Daniel Dale

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump falsely claims, as usual, that Obama and Biden "never even tried" to do criminal justice reform. McConnell killed a bipartisan bill during the 2016 campaign; the Obama-Biden administration circumvented Congress by taking multiple steps through executive action. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump repeats his truly ridiculous claim that "I have done more for the African American community than any president with the exception of Abraham Lincoln." LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. (And obviously you can make an argument for many others.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked what his preference is on Roe v. Wade, Trump says, "I would like to see a brilliant jurist, a brilliant person who has done this in great depth...make a decision." (He's previously said he'd appoint anti-Roe justices.) — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oneunderscore__: They fight pedophilia so hard, they accuse literally anybody they don't like of being pedophiles, and anti-trafficking… — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on Kavanaugh: "I have never seen any human being, and I'm not just talking about Supreme Court: I have never seen a human being treated so badly with false accusations and everything else." — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a bit technical, but the individual mandate is not actually "gone." Rather, the penalty for violating the mandate has been set to $0. Its continued existence at a $0 level is a key issue in the Republican lawsuit to get the whole law overturned as unconstitutional. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Obamacare website cost a lot of money and was a disaster at first, but it didn't cost "$5 billion." A September 2014 analysis by Bloomberg Government, which looked at contracts related to the website, put the total at $2.1 billion. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump promises "we will always (be) protecting people with pre-existing conditions," though he has already broken this promise by repeatedly trying to weaken the protections and by currently trying to get all of Obamacare killed without a replacement plan. — PolitiTweet.org

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Biden does not have a plan to quadruple people's taxes. — PolitiTweet.org

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"We just set a record: 11.4 million jobs," Trump says, declining to mention that this immediately followed a loss of 22.2 million jobs. — PolitiTweet.org

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"I put on a travel ban," Trump says of his non-ban restrictions that exempted citizens, permanent residents, many of their family members. (In fairness, the questioner this time called it a ban.) — PolitiTweet.org

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When Guthrie correctly says there is no evidence with widespread fraud with mail ballots, Trump, who had just cited a number of non-fraud examples, says, "How can you say that? You do read newspapers? You do watch the news?" — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump challenged on his retweet of the bonkers conspiracy theory about Obama, Seal Team Six and Osama bin Laden: "That was a RETWEET. That was an opinion of somebody. And that was a retweet. I'll put it out there. People can decide." — PolitiTweet.org

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Guthrie: "But there is not a satanic pedophile cult." Trump: "I have no idea." Guthrie: "You don't know that?" Trump: "No I don't know that. And neither do you know that." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, asked to denounce/disavow QAnon, says he knows nothing about it, then adds, "I do know they are very much against pedophilia. They fight it very hard." Bonkers. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm impressed with Guthrie's preparedness so far - she's been ready for some of Trump's regular false claims. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump wrongly says "we were expected to lose 2.2 million people and maybe more than that." That figure was an estimate for deaths *if no US government did anything and no US person changed their behavior.* — PolitiTweet.org

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"It's rounding the corner," Trump says again, again based on nothing, as cases and hospitalizations spike once more. https://t.co/Wk4JYv6zgn — PolitiTweet.org

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I'll have more later, but this CDC study didn't even *try to figure out* the percentage of people who wear masks that get the coronavirus. The study was measuring other stuff; there is an 85% data point in it, but Trump is describing the figure egregiously incorrectly. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump falsely claims, again, that the CDC just found "85% of the people that wear masks catch it." Guthrie, excellently, tells him she knows that study and that's not what it says. Trump says that's what he heard. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he doesn't even remember if he was tested the day of the debate. Pressed, he eventually says, "I probably did." He then says, "Possibly I did, possibly I didn't." He won't answer specifically about when his last negative test was. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

I’ll be tweeting live fact checks on Trump’s town hall tonight. Colleagues will be watching Biden’s town hall for fact checks. We’ll have a combined complication article by late tonight. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BretLonsway It's not special treatment to make sure I'm fully accurate. That's my job no matter who I am covering. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @oliverdarcy: "C-SPAN suspended its political editor Steve Scully indefinitely Thursday after he admitted to lying about his Twitter fee… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Karaoke_Jesus @needmoreclones If you think my goal is covering Trump's ass, really would suggest you are not familiar with my work — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's a transcript of Trump's latest comments about suburban women and about the media. https://t.co/ZlWnuH1ZWM — PolitiTweet.org

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@needmoreclones It’s not about the benefit of the doubt. It’s about being accurate. — PolitiTweet.org

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I deleted my tweet on this because Evan is right - the full context makes Trump’s comments at very least more ambiguous than I’d suggested. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump's claim this afternoon that the pandemic is "ending anyway" even without a vaccine, and that "it's going to peter out," is at least the 38th time since February he has baselessly said it is going to vanish, disappear, go away. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @PeterAtlantic: Pres. Trump, at North Carolina rally just now, discussing the coronavirus: "It's a tricky thing. It's dust. It's a littl… — PolitiTweet.org