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True (4%) — 15 of 350 Researched Statements

Mostly True (12%) — 41 of 350 Researched Statements

Half True (15%) — 51 of 350 Researched Statements

Mostly False (19%) — 66 of 350 Researched Statements

False (33%) — 115 of 350 Researched Statements

Pants on Fire (18%) — 62 of 350 Researched Statements

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The 5 questions Gordon Sondland needs to answer
No. 1: Were you acting of your own volition, or at the direction of Trump? ... read more
The Washington Post2019-11-19
6 hours ago
‘Still a lot of water to go down this creek’: reaction to Trump impeachment hearing
The U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held its third day of public hearings on Tuesday in an impeachment inquiry examining President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine, with four witnesses testifying on two panels. ... read more
Reuters2019-11-19
6 hours ago
Officials Testify That Trump Requests on Ukraine Call Were Inappropriate
In the second week of impeachment hearings, two White House national security aides recalled their concerns after the president’s call with his Ukrainian counterpart. ... read more
The New York Times2019-11-19
6 hours ago
Tuesday’s impeachment hearings were a disaster for Republicans
Ranking member Representative Devin Nunes of Califorina (left), listens as Ambassador Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine, and Tim Morrison, a former official at the National Security Council, testify before the House Intelligence Committee on November 19, 2019. | Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/AFP/Getty Images Even their own witnesses said damaging stuff. In theory, the makeup of Tuesday’s House Intelligence impeachment hearings could have led to a balanced day, with some good news for Democrats and some for Republicans. The first part of the hearing featured testimony from two witnesses called by the Democrats: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council ... read more
Vox2019-11-19
7 hours ago
Vox Sentences: California vs. carmakers
Bill Pugliano / Getty Images California’s government boycotts automotive companies in an emissions standards dispute; rape charges against WikiLeaks’s founder dropped in Sweden. Vox Sentences is your daily digest for what’s happening in the world. Sign up for the Vox Sentences newsletter, delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday, or view the Vox Sentences archive for past editions. California narrows its car shopping list California’s state government will no longer purchase motor vehicles from automotive companies that refuse to recognize its authority to set emissions standards. [KTLA 5] Earlier this month, several carmakers, including Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, ... read more
Vox2019-11-19
7 hours ago
Colonel Vindman’s America
It’s not a place that Donald Trump knows much about. ... read more
The New York Times2019-11-19
7 hours ago
Public hearings begin in Trump impeachment inquiry
Photo by Shawn Thew - Pool/Getty Images Several witnesses are testifying in public hearings in November. In November, the impeachment inquiry entered a new phase: public hearings. The House Intelligence Committee, led by committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff, has called several witnesses to testify in the inquiry, including several Trump administration and State Department officials like Marie Yovanovitch, George Kent, Bill Taylor, Kurt Volker, Gordon Sondland, and others. Some of these officials are witnesses who reportedly heard President Trump’s controversial July phone call that led to the impeachment inquiry, while others are State Department officials and US diplomats ... read more
Vox2019-11-19
7 hours ago
Nunes keeps referring to the impeachment hearing as a “drug deal.” It’s not as clever as he thinks.
Nunes during Tuesday’s impeachment hearing. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty Images He thinks he’s owning the libs. He’s really owning himself. On two separate occasions during Tuesday’s impeachment hearings, House Intelligence Committee ranking member Devin Nunes (R-CA) derisively referred to the impeachment inquiry as a “drug deal” — a turn of phrase meant to depict Democrats as being up to something illicit. For the second time today, Devin Nunes obliviously refers to the impeachment inquiry as a "drug deal" -- the exact turn of phrase John Bolton used to describe Sondland and Mulvaney working to leverage Ukraine into doing ... read more
Vox2019-11-19
7 hours ago
The Day Impeachment Threatens McConnell’s Senate Job Is The Day Trump Is In Big Trouble
The Senate majority leader is likely to abandon the president if it appears that keeping his role is more assured if Trump is gone. ... read more
The Huffington Post2019-11-19
8 hours ago
Trump’s Ukraine Defenders Are Caught in an Existential Crisis
In the White House’s telling of events, the two staffers who testified on Tuesday morning weren’t credible and also cleared the president of any wrongdoing. “We have learned nothing new in today’s illegitimate ‘impeachment’ proceedings,” the White House said in a statement. “However, buried among the witnesses’ personal opinions and conjecture about a call the White House long ago released to the public, both witnesses testified the July 25 transcript was ‘accurate’ and nothing President Trump has done or said amounts to ‘bribery’ or any other crime.” In short, the White House tried to have it both ways. Trump’s allies ... read more
