The recipients at the Naturalization ceremony were all from Shit Hole Countries, as Trump stated.

 As for Melania, she was all for herself, it was as though she was running for re election as the First Lady. She never mentioned the word "My Husband" but called himonald".

 It was a Monkey and Pony Show, using the Peoples' House to Campaign, which has NEVER happened before. That is like the PNC taking taxpayer money to pay for the Lobby Firm to aid in their campaign.

Last night Trump supporter shot and killed two Black protesters, the violence and protest are all under TRUMP's watch, he is a divider.

    ANY BETS, Trump is out November,

The desperate tone of the Democrat convention will be their downfall.

Look at Melania last night, cool as cucumber. She rallied the white suburban white women votes. Unlike Michelle who sounded like a whiney menopausal woman. 

Melania is now the Republicans secret weapon. 

The republicans will have to take Florida and this race is all over. The republicans knocked out the Democrats last night. They are now flat on their faces. 

Pence will take timber to Sleepy Joe tonight. 

RIP Democrats 2020.

@kp posted:

The recipients at the Naturalization ceremony were all from Shit Hole Countries, as Trump stated.

 As for Melania, she was all for herself, it was as though she was running for re election as the First Lady. She never mentioned the word "My Husband" but called himonald".

 It was a Monkey and Pony Show, using the Peoples' House to Campaign, which has NEVER happened before. That is like the PNC taking taxpayer money to pay for the Lobby Firm to aid in their campaign.

Last night Trump supporter shot and killed two Black protesters, the violence and protest are all under TRUMP's watch, he is a divider.

    ANY BETS, Trump is out November,

FAKE NEWS.

@Former Member posted:

Melania Trump is the American Princess of the White House.  

And Mike Pompeo is the Prince who gave Democracy to Guyana.

Ow gyal Bibi, you hit dem hard.  They now cling to fake news.

@Former Member posted:

The desperate tone of the Democrat convention will be their downfall.

Look at Melania last night, cool as cucumber. She rallied the white suburban white women votes. Unlike Michelle who sounded like a whiney menopausal woman. 

Melania is now the Republicans secret weapon. 

The republicans will have to take Florida and this race is all over. The republicans knocked out the Democrats last night. They are now flat on their faces. 

Pence will take timber to Sleepy Joe tonight. 

RIP Democrats 2020.

Did you just say that? Think about it for a second. Here is a hint: if you can't say it in your place of work its probably not something you should say.

I call as spade a spade.

Michelle's speech now sound like a whiney menopausal woman. 

Melania's was as cool as cucumber. 

@Former Member posted:

jagdoe stole a lot of tricks from Trump's playbook

Maybe, and they both won.  Why steal from a loser.

@Former Member posted:

Maybe, and they both won.  Why steal from a loser.

Jagdeo did no such thing. He is his own man.  He took Guidance from his mentor, Chedi Jagan' and runs with it. He follows the PPP manifesto to a T. Jagdeo is now a Social Conservative.

@Former Member posted:

Melania brought home the suburban white women vote last night. 

That's the demographic you're in?

@Former Member posted:

Melania is now the Republicans secret weapon. 

Just when it seems there is hope you had plumbed the depths of stupidity... then this.

@Ramakant-P posted:

Jagdeo did no such thing. He is his own man.  He took Guidance from his mentor, Chedi Jagan' and runs with it. He follows the PPP manifesto to a T. Jagdeo is now a Social Conservative.

Absolute trash--stupidness na gat cure.

@Ramakant-P posted:

Jagdeo did no such thing. He is his own man.  He took Guidance from his mentor, Chedi Jagan' and runs with it. He follows the PPP manifesto to a T. Jagdeo is now a Social Conservative.

When I think of a Social Conservative, I think of an emphasis on "traditional values" including the blurring of the lines between religion and the state, against LGBTQ rights, marriage can only be between a man and a woman, anti-abortion, no embryonic stem cell research, no women in the military, prayers in schools, the right to bear arms, etc. etc.

While I recognize there are different grades of social conservatism, where does Jagdeo fall in the spectrum?

