Daniel Dale

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Trump: "People love Canada, I love Canada, but there were few countries that took advantage of us more than Canada." — PolitiTweet.org

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It's not exactly true to say the USMCA requires 75% of all cars to be made in North America. That's how much needs to be made here for tariff-free treatment. Companies can manufacture abroad and just pay the standard tariff, which will be cheaper in many cases. — PolitiTweet.org

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As always, almost nothing Trump says in a Sir story is true. https://t.co/btNEq79B6W — PolitiTweet.org

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Sir Alert: Trump says he asked Sonny Perdue what China's biggest year of agricultural purchases was, "And he said 16 billion dollars, sir," and so he decided to give farmers $16 billion in aid. It was $29.6 billion in 2014, according to US Department of Agriculture figures. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump reads from his text that almost 1 in 5 auto jobs were lost under NAFTA, then says, "I think that's a wrong number. I think it's worse than that." He frequently casts doubt on the numbers he has just recited. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on immigration: "Our laws are so bad, our military can't do a damn thing. We have the greatest military in the world, but between catch and release..." (He doesn't finish the sentence.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump repeats his usual inaccurate description of Obama's "magic wand" comments, wrongly saying his administration said all manufacturing was gone. Obama said at a 2016 PBS event that some jobs were gone, but he simultaneously boasted about how many were being created. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "Millions and millions of jobs were lost during, I call them, the stupid years. But now we're back into the really smart years. We had the smart years, now we're the really smart years. They were the stupid years." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump is touting his cuts to regulations, low unemployment and other economic accomplishments. He says, "What we did was so crazy. We helped other countries, we never thought about our own country. We lost the magic. We've gotten it back...greater than ever before." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he talked to a pilot, "he looked like Central Casting - Tom Cruise but maybe better. A little taller and a little stronger. And I said, 'So tell me how good is the F-35 compared to other planes, enemy craft?' He said, 'Well, they have a problem. They can't see it.' — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump bashes the "fake news" for suggesting that lots of people might not show up to his Salute to America. He notes that people showed up even though it was raining. (This is a speech on the USMCA.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump refers to "the great state of Pennsylvania," then says, "Some people would say 'Commonwealth,'" then adds, "I'll call it: both." — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @TimAlberta: I can confirm that I did not pay Paul Ryan for the interview. (He did, however, offer me a Miller Lite at 2pm.) https://t.c… — PolitiTweet.org

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Well, that was that. Trump spoke to reporters on the lawn for about half an hour, saying all sorts of things. — PolitiTweet.org

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@idrislg79 It's pretty hot in the sun — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump claims he loses "billions of dollars" because he is president. (There is evidence both that he is profiting from the presidency, as with his DC hotel, and that some of his business has suffered because of his political career.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says Paul Ryan was a "terrible speaker," explaining: "Frankly, he was a baby." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump calls the New York Times the "enemy of the people," again. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump has called Ocasio-Cortez "Cortez" three times and "Ocasio" once, never both together. — PolitiTweet.org

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Tears Alert: Trump says people at the Border Patrol and ICE called him "almost crying" about the New York Times story on conditions in detention centers, since it was so phony. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump: "I'll tell you something about Nancy Pelosi that you know better than I do: she is not a racist. She is not a racist. For them to call her a racist is a disgrace." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump twice refers to Ocasio-Cortez as "Cortez." He calls her "very disrespectful to somebody that's been there a long time" in Pelosi. "I don't think that Nancy can let that go on." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on Acosta: "He was a great student at Harvard. He's Hispanic. Which I so admire. Because maybe it was a little tougher for him. And maybe not." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump claims he has been tougher on Russia than "any president in the last 50 years." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on Kim Jong Un: "You have a man that was so happy to see me. That's a good thing, not a bad thing." He says Kim doesn't smile a lot, but "when he saw me, he smiled. He was happy." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump on Veterans Choice: "I got it. Nobody else could've gotten it." Barack Obama signed the Bernie Sanders-John McCain bipartisan Choice bill into law in 2014. — PolitiTweet.org

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After arguing for the necessity of a citizenship question on the Census, and going to the Supreme Court to fight for it, Trump now says "only the fake news" would say getting the info from non-Census data isn't superior. — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says getting citizenship information through government data will be "actually more accurate than a Census." Asked if he backed down, he said not only did he not back down, "I backed UP." — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump in 2002 called Epstein a "terrific guy," telling NYMag, "He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.” https://t.co/ezQKCfqFXB — PolitiTweet.org

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Trump says he "wasn't a fan" of Epstein, noting he kicked him out of Mar-a-Lago. He says of this eventual eviction: "It shows you one thing: I have good taste." — PolitiTweet.org