The New Republic2019-11-19
8 hours ago
Who is Gordon Sondland? What to watch for in his impeachment inquiry testimony
An ongoing argument by President Donald Trump and Republicans who reject the impeachment inquiry is that administration officials who have testified don’t know the president or haven’t personally talked to him. That will change when Gordon Sondland testifies publicly Nov. 20 before the House Intelligence Committee. Sondland is the U.S. ambassador to the European Union and has been in direct meetings and conversations with Trump and with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. In sworn testimony behind closed doors Oct. 17, Sondland said Trump told him there would be "no quid pro quo" with Ukraine. But Sondland later updated his testimony to ... read more
PolitiFact2019-11-19
8 hours ago
The GOP’s Witnesses Aren’t Helping Trump
At the start of the second session of today’s doubleheader impeachment hearings, Chairman Adam Schiff noted an important distinction about the two witnesses appearing before the House Intelligence Committee: Both Kurt Volker, the former special envoy to Ukraine, and Timothy Morrison, a senior director on the National Security Council, were “requested by the minority.”In other words, the Republicans on the committee wanted them there. And, presumably, they wanted Volker and Morrison because they thought their testimony would help President Donald Trump and hurt the case for his impeachment.That’s not exactly what happened.In his opening statement, Volker made a point of ... read more
The Atlantic2019-11-19
8 hours ago
Trump Misquotes Pelosi
In an early morning tweet, President Donald Trump falsely attributed a quote to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The quote was actually a Fox News reporter’s characterization of Pelosi’s words. Trump then distorted what she actually said. Nancy Pelosi just stated that “it is dangerous to let the voters decide Trump’s fate.” @FoxNews In other words, she thinks I’m going to win and doesn’t want to take a chance on letting the voters decide. Like Al Green, she wants to change our voting system. Wow, she’s CRAZY! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2019 The president’s tweet echoes ... read more
FactCheck.org2019-11-19
8 hours ago
The Point: Donald Trump and Melania Trump register to vote in Florida
President Donald Trump is officially a Florida man. ... read more
CNN2019-11-19
9 hours ago
Kurt Volker, A GOP Impeachment Witness, Just Trashed a Favorite GOP Talking Point
WASHINGTON — House Republicans hoping to breathe fresh life into dubious “conspiracy theories” about the Biden family’s business dealings in Ukraine were undercut by their own witness at the impeachment hearing Tuesday. Ambassador Kurt Volker, the former U.S. envoy to Ukraine, showed little interest in entertaining the GOP's Biden talking points, describing the Ukrainian source of those theories “not credible” and "self-serving.” And he said President Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani had assured him, in private, that even Giuliani knew those theories were bunk. In fact, Volker repeatedly trashed two conspiracy theories recently floated by the House GOP members, ... read more
VICE News2019-11-19
9 hours ago
Mike Pompeo Is Searching for a Safe Exit from State Ahead of Senate Run, GOP Sources Say
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told three prominent Republicans in recent weeks that he plans to resign from the Trump Administration to run for the U.S. Senate from Kansas in next year’s elections. The problem: how to get out in one piece. Pompeo’s plan had been to remain at the State Department until early spring next year, the three Republicans tell TIME, but recent developments, including the House impeachment inquiry, are hurting him politically and straining his relationship with Trump. So Pompeo is rethinking his calendar, say the top Republicans, one who served in the Trump Administration, another who ... read more
TIME Magazine2019-11-19
9 hours ago
Right Wing Round-Up: Trump’s Not Sick, The Media Is
Emily Singer @ The American Independent: GOP smears Purple Heart recipient by suggesting he has dual loyalties. Andrew Prokop @ Vox: Kurt Volker, impeachment witness requested by Republicans, debunks many of their arguments. Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Chick-fil-A Slowly Backtracks on New Charity Policy Excluding Anti-LGBTQ Groups. Joe Jervis: Laura Loomer Rakes In US House Campaign Donations. Steve Benen @ The Maddow Blog: Trump’s press secretary points to dubious notes from Obama aides. Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: Trump: My Medical Checkup Was ‘Routine,’ It’s The Media That’s ‘Sick.’ ... read more
Right Wing Watch2019-11-19
9 hours ago
Right Wing Bonus Tracks: A Monstrous Hate Crime
Bryan Fischer says that the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is “a big, monstrous, taxpayer-funded hate crime.” Brenden Dilley is not a fan of “weaselly, treasonous fuck” Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the combat-decorated national security specialist who testified today as part of the impeachment inquiry. The American Family Association seems to have changed its tune regarding its desire for corporations to “remain neutral” on contentious social issues. Eugene Delgaudio and his Public Advocate organization are “demanding that Attorney General Barr open an immediate investigation into the mass assault on Chick-fil-A in an attempt to terrorize them and to deprive ... read more
