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THREAD: We're fact-checking President @realDonaldTrump's speech tonight in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Trump is expected to cover AG Barr's summary of the Mueller report, increased apprehensions on the border and auto manufacturing #TrumpGrandRapids #GrandRapidsRally
Trump said AG Barr's summary of the Mueller report amounted to a "complete exoneration." That's wrong.

politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
Trump said the Russia investigation was launched by those who lost the election. That's wrong.

July 2016: FBI opens an investigation into links between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

Nov. 8, 2016: Trump is elected president.

politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
The Steele dossier was used, to some extent, to persuade a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court to authorize surveillance of Carter Page. But it was the actions of another Trump campaign adviser—George Papadopoulos—that started the investigation. politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
Trump is touting the success of his border wall. Here's our most recent fact-check of @realDonaldTrump's claim about the barrier on the southern border politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
Trump said the United States is “the number one oil and gas producer in the world.” Here's our fact-check on that claim. politifact.com/west-virginia/…
The president repeated one of his favorite false talking points about the Veterans Choice program. politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
Trump put the price of the Green New Deal at $100 trillion. That's off the mark politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
No, the Green New Deal doesn't aim to end air travel politifact.com/florida/statem…
Trump said Democrats want open borders. Here's our previous check on a similarly false claim politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
Trump said, “I have done more than I ever promised i was going to do.” @PolitiFact is tracking his promises. Here’s his scorecard politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
Trump repeated the false claim that Democrats are pushing for “extreme late-term abortion” that would “allow children to be ripped from their mothers womb right up until the moment of birth.” politifact.com/facebook-fact-…
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Here's what Sen @BernieSanders said about health care in Canada, which has a single-payer system: "In Canada, for a number of decades, they have provided quality care to all people without out-of-pocket expenses. You go in for cancer therapy, you don't take out your wallet."
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During last night's address, @realDonaldTrump said: "In the last two years, ICE officers made 266,000 arrests of aliens with criminal records including those charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 violent killings." These numbers need context:
@realDonaldTrump It's true, during the last two years, ICE officials arrested 266,000 people. But, ICE reports note that each arrest "may represent multiple criminal charges and convictions." A single person could have committed multiple crimes.
@realDonaldTrump The Pew Research Center made the same point: "The total number of charges and convictions is greater than the total number of arrestees," the center noted in a February 2018 report.
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Thread: Our readers thought President @realdonaldTrump — Lie of the Year 2016 and 2017 winner — had earned #LieoftheYear2018. bit.ly/2BcrRFE
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Caroline Orr
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Trump fans and Russian-linked Twitter users are trying to use Barr's letter/Mueller's report to conflate Russian interference and collusion.

They want to muddy the waters, with the goal of denying and/or minimizing Russian interference/information warfare targeting Americans.
Russia interfered in our election to help Trump. The Trump campaign was receptive to their overtures, even if there was no "tacit agreement" to coordinate. This poses a threat to the legitimacy of Trump's presidency, so Trump world is going to try to deny that Russia interfered.
Naturally, Russia is going to jump on the chance to deny that it interfered in our election to help Trump (& that it continues to launch info operations targeting Americans). They have a receptive audience in Trump fans, who also want to deny that Russia helped Trump get elected.
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“NO COLLUSION – NO CONSPIRACY”

THINK OF THE HELL PRESIDENT TRUMP, FAMILY & SUPPORTERS SUFFERED OVER A HOAX!

SOMEONE BETTER PAY!
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Paula Chertok🗽
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Shocker: Bill Barr—appointed AG after giving Trump a 19-page memo saying Trump didn't obstruct justice—just exonerated Trump of obstruction of justice. Mueller specifically said "this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him"
Mueller couldn't establish corrupt intent for obstruction of justice b/c Trump refused to talk w/ investigators. W/o putting Trump under oath, Barr exonerates him. Barr was put in charge of DOJ to salvage the GOP—even if it meant letting Trump get away with everything. Shameful.
.@JeffreyToobin points out the impropriety of AG Barr concluding no obstruction of justice when the whole point of appointing a special counsel was b/c Trump’s political appointees—like AG—have an inherent conflict of interest. And now we see, AG Barr is indeed Trump’s lackey.
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Renato Mariotti
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THREAD: What does Attorney General Barr's summary of the Mueller report tell us? (Short answer: A lot, but there is much more that we don't know.)
1/ Moments ago, Attorney General Barr released a letter in which he summarized what he called the "principal conclusions" from the Mueller report. Here is the letter, which is worth reading: judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrat…
2/ The letter raises many questions and is *not* the full report. But it does tell us many things that are very important. First, it sets forth the sheer amount of work that went into the Mueller investigation. He issued 2,800 subpoenas and interviewed 500 witnesses.
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BREAKING: AG Barr has submitted a report to Congress with a summary of Special Counsel Mueller’s findings. NBCNews.com

Details to follow in this thread.
LIVE: NBC News Special Report. periscope.tv/w/1OdKrRXeXopKX
BREAKING: AG Barr summary of Special Counsel Mueller's report:

While the report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.

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