Texas elections official faces attacks and pressure from partisan activists. This article is co-published with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.
Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Fact Checking Trump’s Claims From His Call With Brad Raffensperger - The Dispatch Fact Check. In a phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday, President Trump pleaded with Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn the results of the election in Georgia, which Joe Biden won by 11,779 votes.
The Washington Postreleased a recording of the hourlong call, during which Trump peddled numerous false claims about the election, alleging several instances of voter fraud without evidence. At the start of the call, Trump claims that “it's pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially in Georgia.” This is false. Trump Org: a magnet for dirty businessmen. By Inti Pacheco, Manuela Andreoni, Alex Mierjeski and Keenan Chen In late 1997, Donald Trump was beginning to bounce back from near financial ruin.
Two years earlier, his financial losses had totaled $916 million following a string of bankruptcies at Trump casinos and other properties earlier in the decade, according to tax records published in late 2016. Fact-checking an immigration meme that's been circulating for more than a decade. A viral image on social media -- one that’s critical of illegal immigration -- has been circulating for years.
The list of claims first circulated in the form of a chain email in 2006, according to Snopes.com. Six years later, we checked several of the claims ourselves. With immigration in the headlines today, these claims are popular again. So we’ll take a fresh look at them here. All told, the list is heavy with claims that are unsupported, misleading, or simply wrong. Lie Gate – Dave Pell. There was no issue with the birth certificate.
He didn’t inherit a mess. He lied about the weather conditions during his inaugural speech. A neuroscientist explains what may be wrong with Trump supporters’ brains. Audience member Robin Roy (C) reacts as U.S.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets her at a campaign rally in Lowell, Massachusetts January 4, 2016. (BRIAN SNYDER / Reuters) There’s no doubt that Donald Trump has said many things that would have been political suicide for any other Republican candidate. And almost every time he made one of these shocking statements, political analysts on both the left and the right predicted that he’d lose supporters because of it.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump takes credit where it's not deserved - - March 07, 2017. WASHINGTON (AP) — The start of a new administration is never a clean slate, even when parties flip.
Day One is just another day for military operations, a budget that is still in place from the old crowd and a vast array of economic, social and law enforcement initiatives left over from the last president. You would not know this from President Donald Trump. He loudly and proudly takes credit for any positive development that has bloomed since he took office Jan. 20, even when the roots and buds of it were from President Barack Obama's time.
In his speech to Congress and other remarks in recent days, Trump has claimed credit for: The Real Story Behind Donald Trump's Wealth. Peasants for Plutocracy: How the Billionaires Brainwashed America (Mini-Documentary) The One Thing We Should Always Remember About Donald Trump. In this web exclusive, Bill Moyers and four historians dissect the big lie Trump rode to power: the Birther lie.
Nell Painter, historian and Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, at Princeton University; Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School; Christopher Lebron, assistant professor of African-American studies and philosophy at Yale University; and Philip Klinkner, James S. Sherman Professor of Government, Hamilton College discuss the fertile ground on which the birther lie was sown: our nation’s history of white supremacy. Credits: Gail Ablow, Producer; Sikay Tang, Editor BILL MOYERS: I’m Bill Moyers. The most important thing to remember about Donald Trump is that he was the same man at 12:01 p.m.
Did Trump inherit a mess? 8 charts show otherwise. In his address to a joint session of Congress, President Donald Trump revived a theme he had unveiled less than two weeks earlier, when he said at a marathon press conference that he’d inherited "a mess" from his predecessor, Barack Obama.
Speaking in the House chamber on Feb. 28, Trump offered a series of statistics that collectively painted a dire picture of the U.S. economy. To be sure, there are shortcomings in the economy. Why Trump’s admission that he made stuff up to Justin Trudeau is particularly bad. A new study suggests fake news might have won Donald Trump the 2016 election. From 'Slimeball Comey' to 'Crooked Hillary', why Trump loves to brand his enemies. Donald Trump has branded the former FBI director James Comey a “slimeball” during another Twitter tirade.
The tweets were a reaction to unfavourable excerpts released in advance of Comey’s book, A Higher Loyalty, in which Comey likens the president to a mob boss and dismisses “the forest fire that is the Trump presidency”. After Trump’s tweets, Merriam-Webster dictionary reported a 60,000% spike in searches for the definition of “slimeball”, which it defines as “a morally repulsive or odious person”. Just like the mob, Trump likes to dole out nicknames, especially to his opponents.
Putin's Pants-on-Fire claim about $400 million donation to Clinton from Bill Browder partners. Russian President Vladimir Putin offered a novel idea to advance the Russia investigation during a joint news conference with President Donald Trump in Helsinki. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team could come to his country, Putin said, if Russian investigators were allowed to go the United States to dig into alleged tax evasion by American-born financier Bill Browder and his associates.
"Business associates of Mr. Fact-checking Donald Trump's talking points about the economy. President Donald Trump campaigned hard on a promise to kick the economy into high gear and with the latest economic numbers, he had something to crow about. The economy grew at an annualized rate of 4.1 percent between April and June. Trump said the country was seeing proof of the power of his tax- and regulation-cutting agenda.
Let’s take a look at some of his assertions and see whether they hold up. "In the second quarter of this year, the United States economy grew at the amazing rate of 4.1 percent. " Trump said he has 'no financial interests in Saudi Arabia.' But his businesses have made millions from the Saudi government, and the crown prince gave his New York City hotel a huge boost. In a statement released Tuesday, President Donald Trump stood by Saudi Arabia and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman despite evidence that the crown prince ordered the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman vigorously deny any knowledge of the planning or execution of the murder of Mr.
Khashoggi," Trump said. "Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event — maybe he did and maybe he didn't! " When Trump demonises opponents, unhinged partisans take their cues. Last week was not the first time in American history that a crazed assassin has tried to change the trajectory of the government by killing political enemies. In 1865, when it was clear that the confederacy was about to collapse, prominent southerner John Wilkes Booth and his accomplices set out to behead their Republican opponents by killing President Abraham Lincoln, his vice-president, Andrew Johnson, and the secretary of state, William Henry Seward. The grand tragedy that martyred President Lincoln seems to dwarf the farce of a MAGA (make America great again) -inspired former exotic dancer, Cesar Sayoc, mailing homemade pipe bombs to Democratic leaders.
But the same misguided patriotism inspired both. Meet the man who makes fake news for millions of conservative Trump supporters. The only light in the house came from the glow of three computer monitors, and Christopher Blair, 46, sat down at a keyboard and started to type. His wife had left for work and his children were on their way to school, but waiting online was his other community, an unreality where nothing was exactly as it seemed. He logged onto his website and began to invent his first news story of the day. "BREAKING," he wrote, pecking out each letter with his index fingers as he considered the possibilities. Maybe he would announce Hillary Clinton had died during a secret overseas mission to smuggle more refugees into America.
Maybe he would award President Donald Trump the Nobel Peace Prize for his courage in denying climate change. I helped create the GOP tax myth. Trump is wrong: Tax cuts don’t equal growth. The Trump file: Trump's 10 top falsehoods of 2018. UN human rights chief: Trump's attacks on press 'close to incitement of violence' Lies and Truth in the Era of Trump.