Right Wing Watch2019-11-19
9 hours ago
White House expert tells impeachment hearing that Trump made improper demand of Ukraine
A White House official told impeachment investigators on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's request that Ukraine investigate a political rival was an improper demand as he fended off Republican efforts to cast doubt on his competence and loyalty to the United States. ... read more
Reuters2019-11-19
9 hours ago
Trump Should Give Roger Stone a Pardon and a Presidential Medal of Freedom, Says Ed Martin
Right-wing activist, pundit, and unsuccessful political candidate Ed Martin said on his radio show Monday evening that Roger Stone’s recent seven-count conviction was “so wrong,” and he called on President Donald Trump to pardon Stone and award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom on the same day. In a Tuesday morning email promoting the segment, Martin included a link to Stone’s legal defense fund. Stone, a notorious right-wing political operative, was convicted in federal court on Friday “of seven felonies for obstructing the congressional inquiry, lying to investigators under oath and trying to block the testimony of a witness whose account would ... read more
Right Wing Watch2019-11-19
10 hours ago
Read Kurt Volker’s Prepared Opening Statement From the Impeachment Hearing
President Trump’s former special envoy to Ukraine appeared in front of the House Intelligence Committee on the third day of public impeachment hearings. ... read more
The New York Times2019-11-19
10 hours ago
Tucker Carlson: Immigration Has Turned Into ‘A Fake Civil Rights Issue’
Fox News host and Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson told Breitbart radio listeners Tuesday morning that the policy debate on immigration has been turned “into a fake civil rights issue.” Carlson joined Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow for an interview on “Breitbart News Daily” on SiriusXM Patriot to discuss topical news items, including immigration—which both Marlow and Carlson make a point of stressing on their respective outlets. Marlow said it seemed like “the media’s done this bait and switch” on the issue of immigration, which he described as an “existential threat.” Carlson agreed. “Yeah, I mean one of the most amazing ... read more
Right Wing Watch2019-11-19
10 hours ago
Rep. Ilhan Omar Asks Judge for ‘Compassion’ When Sentencing Man Who Threatened Her Life
On Monday, Patrick Carlineo, 55, pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar. A day later, amid deliberations over his sentence, Rep. Omar sent a letter to the judge overseeing Carlineo’s case asking for “compassion,” and arguing that he should have the opportunity to “make amends and seek redemption.” “Punishing the defendant with a lengthy prison sentence or a burdensome financial fine would not rehabilitate him. It would not repair the harm he has caused,” Omar wrote in the letter. “It would only increase his anger and resentment.” Sharing my full letter on the the ... read more
TIME Magazine2019-11-19
10 hours ago
Ex-envoy was ‘surprised’ by additional attempts to get Ukraine President to announce Biden probe
Former US special envoy Kurt Volker told lawmakers Tuesday that he was "surprised" to learn there had been additional conversations about the Ukrainian President announcing an investigation into the President Donald Trump's political rivals. ... read more
CNN2019-11-19
10 hours ago
Another Key Impeachment Witness Just Revised His Testimony. It’s Not Great for Trump.
WASHINGTON — A second witness in the impeachment inquiry into President Trump just revised his previous sworn testimony in a way that makes things look even worse for Trump. Ambassador Kurt Volker, Trump’s former special envoy to Ukraine, said in his public hearing Tuesday that he now remembers overhearing a discussion of investigations during a key White House meeting with Ukrainian officials on July 10. Volker joins Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, in remembering an important conversation about Trump’s pressure campaign on Ukraine that he'd omitted in his first round of closed-door depositions. Volker’s ... read more
VICE News2019-11-19
10 hours ago
Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton Also Pushed Back on Impeachment Investigations. But Trump Is Taking it a Step Further
Over the weekend, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said President Donald Trump has “every opportunity to present his case” before the House Intelligence Committee in its investigation into whether he used his executive powers as leverage to gain foreign help against a political rival. “The President could come right before the committee and talk, speak all the truth that he wants if he wants,” Pelosi said during an appearance on CBS’ Face The Nation. Unsurprisingly, Trump didn’t jump at the chance to appear before the committee in person, but he did say he might be willing to take Pelosi up on ... read more
TIME Magazine2019-11-19
11 hours ago
ISIS Fighters Are Gaining Strength After Trump’s Syria Pullout, U.S. Spies Say
