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Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump falsely accuses Nancy Pelosi of trying to "defend" Soleimani. He says of Soleimani, "He was the big roadside bomb guy...he was big, that was his favorite thing, he thought it was wonderful. He doesn't think it's wonderful anymore." — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump says some information about the rationale for the Soleimani decision needs to be kept secret from Congress to protect sources and methods. He says, of legislators, that maybe he can get "one or two of them some information." He emphasizes that he killed "a monster." — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
(This was almost identical to how Trump responded to criticism of his 2017 speech to the Boy Scouts. He said he'd gotten a call telling him it was the greatest speech ever given to the Boy Scout jamboree, which never happened.) — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Asked about Republican Sen. Mike Lee's criticism of the Soleimani briefing -- he said it was the worst military briefing he's received -- Trump said he's received numerous calls telling him "it was the greatest presentation they've ever had." — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump says his usual nonsense about how Adam Schiff did his bad paraphrase of Trump's Zelensky call only because "he never knew I was going to release the transcript." The debate about Schiff's comments aside, he spoke after Trump released the call document, not before. — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump says people have been lining up for days for his Toledo rally even though it's "pretty much zero degrees." It's just over zero degrees *Celsius.* — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump continues to claim that median family income has increased by $10,000 under him. What happened: he took a research firm's estimate of around a $5,000 pre-tax increase, which is much higher than the Census Bureau estimate, and added another $5,000 for nonsensical reasons. — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump, speaking of his latest environmental deregulation efforts, claims air quality is currently better than an at any point in the last 40 years. Evidence suggests it has gotten worse since 2016. https://t.co/3a6Vm8v2yt — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
The study Trump is referring to, from the American Cancer Society, notes that the cancer death rate "fell continuously" from 1991 through 2017. https://t.co/yuckPqqHQD https://t.co/zHsPEXro4J — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
RT @NBCNews: NEW: Responding to criticism of congressional briefings, VP Pence asserts to @SavannahGuthrie that admin. could not share with… — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump is expected to discuss a move to make federal agencies no longer required to take climate change into account when assessing the environmental impact of proposed infrastructure projects. — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Here’s Trump’s public schedule for tomorrow. (Public schedules don’t include all of a president’s activities.) https://t.co/I9PhIG9n66 — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
@dhackett1565 I think you have to call it if he’s dragging the guy by the jersey — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
@JLew1050 Didn’t he do a late inbounds foul like this last year? Am I imagining this — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
This is the most stressful extremely insignificant Raptors game in so long — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
The guy who invented a Michigan Man of the Year award is asking Americans to just trust him on this one. My piece on how Trump’s years of incessant lying have undermined his case on Soleimani, and how his post-killing dishonesty hasn’t helped either: https://t.co/OuEgNG0ZA3 — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
RT @CBCTheNational: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says 138 passengers killed in the Iran plane crash were connecting to Canada. https://t.c… — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Bernie Sanders didn't "hail" Soleimani as a top Iranian general. He just factually described Soleimani as a top Iranian general. As did such people as Sean Hannity. The Trump campaign's "War Room" account keeps peddling nonsense. https://t.co/T9JMUnbT8L — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump said, "3 months ago, after destroying 100 percent of ISIS and its territorial caliphate..." It is true 100% of the caliphate has been destroyed, not true 100% of ISIS has been destroyed. (This struck me as Trump misreading and doing his "and" non-correction, but who knows.) — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
$2 trillion is accurate: that's the total US military budget over the fiscal years 2017 through 2019 (the 2017 fiscal year was partly under Obama, partly under Trump). It'll be more than $700 billion in this just-started 2020 fiscal year as well. https://t.co/PQ3XKzsCxv — PolitiTweet.org
Squire John Lally @John_M_Lally
@ddale8 Was his 2 Trillion dollar figure for military spending accurate. (Sounds like a lie). Follow-up question:… https://t.co/diGeZhDjEh
Daniel Dale @ddale8
From a previous fact check, here's a timetable for the expiry and non-expiry of some of the provisions of the Iran nuclear agreement. https://t.co/ZfrRPK9I0E — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump said Iran's hostilities increased after the "foolish nuclear deal was signed in 2013." The substantive claim aside, it was signed in 2015. He said the deal "expires shortly anyway." "Shortly" is subjective, but some provisions are indefinite, and others run to 2035, 2040. — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
@ShelleyJNA Yes, that's why I said "Iranian assets that were unfrozen." — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump also keeps suggesting, with varying degrees of explicitness, that he is responsible for the US becoming the world's #1 energy producer. That happened in 2012, under Obama (whom he accuses of perpetrating a "war on American energy"), and has been the case every year since. — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump called on the other countries that are part of the Iran deal to "break away" from its "remnants." He also said the US doesn't "need" oil from the Middle East. That's subjective, but it continues to get a lot of it from there. Barrels per month from the Persian Gulf: https://t.co/IvKKC3wpzs — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump said he's going to ask NATO to get "much more involved in the Middle East process." ? — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump repeats his usual exaggeration about Iran getting $150B from the Iran nuclear deal. It was a smaller amount of Iranian assets that were unfrozen (estimates have ranged widely, but many are $100B or less). — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump says "we continue to evaluate options in response to Iranian aggression." In the meantime, he says, he'll impose additional punishing sanctions on the Iranian regime, which will remain until Iran changes its behavior. (He doesn't immediately specify the sanctions.) — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump calls Soleimani "the world's top terrorist." He outlines Soleimani's resume of killing. "In recent days he was planning new attacks on American targets, but we stopped him," he says, again providing no specifics. — PolitiTweet.org
Daniel Dale @ddale8
Trump says "Iran appears to be standing down," and that's a good thing for everyone involved and for the world. — PolitiTweet.org
