<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span class="gmail-gI"><span tabindex="-1" class="gmail-qu"><span class="gmail-gD" name="Tom Hansen">Tom Hansen</span> <span class="gmail-go"><span><</span><a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><span>> wrote:<span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div>"And remember when Trump would complain that Obama spends too much time on the golf course?<span></span></div><div>--------------------------------------<br></div><div>No, I don't remember!  </div><div><br></div><div>I can't even keep up with the 8,718 "false or misleading" claims by Trump as </div><div>of Feb. 17:</div><div><strong>(UPDATE, Feb. 17: As of 759 days, </strong><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term=.e57398108081" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0066cc">the tally is 8,718 claims</font></b></a>)<span></span></div><div>according to the Washington Post article copied below.</div><div><br></div><div>Good grief!  I just checked the latest update, by clicking on </div><div>"the tally is 8,718" as shown above </div><div>and as of March 17, 2019 the tally is 9,179!  </div><div><br></div><div>But don't be fooled by the Washington Post!  Or Dan Rather!  They are, after all, the "fake news" media!</div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div><div>---------------------------------------</div><div><h1 class="gmail-title" id="gmail-page-title"><font size="2">Dan Rather: Trump criticism of media is 'straight out of Orwell'</font></h1><div class="gmail-submitted-wrp"><span class="gmail-submitted-by">    By <a href="https://thehill.com/author/jacqueline-thomsen"><font color="#0066cc">Jacqueline Thomsen </font></a> - <span class="gmail-submitted-date">07/28/18 04:29 PM EDT</span> <span></span></span></div></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/399355-dan-rather-trump-criticism-of-media-is-straight-out-of-orwell">https://thehill.com/homenews/media/399355-dan-rather-trump-criticism-of-media-is-straight-out-of-orwell</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span>“As several people have said before me, he is not just attacking the truth, he wants to annihilate the truth,” the former anchor added. “He wants to move us completely into the post-truth political era in which there’s no such thing as objective facts.”<span><span><br></span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>----------------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr"><font size="6">President Trump made 8,158 false or misleading claims in his first two years</font></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/21/president-trump-made-false-or-misleading-claims-his-first-two-years/?utm_term=.999d476331f1">https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/21/president-trump-made-false-or-misleading-claims-his-first-two-years/?utm_term=.999d476331f1</a></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span><br></span></span></div><span><span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span>Glenn Kessler, Salvador Rizzo, Meg Kelly<div dir="ltr"><br></div></span></span><div dir="ltr"><span><span><p><b>UPDATE, Feb. 17: As of 759 days, </b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?utm_term=.e57398108081" target="_blank"><b><font color="#0066cc">the tally is 8,718 claims</font></b></a></p><p>Two years after taking the oath of office, President Trump has made 8,158 false or misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president.</p><p>That includes an astonishing 6,000-plus such claims in the president’s second year.</p><p>Put another way: The president averaged nearly 5.9 false or misleading claims a day in his first year in office. But he hit nearly 16.5 a day in his second year, almost triple the pace.</p><p>We started this project as part of our coverage of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.1edb5ec9c79d" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">the president’s first 100 days</font></a>, largely because we could not possibly keep up with the pace and volume of the president’s misstatements. Readers demanded we keep it going for the rest of Trump’s presidency. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.b04dccccc2a9" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">Our interactive graphic</font></a>, managed with the help of Leslie Shapiro of The Washington Post graphics department, displays a running list of every false or misleading statement made by Trump. You can also search for specific claims or obtain monthly or daily totals.</p><p>In the first 100 days, the president made 492 unsupported claims. He managed to top that number just in the first three weeks of 2019. In October, as he was barnstorming the country in advance of the midterm elections, he made more than 1,200 false or misleading claims.</p><p>Not surprisingly, the biggest source of misleading claims is immigration, with a tally that has grown with the addition of 300 immigration claims in the past three weeks, for a total of 1,433.</p><p>In the president’s immigration address Saturday, the last day of his second year in office, we counted 12 false or misleading claims, including:</p><p><i>"Heroin alone kills 300 Americans a week, 90 percent of which comes across our southern border.” </i></p><ul><li>The 300-a-week number checks out. But while 90 percent of the heroin sold in the United States comes from Mexico, virtually all of it comes through legal points of entry. “A small percentage of all heroin seized by [Customs and Border Protection] along the land border was between Ports of Entry (POEs),” the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a 2018 report. So Trump’s wall would do little to halt drug trafficking. Trump’s repeated claim that the wall would stop drug trafficking is a Bottomless Pinocchio claim.</li></ul><p><i>“Many of these security ideas have been proposed by Democrats themselves, and all of them have been supported by Democrats in the past, including a physical barrier wall or fence.” </i></p><li>Trump overstates the supposed Democratic support. