Daniel Dale

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Trump calls Democrats the party of "blatant corruption." — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump repeats his already-disproven promise that he will always protect patients with pre-existing conditions. He has repeatedly pushed bills that would have weakened these protections; he is currently supporting a lawsuit to get rid of Obamacare entirely. — PolitiTweet.org

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This "people outside" claim is always one of the most time-consuming to fact check, so if anyone sees any crowd-reporting from outside (or if you're a reporter outside), please message me or email [email protected]. https://t.co/SzC6ya2Ha1 — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump claims Democrats "want to give more to illegal aliens than they give to American citizens." Some Democrats want undocumented immigrants to get access to the same programs and benefits as citizens get, not more. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is incorporating his wife into this very long story about his 2016 Republican-primary debate preparation, claiming to have said, upon seeing that Ted Cruz was a national debate champion, "My potential first lady, I've got a problem." — PolitiTweet.org

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We are on the Jim Gilmore portion of the proceedings. Trump is shouting about his preparations for the 2016 debates. He said he fired his debate coach in about 10 minutes, because he advised Trump to never interrupt anyone, and you can't beat Ted Cruz without interrupting. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump falsely claims that "we didn't win any cases" at the WTO before him, not "anything for years, practically." Trump's own Council of Economic Advisers said in a February report that the US had won 86% of the cases it has brought since 1995. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is recounting election night 2016 in great detail -- with a rare bonus bashing of Evan McMullin, referring to him as "the guy with the shaved head." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he can be very presidential, more than any other president except for Abraham Lincoln in his hat, and "all you have to do is act like a stiff." He acts out being a stiff. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says his usual semi-comedic wrong thing about how the use of wind power means that you can't watch TV if the wind isn't presently blowing. The Energy Department has a whole thing on its website explaining that this thought is wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump claims to have ended a "war" on American energy, then boasts of the US becoming the #1 producer of oil and gas in the world. That accomplishment happened in 2012, under Obama, whom he accuses of perpetrating the "war." — PolitiTweet.org

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It is the lowest unemployment rate in just under 50 years. Trump makes it "51 years," because. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump claims there are "close to 30,000 people" outside. (Is anyone outside reporting?) He asks the fire marshal to fill up a "little area" on the floor that is empty, while also claiming to have broken the arena record. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump claims to have spent more than $2.5 trillion on the armed forces. That total appears to include the defense appropriation for the 2020 fiscal year, which hasn't been completed yet. (And the 2020 fiscal year just started.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump tells the wrong version of his story about Mexican soldiers deployed to combat migration, saying there are 27,000 "on our border." The 25,000+ are divided between Mexico's northern and southern border. CBP's Mark Morgan says it's about 15,000 on the US border. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Bring our soldiers back home. Bring our soldiers back home," Trump says. He is not currently doing so, having deployed 1,800 more to Saudi Arabia and redeployed the troops being withdrawn from Syria to elsewhere in the region. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says that a bit of war was necessary in northern Syria: "Sometimes you have to let 'em fight a little while." He likens the situation to a childhood scrap: "Like two kids in a lot...let 'em fight...and then you pull 'em apart." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump calls Erdogan "a gentleman," saying he just needed "a little tough love." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is telling a extremely nonsensical story about how people tried to make a deal with Turkey for 15, 20 years but couldn't, but he got it done. The Syrian Civil War is less than 10 years old. This is an extremely narrow deal related to Turkey's offensive this month. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump tells his now-standard Sir story about a general telling him "we don't have ammunition." The military did say there was a shortage of certain precision bombs at the time, but the broad "no ammunition" claim is obviously false. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says sir a lot, then begins railing about Hillary Clinton's emails. — PolitiTweet.org

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For at least the 10th time as president, Trump exaggerates the (impressive) number of rescues the Coast Guard did during Hurricane Harvey, as usual saying "16,000." The Coast Guard told me it was 11,022. — PolitiTweet.org

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"You made a fortune on the hurricane," Trump tells Texas of federal recovery money. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on Texas: "You had a hurricane two years ago now. They (local Republicans) still keep calling me for money. 'Sir, could you give us another...Thank you for being so generous to Texas, sir.'" As he used to, he says that Hurricane Harvey had "the biggest dump of water." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump calls Rep. Louie Gohmert "a man who is smart as hell." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on the Bidens: "You-know-what and pillage. It's the R-word. You-know-what and pillage. You know what word I'm talking about, right? I don't want to use it 'cause they'll say it's a horrible word that Trump used." No evidence Joe Biden ever profited from his son's dealings. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump after bashing Hunter Biden's China business dealings after flying there on Air Force Two: Can you imagine if Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump or Ivanka Trump? (He trails off.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump claims the US trade deficit with China was $500 billion for years ("we lose $500 billion"). The trade deficit with China has never been $500 billion. "We lose with everybody," Trump adds, though the US long had trade surpluses with dozens of countries. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is saying his usual false things about how tariffs have cost Americans "nothing" and China is "eating" all of them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump falsely says China has never spent more than $20 billion in a year on US agriculture. It spent $25.9 billion in 2012. Trump usually says it never spent more than $16 billion. — PolitiTweet.org