Previous Guy does another disinforming interview including 5X Bacon Prices, because he ordered the ‘Code Red’.
IN AT LEAST 11 POINTS DURING THE INTERVIEW, FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP FLUBBED NUMBERS, MISSTATED FACTS OR OMITTED CRITICAL CONTEXT.
Trump truly needs a narrow gag, because after his delusional speech on Saturday, the stimulants have apparently ran out. Heck, give him the evidentiary hearing he now demands, as Marcy Wheeler notes.
Former President Donald Trump made a spate of false and misleading comments about immigration, foreign policy, abortion and more in a wide-ranging interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker that aired Sunday morning.
Are immigrants 'flooding' the U.S.?
... there’s no evidence that 15 million people will cross the border this year. That’s more than the total number of people, 11.4 million, who the U.S. government estimates are here without legal authorization.
Are a record number of terrorists crossing the border?
The number of all people, including U.S. citizens, on the terrorist watchlist who were stopped at the southern border as of July of this fiscal year was 216, compared with 165 in all of fiscal year 2022. But the number of border crossers on the watchlist was higher in fiscal year 2019 — during the Trump administration — at 280.
Did the U.S. give $85 billion worth of equipment to the Taliban?
That is false. The Defense Department estimated last year that the Afghan government had more than $7.1 billion of U.S.-funded military equipment in its possession when it fell to the Taliban in August 2021 amid the withdrawal.
Did people who never entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 get long sentences?
That misses critical context. Some of the defendants ...— including Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes — did not enter the Capitol themselves but got lengthy sentences after they were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Was the 2020 election 'rigged,' 'so rigged' and 'crooked'?
Trump and his supporters brought more than 50 lawsuits to overturn the results of the election; none succeeded.
Is bacon five times more expensive than it used to be?
But Trump is exaggerating the price of salt-cured pork: In U.S. cities on average, the cost of sliced bacon is up by about 12% from the end of his term in office, though at one point in 2022, it was 30% more expensive than it was at the end of 2020.
Did Trump's tax cuts bring in more revenue?
When debt service costs are included, the deficit figure grows to $1.9 trillion. And the numbers will continue to grow if the temporary tax cut in Trump’s tax law are extended.
Did Covid, not Trump, drive up the deficit?
The increase in debt was due to a mix of existing obligations, and it was further fueled by Trump’s deficit-raising policies, including his tax law, which Republicans passed along party lines in late 2017.
Trump claimed Democrats want to murder babies. What's he talking about?
While some Democrats support broad access to abortion regardless of gestation age, infanticide is illegal, and no Democrats advocate for it. Just 1% of abortions are performed after 21 weeks of gestation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Did Trump build 500 miles of border wall?
Trump specifically and falsely claimed he was building a completely new border wall throughout much of his administration, when in fact he was replacing older fences.
Is the media ignoring the war in Ukraine?
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If I were Judge Chutkan, I’d order the hearing Trump claims he wants, refuse to waive his appearance, and force him, his attorneys, and the journalists only beginning to pay attention to January 6 because Trump has been charged to review the video of the attack she had sat through by October 2022.
As one example, Chutkan presided over several spectacular assault cases, including one where a former Marine who had attended the TCF Center mob in Detroit after the election brought his hockey stick to the Capitol and used it to beat a cop, one of the many spectacularly brutal assaults that happened that day.
Trump claims that during the year and a half of January 6 cases she had presided over by October 28, 2022, Chutkan had not seen any evidence from which she could form an opinion about the event. By all means, let’s put the evidence she had seen in the record.
KO’s usual reveal of the NBC sausage factory covers this debacle for the inaugural Kristen Welker broadcast of the post- Chuck Todd period.
“It was my decision, but I listened to some people,”
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“You know who I listen to? Myself. I saw what happened,”
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“You hire them, you’ve never met these people, you get a recommendation, they turn out to be RINOs, or they turn out to be not so good. In many cases, I didn’t respect them,”
“But I did respect others. I respected many others that said the election was rigged.”