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and many Democrats (although not Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California) voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, which was signed by President George W. Bush and authorized construction of a fence along nearly 700 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. It passed 283 to 138 in the House, with 64 Democratic votes, and 80 to 19 in the Senate, with 26 Democratic votes. But the fence they voted for is not as substantial as the wall Trump is proposing. Trump himself has called the 2006 fence a “nothing wall.” </li><p><i>"However, the whole concept of having lengthy trials, for anyone who sets one foot in our country unlawfully, must be changed by Congress. It is unsustainable. It is ridiculous. Few places in the world would even consider such an impossible nightmare.” </i></p><ul><li>Trump is routinely astonished by U.S. and international laws on asylum. This is how it works in any country that abides by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees: A refugee enters and makes a petition, and the government makes a ruling after analyzing the facts. It’s also worth keeping in mind that <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/06/26/president-trumps-misconceptions-about-immigration-courts-and-law/?utm_term=.5ed62f2f3105" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">85 percent</font></a> of all deportations in the United States are ordered quickly, without a hearing before a judge. </li></ul><p><i>"If we build a powerful and fully designed see-through steel barrier on our southern border, the crime rate and drug problem in our country would be quickly and greatly reduced. Some say it could be cut in half.” </i></p><ul><li>Trump’s statement that a border wall would cut the nation’s crime rate — and “drug problem” — in half is simply laughable. There is no evidence to suggest that is the case. Most undocumented immigrants do not illegally cross the southern border, undocumented immigrants do not commit crimes at a rate higher than U.S. citizens, and drugs flow through the border mostly through legal crossing points. </li></ul><p><i>"Thousands of children are being exploited by ruthless coyotes and vicious cartels and gangs.” </i></p><ul><li>Here’s an example of where the president or his aides appear to have responded to our fact checks. No government statistic tracks children smuggled in by bad actors, “coyotes” or drug gangs, and for this speech, Trump has altered his usual claim that “last month alone, 20,000 minors were smuggled into the United States.” Now the number is fuzzier, and he no longer says “smuggled” but uses a weaker “exploited.” Trump previously referred to Customs and Border Protection’s number for family-unit apprehensions and unaccompanied minors. But we have pointed out that it’s wrong to describe it as a statistic that represents children being smuggled into the country. Trump appears to be acknowledging there are no firm numbers for how many parents might have hired a smuggler, coyote or gang member — though there is no evidence that the figure would be “thousands.” </li></ul><p>Claims about foreign policy (900) and trade (854) rank second and third, followed by claims about the economy (790) and jobs (755). But there’s also a grab-bag category of “miscellaneous” (899), which includes misleading attacks on the media or people the president perceives as enemies.</p><span class="gmail-wp-inline-bb gmail-pb-centered-bb" id="gmail-slug_inline_bb_3" style="margin:auto"><div id="gmail-google_ads_iframe_/701/wpni.politics/fact-checker_9__container__" style="border:0pt currentColor"><span><span><p>By our count, there were only 82 days — or about 11 percent of the time — on which we recorded no claims. These were often days when the president golfed.</p><p>But there were also 74 days, or about 10 percent of his presidency, in which Trump made more than 30 claims. These were often days when he held campaign-style rallies, riffing without much of a script.</p><p>Trump has made many misleading claims about the investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election, claiming 192 times a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/03/20/president-trumps-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-twitter-day/?utm_term=.1aa0393c4325"><font color="#0066cc">variation of the statement that it was a hoax perpetuated by Democrats</font></a>. The CIA, the FBI and the National Security Agency had announced that they had “high confidence” that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to influence the election, with a clear preference for Trump. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III was appointed by Trump’s Justice Department, and the congressional committees investigating the matter have been headed by Republicans.</p><span><span><p>Trump repeated 127 times the falsehood about securing the biggest tax cut in U.S. history, even <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/11/01/president-trumps-tax-cut-not-the-biggest-in-u-s-history/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.477e2192f832"><font color="#0066cc">though Treasury Department data shows it would rank eighth</font></a>. And 126 times, he has falsely claimed that the United States has lost money on trade deficits. Countries do not “lose” money on trade deficits. A trade deficit simply means that people in one country are buying more goods from another country than people in the second country are buying from the first country. Trade deficits are also affected by macroeconomic factors, such as currencies, economic growth and savings and investment rates.</p><p>Visit <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/fact-checker-most-repeated-disinformation/?utm_term=.ce103ea344c7" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">our website of Bottomless Pinocchios </font></a>for highly misleading or false claims that the president has made so often that they have become a form of disinformation.</p><p><i>(Contributors to the database over the past two years include Michelle Ye Hee Lee and Nicole Lewis.</i>)<span><span><br></span></span></p></span><p><br></p></span><p><br></p></span><p><p></p></p></span></div><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span><span><span><div dir="ltr"><span><span><span><span><br></span></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 11:19 AM Tom Hansen <<a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr">Yes.<div><br></div><div>And remember when Trump would complain that Obama spends too much time on the golf course?</div><div><br></div><div>For you, Donnie-boy . . .