The Defense Intelligence Agency says ISIS is resurgent inside Syria and has a greater ability to mount terrorist attacks against the West as a result of President Donald Trump’s decision to hastily withdraw American troops from the war-torn country last month. The assessment, publicly disclosed Tuesday in a Department of Defense Office of Inspector General report, focused on the abrupt decision to remove all 1,000 U.S. troops from northern Syria. The move created a power vacuum and set off a series of violent developments on the ground that risks upending more than five years of progress in the war against ... read more
TIME Magazine2019-11-19
11 hours ago
Fact-checking the Trump impeachment hearings: Vindman, Volker, Morrison and Williams
Americans, for the first time, heard sworn public testimony Nov. 19 from two officials who listened in on the July 25 call between President Donald Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine policy specialist on the National Security Council, and Jennifer Williams, a policy aide to Vice President Mike Pence, both said they were alarmed by what they heard. "I was concerned by the call," Vindman said. "What I heard was inappropriate." Around their testimony as part of impeachment hearings, we heard interesting claims to fact-check from members of the House Intelligence Committee, as ... read more
PolitiFact2019-11-19
11 hours ago
Facebook Won’t Say If Breitbart News Is Still ‘Trustworthy’ After Taking Orders From Stephen Miller
Facebook did not respond to an inquiry from Right Wing Watch asking the company whether new evidence showing that White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller directed Breitbart News coverage in 2015 and 2016 with the help of the site’s editors was congruent with the platform’s policies for which publishers it treats as credible news sources. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch published a third piece on Tuesday examining approximately 900 emails that Miller sent to former Breitbart editor Katie McHugh in 2015 and 2016, when Miller worked for then-Sen. Jeff Sessions and as a staffer on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Prior reporting ... read more
Right Wing Watch2019-11-19
11 hours ago
The Underbelly of ‘Unified Executive Authority’
One of the interesting themes of these hearings is the question of who controls US foreign policy: the President or the sum of the "interagency" or bureaucratic policy making process. In a narrow sense it is absolutely right that if all the President's advisors (in the sense of the sum of everyone at State, DOD, the NSC, Intelligence Community, etc) decide on one policy and the President disagrees, the President's choice governs. This is elementary. And if you listen to the various testimonies no one who has spoken as a witness has said otherwise. But there's a part of this ... read more
Talking Points Memo2019-11-19
11 hours ago
Scalise Spins Facts on Security Aid
Rep. Steve Scalise spun two keys facts about Ukrainian aid to defend President Donald Trump against accusations that Trump withheld that aid to pressure Ukraine to investigate the alleged Ukraine interference in the 2016 U.S. election, as well as former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Scalise claimed, “The law required that before any taxpayer money go to Ukraine, the president had to ensure that they are rooting out corruption, which ultimately they did.” Actually, the law required the Defense Department to certify that substantial progress had been made toward fighting corruption before releasing some of the money. ... read more
FactCheck.org2019-11-19
12 hours ago
The White House Attacked Lt. Col. Vindman While He Was Testifying
WASHINGTON — It wasn’t just the GOP that tried to undermine the credibility of Lt. Col. Alex Vindman on the stand Tuesday — it was the White House itself. The White House’s official Twitter account slammed Vindman — who remains a White House staffer, by the way — as having had his judgement questioned by his former boss, Tim Morrison, the White House’s former top advisor on Russia and Europe. “Tim Morrison, Alexander Vindman's former boss, testified in his deposition that he had concerns about Vindman's judgment,” the account tweeted, an extraordinary statement directed at a sitting U.S. official by ... read more
VICE News2019-11-19
12 hours ago
Trump claims Pelosi trying to use trade deal to get votes on impeachment
Trump made the comments as negotiations on the trade pact were reaching a head on Capitol Hill. ... read more
The Washington Post2019-11-19
13 hours ago
Who Is Tim Morrison? Hawkish Aide Loyal to Trump Will Testify
A longtime Republican staff member on Capitol Hill, Mr. Morrison is seen by his party as a compelling witness as impeachment hearings move into their second week. ... read more
The New York Times2019-11-19
13 hours ago
Republicans Urge Americans to Follow Them Through the Fox News Looking Glass on Ukraine
Americans who do not get all of their information about Ukraine from Fox News or right-wing Twitter and Facebook feeds have no doubt been baffled by the Republican cross-examination of witnesses called to give public testimony in the House impeachment hearings. There have been frequent, context-free references to something called “the black ledger,” invocations of the supposedly nefarious role of George Soros in supporting Ukrainian anti-corruption activists, and even suggestions that Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who is serving seven and a half years in federal prison for financial crimes stemming from his work in Ukraine, might have ... read more
The Intercept2019-11-19
13 hours ago
Who is Laura Cooper, and why does her public testimony matter for the impeachment inquiry?
