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Trump Generating His Own Fog Of Disinformation About Iran War George W. Bush’s false claims about Iraqi “weapons of mass destruction” generated scandal. Trump’s open lies about his war with Iran are barely generating a shrug.

NEW -- Remember Joe Isuzu? The ridiculous pathological liar in the commercials?

Would we have ever put him in charge of the military and let him start wars whenever he wanted?

Well, we pretty much did.

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Trump’s War On Iran Will End When He Declares Victory – The Only Question Is When Economists warn that even if that happens quickly, the damage to the American businesses and consumers could last months, years or even indefinitely.

NEW -- Trump could declare victory and bring our aircraft carriers home tomorrow or next week.

But the chaos and high oil prices he's caused with his war on Iran? Those consequences will be with us for much, much longer.

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U.S. May Have Committed War Crime In Sinking Of Iranian Ship The Geneva Conventions say nations have a duty to “take all possible measures” to help rescue victims of shipwrecks. A U.S. submarine left that to Sri Lanka.

NEW -- The Geneva Conventions state clearly that after a naval battle, all parties are supposed to take "all possible measures" to rescue survivors from the water.

Our sub that sank that Iranian frigate Wednesday took no possible measures.

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Trump’s Choice To Attack Iran Creating Worldwide Chaos Just Days In From tanking stocks to spiking oil prices to tens of thousands of Americans stranded overseas with no easy way home, the president has unleashed a global mess.

NEW -- Remember in Trump's war video where he warned about the chaos that attacking Iran would unleash, the tanking stock market, the spiking gas prices, the tens of thousands of Americans stranded overseas...

Oh, he forgot to mention that part?
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Why Is Trump Attacking Iran? He's Still Figuring It Out. The president has a offered a series of rationales for the air war, including some that contradict each other.

NEW -- Why is Trump attacking Iran?

It's their nuclear program, which needs to be re-obliterated after getting obliterated just 8 months ago.

It's to free Iranians.

It's to replace their autocrat with a different autocrat.

Call it a work in progress.

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Trump Promised To Halve Energy Costs In First Year, But Raised Them Instead The president claimed he would slash energy prices by half or more. Gasoline is slightly cheaper. Just about everything else is up substantially.

NEW -- Donald Trump promised as he was campaigning that he would cut your energy costs *in half* in his first year BUT YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED!

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Trump Takes Credit For Biden-Era $1,000 Match For Low-Income Retirement Plans It was one of the few policy proposals in Trump’s record-breaking, 108-minute State of the Union speech. It was also signed into law by his predecessor four years ago.

NEW -- Last night Donald Trump announced a $1,000 match for lower-income workers' retirement accounts.

He forgot to mention that it was created under a proposal signed into law by Joe Biden. It is already going into effect in January.

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Supreme Court Shows A Willingness To Deny Trump's 'Emergencies' -- At Least For Now Democracy advocates are cautiously optimistic. Emphasis on "cautiously."

NEW -- The most important piece of the Supreme Court ruling was not about tariffs.

It was about Trump's made-up "emergencies" that democracy advocates worry he will use to rule as an autocrat. Six of nine justices stood up to him.

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Trump Leading U.S. Into War To End A Weapons Program He Claimed He Already ‘Obliterated’ The president said an attack on Iran was necessary to destroy the country's nuclear program.

NEW -- Donald Trump has put our country on the brink of war with Iran to stop its nuclear weapons program.

Yes, the same nuclear weapons program that he claimed he "completely and totally obliterated" eight months ago.

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Four Years In, Trump Remains On Putin’s Side In His Stagnated Invasion Of Ukraine Trump cut off aid and Ukraine was hit with four times as many missiles and drones in his first year back in office compared to Biden’s final year.

NEW -- Four years ago Trump praised Russia's dictator as a "genius" and "savvy" for invading Ukraine.

