Trump Lies

Mediaite reports: In a truly stunning show of outright lying Monday morning, White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley told Fox & Friends that the claim the Trump administration is separating children from their families at the border is “completely false.” “Do you think that the message from the media is correct, that your administration is separating parents, moms and …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump doesn’t lie and hasn’t lied to the American people, said former White House Chief Strategist and Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon Sunday on This Week. Guest host Jon Karl played clips of the President promising never to lie before saying to Bannon point blank that this was a campaign promise the President “obviously broke. He …

NBC News reports: Senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that “nobody likes” the separation of migrant children from their parents at the nation’s southern border but took issue with the idea that the Trump administration is using the children to force Democrats to the table on border security. “As a mother, as a Catholic, as somebody who has …

The Hill reports: President Trump said that Washington Post employees should go on strike in a tweet Sunday morning, saying the move means “we would get rid of Fake News for an extended period of time.” His tweet came shortly after The Post reported that former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone met with a Russian during the 2016 campaign who …

The Washington Post reports: One day in late May 2016, Roger Stone — the political dark sorcerer and longtime confidant of Donald Trump — slipped into his Jaguar and headed out to meet a man with a Make America Great Again hat and a viscous Russian accent. The man, who called himself Henry Greenberg, offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton, …

The Associated Press reports: President Trump lavished praise on his supporters Saturday morning via his Twitter account, calling his voters “the smartest” and the “most loyal” in the history of U.S. presidents. In a tweet, the president seemed to suggest that as more Americans turned to support him, the country itself would “get stronger. It’s not clear what “numbers” Trump …

The Hill reports: President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, was recognized on a New York street Friday by multiple passers-by, including one who labeled him as “that guy that’s going to jail.” CNN footage shows Cohen, accompanied by security, surrounded by reporters who asked if he planned to cooperate with federal prosecutors. He did not respond to the media questions …

Hair Furor is now claiming that the evil fake news media conspired to only show the “bad” now-famous G7 photo in which he sits petulantly before the assembled world leaders like a toddler who just got told there will be no visit to Chuck E. Cheese if he doesn’t behave. In fact, as everybody knows, that photo was first posted …

The Hill reports: Outgoing Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) told NBC News that there are no seeming consequences for President Trump when he lies, cautioning that there would be “incredibly harmful” repercussions in Washington’s future. “There is no seeming consequence to the president and lies and it is going to have incredibly harmful consequences in the way that we operate going …

The New York Daily News reports: In one of his most forceful attacks on the special counsel yet, Rudy Giuliani on Friday claimed the Russia investigation could get “cleaned up” with pardons from President Trump in light of Paul Manafort being sent to jail. “When the whole thing is over, things might get cleaned up with some presidential pardons,” the …

The Huffington Post reports: With a strong economy and a new “success” in North Korea, President Donald Trump will cruise to re-election in 2020, his lawyer predicted, particularly if the Democrats nominate a “moron” like former Vice President Joe Biden. “They need someone new, who would be more threatening to us,” Rudy Giuliani, himself a failed presidential candidate in 2008, …

In his sixteenth tweet since 6AM today, Glorious Leader wails about Paul Manafort’s “sentence” even though Manafort has not yet gone to trial, much less been convicted and sentenced. (But hey, we’re ALL looking forward to that, amirite?) And of course, what would a Trump tweetstorm be without mentions of Crooked Hillary, James Comey, and “all the others” conspiring to …

Buzzfeed reports: There is no law that determines children must be taken away from their parents when they cross the border. Crossing the border illegally is a federal misdemeanor, and recrossing illegally is a felony, but there is no law mandating the separation of families that cross the border illegally. Instead, the increase in family separation, which has seen hundreds …

The Associated Press reports: A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users’ private data, has quietly been working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, The Associated Press has learned. The AP confirmed that at least four former Cambridge Analytica employees are affiliated with …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump says the Justice Department watchdog report on the Clinton email probe shows the FBI was biased against him “at the top level” and was “plotting against my election.” Trump is giving an impromptu interview with Steve Doocy of “Fox & Friends” on the North Lawn of the White House Friday. He says of …

ABC News reports: After staying silent about the details of a much-awaited report on how the FBI and Justice Department handled the Hillary Clinton email investigation, President Donald Trump on Friday morning said the comment of a top FBI official that “we’ll stop” the Trump bid for President, demonstrated the political bias that he and other Republicans argue has infected …

The Hill reports: Federal prosecutors are probing whether President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, acted as a secret lobbyist during previous business deals, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. People familiar with the investigation told the outlet that prosecutors are reaching out to companies that Cohen worked for as a consultant after the 2016 election. Some of these high profile …

Mediaite reports: CNN contributor Brian Karem yelled at White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders during a briefing about the practice of separating immigrant children from their families as a deterrent. “Don’t you have any empathy? Come on, Sarah. You’re a parent. Don’t you have any empathy for what these people are going through?” he pressed, his voice raised. “They have …

Today’s lie-a-thon will likely center on the IG report, North Korea, and the lawsuit against Glorious Leader’s fake charity. And maybe this too: White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has denied a CBS report that she is planning to quit her job by the end of 2018. Earlier Wednesday, CBS reported that according to unnamed sources, Sanders has told …

NBC News reports: New York’s attorney general announced a lawsuit against the Trump Foundation Thursday, saying it engaged in a pattern of illegal self-dealing over more than a decade. NBC News has reached out to the White House and Trump Organization, but Trump commented about the case on Twitter shortly after it was announced. He claimed the foundation gave out …