Daniel Dale

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Asked if he ever thinks about just saying the opposite of what he believes so the media will bash that opposite position, Trump says he thinks about this issue all the time, like how he just went to a church and held up a Bible and people somehow criticized that as "terrible." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump said golf and UFC haven't lost anything "visually" with their pandemic setups, but basketball has, and also "the way they treated our flag and our anthem," and "I looked at it and I couldn't watch it," while with baseball, "I haven't made a ruling on that yet." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump said the reason he won't do rallies is that he was told, sir, he'd have to have a bunch of empty seats between attendees. "Oh, that'll look great." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump said college football should go on because the players are "young, strong people," and "they're not going to have a problem." There is *no* basis for that blanket declaration. Some are already having "a problem" with heart issues and other issues. https://t.co/35oRe7cysg — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/1EnT24jGqo — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump said "one of the great doctors" told him of college football: "'These people are so powerful and so strong, not lots of body fat,' although you could take a couple of offensive linemen perhaps and dispute that...'maybe none in some cases...they're very healthy people.'" — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Asked why it's important for college football to be played, Trump said college football coaches want it to be played and they "know better than anyone else." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump said we used to give HK incentives for "freedom," but now they're not free, and "you know, it's a part, it's a part - when you look, I mean, take a look at a map, it's attached to China. You know. So it's a little bit tough from certain standpoints." https://t.co/o9Q25iALqg — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump continued after he was asked about the arrests of activists in Hong Kong: "We're gonna make a lot more money because they're not gonna be competitive...it can't be with the government running it." — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about China arresting pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and why Americans should care, Trump responds: "For years, Hong Kong was making a lot of money that we could've been making...you know, we have the biggest (stock) exchanges...we have the great dollar..." — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about NBA people criticizing him, Trump said some NBA people are "very, very nasty and frankly, very dumb." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump said there is "a nastiness about the NBA," the way the league returned. (Players kneeled for the anthem, have Black Lives Matter messages on jerseys.) "Ice hockey," conversely, "respected the mores, they respected what they're supposed to be doing," he said. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump did an interview with Clay Travis, the Fox Sports Radio host (who has *thoughts* about Covid-19, among many other things.) Asked what he hears about the NFL's plans, Trump said "they want to open," but "if they don't stand for the national anthem, I hope they don't open." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

A 5:30 "news conference" has been added to the schedule. https://t.co/vW6IInOZly — PolitiTweet.org

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@KFILE superb attempt to scare people with a verse about evolving friendship — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Here’s Trump’s public schedule for tomorrow. They’ve been adding “news conferences” the day of. (Public schedules don’t include all of a president’s activities.) https://t.co/i2nJlAdREt — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

No: Russia doesn’t want Trump to lose Trump didn’t “ban” China Foreigners can’t easily mess with mail votes No mass fraud in NY Trump isn’t first to tariff China Trump wasn’t left 0 ventilators “1917” pandemic didn’t end World War 2 Obama didn’t do treason https://t.co/qwliJeu4IJ — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

So much dishonesty. With @HolmesLybrand and @DavidWright_7, fact checks of 12 of Trump’s false claims tonight: https://t.co/qwliJeu4IJ — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

A significant part of Trump’s (and the Trump campaign’s) message against Biden has been that Biden gets confused and makes speaking mistakes. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Acyn: The President says the “1917 pandemic” ended the Second World War https://t.co/jSltuSYim2 — PolitiTweet.org

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After saying China wants him to lose, which is a US intel assessment, Trump said, "You know who else is not happy with us winning? Russia." US intel has concluded Russia is, for the second consecutive presidential election, interfering to hurt Trump's opponent. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

They’re all at least pretty bad, but that was one of the worst Trump press conferences in a while from a truth standpoint. Fast and furious lying. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

“The Obama campaign spied on my campaign,” Trump says although Obama didn’t have an Obama campaign in 2016 and there’s no evidence Obama was involved in the lawful surveillance. He then falsely suggests this non-thing was “treason.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says nobody had stockpiles of ventilators at the outset, though his administration has confirmed it inherited a national stockpile of about 16,660 ventilators in working order. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says you mention 160,000 deaths but it could’ve been ten times that, and that would’ve been “unsustainable” and “unacceptable.” He adds that one death is too many but says they’ve done an “extraordinary job.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump falsely claims he put a “ban on anybody from China coming in.” He exempted citizens, permanent residents, many of the family members of both groups, and some others; tens of thousands flew from China after he imposed his restrictions. (And virus was already here.) — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

The president is being highly dishonest. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Asked if he’s raised with Putin the intel assessment that Russia is interfering in the election, Trump talks about the intel assessments about China and Iran, then says “the Democrats” are the ones meddling in the election, which is, again, nonsense. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump repeats his usual nonsense that the US hadn’t previously taken in “10 cents” from China. Americans pay the tariffs; avg $12B per year in China-tariff revenue between 2007 and 2016; plus more than $100B in annual Chinese purchases; plus Chinese FDI. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump repeats his usual conspiratorial suggestion that China “released” the virus into US, Europe but didn’t let it spread in China. Every region of China had cases by late January, though China did indeed take strict domestic measures to contain it, and there’ve been flare-ups. — PolitiTweet.org