Thursday, February 16, 2017

Well, that was something, wasn't it?

Ok, a few points I'd like to mention:

DJT: "So I want to thank Paul Singer for being here and for coming up to the office. He was a very strong opponent, and now he’s a very strong ally."

Verdict: True. Per CNBC's reporting: "The opportunity to implement economic policy with Trump's White House and a Republican-controlled Congress appealed to Singer, sources said."

DJT: "But a new Rasmussen poll just came out just a very short while ago, and it has our approval rating at 55 percent and going up."

Verdict: True... out of context. His total approval has been hovering around this mark since he took office, and today's poll is actually 1% LOWER than Jan 20th.

 DJT: "This administration is running like a fine- tuned machine, despite the fact that I can’t get my cabinet approved."

Verdict: Abstain. I am not touching that one with a ten foot pole.

DJT: "I have heard 80 percent, I find that hard to believe, that is just a number I heard, that they are overturned 80 percent of the time. I think that circuit is — that circuit is in chaos and that circuit is frankly in turmoil."

Verdict: False. Way, Way False. The figure that he is giving you is the Supreme Court has overturned 80% of the 9th Circuit court decisions... that they have deigned to review. Between 1999-2008, SCOTUS has reviewed 175 of the 9th Circuit's cases and  reversed or vacated 140 of them, out of a grand total of 114,199 cases heard by the 9th Circuit! SCOTUS, in mostly hearing cases that have a chance of being overturned anyway, regularly overturns 68% of the cases it reviews annually, but in actuality overturned only 0.0012% of the 9th Circuit's total cases.
 (http://www.snopes.com/ninth-circuit-court-most-overturned/)

 DJT: "Fiat Chrysler announced it will invest $1 billion in Ohio and Michigan, creating 2,000 new American jobs."

Verdict: False. They just announced 3200 indefinite layoffs in Ohio.
(https://www.toledoblade.com/Automotive/2017/02/14/Fiat-Chrysler-issues-layoff-notice-for-3-200-Toledo-workers.html)

  
 DJT: "And I can tell you, speaking for myself, I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don’t have any deals in Russia."

Verdict: Abstain. Can't prove it one way or the other without tax returns, can we? 

DJT, regarding Mike Flynn contacting the Russian Ambassador: "No, I didn’t direct him, but I would have directed him if he didn’t do it."

Verdict: What in the seven hells is that supposed to even mean???

DJT: "I didn’t do anything for Russia. I’ve done nothing for Russia. Hillary Clinton gave them 20 percent of our uranium."

Verdict: As False as False gets. Russia now wholly owns a company called Uranium One, which does have the rights of extraction for about 20% of the uranium mines in the U.S. However, the approval to buy Uranium One outright came from both The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The State Department is only one of nine departments that make up CFIUS; decisions rarely make it to the Secretary level and if they do, the final vote rests with the POTUS. And it's a moot point anyway; per the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, “Neither Uranium One nor ARMZ [the Russian firm] holds an NRC export license, so no uranium produced at either facility may be exported." No uranium can be shipped out of the country by them, to Russia or anywhere else!!!
(https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/10/26/the-facts-behind-trumps-repeated-claim-about-hillary-clintons-role-in-the-russian-uranium-deal/)

 Done for now. Who else needs a shower after that?

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