Longtime defense official Laura Cooper will testify in the impeachment inquiry into Trump on Wednesday. She previously testified about military aid to Ukraine being put on hold. ... read more
The Washington Post2019-11-19
13 hours ago
Iranian protesters strike at the heart of the regime’s revolutionary legitimacy
By Suzanne MaloneyProtests erupted in more than 100 Iranian cities over the weekend, sparked by the government’s decision to triple gasoline prices in a bid to fill a budget deficit. Demonstrators blocked traffic on major highways, burned posters of Iranian leaders in effigy, and attacked banks, government buildings, and symbols of the revolutionary system. The regime responded immediately and with brute force, imposing a near-total blackout of the internet and mobile lines and deploying snipers and security forces to the streets of its own cities. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, denounced the demonstrators as “thugs” and its president, Hassan ... read more
The Brookings Institution2019-11-19
16 hours ago
#AM_Equality Tipsheet: November 19, 2019
TODAY -- HRC RELEASES 2019 INDEX RATING MUNICIPALITIES ON LGBTQ-INCLUSIVE POLICIES AND PRACITICES: In partnership with the Equality Federation Institute, HRC announced that a record-setting 88 cities across the U.S. earned the highest score possible in the eighth annual Municipal Equality Index (MEI). “These inclusive and welcoming cities are standing up to the unrelenting attacks on the LGBTQ community by the Trump-Pence administration, and sending a clear message that the fair and equal treatment of our community, our families and our neighbors is a true American value,” said HRC President Alphonso David (@AlphonsoDavid). More from HRC. Today, HRC President Alphonso ... read more
Human Rights Campaign2019-11-19
17 hours ago
HRC Foundation Releases 2019 Index Rating Cities and Municipalities on LGBTQ Inclusion
HRC Foundation in partnership with the Equality Federation Institute, announced that a record-setting 88 cities across the U.S. earned the highest possible score in the eighth annual Municipal Equality Index (MEI). The MEI is the only nationwide assessment of LGBTQ inclusion in municipal law, policy and services. Cities and municipalities are meeting and exceeding HRC’s inclusion standards with innovative measures to protect LGBTQ people. The record 88 cities earning the highest score is up from 78 in 2018 and 11 in 2012, the first year of the MEI. And the average score for cities has increased every year Trump-Pence have been ... read more
Human Rights Campaign2019-11-19
18 hours ago
Analysis: Trump’s options for winning a second term are narrowing
The tumultuous impeachment hearings and the string of GOP election losses this fall underline the electoral risks Republicans are courting as they allow President Donald Trump to refashion the party in his combative image. ... read more
CNN2019-11-19
18 hours ago
To talk or not to talk to Trump: A question that divides Iran
By Djavad Salehi IsfahaniEarlier this month, Iran further expanded its nuclear enrichment program, taking another step away from the nuclear accord it had signed with world powers in July 2015. Since President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the accord, on May 2018, and re-imposed U.S. sanctions, Iran’s economy has lost nearly 10 percent of its output. Although the economy appears to have weathered the initial storm, time is not on Iran’s side and its leaders see the gradual resumption of enrichment as a way to end the current stalemate without caving to U.S. demands. As usual in matters of foreign ... read more
The Brookings Institution2019-11-19
19 hours ago
Trump Donor Gordon Sondland’s Testimony Could Be An Impeachment Turning Point
The inexperienced diplomat Trump is relying upon to deny a quid pro quo got his position after donating $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee. ... read more
The Huffington Post2019-11-19
21 hours ago
Union raises money to help U.S. diplomats pay impeachment legal bills
The union representing U.S. diplomats said on Monday it has raised tens of thousands of dollars in the last week alone to help defray the legal costs of foreign service officers who have testified in U.S. President Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry. ... read more
Reuters2019-11-18
1 day ago
Breaking Impeachment News
Two new deposition transcripts have been released this evening, for David Holmes and David Hale. ... read more
Talking Points Memo2019-11-18
1 day ago
FactCheck.org Partners with Hearst TV
FactCheck.org’s work during the 2020 election cycle will be featured on Hearst Television Inc. outlets as part of a recent agreement. Our work and interviews with our staff will air on Hearst TV and radio stations — which include 34 TV and two radio stations reaching 39 states — as well as appear on stations’ websites. Under the partnership, Hearst’s WJCL 22, an ABC affiliate in Savannah, aired two fact-checking segments in late October, featuring FactCheck.org Managing Editor Lori Robertson. In those segments, Robertson talked about our stories on claims made by President Donald Trump and Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff regarding ... read more
FactCheck.org2019-11-18
1 day ago
Vindmania
Folks on the right are focusing on statements from departed NSC Director Tim Morrison's deposition in which he says he "had concerns about Lt. Col. Vindman's judgment." We don't know a lot about Alexander Vindman. So perhaps there are issues with his judgement. On the basis of the available evidence though I'd take Vindman's judgment over Morrison's, in large part because he immediately reported the substance of Trump's July 25th call with Zelensky to the White House Counsel's office. Morrison simply recommended access to it be restricted, not that that there was anything wrong with what happened. But there's an ... read more
