Trump Lies

The Hill reports: President Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, is dipping into Breitbart News to staff the White House. The hires give Bannon more loyalists in Trump’s West Wing, and also raise Breitbart’s profile and power. It comes as the conservative news organization, led by Bannon until last year, seeks to expand its influence in Washington and the world. One …

This morning multiple outlets are pointing to this story from yesterday’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune: One of the most powerful men in America happens to be a resident of Sarasota County. We think. His name is Stephen K. Bannon, the scruffy-faced senior adviser to our new president. Maybe you’ve heard of him. But has anyone actually seen him? In particular, has anyone …

Via Mediaite: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer expressed to Sean Hannity tonight [last night] that he gets “frustrated” with liberal media “double standards” and a propensity to immediately assume he’s lying. Hannity spoke with Spicer about liberal bias in the press and WikiLeaks exposing communications between members of the press and the Clinton campaign, with Spicer saying that it’s …

John Nolte left his years-long gig as Breitbart editor as part of the mass staff exodus in May 2016 following the Michelle Fields incident. Yesterday he wrote this for the Daily Wire: On this particular subject, I have been very clear since the beginning, since The Donald stepped out onto the political stage. And for the hard of hearing, let …

NBC News reports: First published in 1949, Orwell’s classic dystopian tale of a society in which facts are distorted and suppressed in a cloud of “newspeak” topped the best-seller list of Amazon as of Tuesday evening. The sales bump comes after the Trump administration’s assertions his inauguration had record attendance and his unfounded allegation that millions of illegal votes were …

CNN reports: President Donald Trump called on Wednesday for “a major investigation” into voter fraud, following criticism his administration faced for comments the President made earlier this week alleging millions of illegal votes during the general election, without citing any evidence. Trump’s comments on voter fraud came Monday during a meeting with congressional leaders. On Tuesday, Trump’s press secretary vigorously …

Raw Story reports: Rep. Steve King (R-IA) said on Tuesday that he had personally done an “extrapolation calculation” from two Virginia counties and determined that President Donald Trump had likely lost the popular vote due to 2.4 million “illegal” voters. During an interview with King on MSNBC, host Hallie Jackson noted that Trump told congressional leaders on Monday that 3 …

The Hill reports: Top President Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway has received mail with a suspicious white powder in them and has been assigned Secret Service protection, she told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday night. “Because of what the press is doing now to me, I have Secret Service protection,” Conway said, citing the way the media has covered …

The Washington Post reports: Days after being sworn in, President Trump insisted to congressional leaders invited to a reception at the White House that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for millions of illegal votes, according to people familiar with the meeting. Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud caused him to …

Salon reports: Donald Trump is taking credit for a jobs deal that he objectively had nothing to do with. The president-elect bragged on Wednesday about brokering a deal in which Sprint will bring 5,000 jobs to the United States and another company, OneWeb, will bring 3,000 jobs into this country. This is consistent with a theme that Trump has been …