Today Putin can't replace the 35,000 troops he's losing each month, is instead doing nightly war crimes against civilians.

Trump is still on his side.
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Want To Reduce The Debt And Lower The Crime Rate? Bring In Even More Immigrants. Contrary to Trump's claims, immigrants, even illegal ones, use fewer services and commit fewer crimes than native-born Americans, according to Cato Institute studies.

NEW -- Trump and Stephen Miller love to demonize immigrants, especially illegal ones. They are super violent, they claim. They are sucking taxpayers dry.

The truth is the exact opposite.

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Bondi Lies To Congress, Tells Them Maxwell Was Not Transferred To A ‘Lower Level Facility’ Epstein’s partner in child sex trafficking was, in fact, sent from a low-security prison to a “Club Fed”-type prison camp after meeting with Bondi’s deputy.

NEW — AG Pam Bondi, under oath, repeatedly told Congress that Ghislaine Maxwell had been not been transferred to a lower level prison.

False. She was sent to a Club Fed days after meeting with Bondi’s deputy.

I assume she will be indicting herself.

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FBI Report Of 2006 Call Ratting Out Epstein Muddles Trump’s Previous Explanations A document in the Epstein files reveals a 2006 phone call from Trump to the Palm Beach Police chief claiming that “everyone” knew what Epstein had been doing.

NEW -- The White House is claiming that a newly unconcovered FBI document showing a 2006 phone call from Trump ratting out Epstein to the Palm Beach police vindicates him.

No, it absolutely does not.

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Epstein Island Visitor Howard Lutnick Still Has His Job In Trump's Cabinet Trump has attacked others for having visited Epstein’s notorious Caribbean island, but appears to be fine with his commerce secretary’s apparent trip there.

NEW -- Trump loves to talk about how other people (but not him, even though he was invited) went to Epstein's island and how bad that is.

Unless, of course, that other person happens to be his own commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick.

Then it's okay.

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Think The High Court Will Save You From Trump’s 12-Figure Import Taxes? Think Again. Trump already has the ability to impose replacement tariffs to make up nearly three-quarters of the tax revenue the Supreme Court may strike down as illegal.

NEW -- Trump saddled Americans with the largest tax increase in decades with his tariffs, $181 billion last year.

Now, with the Supreme Court likely to strike down his biggest tariff tool, he's scrambling to find alternatives.

And it looks like he has.

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Trump Says Putin Agreed To His Request To Stop His Attacks On Ukraine. Reality Says Otherwise. It is unclear what the president meant when he said Putin would not “fire on” Kyiv and other cities, as the attacks and deaths haven't stopped coming.

NEW -- Trump said today he asked Vladimir Putin to pause his attacks on Ukraine for a week because of the super cold weather and that Putin had agreed.

That comes as news to Ukrainians, who have been attacked every single day this month, including today.
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Trump’s Minnesota Invasion Appears Tied To This Unhinged Claim The president promised to carry out “retribution” on the state that he actually lost every time.

NEW -- Captain Queeg had his strawberries.

Donald Trump has his election lies about Minnesota.

And Georgia.
And Wisconsin.
And Michigan.
And Pennsylvania.
And California....

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After Creating A Crisis Over Greenland, Trump Declares Victory And Ends It Trump boasted of a “framework of a future deal” regarding U.S. access to Greenland for military purposes — access it already under an existing agreement.

NEW -- Trump creates crisis. Trump ends crisis by completely caving.

Another Trump Major Victory! Yet Again.

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Opinion: Europe’s Strategy Of Treating Trump Like A Royal Toddler Didn’t Work – So Now What? A year of fawning and constant praise was rewarded with Trump's refusal to help Ukraine and a threat to take Greenland by force because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

NEW — For his first year back in office, European leaders settled on a strategy of treating Trump like a toddler they were trying to coax to eat his vegetables, constantly praising him for every little thing.

It didn’t work.

