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THREAD: Before boarding Marine One, President Trump emphasized why he thinks relying on gov't records is "actually better" than collecting #CitizenshipQuestion responses -- more than a year after Trump admin officials at DOJ refused to hear from Census Bureau about those records.
2. Trump: "We have information that's probably more accurate than the information we could get by going in and asking somebody, 'Are you a citizen?' A lot of people aren't going to tell the truth."

In January 2018, Census Bureau warned Trump officials👇
apps.npr.org/documents/docu…
3. Trump: "Not only didn't I back down, I backed up ... Anybody else would have given this up a long time ago."

In December 2017, Census Bureau's then-acting head started recommending to Trump admin to go w gov't records instead of #CitizenshipQuestion👇
documentcloud.org/documents/5022…
4. Trump: "The problem is we had 3 very unfriendly courts. They were judges that weren't exactly in love with this whole thing. And they were wrong."

3 fed judges & 5 #SCOTUS justices ruled admin's stated reason for #CitizenshipQuestion was a sham👇
supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf…
5. Trump: "In the meantime, we have to, by law, have the printing done. So the printing has started."

4 days before #2020Census printing was scheduled to start, President Trump threatened to delay constitutionally mandated head count of every person in US
6. Trump: "We're already finding out who the citizens are and who they're not, and I think, more accurately."

Yesterday, Trump issued an executive order that says getting access to gov't records on citizenship "remains in negotiation"👇
7. Reporter: "Did Wilbur Ross let you down, Mr. President?"

President Trump: "No, he didn't let me down."

Commerce @SecretaryRoss, whose decision to add #CitizenshipQuestion was blocked by #SCOTUS, stood silently in front of cameras while Trump & the AG spoke for 11 min👇
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