Fact-checking the second night of the 2020 RNC

By PolitiFact Staff August 26, 2020, Source - https://www.politifact.com/art...cond-night-2020-rnc/

President Donald Trump joins first lady Melania Trump on stage after her speech to the 2020 Republican National Convention from the Rose Garden of the White House Aug. 25, 2020, in Washington. (AP)

The second night of the Republican National Convention painted a picture of a compassionate White House in action. But it also showed the blurring of long-standing traditions, and maybe laws, about not mixing politics and government.

President Donald Trump pardoned a man who robbed a Nevada bank and now runs a nonprofit. Trump conducted a small naturalization ceremony inside the White House. Mike Pompeo broke from previous secretaries of state by not only giving a convention address, but doing so from Jerusalem.

First lady Melania Trump wrapped up the night with a speech from the renovated Rose Garden, telling a largely unmasked audience seated on the lawn that her husband’s administration has been relentless in its effort to find a vaccine or treatment for COVID-19.

"Donald will not rest until he has done all he can to take care of everyone impacted by this terrible pandemic," she said.

Before ending her address, she alluded to her husband’s brash reputation. "Total honesty is what we as citizens deserve from our president," she said. "Whether you like it or not, you always know what he's thinking."

Her speech didn’t leave much work for fact-checkers, but other remarks from the president’s adult children, a former impeachment lawyer and his economic adviser did.

Experts also had plenty to say about top administration officials possibly violating the Hatch Act, a 1939 law that limits government officials from mixing political activities with their official duties.

RELATED: The RNC featured Pompeo in Jerusalem and official White House acts. Is that legal?

Here’s what we fact-checked from the RNC’s second night.

Eric Trump

Both claims are False. 

Biden has directly said he does not support defunding the police. He said that abuse of power in police departments must stop and reforms are needed. But he’s said police departments should be given the money they need to institute changes. Biden proposed an additional $300 million for community policing.

Biden’s plan to end gun violence calls for banning the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and for the regulation of existing assault weapons under the National Firearms Act. His plan also calls for a buy back of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. But it does not say the Second Amendment should be revoked. "It’s within our grasp to end our gun violence epidemic and respect the Second Amendment, which is limited," his plan says.

In a heated exchange with an auto worker in Detroit in March, Biden rejected the idea that he supported taking guns away from people.

"Biden has pledged to stop border wall construction and give amnesty and health care to all illegal immigrants." 

Some elements of this claim are true but need clarification.

Biden has said "there will not be another foot of wall constructed" if he is elected president. "I'm going to make sure that we have border protection, but it's going to be based on making sure that we use high-tech capacity to deal with it and at the ports of entry," Biden said during an interview aired Aug. 6.

Biden says he supports a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million people living illegally in the country; they would have to have paid taxes and pass a background check. Some argue any path is a form of amnesty. The common reference for amnesty in modern U.S. politics is the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, signed by President Ronald Reagan. The law paved the way for immigrants who were in the country illegally to become lawful permanent residents if they met certain requirements, including being in the country by Jan. 1, 1982.

Biden has said that people should have access to health care, regardless of immigration status; he has not said it should be free. A task force comprised of appointees of Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. recommended that Biden extend Affordable Care Act coverage to immigrants illegally in the country who are protected from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. It recommended allowing additional immigrants illegally in the country to also buy health insurance, without financial assistance from the government.

"My father on the other hand, delivered the largest tax cuts in American history."

False. Several bills since 1980 were larger than the 2017 tax bill, measured not only by contemporary dollars but also by inflation-adjusted dollars and as a percentage of gross domestic product, which is a measure of the size of the overall economy. In inflation-adjusted dollars, the recent tax bill is the fourth-largest since 1940. And as a percentage of GDP, it ranks seventh. We’ve summarized the tax laws here.

"A corrupt Ukrainian oligarch put Hunter on the board of his gas company, even though he had no experience in Ukraine — or in the energy sector. None. Yet he was paid millions to do nothing."

Bondi has a point that Hunter had no experience in Ukraine or the energy sector.

