Daniel Dale

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Trump on ISIS prisoners in Syria: "We. We. Not Obama. WE captured them." He kept bringing up Obama unprompted. (Many of the prisoners were captured during the Obama era.) — PolitiTweet.org

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"We're bringing our soldiers back home," Trump declares, though he is not currently doing that. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on the Kurds: "They're no angels. But we helped the Kurds." — PolitiTweet.org

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Five days after correctly saying this is China's worst year for GDP growth in "27 years," Trump said twice today that it's China's worst year in "57 years." (China's official numbers are not good, but there's no basis for "57 years.") — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on ISIS prisoners and Syria: "I'm the one that did the capturing. I'm the one that knows more about it than you people or the fake pundits." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump spoke about Obama with particular disdain today, bashing him over Syria, North Korea, and his Netflix deal. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump falsely says that American soldiers were originally supposed to be in Syria for only "30 days" and then falsely says it's now been "10 years." — PolitiTweet.org

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"These people are sick. There's something wrong with them," Trump said of Hillary Clinton and/or his critics more broadly. Rejecting Clinton's claims, he said Jill Stein and Tulsi Gabbard are not Russian agents or assets. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump has for months been making versions of this claim about Obama being spurned by Kim Jong Un. Every version is baseless. https://t.co/SwiK1tentb — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump ranted at length during the Cabinet meeting, bouncing from the G7 to Obama to whistleblowers to "Never Trumpers." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump repeated his lie that Kim Jong Un wouldn't take Obama phone calls, saying he asked Obama if he tried to call, and Obama said no, but: "Actually, he tried, 11 times. But the man on the other side, the gentleman on the other side, did not take his call. Lack of respect." — PolitiTweet.org

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"I haven't had an empty seat at a rally," Trump said, though he has had empty seats at multiple rallies, then said he set an attendance record in Dallas, though he did not. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump, in the middle of a monologue about how George Washington was also a businessman while in office, cast baseless aspersions on Obama's post-presidency deal with Netflix. He then mocked the "phony Emoluments Clause," which is in the actual Constitution. — PolitiTweet.org

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"I get more promotion than any human being that's ever lived," Trump said, dismissing criticism about how a Doral G7 would have served as marketing for his resort. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump falsely says "they say" no other president gave away their salary, that he's the only one. Hoover and Kennedy both donated their salaries. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump dismissed the military mission in Syria as "playing with guns." He said the US has much better forms of power. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump said he had "25,000" at his Dallas rally, which was held at a 20,000-capacity arena. — PolitiTweet.org

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There was some confusion based on the pool report -- Trump didn't say the whistleblower might be Schiff. He said (equally baselessly) that the whistleblower's "informant," or source of information, might be Schiff. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "What happened to the whistleblower? They're gone, because they've been discredited." There is no indication any whistleblower has vanished. — PolitiTweet.org

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"People have been trying to make this deal for years," Trump says nonsensically (fact check: https://t.co/CfP3nTnL91). After claiming the Kurds and Turkey have been fighting for "200 years," he promotes it this time to "300 years." — PolitiTweet.org

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"We never agreed to protect the Kurds...we never agreed to protect the Kurds for the rest of their lives," Trump said at Cabinet. — PolitiTweet.org

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Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and press secretary Stephanie Grisham had said that Trump's company would provide the G7 "at cost" at Doral. After Trump announced it would not be held at Doral, Trump started saying he would have provided it "free." — PolitiTweet.org

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This may (may!) be what Trump has been talking about with his vague statements about taking control of “the oil.” — PolitiTweet.org

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Romney’s burner tweets are verrry Kevin Durant — 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/aTIUR2TwIj — PolitiTweet.org

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Wasn't an exact transcript. No indication either whistleblower has somehow vanished. First whistleblower's account of the call was highly accurate. https://t.co/uevZ1DCk47 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jdawsey1: Admin officials do not believe Esper has said this anywhere publicly and are confused by tweet. https://t.co/PgHEO61KXL — PolitiTweet.org

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@derrylm It is a joke — PolitiTweet.org

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Lallana, always delivering — PolitiTweet.org

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If we fact check a Trump lie once or twice and he repeats the lie 100 times, he wins with those other 98. Some of my thoughts on how the media should deal with the serial lying: https://t.co/x8FaWCsJwa — PolitiTweet.org