</div><div><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Tribute_to_Trump.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.tomandrodna.com/songs/Tribute_to_Trump.mp3</a><br><br><div id="gmail-m_6088016187183659281AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">  </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Mar 25, 2019, at 10:39 AM, Nicholas Gier <<a href="mailto:ngier006@gmail.com" target="_blank">ngier006@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-content-list-component gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-yr-content-list-text gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-text" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;w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sts-largest-monthly-budget-deficit-on-record-in-february" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">20 percent drop in corporate revenue and increased federal spending</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:1.12rem;white-space:pre-wrap">. The Trump administration slashed corporate taxes in his new 2017 tax law from 35 percent to 21 percent. Trump’s tax-cut package cost the government $1.5 trillion.</span></div></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></span></div><div class="gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-content-list-component gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-yr-content-list-text gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-text" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;width:643.2px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;max-width:720px;box-sizing:inherit"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75rem;font-size:1.12rem;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">“When you pass the <a style="color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:inherit" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-government-ran-a-544-billion-deficit-over-the-first-5-months-of-the-fiscal-year/2019/03/22/932d3438-4cc8-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html?utm_term=.c15a772d8ab3" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">most irresponsible tax cut</a> followed by the most irresponsible spending increase, unsurprisingly it leads to the largest deficit numbers,” Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, told The Washington Post. “Predictably, that’s exactly where we landed.”</p></div><div class="gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-content-list-component gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-yr-content-list-text gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-text" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;width:643.2px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;max-width:720px;box-sizing:inherit"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75rem;font-size:1.12rem;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">The deficit for the first five months of the federal fiscal year is $544.2 billion, up nearly 40 percent from the same period the previous year, according to Treasury figures. </p></div><div id="gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-inline-newsletter_placeholder" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;box-sizing:inherit"><div class="gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-content-list-component gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-yr-content-list-text gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-text" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;width:643.2px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;max-width:720px;box-sizing:inherit"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75rem;font-size:1.12rem;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">The budget gap was $234 billion in February alone, which <a style="color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:inherit" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-22/u-s-posts-largest-monthly-budget-deficit-on-record-in-february" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">surpassed the earlier monthly record</a> of $231.7 billion seven years ago, according to an analysis of data by Bloomberg.</p></div><div class="gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-content-list-component gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-yr-content-list-text gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-text" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;width:643.2px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;max-width:720px;box-sizing:inherit"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75rem;font-size:1.12rem;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">Total spending was <a style="color:rgb(0,0,0);box-sizing:inherit" href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-budget-deficit-widens-to-234-billion-in-february-2019-03-22" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">$401 billion in February</a> while the government took in just $167 billion.</p></div><div class="gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-content-list-component gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-yr-content-list-text gmail-m_6088016187183659281gmail-text" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;width:643.2px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.5em;font-family:ProximaNova,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:18px;max-width:720px;box-sizing:inherit"><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;line-height:1.75rem;font-size:1.12rem;white-space:pre-wrap;box-sizing:inherit">Corporations have so far this fiscal year paid $59.2 billion in taxes, compared to $87.4 billion at this point ini 2017 before Trump’s tax law was enacted.</p></div><div class="gmail-m_6088016187183659281gma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“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. 
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance 
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not 
in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it 
without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your 
own understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.<br>
<br>
--Immanuel Kant<br>
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