Daniel Dale

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump has said at least nine times since last week that the rough transcript proves the whistleblower was totally inaccurate about his call. The rough transcript corroborates the whistleblower's three chief allegations. My fact check with @jaketapper: https://t.co/i6fePKAQNp — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump claims his poll numbers have increased "17 points in the last two or three days." Nothing like that has happened in the public polls. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump says few people could handle what he's having to handle, but "I sort of thrive." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is criticizing Rep. Adam Schiff at length for Schiff's rendition of his phone call with Zelensky. "I think he's having some kind of a breakdown," Trump says of Schiff. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says it's shocking that Ukraine is so corrupt because he knows Ukrainian people and they are good. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump transitions from Syria and the Kurds to a poll he says he saw where he is "up massively with independent voters." He's making the point that he campaigned against endless wars. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says the hardest thing he has to do in the job is write letters to the families of slain soldiers. He says he makes each letter different because all of the individuals are different. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "If you look at some of the Kurds...that's a natural enemy of Turkey." He decries the US injecting itself into "tribal wars" and "revolutions." — PolitiTweet.org

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Asked if he consulted with the Joint Chiefs, Trump says, "I consulted with everybody." He says he "always" consults with everybody. — PolitiTweet.org

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"If Turkey does anything out of what they should be doing," Trump says, he will severely damage their economy. He isn't being specific about what Turkey should be doing. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says countries in the "neighborhood" -- "not a friendly neighborhood" - have "got armies" and "can do the work." He says they hate ISIS and ISIS also hates them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on European countries' refusal to take back their ISIS nationals: "Maybe they won't be saying no now, I don't know." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is taking sole credit for defeating the ISIS caliphate ("I took it over"). He says he wanted ISIS fighters and families to go back to Europe, "and they said no no no." He says "they're so used to the United States being a sucker, being a fool." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says "there's a lot of pressure on Turkey." He says Obama "created a natural war" between Turkey and the PKK (?). He says, "I've told Turkey that if they do anything outside of what we would think is humane...they could suffer the wrath of an extremely decimated economy." — PolitiTweet.org

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"Digital is becoming a very big factor in the world," Trump says in announcing the US-Japan Digital Trade Agreement. — PolitiTweet.org

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Left: Mitch McConnell's statement on Trump's call with Zelensky Right: How Trump described the statement https://t.co/ONr8L0egbr — PolitiTweet.org

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Left: Mitch McConnell's statement on Trump's call with Zelensky Right: McConnell's actual statement https://t.co/aTJDeEFNha — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s not illegal to meet a whistleblower. The whistleblower wasn’t way off on the call. The Syria mission didn’t have a 30-day timeline. The guy in that photo isn’t Burisma’s boss. Trump doesn’t have 95% GOP approval. Fact checks on his tweet barrage: https://t.co/aIj9HcLsZF — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump has tweeted a bunch of things in the past few days. A lot of them -- on Biden and his son, on whistleblowers, on Syria -- are not at all true. Here is a fact check: https://t.co/aIj9HcLsZF — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump has said twice in the last week that "you" don't hear anymore about veterans being treated badly at the VA, now that he has fixed things. Here are just four headlines from the last five weeks: https://t.co/SXJflNnBoG — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JProskowGlobal: Trump proclaims that he has "great and unmatched wisdom" -- Also threatens to obliterate the economy of a NATO ally. ht… — PolitiTweet.org

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@ekoreen This is great — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump has added a 3:30 PM event to his schedule, a signing of his trade deal with Japan. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joeyayoub Cool cool. — PolitiTweet.org

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@joeyayoub To be clear, I'm not focusing on mocking the language - I'm making clear this statement seems to have come from Trump himself. — PolitiTweet.org

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The captured ISIS fighters are not “mostly from Europe.” Trump’s anti-ISIS envoy says 8,000 of 10,000 are Iraqi or Syrian. https://t.co/MgrD06YF26 — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s not true that the US presence in Syria was supposed to last 30 days. There was never a specific time period attached. Trump previously said eight times that US troops were supposed to be there for “four months.” https://t.co/FzhV8G24Hf — PolitiTweet.org

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After that Syria announcement, Trump’s schedule for tomorrow includes a meeting with military leaders - open to press pool coverage - and then a private dinner with those leaders and their spouses. https://t.co/9efVY1re9l — PolitiTweet.org

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There are some White House statements that sound like they’ve been written through an interagency process and some White House statements that sound a lot like Donald Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jdickerson: This was two days ago....”Pentagon spokesman Cmdr. Sean Robertson said any “uncoordinated military operations by Turkey wou… — PolitiTweet.org