cut regulations by 75 percent. Maybe more.”

Topic: Economy

Source: Remarks

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This is clearly a made-up figure. As of the end of 2015, there were nearly 180,000 pages in the code of federal regulations. So, in theory, that means getting it down to 45,000 pages. There were 71,000 pages back in 1975. Even under Ronald Reagan, the number of pages climbed almost 20 percent.
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#1342 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:26 PM EST
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“Between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused me to lose the popular vote.”
Repeated 1 time
Feb 5, 2017

Topic: Election

Source: Remarks

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This is a fantasy, worthy of Four Pinocchios. Trump is obsessed with how he lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, and so he keeps making this claim even though there is no evidence to support it.
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#1343 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:27 PM EST
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“Had a great meeting at CIA Headquarters yesterday, packed house, paid great respect to Wall, long standing ovations, amazing people. WIN!”
Repeated 1 time
Jan 26, 2017

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Twitter

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Trump appeared to be responding to criticism of his heavily political speech in front of the CIA’s memorial wall. He claimed to have received standing ovations, but he never invited the employees to take a seat. So they remained standing the whole time.
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#1344 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:27 PM EST
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“Wow, television ratings just out: 31 million people watched the Inauguration, 11 million more than the very good ratings from 4 years ago!”
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Jan 25, 2017Jan 21Jan 20

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Twitter

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Actually, Obama’s ratings in 2009 were 7 million people higher than Trump’s numbers. Second-term inaugurals tend to get lower ratings, so Trump is cherry-picking the comparison.
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#1345 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:28 PM EST
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“I remember hearing [when I was young] from one of my instructors, ‘The United States has never lost a war.’ And then, after that, it’s like we haven’t won anything. We don’t win anymore.”

Topic: Foreign policy

Source: Remarks

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This is debatable. At the very least, one might count the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War and the end of the Cold War as victories for the United States.
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#1346 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:28 PM EST
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“I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth. And they sort of made it sound like I had a feud with the intelligence community.”

Topic: Russia

Source: Remarks

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The media simply reported what Trump said about the intelligence community. On Dec. 9, when The Washington Post reported that intelligence officials had concluded that Russia had sought to undermine Hillary Clinton in the election, the Trump team issued a statement: “These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.” After information leaked that Trump had been briefed that an unverified dossier alleged Russia had embarrassing information about him, Trump lashed out at the intelligence agencies and asked, “Are we living in Nazi Germany?”
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#1347 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:29 PM EST
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“I looked out, the field was — it looked like a million, million and a half people….The rest of the 20-block area, all the way back to the Washington Monument, was packed.”
Repeated 3 times
Jan 25, 2017Jan 22Jan 20

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Remarks

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Speaking to employees at the CIA, Trump complained about news coverage showing his inauguration crowd was smaller than Barack Obama’s crowd in 2009. Trump’s crowd did not go all the way to the Washington Monument. No matter how you calculate it, Trump’s crowd was significantly smaller than Obama’s crowd — and the Women’s March on Washington the next day.
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#1348 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:29 PM EST
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“We have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine. … I’ve been on it for 15 times this year.”

Topic: Biographical record

Source: Remarks

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Trump has been on the cover of Time magazine a total of 11 times. Richard Nixon holds the record: 55. Depending on whether you count small photographs, Hillary Clinton has been on the cover between 22 and 31 times.
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#1349 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:30 PM EST
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“Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left, and the factories closed.”

Topic: Jobs

Source: Prepared speech

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The suburbs around Washington are among the richest in the United States, largely because of the federal government (which attracts people with college or advanced degrees). Among the 25 most populous metropolitan areas, the D.C. metro area has the highest median income in the nation -- $93,294 versus a U.S. median of $55,775 -- though growth has slowed in recent years, in part because of reductions in defense spending. Indeed, income in the D.C. area has grown essentially at the same rate as the rest of the nation since 2006, including a dip in median income during the Great Recession. But there is no empirical evidence that the D.C. area got rich off the rest of the country, as Trump suggests.
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#1350 Posted: Mon, Jan 22 2018, 7:30 PM EST
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“You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before.”

Topic: Election

Source: Prepared speech

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Trump is a minority president, in terms of the popular vote. He lost the popular vote by nearly 2.9 million votes to Hillary Clinton. Trump’s electoral college win, meanwhile, was a squeaker. Trump had narrow victories in three key states (and narrow losses in two others).
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