Daniel Dale

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@KFILE Did it ever get better — PolitiTweet.org

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@3rdandKing @JamesFallows It matters whether I quote him correctly or incorrectly, yes — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesFallows Yeah, I agree! It's mumbly, but you're right — PolitiTweet.org

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I messed up a Trump quote live-tweeting earlier: he said that if he wasn't elected, there'd be a war with North Korea, then said right now "maybe the war would be over," not "maybe the *world* would be over." My fault, and thanks to @JamesFallows for the heads up. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesFallows I deleted out of caution! Will check. Thank you — PolitiTweet.org

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Rally, rally, we want a rally: Trump bashes Iran, "Sleepy Joe," and John Kerry; repeats his usual exaggerated figure for how much money Iran got in the nuclear deal (and doesn't explain it was Iran's money); falsely insists that Americans aren't paying his tariffs on China. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump after claiming there would be a war with North Korea if he wasn't elected: If I wasn't elected, "maybe the world would be over." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says Kim Jong Un wouldn't meet with Obama. Obama never wanted to meet with Kim Jong Un. Never called, never tried, had a strategy of non-engagement. — PolitiTweet.org

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"President Obama left us no ammunition." Entirely false. Trump is exaggerating about a shortage of certain precision munitions, caused by how much anti-ISIS bombing happened under Obama. — PolitiTweet.org

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The reporter is noting that Trump himself has issued distancing guidelines and asking Trump whether Moore and company aren't actually protesting Trump's own advice. He is not engaging directly. — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked about Stephen Moore's quote about how anti-distancing protesters are "modern-day Rosa Parks," protesting injustice, Trump says, "There is a lot of injustice." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump asked about his retweet about mosques: I just spoke with people who "love mosques," and I'm "all in favor of that," but "I've seen a great disparity" in how "they go after Christian churches" but not mosques; Christians are treated unfairly. (Much vagueness.) — PolitiTweet.org

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A reporter cites criticism from Sen. Angus King, noting he's an independent. Trump says he's not, he's a Democrat. (He does caucus with the Democrats.) He then says, "Angus King is worse than any Democrat." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: There is a "concept" of "let's let it ride," and some countries "that I like" chose that strategy, and now, because we didn't, we'll be lower than "the minimum" of 100,000 people dying. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: We can spend our $500 million in WHO funding in a much more "efficient" manner, if we want to do that, and it'll do more good than it does now. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on the US spending $6B a year on the PEPFAR global anti-AIDS effort: "Nobody knows that." He then adds what "nobody knows that" always means but he rarely says out loud: "I've never heard that." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @maggieNYT: The president has gone from calling the Meadows cries story a fake to saying he was crying for another reason. — PolitiTweet.org

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I've been tweeting non-newsworthy Trump quotes for five years now https://t.co/VkC3OzbAWj — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is baselessly accusing Maggie Haberman of writing negative stories, like a story that said Mark Meadows cried, out of retribution. He says he took a picture with Maggie once but he really hasn't talked to her in a while, since she's "fake," like a "lot of fake people." — PolitiTweet.org

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The president has a complicated relationship with crying. https://t.co/UWCcGETAqX — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is upset with Maggie Haberman for a story about how Mark Meadows cried. "It's OK if he did...I think he was crying, probably, really for the wrong reason they had it down...but he's not a crier..." He says some very famous people cry, but still, that story was "nasty." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: Some of the media has been very honest but some very dishonest. He says Maggie Haberman and others should give back their Pulitzer prizes for their Russia coverage. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "We're only talking about a few weeks since everybody knew this was such a big problem." "Everybody" is vague, but it is very much untrue that it wasn't widely known until late March that the coronavirus was a big problem. — PolitiTweet.org

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"V for victory...or ventilator..." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on Pence's call with Democratic legislators: "I heard they were so rude." "They were fresh, they were nasty, and it was, I heard, just a terrible thing." — PolitiTweet.org

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The president is talking about a lot of different subjects in rapid succession. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says people are being "very politically correct" at the Air Force Academy graduation by standing 10 feet apart rather than just 6 feet. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is boasting about how good the Dow used to be, and how it didn't fall as low as it could have. If you'd told me that it'd be "much, much higher than when I started" even after this "plague," "I think we have tremendous momentum...big election coming up..." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "You're going to see some incredible hard facts and evidence that what we did was right." Had we done it "a different way," millions would've died; 60,000 is "horrible," especially when "it could've been stopped in China"... He is now boasting about the former economy — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on all he's done for, I think, governors criticizing him: "We just got them testing that they don't even know how to use." He says, "We've had people explain how to use it. Uh, so, I don't know, I don't think I'd do that on the other side (criticize him)..." — PolitiTweet.org