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They Foresaw Trump’s Rush To Autocracy — They Just Didn’t Think It Would Happen So Fast From his creation of a ‘papers-please’ police force to unilateral military actions to his disregard of court orders, even those who warned it would happen are alarmed.

NEW -- A lot of the people who predicted Trump would rule like an autocrat if he returned to power are today confessing they got one key detail wrong.

They did not foresee it could happen so fast.

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Trump And Stephen Miller Have Created A Secret Police Force In Plain Sight After promising to focus on deporting criminal illegal immigrants, Trump is instead using militarized immigration agencies to terrorize cities where he is unpopular.

NEW -- ICE and Border Patrol agents do not wear name tags. They don't identify themselves in their encounters with civilians. Many wear masks to hide their identities.

Donald Trump has created a de facto secret police force to terrorize communities.

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Trump Falsely Claims Economy Is Great As Grocery Prices Rise And Jobs Picture Gets Worse In a Detroit speech supposedly about the economy, Trump spent the majority of his time on stage repeating his usual lies and grievances about everything else.

NEW — If you watched Trump’s speech purportedly about the economy today, it might explain why they giving him cognitive exams.

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Trump Boasts Of Confiscated Venezuelan Oil But Neglects To Mention How Nasty It Is The country’s crude oil is heavy, too thick to flow through a pipeline without dilution, and is filled with corrosive chemicals that can destroy refineries.

NEW -- Trump and Stephen Miller keep bragging about the might-makes-right imperialism that let them confiscate Venezuela's oil.

They neglect to mention how corrosive and nasty it is -- or how it almost certainly will not bring down gas prices here.

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Trump Repeats Lie That He Had Nothing To Do With Jan. 6 The president reminded House Republicans he said "peacefully and patriotically" in his pre-coup rally and blamed former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for the violence.

NEW -- On the 5th anniversary of his coup attempt, Trump, lying, claims he had nothing to do with the violence that injured 140 cops and left five dead in the coming weeks.

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With His Post-Jan. 6 Comeback, Trump May Have Normalized Coup Attempts He was the first president to try to remain in power despite losing reelection, but democracy advocates worry he may not be the last.

NEW -- Great news for losing presidential candidates!

Used to be that you could ask for a recount and file lawsuits.

Now, thanks to American voters having normalized what Trump did on Jan. 6, you can also attempt a violent coup! Without fear of consequence!

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In Venezuela Takeover, Trump Makes It All About The Oil The president, who claimed to oppose involvement in “nation building,” also said the U.S. would “run” Venezuela for an indefinite period.

NEW: TAKE THE OIL!!

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Trump's 'Liberation Day' Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs Trump’s economy since he imposed tariffs has created one-tenth of the jobs per month as Biden’s economy, while manufacturing has lost jobs each month.

NEW — Ignore the naysayers. Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs absolutely worked. They liberated Americans from their jobs.

(In addition to making most things more expensive.)

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Trump Spews Lies About The Economy In His Year-End Address To Nation The president keeps claiming Joe Biden left him a disaster and he is fixing it. In fact, Biden handed over a good economy that Trump made worse with his tariffs.

NEW -- What the hell was that?

And why?

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Trump Pardoned Fraudsters, Cop-Assaulters And A Drug Lord — Is Ghislaine Maxwell Next? The president has said he has the right to pardon the world’s most notorious living child sex trafficker and has repeatedly refused to rule it out.

NEW -- Donald Trump has set free convicted fraudsters, cop assaulters, money launderers, even a drug kingpin who smuggled 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

So why not a notorious child sex trafficker?

Why not, say, Ghislaine Maxwell?

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Trump Stands By Unhinged Post, Calls Rob Reiner ‘Deranged’ And ‘Very Bad For Our Country’ The president claimed that the famed director had been murdered because of his criticism of Trump.

ACTUALLY NOT NEW AT ALL -- Donald Trump is a deeply damaged human being.

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