Despite the lack of expertise, he joined the board of Burisma beginning in 2014 when his father as vice president was publicly representing U.S. policy on the country, which had become the center of a tug-of-war between Russia and the West. 

Most of the criticism we’ve found focused on the conflict of interest Hunter Biden created by accepting the position. We found no evidence to suggest Joe Biden did anything wrong or inappropriate in his official capacity as vice president. 

Hunter Biden’s work attracted attention at the time. The oligarch behind the firm, Mykola Zlochevsky, faced investigations for money laundering and tax evasion. (Zlochevsky and the company have denied the allegations.)

Staff at the State Department said they expressed concerns in 2015 when Hunter Biden started serving on the board of Burisma. 

The details of what Hunter did have been mysterious. Reuters, using unnamed sources, reported that Hunter weighed in during scheduled meetings but did little of substance. The report suggests he was compensated for contributing his high-profile name. 

Exactly how much Hunter Biden was paid remains unclear. As a director, Biden made up to $50,000 per month some months, according to the New York Times. He left Burisma in spring 2019, around the time that the elder Biden announced his 2020 presidential run. 

In 2019, the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives launched an impeachment inquiry into Trump for withholding aid to Ukraine while asking the government there to look into the Bidens’ activities.

We found no evidence that Hunter Biden himself was investigated by Ukrainian or American authorities for his role as a board member of Burisma. 

Read more of our fact-checking of Bondi's case against the Bidens in this story.

"And if you believe in expanding quality and affordable healthcare, only President Trump, my father, signed Right to Try into law, the favored nations clause, and other actions to lower drug prices and keep Americans from getting ripped off."

This is somewhat misleading. The Right to Try law that Trump signed in 2018 law allows individuals who have life threatening conditions, have tried all approved treatment options and cannot participate in clinical trials to access unapproved treatments. It did not, however, lower drug prices. 

Trump also signed an executive order on July 24, that both he has referenced as the "favored nations clause." But it has not been put into action. Nor has the text of this executive order been made public, so the details of how it would be executed are unclear. The idea of the "favored nations" proposal is that the U.S. would pay similar prices as European countries do for some Medicare Part B physician-administered drugs. This proposal has been strongly opposed by drugmakers and experts told us they were skeptical that it would actually be implemented. 

While Trump has long talked about lowering drug prices as one of his top health care goals, he has made little progress in doing so, outside of issuing several executive orders that have yet to be enacted. 

Says Joe Biden "voted for the Iraq War … He supported war in Serbia, Syria, Libya."

This is Mostly True.

Biden as a senator voted for resolutions that supported interventions in Iraq and Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro). 

As vice president, Biden publicly followed the policies of the Obama administration, which included interventions in Syria and Libya. Biden’s campaign pointed to 2016 reporting that said Biden within the White House argued against intervention in Libya.

President Donald Trump inherited "a stagnant economy" and then "rebuilt" it.

The idea that Trump inherited a weak economy from President Barack Obama and turned it into a strong one is False — and that was before COVID-19 threw the country back into a recession. In the big picture, Obama inherited the most severe recession in decades. Trump inherited a slow but steady recovery several years in the making.

For instance, for unemployment rates and median weeks of unemployment, the declines under Obama were at least as fast — if not faster — than they were under Trump, pre-coronavirus. That holds for several racial and ethnic groups as well as women. The pattern of monthly job gains was also similar under both Obama and Trump. 

Inflation-adjusted wages fell for much of Obama’s first term, but they began rising again during his second term. Their path under Trump has been rising on much the same trajectory. 

The poverty rate and food stamp use declined under Trump, but those declines began during Obama’s final years in office. The big declines in foreclosures, bankruptcies and bank failures occurred under Obama, with marginal advances under Trump. Even the stock market, which Trump often notes has risen to record highs on his watch, rose at roughly similar rates under both presidents. 

It’s important to remember that no president has total control over the factors affecting the economy. 

The pandemic "was awful. Health and economic impacts were tragic. Hardship and heartbreak were everywhere. But presidential leadership came swiftly and effectively, with an extraordinary rescue for health and safety to successfully fight the coronavirus."