Talking Points Memo2019-11-18
2 days ago
A Novel Retells the Assassinations that Marked the End of the Cold War in El Salvador
The assassination of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador 30 years ago this month was the last great crime of the Cold War. It happened on November 16, 1989, a week after German protesters began demolishing the Berlin Wall. As communism was dissolving, an elite Salvadoran military unit moved into the University of Central America, or UCA, campus where the priests lived. The soldiers forced the men in their nightclothes into the garden outside their residence and executed them, along with their housekeeper and her daughter. The orders came from the CIA-advised Salvadoran military high command. The chief target was ... read more
The Intercept2019-11-17
3 days ago
Trump’s ‘West Point Mafia’ Faces a Loyalty Test
A close cohort from the military academy’s Class of ’86 has risen to astonishing power in the U.S. government. Are they using it for the president, or the nation? ... read more
POLITICO2019-11-17
3 days ago
Donald Trump and New York’s Veterans Day Parade
Quick Take A meme circulating on Facebook exaggerates the role played by President Donald Trump in funding a 1995 Veterans Day parade in New York. He donated $200,000, which was less than 10% of the total raised, according to press reports at the time. Full Story When President Donald Trump was a real estate developer in New York City in 1995, he donated money to an organization hosting a parade in the city on Veterans Day. That fact has been exaggerated in a Facebook meme that claims: “25 years ago, the City of New York refused to fund the Veterans ... read more
FactCheck.org2019-11-15
4 days ago
Meme Falsely Attributes Quote to CNN Anchor
Quick Take A meme falsely attributes a quote to CNN anchor Don Lemon about Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death. Full Story A popular meme circulating on Facebook wrongly attributes a quote to Don Lemon, the CNN anchor who hosts “CNN Tonight.” The meme — which uses photos of Lemon and the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died during a U.S. raid last month — purports that Lemon said that President Donald “Trump killed an unarmed father of three.” “Yes, the idiot really said this on live television,” the meme continues. The meme claims that Lemon ... read more
FactCheck.org2019-11-15
4 days ago
5 Ways to Debunk the GOP’s Defense of Donald Trump
Elie Mystal The Republican anti-impeachment arguments are weak but pernicious. Here’s how to counter them. The post 5 Ways to Debunk the GOP’s Defense of Donald Trump appeared first on The Nation. ... read more
The Nation2019-11-15
5 days ago
Under Trump, We’re All Alice in Blunderland
Tom Engelhardt The president has taken us—and the US empire—down the rabbit hole. The post Under Trump, We’re All Alice in Blunderland appeared first on The Nation. ... read more
The Nation2019-11-15
5 days ago
The Coup That Ousted Bolivia’s Evo Morales Is Another Setback for Latin American Socialism
A turbulent weekend roiled Latin American politics as a coup in Bolivia forced President Evo Morales aside on Sunday and, days earlier, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva was freed from prison. Morales spoke Wednesday from Mexico City, where he is in exile, and expressed interest in returning to Bolivia in the wake of what he has described as a U.S.-backed coup d’etat. At the press conference, Morales encouraged the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggle to continue and rejected self-declared interim President Jeanine Áñez. Past anti-Indigenous comments from Áñez, a right-wing Christian, are coming to light, adding to the backlash ... read more
The Intercept2019-11-15
5 days ago
As House Impeaches Trump, Senate Carnage Plods Along
On Wednesday morning, the House of Representatives began public hearings into just the fourth impeachment inquiry on an American president in the nation’s history. On the Senate side, it was business as usual. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, opened a hearing with a wry smile: “I’m not sure why you’re not over on the House side,” he told the audience. The room was not full. “Must have been paid staff.” When Johnson, back in July, gaveled in a hearing in this series, “Unprecedented Migration at the U.S. Southern Border,” the subject was a ... read more
The Intercept2019-11-15
5 days ago
Trump Exposed: A Brutal Day for the President
As with Clinton and Nixon, impeachment puts private demons on public display. ... read more
POLITICO2019-11-13
6 days ago
A New Candidate for Obama’s Rightful Heir
Joe Biden rarely goes anywhere without mentioning “my friend Barack.” Pete Buttigieg has a line in his stump speech about how he first went to Iowa to campaign for another “young man with a funny name.” Even though Barack Obama will not endorse in this primary, he has made a point of meeting with almost all the candidates, and he looms over the race.But the politician personally closest to Obama is Deval Patrick. As several people in Obama’s inner circle have been saying to me for months before Patrick’s potential presidential candidacy leaked out on Monday, Biden originally came into ... read more
The Atlantic2019-11-13
7 days ago
What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP
Even if the Senate clears Donald Trump, the Republican Party could pay the price for a generation. ... read more
POLITICO2019-11-13
7 days ago
Erdoğan Defies Trump. So Why Do They Get Along?
