Daniel Dale

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump says Charlie Kirk would be a "very good pastor." He then baselessly claims that all of the department stores were not saying Merry Christmas before he was president but are now saying Merry Christmas. — PolitiTweet.org

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"I don't know if you know what was happening, but he was planning a very major attack," Trump says in his campaign speech at a megachurch, continuing to provide no details. "And we got him." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump begins at the Florida megachurch by saying that there are "thousands of people outside trying to get in." As usual, I would appreciate your help if you are outside and can let me know if this is true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TrevvyTrev @HeerJeet Certainly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joshtpm @HeerJeet Absolutely fair. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nbeaudrot @HeerJeet Yeah - I don’t think a “fact check” is the best way to handle such a claim. (I’m certainly not doing a “fact check: true.”) I’m just saying he didn’t make this up. — PolitiTweet.org

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@UzoNwokedi @BobsBoughners @HeerJeet In my view, the essence of this claim is that Iran facilitated the travel to Afghanistan of 9/11 hijackers. The 9/11 Commission said there is strong evidence that is true. Pence’s claim may still be misleading, but it’s not a lie. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nbeaudrot @HeerJeet Yes, I hear you. But people are suggesting that Pence made up the whole thing about Iran facilitating Al Qaeda travel - “Al Qaeda is Sunni!” - when that is not true. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HeerJeet The essence isn’t a lie, though “12” is obviously wrong. 9/11 Commission found evidence that “8 to 10” of the Saudi hijackers went through Iran in 2000-2001; Commisison said there is “strong evidence” Iran facilitated their Afghanistan travel, though didn’t know of the plot. — PolitiTweet.org

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Beyond my capacity, but skepticism is always warranted. Trump hasn’t provided details or evidence. https://t.co/llnFcq7Cql — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump warns Iran that if Americans anywhere are threatened, he has target lists drawn up and is prepared to take whatever action is “necessary.” He says he doesn’t seek regime change. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he took action “to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says Soleimani has been destabilizing the Middle East for 20 years and should’ve been killed “long ago.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump claims Soleimani was plotting “imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated him.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@BlakeMurphyODC They still got a lot of open looks, but I was impressed at how quickly the Heat usually closed on a lot of the passes from the middle of the zone and on swings. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DanLamothe: @ckubeNBC These soldiers will join a battalion of about 750 that arrived in Kuwait on Thursday. They are w/ the 82nd Airbor… — PolitiTweet.org

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@DakGlobe @thechrisws oh hyyy — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump has repeatedly claimed since 2018 that Iran had significantly curbed its bad international behavior because of his efforts. He boasted in June: "When I came here, they were all over the place causing terror, causing problems. They’re not doing that right now." https://t.co/HXMyI6LXRc — PolitiTweet.org

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@mooncult Fact check: This is the first article Daniel Dale has published about the “single tweet,” which got more than 1.6 million views. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SusanSp4 @RNC Please don’t spread nonsense in my feed. He routinely draws uncompensated crowds in the thousands, because millions of people like him. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump's only scheduled public event today is a campaign speech at a 7,000-capacity Hispanic evangelical megachurch in Florida. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/2Lm1DTloHN — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's Trump's public schedule for tomorrow. (Public schedules don't include all of a president's activities.) https://t.co/qLwZe9TLYM — PolitiTweet.org

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I can easily think of non-conspiracy reasons, but it's not my job to speculate. I'm telling you that prominent people are taking big leaps in the absence of evidence and without telling you what the context was, and I'm telling you what the context was. https://t.co/iraxCFtKSM — PolitiTweet.org

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@Rob_Hoffman Who knows? It's not my job to speculate, and it's really not my job to prove the negative -- I'm merely saying, as a fact man, that there's no proof of the positive. — PolitiTweet.org

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Eric Trump's "bout to open up a big ol' can of whoop ass" tweet was in response to a video of US troops who were about to depart to the US embassy in Baghdad. To suggest that it's about Soleimani, in the absence of anything else, takes a desire to think it's about Soleimani. — PolitiTweet.org

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Before you spread this conspiracy that's already irresponsibly going around: Eric Trump's deleted tweet very much does NOT show he knew of the Soleimani plans in advance. (I'm not saying I know anything. I'm saying the Eric tweet doesn't show anything.) https://t.co/3UEJOqGcsa — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump has arrived at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. — PolitiTweet.org

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I forgot that this also happened last New Year's! Thank you to @ZachMentz for reminding me of my own tweet. https://t.co/FOy0o7Cowt — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

I forgot that this also thing happened last New Year's! Thank you to @ZachMentz for reminding me of my own tweet. https://t.co/C4sP0sEgS1 — PolitiTweet.org