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Asked about how he’s contradicting his CDC chief, which is in line with Biden’s criticism of him not listening to experts, Trump repeats twice, “I think he misunderstood the question.” (No.) — PolitiTweet.org

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The leader of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made a plea for universal mask-wearing today, saying it could get the crisis under control in weeks. The president is making fun of mask-wearing, saying mask-wearing has a lot of problems. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is again mocking/criticizing Biden for how frequently he wears a mask. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: “I think there’s a lot of problems with masks.” He again cites restaurant servers who touch their masks. (There’s overwhelming consensus that masks are effective and critical.) He adds, “The mask, perhaps, helps.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about Redfield’s testimony strongly urging everyone to wear masks, even saying that could be more effective than a vaccine, Trump says that’s wrong too, he called Redfield about that as well. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Iran deal wouldn’t be “practically expiring now,” as a Trump claimed. Some key provisions have 2025 sunset clauses, but some clauses continue in perpetuity, and some of the sunsets are 2030, 2035, 2040. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is talking about bloody sand again. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump just said he read Woodward’s book very rapidly “last night.” Yesterday, he said he read it very rapidly the night before. — PolitiTweet.org

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Challenged on what was said in his claimed phone call with CDC Director Redfield, Trump is being very fuzzy. — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s not true that the US used to lose every single time at the WTO before Trump. The US has long won the overwhelming majority of cases where it brought the complaint, lost the majority where it was the subject of the complaint. Trump’s White House admits this: — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s not true that Nevada is not verifying voter signatures. The president is sure saying a lot of things that are not true. — PolitiTweet.org

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Nevada’s Democratic governor does not “control the ballots.” The state Secretary of State, the top elections official, is a Republican. County officials are the ones who send out the ballots. — PolitiTweet.org

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The coronavirus is “gonna be very low” by Election Day, Trump promises. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rickhasen I’ll be tweeting your thread until Election Day, I assume — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump repeats his false claim that the New York primary involving Rep. Carolyn Maloney was “fraudulent.” Lots of ballots rejected for non-fraud reasons like signature issues, and some ballots mailed late to voters, but no evidence of fraud. — PolitiTweet.org

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Again, Trump’s claim that foreign countries are well-positioned to interfere with mail ballots is just wrong. Thread from an expert: — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on the CDC chief, Dr. Robert Redfield, very clearly saying he doesn’t think a vaccine will be generally available until well into 2021: “I think he misunderstood the question.” — PolitiTweet.org

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! Asked about CDC chief testifying today that a vaccine won’t likely be widely available in the US until the third quarter or late second quarter of 2021, Trump says, “No, I think he made a mistake when he said that. It’s just incorrect information.” “I believe he was confused.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump misleadingly claims Biden called police “the enemy.” Biden was specifically saying that when police roll into neighborhoods where they don’t have relationships in armored military vehicles, they “become the enemy” in the eyes of residents. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump falsely describes a poll, wrongly saying it showed 84% of Black people want more police. This Gallup poll showed 20% want a bigger police presence and 61% want the same as they currently have. (Trump said 81% yesterday.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is again accusing Biden of promoting “anti-vaccine theories.” Biden hasn’t gone anti-vaxx; he’s said he needs a vaccine vouched for by scientists, can’t trust Trump himself. His comments today, via @sahilkapur: https://t.co/KjPj8stXZF — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says that if you take out “blue states” from the death statistics, they’re much better. (He’s previously talked about removing New York in particular, which was itself ridiculous.) — PolitiTweet.org

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On a Rosh Hashanah call with Jewish leaders, Trump told them “we love your country also” and said he’s disappointed Jews seem to “almost automatically” vote for Democrats. He said he saw he got only 25% in 2016 even though “I have a son-in-law and a daughter who are Jewish.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Now 5:15 — PolitiTweet.org

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Now 5:45 — PolitiTweet.org

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Noting Biden's comments today because I'd pointed out in Aug. that Biden was calling for governors to issue mask mandates, not saying he'd himself issue a mandate as president. He's now making clear he'd like to issue a mandate as president if permissible. https://t.co/TGjAhwFWZh — PolitiTweet.org

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Update: Trump made at least 22 false or misleading claims at last night's ABC town hall. Fuller list: https://t.co/g1j7VaoBi9 — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is now holding a 5 PM “news conference.” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JProskowGlobal: This completely false tweet has 15k retweets. The pics were used as the report talked about how Trump is working hard t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kaitlancollins: Dr. Paul Alexander, Caputo’s ally at HHS who attempted for interfere with the weekly reports produced by CDC, is leavin… — PolitiTweet.org