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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s torrent of twisted claims on Russia

April 28, 2019 admin AP Fact Check, Donald Trump, Latest News Stories, Trump's Russian ties, World

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 15:51:38 +0000

WASHINGTON — Russia keeps reverberating even with special counsel Robert Mueller’s report now part of history. As much as President Donald Trump says he wants the United States to move on, he’s found it hard to turn away himself, as seen in a torrent of tweets and remarks railing against Democrats, trashing Mueller and painting […]

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump knew WikiLeaks until he didn’t

April 14, 2019 admin AP Fact Check, Donald Trump, Latest News Stories, WikiLeaks, World

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 10:40:02 +0000

President Donald Trump knew WikiLeaks until he didn’t. With his government seeking to prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Trump is drawing a blank on a hacking organization he praised to the rafters during the 2016 campaign because of the discomfort it caused his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s relentless drive to be given credit

March 30, 2019 admin AP Fact Check, Donald Trump, Latest News Stories, World

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 14:01:24 +0000

President Donald Trump’s relentless drive to be given credit for all manner of things suffused his speech to Michigan supporters this past week.

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump plays down white nationalist threat

March 19, 2019 admin AP Fact Check, Donald Trump, Latest News Stories, white nationalist threat, World

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:58:22 +0000

President Donald Trump appears to be oblivious to the threat of white nationalism. Following a deadly mosque shooting in New Zealand, he said white supremacy isn’t a rising danger. But data — including from his own Justice Department — point to rising hate group activity while he’s been in office.

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump claims an exoneration he wasn’t given

March 10, 2019 admin AP Fact Check, Donald Trump, Latest News Stories, Russia probe, Trump's Russian ties, World

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2019 10:29:03 +0000

Donald Trump heard words from a judge that the judge didn’t speak, as the president reached to denounce the Russia investigation as a hoax and celebrate an exoneration he wasn’t given.

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump spins fiction about diversity visas

February 18, 2019 admin AP Fact Check, diversity visa lottery, Donald Trump, Latest News Stories, World

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 10:24:41 +0000

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is going after the “horror show” known as the diversity visa lottery program. His description of it is pure fiction. The president offered a multitude of fabrications and partial truths over the past week on the subject of immigration — both the legal and illegal varieties — as he declared […]

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump on the wall, and a ban on cows?

February 12, 2019 admin AP Fact Check, Donald Trump, Latest News Stories, us border wall, World

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 13:08:36 +0000

WASHINGTON — Let Democrats have their way, President Donald Trump suggested, and the United States will become a country without border security, airplanes or cows. Trump warned of a variety of dire consequences from the Democratic playbook as he rallied Monday night in the border city of El Paso, Texas, in a hall where banners […]

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AP FACT CHECK: Trump swipes progress from Obama era

February 10, 2019 admin AP Fact Check, Donald Trump, Latest News Stories, World

Credit to Author: Alexander Magno| Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 14:09:25 +0000

WASHINGTON — In President Donald Trump’s estimation, the good times began to roll for the country on the night he was elected. So he doesn’t hesitate to swipe job growth from the twilight of the Obama administration and claim it as his own. That overreach, seen in his State of the Union speech and other […]

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