Donald Trump’s short trip to India concluded on Tuesday with a news conference during which he spent 45 minutes spewing lies and crafting new conspiracy theories to help in his quest for reelection. Here are the biggest lies and absurd statements Trump made at the news conference: On Monday’s the stock market plunge Trump said Monday’s stock market dive was because investors...
GOP senator: Jewish candidate Bernie Sanders promises ‘same thing’ as Nazis
During a Monday appearance on Fox News, Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) accused fellow Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president, of promoting a Nazi agenda. Sanders, who is Jewish, has said that his father’s family was among the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Host Steve Doocey said Sanders is promising “free preschool, free health...
Trump says ‘stock market starting to look very good’ after biggest drop in 2 years
After the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped over 1,000 points Monday, Donald Trump said the market was “starting to look very good.” The Dow lost 3.56% of its worth for the biggest percentage-point drop since February of 2018. Other indexes were also significantly lower including the S&P 500 (down 3.35%) and the Nasdaq Composite (down 3.71%). The drop in value was attributed to...
West Virginia’s new abortion bill ‘does absolutely nothing’ but threaten doctors
West Virginia already severely restricts access to abortion. The state mandates that abortion patients receive “counseling” explicitly designed to deter them from seeking an abortion. There’s a 24-hour waiting period. There’s a parental notification law. And there’s a ban on receiving abortions after 20 weeks. The “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection...
GOP still won’t join Democrats in campaign pledge not to use hacked materials
It has been more than 300 days since Democrats asked Republicans to sign a pledge not to use hacked or stolen materials in the 2020 campaign. And Republicans still refuse to sign it. The latest refusal came on Friday, amid reports that Russia is once again interfering in an American election. In a closed-door briefing earlier this month, intelligence officials with the Trump administration told...
Susan Collins is mad about ‘dark money’ ads. But she’s the reason they’re legal.
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) reportedly complained Saturday about dark money advertisements being run against her. But a decade ago, Collins was the deciding vote against a bill that would have brought transparency to political ads like the ones she now abhors. According to a report in the Lewiston Sun Journal, Collins “griped that she’s been assailed with dark money advertising that reaches...
Biggest conservative conference to feature ‘play’ about FBI agents Trump loves to mock
Attendees of the Conservative Political Action Conference will have a new form of entertainment at the annual gathering this week: a showing of a “play” about two FBI officials who Donald Trump and Republicans wrongly claim tainted the Russia investigation. On Thursday, CPAC will put on a performance of “FBI Lovebirds: UnderCovers,” in which a cast of D-list actors will...
Campaign official promises to share QAnon supporter’s message with Trump
The Trump campaign’s national press secretary Kayleigh McEnany recently tried to capitalize on the “viral” moment from Trump’s rally in Phoenix last week — when two men carried a 100-year-old veteran to his seat in the arena — by interviewing one of the men. But the man she was interviewing , identified by the media as Jason Frank, turns out to be a big supporter of QAnon...
GOP congressman brags about voting against his party but votes with Trump 95%
Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) boasted in a local television interview on Sunday that he is part of a group of House Republicans that is brave enough to vote against his party’s leadership. But since the start of this Congress, he has voted with Donald Trump more than 95% of the time. Asked about his membership in the conservative Freedom Caucus, Perry explained that the group has two rules:...
GOP congressman: We’ll ‘expunge’ Trump impeachment if we take back the House
From the Feb. 22 edition of “Breitbart News Sunday”:
MATTHEW BOYLE: Is it possible we that we could see like an expungement of the impeachment if Republicans take back the House majority?
REP. LEE ZELDIN (R-NY): I believe that that should be one of the very first orders of business in January of 2021, is to expunge the sham impeachment.