Trump Lies

Via Mediaite: George Stephanopoulos got particularly heated with White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller over recent claims by President Trump of voter fraud. The president claimed last week that he would have won New Hampshire if “thousands” of people hadn’t been bussed in to illegally vote. Miller argued to Stephanopoulos that “anyone who’s worked in New Hampshire politics” is …

The Hill reports:  CNN early Sunday rejected President Trump’s accusation that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was cut off during an interview for using the term fake news to describe the network. “@realDonaldTrump False. Transcript from @ErinBurnett intvu w @SenSanders. He was not cut off. Those are the facts,” CNN’s public relations team tweeted. Sanders was asked during an interview Friday …

Hair Furor is allegedly discussing trade agreements with the prime minister of Japan this weekend, but he just found the time to screech out another attack on the media, which is supposedly abusing Ivanka by reporting on the many retailers that dropped her line this week.

Politico reports: President Donald Trump can’t stop—won’t stop—talking about the election. On Thursday, during a meeting with 10 senators that was billed as a listening session about Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, the president went off on a familiar tangent, suggesting again that he was a victim of widespread voter fraud, despite the fact that he won the presidential election. …

CNN reports: Kellyanne Conway, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, was “counseled” after promoting Ivanka Trump’s clothing and accessory brand during an interview from the White House Thursday morning. “Kellyanne has been counseled,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said during his daily briefing. “She’s been counseled on that subject.” Conway, in a Fox News interview from the White …

Remember all those times I posted live-steams of Josh Earnest’s White House press briefings because we just HAD to see how he was going to handle Obama’s latest lying meltdown? No? Watch below as Sean Spicer does exactly that for Hair Furor. Scheduled start is 1:30PM.

Via Mediaite: Earlier this morning, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to lob some personal attacks at Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) over McCain’s criticism of the Yemen raid as a “failure.” Following Trump’s mean tweets, CNN’s Manu Raju caught up with McCain on Capitol Hill to get his reaction. Asked about the Russia Review Act that he signed on to …

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump took aim at a pair of senators who have criticized him in recent days on Thursday morning, saying Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) “emboldens the enemy” by criticizing a recent military operation while accusing Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) of being a serial liar after he relayed critical comments from Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Thursday contradicted a spokesman for his Supreme Court nominee in a tweet blasting Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), who told reporters that Judge Neil Gorsuch called Trump’s tweets attacking federal judges “demoralizing.” Blumenthal said Wednesday that Gorsuch called Trump’s tweets attacking federal judges “disheartening” and “demoralizing.” In a later statement, Blumenthal urged Gorsuch to make …

The Week reports: President Trump defended his immigration executive order Wednesday while speaking at the National Sheriffs’ Association’s winter meeting. After reading the entirety of the order, which bans people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the U.S., Trump insisted the order “couldn’t have been written any more precisely.” Whether “you’re a good student in high school or a …

Your head may explode trying to follow the tortured logic of Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway. Mediaite sets up the clips below: Following reports that CNN had refused to accept White House counselor Kellyanne Conway as an interview guest this past Sunday due to concerns over her credibility, Conway showed up on The Lead this afternoon to speak with anchor Jake …

Truth is dead. Facts are dead. The New York Daily News reports: President Trump continued his war on facts Tuesday, inaccurately claiming that the nation’s murder rate was the highest it’s been in nearly 50 years. Trump was holding a listening session with county sheriffs from across the U.S. at the White House Tuesday morning when he made the untrue …

CNN reports: Sebastian Gorka, deputy assistant to President Donald Trump, said Monday that the administration will continue using the term “fake news” until the media understands that their “monumental desire” to attack the President is wrong. “There is a monumental desire on behalf of the majority of the media, not just the pollsters, the majority of the media to attack …

The Hollywood Reporter recaps: Late Night’s Seth Meyers presented a “Closer Look” about Trump’s travel ban and recent comments about the press. Meyers said the rollout of Trump’s ban “is so bad, in fact, that Trump’s advisers are now making up fake tragedies to try and justify it,” referring to Conway’s “Bowling Green Massacre.” “Now, if you were embarrassed you …

Via Mediaite: At the beginning of this afternoon’s broadcast of CNN’s The Lead, host Jake Tapper went off on recent tweets and comments made by President Donald Trump. Explaining that Trump’s tweets “are windows into his soul,” Tapper began reading off the president’s recent Twitter activity targeting a federal judge who temporarily suspended Trump’s travel ban, negative polls and the …

The Washington Post reports: Speaking to the U.S. Central Command on Monday, President Trump went off his prepared remarks to make a truly stunning claim: The media was intentionally covering up reports of terrorist attacks. “You’ve seen what happened in Paris, and Nice. All over Europe, it’s happening,” he said to the assembled military leaders. “It’s gotten to a point …

Mediaite reports: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer has taken the Trump administration’s hostility towards the opposition one step further by saying that those protesting President Donald Trump’s refugee ban/travel ban/travel restrictions are demonstrators paid to be there and not legitimately against the ban. In an interview with Brian Kilmeade of Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends” that aired on …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Trump appears not to like the news he’s reading Monday morning. In one Twitter post, the president rejected reports of polls showing that a majority of Americans oppose his travel order. In another, he appeared to lash out at suggestions that Stephen K. Bannon, his chief strategist, holds the real power in the West …

The Hill reports: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Sunday said he doesn’t want to spend federal funds to investigate what President Trump claimed was massive voter fraud in the 2016 presidential election. While McConnell says there is voter fraud, he doesn’t believe it’s as widespread as Trump claims or requires federal intervention. He says that cleaning up voter …

The Huffington Post reports: During his campaign for president, Donald Trump frequently said the official U.S. unemployment statistics were “phony” and that the real jobless rate was many times higher than the government said. On Friday, he touted the numbers in the first monthly jobs report released under his administration. “Two-hundred twenty-seven thousand jobs,” Trump said at the White House. …