He defied the United States repeatedly, bought Russian weapons, and assaulted American partners in Syria. Now Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is headed to the White House for a meeting with Donald Trump. So will he get away with it? Probably.The past few years show a pretty clear pattern: When Turkey released the detained American pastor Andrew Brunson, Trump lifted sanctions he’d imposed to get Brunson back; when Turkey insisted it would move forward with the purchase of a Russian air-defense system, Trump demurred from imposing retaliatory sanctions mandated by U.S. law. And despite the bipartisan outcry over Turkey’s move ... read more
The Atlantic2019-11-13
7 days ago
The Atlantic Politics Daily: America’s Divisions May Get a Whole Lot Worse
It’s Tuesday, November 12. We’re watching: ❖ The Supreme Court heard arguments in the Trump administration’s bid to end the Obama-era DACA program, case that hinges on a question of administrative law. ❖ The first public impeachment hearings begin Wednesday at 10 a.m. ET.In today’s newsletter: ❖ Where the public, the GOP, and Democrats stand on impeachment. ❖ Yoni Appelbaum on how America ends and Adam Serwer on the “false promise of civility.” ❖ Finally, a word on The Atlantic’s new design.*« TODAY IN POLITICS »(Damon Winter / The New York Times / Redux)Where do parties—and people—stand before the impeachment ... read more
The Atlantic2019-11-12
1 week ago
How Europe Stumped Britain’s Conservatives
Not long before Margaret Thatcher’s intensely dramatic departure from office in November 1990, the veteran Conservative politician William Whitelaw was talking to Sir Robin Butler, recently appointed as Cabinet secretary, the most senior permanent official in the British government. As Charles Moore relates in Herself Alone, the third and final volume of his authorized biography of Thatcher, Butler was taken aback by what he heard. “The trouble is,” Whitelaw said, “that when Margaret leaves, she will leave the Conservative Party divided for a generation.” Not only did Whitelaw’s prediction come to pass. The longer legacy of her career and its ... read more
The New Republic2019-11-12
1 week ago
Texting With Bill Weld: “100% Democratic Rule” If Senate Republicans Listen To Trump
In The Stakes 2020, BuzzFeed News' political newsletter, Bill Weld, who is challenging Donald Trump for the Republican nomination, says Republicans are abandoning their duty to the Constitution and explains his weird Reese's Pieces habit.View Entire Post › ... read more
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Since we started in 2007, PolitiFact has prioritized transparency and integrity in our fact-checking. We exist to hold the powerful accountable — and we put truth at the forefront of the national conversation. With formal impeachment proceedings starting for President Donald Trump, and a national election just a year away, if we don’t expose the truth in politics, who will? That’s why we’re excited to share an opportunity where today, through the end of the year, you can triple any donation you make to PolitiFact. We have once again been selected to participate in NewsMatch, a national matching-gift campaign that ... read more
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The American Prospect2019-09-20
2 months ago
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Many years ago, we embarked on a new experiment: moving ThinkProgress from an organizational blog to a progressive news site, powered by reporters and editorially independent. We are proud that ThinkProgress helped shape the conversation in this country—exposing the companies that were supporting the NRA, uncovering sexual abuse within religious organizations, documenting voter suppression, and tracking the financing of white nationalism, to name just a few of the many, many, many important stories ThinkProgress covered. Unfortunately, as with so many ventures in today’s digital media landscape, ThinkProgress suffered multi-million dollar shortfalls the past two years—an unsustainable option for a non-profit ... read more
ThinkProgress2019-09-09
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CNN’s planning a 2020 LGBTQ forum. Here are some issues advocates say the candidates should address.
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ThinkProgress2019-09-05
3 months ago
It wasn’t a debate, but CNN’s 7-hour climate forum laid bare key differences among Democrats
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ThinkProgress2019-09-05
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GOP candidate fueled by outside money complains he may lose because of opponent’s outside money
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ThinkProgress2019-09-05
3 months ago
To build Trump’s border wall, Pentagon will divert funds from military schools and day cares
President Donald Trump, despite his empty claims that he’s the most pro-military president “ever,” is preparing to drain funds from schools and day care centers that serve military families, as well as stalling readiness projects, to pay for his promised border wall. The Pentagon is diverting billions of dollars from already funded projects at military bases around the world in order to rush fence construction along the U.S.-Mexico border, Defense Department (DOD) officials announced Wednesday. The department indicated the shunting of money away from military child care offerings was not DOD’s idea. “A Pentagon official said in a briefing that ... read more
ThinkProgress2019-09-05
3 months ago
FACT CHECK: Foreign Interference And ‘Opposition Research’ Are Not The Same
President Trump says he might be open to taking information from a foreign government in a future election, calling it a part of politics. But the law draws a distinction when foreigners are involved.(Image credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) ... read more
NPR2019-06-13
5 months ago
FACT CHECK: Russian Interference Went Far Beyond ‘Facebook Ads’ Kushner Described
President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser said the investigations into Russian interference have been more damaging than the interference itself. But there was more to it than online ads.(Image credit: Brian Ach/Getty Images for Time) ... read more
NPR2019-04-24
7 months ago
FACT CHECK: Trump Wrongly States Obama Administration Had Child Separation Policy
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, President Trump restated an earlier falsehood in which he blamed the Obama administration for a policy the Trump administration in fact started.(Image credit: Evan Vucci/AP) ... read more
NPR2019-04-09
7 months ago
Why Is It So Fraught to Talk About the Klobuchar Bad Boss Reports?
