Daniel Dale

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Trump, talking at length about statues, speaks about protecting statues of people like Washington and Jefferson. He says, "Our heroes are not a source of shame. They are an example and something you can all look up to, a true example of greatness, a point of pride." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump mocks Obama for campaigning hard against him in 2016 and then Trump winning anyway. Trump adds, "I'm only here because of President Obama and the job he did," and Biden and "the job he didn't do." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, on script, says the behavior of the "left-wing mob" that is tearing down statues is "not the behavior of a peaceful political movement. It's the behavior of totalitarians and tyrants." He adds, "They don't love our country." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says young conservatives are the real elite, since they're smarter and better looking than the so-called elite, except the so-called elite has one thing going for them, and that's that they're "more vicious, they are vicious people." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump then repeats his usual false claim that California admitted in a legal settlement that 1 million or more people voted illegally. This settlement was about inactive voters on the registration rolls, said nothing about actual voting. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump encourages these young conservatives to get everybody to vote, husbands and wives and friends, then lies of Democrats, "The difference is, they get everybody even if they're not registered, if they're not citizens, if they're here illegally." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @emsteck: NEW from me, @KFILE @natemcdermott and @ZcohenCNN: Retired general Anthony Tata, nominated to head the Pentagon’s policy shop,… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mkraju: Trump says the election will be “rigged” by mail-in voting, but a wide array of GOP lawmakers say mail-in voting in their state… — PolitiTweet.org

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The Trump campaign’s latest fundraising email refers to Barack Obama as “Cheatin’ Obama,” the nickname Trump used on Twitter with no explanation one time in 2018. — PolitiTweet.org

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"The states have been very weak, extremely weak, in protecting their heritage and protecting their culture," Trump says of efforts to remove monuments. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CNNPolitics: Dr. Anthony Fauci reacts to President Trump's remarks on slowing down Covid-19 testing: " I know for sure, to my knowledge… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @megtirrell: In congressional hearing, Dr Fauci cites a “disturbing surge of infections” in some areas of the country that reflect an “i… — PolitiTweet.org

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.@tarasubramaniam wrote about the long history of Trump making an incendiary comment, aides and allies claiming he was just joking, and then Trump making clear he was not joking: https://t.co/2gnQbsII1u — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NickMiroff: That’s new 30’ Trump barrier vs old “vehicle” barrier. Here’s an even clearer side-by-side comparison. Worth keeping in min… — PolitiTweet.org

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Q: "Mr. President, at that rally when you said you asked your people to slow down testing, were you just kidding, or do you have a plan to slow down testing?" Trump: "I don't kid." — PolitiTweet.org

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Two previous ways we knew Trump had inherited ventilators: 1) Journalists saw them on shelves during 2016 tours. 2) Experts could tell from the color of the boxes that ventilators being distributed during this pandemic were the ones purchased under Obama. https://t.co/TDFGaMIif8 — PolitiTweet.org

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@Yegg_o @factcheckdotorg Only the administration has the numbers. They weren't sharing them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump May 14: "When we took over, we didn't have ventilators. Nobody knew what a ventilator was.” May 15: "If you remember where we started, we had no ventilators." Trump HHS now: Actually we started the crisis with 16,660 inherited ventilators. https://t.co/TDFGaMIif8 — PolitiTweet.org

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You know how Trump keeps saying he was left 0 ventilators? @factcheckdotorg got the first official numbers: there were 16,660 ventilators in the stockpile as of March, all left from previous administrations -- more than Trump has needed to deploy. https://t.co/FYECs1JdcK — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's Trump's public schedule for tomorrow. I put non-travel items in red. (Public schedules don't include all of a president's activities.) https://t.co/EFnzfMBuNG — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump got Fox-style interviews from evangelical CBN and Catholic EWTN. EWTN's Raymond Arroyo: "I don't know of any politician or stand-up comedian who holds forth for 2 hours with the energy and verve that you brought -- including the leather shoe routine, which was classic." — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked how he can get Black voters to give him a second look, Trump said it's "a shame" he even has to answer that question given all he's done, including HBCU funding and justice reform. He concluded, "To be honest with you, they should say, 'We love Trump.'" — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump added a new detail on EWTN to his fantastical lying about what happens with mail voting, saying that, if it's allowed to be widespread, people will take ballots not only from mailboxes but "they're gonna take 'em from postmen." — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked on Catholic TV EWTN about the fate of DACA recipients, Trump, who is trying to end DACA, promises that "they're not going to have anything to worry about." He says he wants to "win the case" and then "work it out." — PolitiTweet.org

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Speaking to Catholic TV EWTN, Trump adds a new point on statues some people want to remove: "Also, remember, some of this is great artwork. This is magnificent artwork. As good as there is anywhere in the world. As good as you see in France. As good as you see anywhere." — PolitiTweet.org

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Tonight in accusations of treason: https://t.co/7skJqHdUWJ — PolitiTweet.org

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@mynameisBethS @priscialva Some areas have a border barrier and then another barrier after that, like some prisons do. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is visiting the wall tomorrow. Official figures as of June 19, via @priscialva: 216 miles built since Jan. 2017. Of those, 3 miles built where no barriers existed before. 184 miles replace old barriers. The rest are secondary barriers, either new or replacement. — PolitiTweet.org

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He's talking about the March for Life, the event he attended in January. He was the first president to be there in person. https://t.co/JFdnWy6sUB https://t.co/irJ6K8NaCq — PolitiTweet.org

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@DaphneWhite The March for Life! — PolitiTweet.org