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Daniel Dale @ddale8
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Trump is doing *another* interview on Fox Business right now. Just turned it on. He is telling the usual lies about the usual things.
Fox Business: "We're not going to walk away from Saudi Arabia."

Trump: "I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that. I do not want to do that."
Fox Biz asks Trump if anyone has ever tried taking his phone away. Trump says he doesn't think he'd get to be on Fox as much if that happened.

"I don't think I'd be talking to you if I did that. It's a way of getting out the message. We have fake news...Everything's a fake."
Trump complains that sometimes he has a "really nasty person with a horrible stupid question," like a CNN reporter, and "I'll hit the reporter back just modestly hard," just "a little jab," and the story will be "Trump Hits Reporter" and people will shout "freedom of the press."
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In my experience, immediately fact-checking Trump's immigration lies is harder than immediately fact-checking most other Trump lies -- they're often written into his speeches by people more sophisticated at deception than he is.
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