Tag: Donald Trump lies

A pro-Trump media personality was sentenced to prison for fraud. She called it a ‘witch hunt.’

Washington Post logoA conservative media personality has been sentenced to a month in federal prison and five months of house arrest after pleading guilty to Social Security fraud in September.

Prosecutors said Karyn Turk, the winner of the 2016 Mrs. Florida pageant, pocketed the money from Social Security checks belonging to her mother, Ilse Schafer, instead of sending it to Schafer’s nursing home. Schafer died in June.

At the sentencing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart said, “The message I’m sending is: You can’t steal from the government and not go to jail,” the Palm Beach Post reported.

“Choices in life have consequences, I’m sorry to tell you,” Reinhart said. “If you steal from the government, you’re not going to have a reputation as an honest person.” Continue reading.

Trump spokeswoman: ‘I don’t think the president has lied’

The Hill logoNOTE:  This is another spokeswoman from the previous post, this time from his re-election campaign, stating the President hasn’t lied. This, when there’s a massive archive showing his lies.

CNN host Chris Cuomo and Kayleigh McEnany, a spokeswoman for President Trump‘s reelection campaign, got into a heated exchange late Wednesday over whether Trump lies, with McEnany repeatedly insisting that he doesn’t. 

The contentious back-and-forth came as Cuomo accused the president of consistently lying and demonizing people for being different.

“He doesn’t lie. He doesn’t lie,” McEnany retorted. “The press lies.”

View the complete August 29 article by Justin Wise on The Hill website here.

Trump boasted about making Air Force One cheaper. He didn’t.

Washington Post logoIn December 2016, then-President-elect Trump sent word that, when it came to government spending, there was a new sheriff in town.

“Boeing is building a brand new 747 Air Force One for future presidents, but costs are out of control, more than $4 billion,” he tweeted. “Cancel order!”

With great fanfare, Trump opened talks with Boeing and as recently as June declared that he had forced Boeing to knock $1.6 billion off the price. He boasted about his negotiating triumph over and over.

View the complete August 7 article by Dana Milbank on The Washington Post website here.

Graham: ‘Fake news’ to say Russia did not meddle in US election

The following article by Emily Birnbaum was posted on the Hill  website July 1, 2018:

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said it is “fake news” to say that Russia did not meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

“The idea that Russia did not meddle in our election is fake news,” Graham said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“They did meddle in our election and they’re doing it again in 2018,” he added.

View the complete article on the Hill website here.