The following article by Tommy Christopher was posted on the ShareBlue website February 11, 2018:
When pathetic excuses and spin don’t work, Trump’s surrogates go for blatant dishonesty.
Mick Mulvaney Credit: CBS
Trump’s vile defense of accused domestic abuser Rob Porter has forced his advisers to spin, deflect, and finally, to flat-out lie about his resignation in disgrace.
The following article by Damian Paletta and Mike DeBonis was posted on the Washington Post website January 21, 2018:
Some party leaders and President Trump have changed their tune on government shutdowns since the last one in 2013. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
With President Trump largely hidden from public view during the government shutdown, the face of the White House’s response belongs to Mick Mulvaney, who has plenty of experience with such events.
The following article by German Lopez was posted on the Vox.com website January 11, 2018:
Kellyanne Conway’s remarks are debunked by her own boss.
Speaking to Chris Cuomo on CNN on Wednesday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway made a bold claim about the Trump administration’s collective thoughts on Hillary Clinton: “We don’t care about her. Nobody here talks about her.”
Just perfect.
Dutch journalist to new US Ambassador: you said there were ‘no go zones’ in Netherlands, where are they?
Ambassador: That’s fake news, I didn’t say that
Journalist: We can show you that clip now.
Ambassador: Err
A Dutch journalist just asked new U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra why he said there are “no go” areas in the Netherlands, where radical Muslims are setting cars and politicians on fire.
The following article by Aaron Rupar was posted on the ThinkProgress website December 19, 2017:
The press secretary wants you to believe Trump will take “a big hit.” Don’t be fooled.
During a White House news briefing held immediately after the House passed the Republican tax cut bill on Tuesday, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was peppered with questions about why the White House won’t be straightforward about how the bill directly benefits President Trump and his family.
The following article by Kurtis Lee was posted on the Los Angeles Times website November 25, 2017:
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders takes reporters’ questions at a news conference in the White House briefing room this month. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Did she bake the pie or not?
It’s a question only White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders can answer. It’s also a sign of where our polarizing politics have taken us in 2017.
In a year when questions about possible Russian collusion, voter fraud and the legitimacy of a proposed travel ban have clouded President Trump’s administration, the political discourse is now — briefly — centered on a holiday culinary ritual.
On Thursday, Sanders tweeted a photo of a chocolate pecan pie with a brief message:
The following article by Lawrence H. Hummers was posted on the Washington Post website October 22, 2017:
Kevin Hassett, President Trump’s chief economist, estimated Monday that the administration’s plan to cut corporate tax rates will cause average household incomes to jump $4,000 a year. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press)
I recently asserted that Kevin Hassett deserved a failing grade for his “analysis” projecting that the Trump administration proposal to reduce the corporate tax rate from 35 to 20 percent would raise the wages of an average American family between $4,000 to $9,000. I chose harsh language because Hassett had, for what seemed like political reasons, impugned the integrity of people like Len Burman and Gene Steuerle who have devoted their lives to honest rigorous evaluation of tax measures by calling their work “scientifically indefensible” and “fiction.” Since there have been a variety of comments on the economics of corporate tax reduction, some further discussion seems warranted.
The analysis from Hassett, chief of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), relies heavily on correlations between corporate tax rates and wages in other countries to argue that a cut in the corporate tax rate would boost returns to labor very substantially. Perhaps unintentionally, the CEA ignores our own historical experience in their analysis. As Frank Lysy noted, the corporate tax cuts of the late 1980s did not result in increased real wages. Actually, real wages fell. The same is true in the United Kingdom, as highlighted by Kimberly Clausing and Edward Kleinbard. These examples feel far more relevant to the corporate tax issue analysis than comparisons to small economies and tax havens like Ireland and Switzerland upon which the CEA relies.
The following article by John Wagner was posted on the Washington Post website October 20, 2017:
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Oct. 20 defended Chief of Staff John F. Kelly’s attacks on Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.) and called it “highly inappropriate” to debate with “a four-star Marine general.” (Reuters)
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a reporter Friday that it would be “highly inappropriate” to get into a debate with “a four-star Marine general” over whether he misstated facts.
The following article by Kristine Phillips was posted on the Washington Post website June 28, 2017:
Brian Karem, the reporter who confronted deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during a news briefing, said he did so because he’s had enough of the Trump administration’s bullying of the media.
“I don’t like bullies and I don’t like the entire situation of the press and free speech being castigated for no other reason than we either get stories wrong — which happens, and it should be then responsibly corrected — or because we report news the president doesn’t like — which seems to happen even more often than getting stories wrong,” Karem, executive editor of two Maryland newspapers, wrote in a column explaining his outburst during the Tuesday briefing. Continue reading “‘I don’t like bullies’: Reporter explains why he confronted Sarah Huckabee Sanders”
The following post is from the Washington Post’s Fact Checker email of February 24, 2017:
This week, we launched a new Fact Checker project: 100 days of Trump claims. Every day for the first 100 days of the new presidency, we will keep track of false or misleading claims made by the new president.
