Axios reports:
A source who has been talking to President Trump throughout the Kavanaugh crisis told Axios that “you have no idea” how hard it has been to keep him from attacking his Supreme Court nominee’s accuser.
A White House official said yesterday: “Hopefully he can keep it together until Monday. That’s only, like, another 48 hours right?”
At a rally in Las Vegas last night, Trump praised Kavanaugh and added with rare restraint: “I’m not saying anything about anybody else. … So we gotta let it play out. … I think is everything is going to be just fine.”
“Brett Kavanaugh is one of the finest human beings you will ever have the privilege of knowing or meeting,” Trump says of his Supreme Court pick at the Make America Great Again Rally in Las Vegas #tictocnews pic.twitter.com/vQ7f5xYsRS
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) September 21, 2018
“Donald Trump and Republicans will protect patients with pre-existing conditions. We’re going to do that,” Trump says. His administration is arguing in court that Obamacare’s pre-existing condition protections are unconstitutional and should be voided.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
“We have the cleanest air now in the world,” Trump says of air the Environmental Performance Index ranks as the 10th-best in the world. “We have the cleanest water,” Trump says of the U.S.’s 29th-ranked water.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
“We won big: 306. 223. REMEMBER?” Trump falsely claims for the 15th time of Hillary Clinton’s 232 electoral votes.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump lies again that his election hurt the sales of the New York Times: “When we won, they suffered.” The Times added 276,000 digital subscribers in the three months after the election.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For the 12th time, Trump lies that the New York Times apologized to its subscribers after the election. It made a sales pitch, not an apology.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump slams the media at length, then lies, for the 6th time, that the red lights of their cameras are “starting to go off” because they don’t like the criticism. No station has ever turned off its camera during his media criticism.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
Trump lies that Democrats voted for a wall in 2006. They voted for fencing. The law was called the Secure Fence Act.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018
For at least the 12th time, Trump falsely claims that presidents had failed to pass the Veterans Choice program for decades before him. (This time he says it took “46 years.”) The Choice program was created in 2014 under Obama. Trump’s law modified the program.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 21, 2018