This article is adapted from a segment on the Waves and has been edited and condensed for clarity. Christina Cauterucci: Last week, HuffPost and BuzzFeed both ran pieces that contained a whole slew of allegations that Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota runs a borderline abusive workplace. There were multiple former staffers who said they and their fellow employees were berated for wrongdoing in front of their peers. Sometimes they’d be CC’d on their emails, saying, “This is the worst press release I’ve ever read in my life.” They were forced to endure emotional outbursts and fits of rage. They were ... read more
Slate2019-02-15
9 months ago
Andrew McCabe: Jeff Sessions Complained That He Missed When the FBI “Only Hired Irishmen”
Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s new book, which details his frustrations with President’s Trump administration, has made it clear that his “disdain for Trump is rivaled only by his contempt for [Jeff] Sessions,” according to an assessment from Washington Post reporter Greg Miller. According to Miller’s review of the book, McCabe saw then-Attorney General Sessions as a Trump-like idiot and racist who had “trouble focusing, particularly when topics of conversation strayed from a small number of issues,” failed to read intelligence reports, and jumbled classified material with publicly reported news. The strangest detail from the book, though, had to ... read more
Slate2019-02-15
9 months ago
There Is No New Backpage
Last April, two successive tremors shook the business of sex on the internet. The first was the dramatic FBI shutdown of Backpage, a website for posting online personals that had attained outsize importance among sex workers. Days after that, President Trump signed two new bills into law, the Stop Enabling Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA) and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), which together make websites that knowingly allow sex trafficking to happen liable for hosting the illegal activity—thus making it much easier for prosecutors to go after the proprietors of sites like Backpage. Both of these moves were meant ... read more
Slate2019-02-13
9 months ago
Roger Stone’s chance to make a positive impact
The Feb. 10 Retropolis column, “Stone seeks Trump pardon for black nationalist Marcus Garvey” [Metro], provided a well-informed review of Garvey’s role advancing a back-to-Africa movement in the ear ... read more
The Washington Post2019-02-13
9 months ago
FACT CHECK: Democratic Response To Trump’s State Of The Union Address
Stacey Abrams, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, delivered the remarks Tuesday night. Read a transcript of the speech with NPR reporters' annotations.(Image credit: Pool video image via AP) ... read more
NPR2019-02-05
10 months ago
FACT CHECK: Trump’s State Of The Union Address
President Trump delivered the annual speech, which had been delayed because of the government shutdown, on Tuesday night. NPR reporters provided context and analysis in real time. (Image credit: Andrew Harnik/AP) ... read more
NPR2019-02-05
10 months ago
The Feminist Future of Modesty
“I get it,” is Gretchen Carlson’s message to all the American women who wince at the thought of parading around in a swimsuit. Carlson, who is the new Chairwoman of the Miss America pageant and who also won the competition in 1989, announced last week that the swimsuit portion of the spectacle would be axed. The #MeToo-friendly, revamped Miss American “Competition” (the word “pageant” is also no more) would focus on substance instead of appearance; it would promote neither ogling at various female parts nor the premise that a willingness to bare almost all is necessary to winning.It’s a timely ... read more
The Feminist Future of Modesty2018-06-12
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Trump: ’13 angry Democrats’ on Mueller team should be wary
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is striking a combative tone against the Russia probe. He's talking about "Fighting Back" and telling Democrats on the special counsel's team, "wait 'till the Courts get to see your unrevealed Conflicts of Interest!" ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
2 years ago
Giuliani’s media blitz defending Trump is off to rough start
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's new attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is off to a rough start in his media blitz defending Trump's stance toward the special counsel's Russian investigation and a $130,000 porn star hush payment. ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
2 years ago
Trump defends CIA nominee, says she is ‘tough on terror’
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday defended Gina Haspel, his nominee to head the Central Intelligence Agency, dismissing debate over her involvement in a harsh interrogation program and arguing Democrats want her out because she "is too tough on terror." ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
2 years ago
Trump urges West Virginia voters to reject Blankenship
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is urging West Virginia voters to reject a former federal convict and coal baron running in the Republican Senate primary, arguing that Don Blankenship he would lose the general election. ... read more
Associated Press2018-05-07
2 years ago
Trump’s Tweets Threaten His Travel Ban’s Chances in Court
President Donald Trump began the week with a barrage of early-morning tweets blasting the courts for blocking his travel ban executive order. But in doing so, he may have just made it more likely that the courts will keep blocking the ban. People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017 The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted ... read more
Mother Jones2017-06-05
2 years ago
The Fox Primary For March: Trump Widens His Airtime Lead
As the Republican presidential field shrunk to three candidates in March, front-runner Donald Trump again led his competitors in interview airtime on Fox News. Fox News hosted the businessman for 6 hours and 15 minutes, compared to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's 5 hours and 18 minutes and Ohio Gov. John Kasich's 3 hours and 44 minutes. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson both ended their campaigns in March -- their airtime totals from before they dropped out are listed, but they will not be included in future editions. Trump's lead in Fox interview time comes amid ongoing tension ... read more
Media Matters for America2016-04-07
4 years ago
Morning Joe Panel: Hillary Clinton “Clearly Did Not Say Bernie Sanders Was Not Qualified To Be President”
From the April 7 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe: MIKA BRZEZINSKI (CO-HOST): Late last night, Clinton's press secretary Brian Fallon responded to [Sanders'] remarks on Twitter saying quote "Hillary Clinton did not say Bernie Sanders was 'not qualified.' But he has now - absurdly - said it about her. This is a new low." He added "Bernie Sanders, take back your words about Hillary Clinton." Sanders did no such thing. His campaign released a statement that began quote "Responding to Hillary Clinton's attempt to portray him as unqualified for the White House, Senator Sanders linked her to a trade pact exploited by wealthy individuals and profitable corporations to ... read more
Media Matters for America2016-04-07
4 years ago

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