Daniel Dale

Daniel Dale @ddale8

The best thing about Stahl's performance here is that she was willing to just spend minutes going round and round with Trump on one point he was lying about, rather than trying to move on to a checklist of pre-planned topics. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump falsely claimed that under Biden "180 million people will lose their health care" with "socialized medicine." Again, Biden has vocally rejected moving everyone to a single-payer "Medicare for All" program. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump on Obamacare: "I hope that they end it. It'll be so good if they end it." Stahl: "And if they end it..." T: "Because we will come up with a plan..." S: "Will!" T: "Yeah, we we will." S: "But you said you (had) already..." T: "We have large sections of it already done." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Stahl: "What about the...people with pre-existing conditions?" Trump: "I'll protect it. Will be totally protected." Stahl: "How?!" Trump: "They'll be protected, Lesley. I mean, the people with pre-existing conditions are going to be protected." Stahl: "How?!" — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Stahl: "What about the...people with pre-existing conditions?" Trump: "I'll protect it. Will be totally protected." Stahl: "How?!" Trump: "They'll be protected, Lesley. I mean, the people with pre-existing conditions are going to be protected?" Stahl: "How?!" — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Stahl: Why haven't we seen your health care plan you keep saying is coming? Trump: "You have seen it. I've been putting out pieces all over the place. And we actually have plans." (What he's put out is not a plan.) — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump kept saying "a lot of people are wearing masks" at the rallies. Stahl pointed out that most people aren't. Trump said that at one recent rally, "everybody behind me" was wearing one. (The people visible behind him on camera often wear masks while few others do.) — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Stahl correctly told Trump that he used to have bigger rallies. He falsely responded "these are the biggest rallies we've ever had." — PolitiTweet.org

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Stahl: "You called Dr. Fauci and other health officials idiots." Trump: "Dr. Fauci -- where did I call him an idiot? Where?" Trump said on a campaign call on Monday, "People are tired of hearing Fauci and these idiots, all these idiots who got it wrong.” — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

To 60 Minutes, Trump repeated his false claim that "2.2 million people were supposed to die." That was never a "supposed to" figure; it was an estimate for what'd happen if no government or citizen took any action to stop the spread. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

The thing about this interview is that Trump is just saying nonsense and Stahl is pointing out calmly that it is nonsense. She is no more combative than, say, @jonathanvswan, whom Trump said did a good interview. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Stahl in a kind of sad-sack tone: "You said the other day to suburban women, 'Will you please like me?'" Trump: "Oh, I didn't say that...that's so misleading the way -- I say jokingly, 'Suburban women, you should love me.'" He didn't use the tone Stahl did, but he wasn't joking. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Stahl pointed out that people can see for themselves that it's not true when he says we have "turned the corner" and that it's "disappearing." Trump: "That's right, we have turned the corner." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

When Stahl pressed Trump about Covid-19 cases going up, Trump repeated his nonsense about how it's because we're doing more testing. She didn't accept the nonsense, pressing him repeatedly. He didn't like this. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Asked what his biggest domestic priority is, Trump touted the pre-pandemic economy, repeated his dubious claim about saving millions of lives, did the misleading claim about record job creation today...Stahl had to ask 3 times for him to say priority is getting "back to normal." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

I very slightly paraphrased a few lines (the ones not in quote marks) just to fit this in one tweet, but yes, this is the very beginning of the video. https://t.co/AZO8uSCybx — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

How the raw 60 Minutes tape posted by Trump begins: Stahl: You ready for tough questions? Trump: Just be fair. Stahl: Last time you were like bring it on. Trump: "No, I'm not looking for that." Stahl: "...But you're OK with some tough questions?" Trump: "No, I'm not." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

It turns out Trump has been making this false claim for seven years now https://t.co/s17IBTQG6c https://t.co/6nnunLaeHq — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Jason Whitlock told Trump that "antifa, to me, is the modern-day KKK." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@shephardm @Shawna Wow, what a compliment. And wait, Michelle and Shawna, when were you at karaoke together? — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

This is Trump's second false claim about Oprah this week. At a Saturday rally, he claimed that Oprah joined Hillary Clinton at her final rally in Michigan in 2016. That did not happen. On Friday, however, he correctly said that Oprah used to like the key lime pie at Mar-a-Lago. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@Shawna My friends have had multiple despondent group chats about karaoke and how it might not be back for so long — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump repeated one of my favorite weird false claims of his in his interview with Jason Whitlock -- claiming Oprah had him on during the last week of her show, and it was a big deal to be one of the final five guests. He was actually on three and a half months before the finale. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

https://t.co/RmHnFSiVJh — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump: "Mexico is paying for the wall, by the way, just in case you had any question. Mexico is paying for the wall." Bolling: "How?" Trump: (Doesn't answer.) Bolling asks if he's talking about a tariff; Trump says, "We're talking about fees. Going into Mexico. Yes. We are." ? — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Yeah, even our "flat" level was very bad. https://t.co/2K2xbbQjHe — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Sinclair's Bolling tells Trump that it's good news deaths are flat. "Actually, deaths are going down," Trump says, though they've now started to rise again as usual with rising cases and hospitalizations. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump says on Sinclair that when he claims he's done more for Black people than any president except Abraham Lincoln, "nobody even calls me out on that, because they know it's true." The claim has been widely rejected by historians and fact checkers. (And lots of Black people.) — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @maggieNYT: "I will open your schools," says the president, who has no power to do that. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump, in a Sinclair town hall, says "you would think you want to have the votes counted, tabulated, finished by the evening of November 3rd." The final count is never finished on election night. — PolitiTweet.org