To hear chief White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow say it, the pandemic is in the rearview mirror. There are states, such as Texas and Florida, where a deadly surge has eased. Nationally, however, the death toll continues to climb.

Data from the Covid Tracking Project show deaths topping 170,000. And the recent rise in deaths is only slightly less compared with the early months of the pandemic.

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington estimates that the number of deaths will exceed 300,000 by Dec. 1. That would be nearly double the deaths seen so far.

Kudlow offered an optimistic picture of the economic recovery and the growth to come, telling Americans to expect 20% growth in a "V-shaped recovery" in the second half of the year. 

But much hinges on the course of the virus. Current trends show an ongoing threat to the prosperity Kudlow described.

"Margaret Sanger was a racist who believed in eugenics. Her goal when founding Planned Parenthood was to eradicate minorities."

This statement is misleading. Sanger has been routinely criticized for supporting eugenics — the belief of improving the population by controlled breeding for desirable characteristics. But historians and scholars who have studied Sanger’s life say her opinions concerned public health, and were not specific to race.

The basic concept that humanity could be improved by selective breeding was firmly held belief for many in the years before World War II. Winston Churchill, Herbert Hoover, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw and H. G. Wells all supported the eugenics movement. The philosophy fell out of favor after Nazis adopted eugenics to support exterminating non-Aryan races. 

Still, Planned Parenthood recently announced that it would remove Sanger’s name from its Manhattan Health Center over her eugenics beliefs, and there is some disagreement about her views and whether they should be reevaluated amid protests against systemic racism and a pandemic that has disproportionately affected minorities.

Sanger was a birth control activist, which means that she wanted women to be able to avoid unwanted pregnancies. The historical record shows she worked for women of all classes and races to have that choice.

Those who call Sanger a racist often cite her work on what was called the Negro Project, an effort that started in 1939 that brought birth control services (but not abortion) to Black communities in the south. Black leaders such as W.E.B. DuBois and Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of the National Council of Negro Women, were members of its advisory council.

Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman, Samantha Putterman, Jon Greenberg, Miriam Valverde and Kaiser Health News reporter Victoria Knight contributed to this report. Photos by the Associated Press.

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Perhaps, Melania Trump laughing and mocking Donald John Trump as she prevents him from touching her after her speech Tuesday, August 25, 2020. 

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D-G, please don't show the GNI Trumpsters the facts, just like the Donald they can't read the FACTS . Trump's entire presidency is based on LIES, telling lies and his cult do the same.

President Trump has made more than 20,000 false or misleading claims

Source & rest of article -- https://www.washingtonpost.com...r-misleading-claims/

He overturned the big PNC lie. That’s good for me.

Trump says he will send federal law enforcement, National Guard to Kenosha after Jacob Blake shooting

'We will NOT stand for looting, arson, violence, and lawlessness on American streets,' president tweets

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Two killed, one injured during Kenosha, Wisconsin shooting

Shooting during clash between demonstrators and counter-protesters; Mike Tobin reports.

President Trump on Wednesday said he will send federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Kenosha, Wis. to restore “law and order” amid days of unrest in the city.

 

“We will NOT stand for looting, arson, violence, and lawlessness on American streets,” the president tweeted Wednesday. “My team just got off the phone with Governor Evers who agreed to accept federal assistance. (Portland should do the same!)”

The president added: “TODAY, I will be sending federal law enforcement and the National Guard to Kenosha, WI to restore LAW and ORDER!”

The president’s tweets come after 29-year-old Jacob Blake, a Black man, was shot at close range in the back by city police officers, leaving him partially paralyzed.

KENOSHA VIOLENCE: JUVENILE ARRESTED IN DEADLY SHOOTING AMID JACOB BLAKE UNREST, ILLINOIS POLICE SAY

New footage emerged Tuesday of the moments before Blake was shot multiple times by a White Wisconsin police officer as Blake tried to get into his vehicle. The video reportedly captured Blake engaged in a struggle with at least two Kenosha police officers, and shows an officer appearing to try to restrain him before he manages to get up and walks to the driver’s side door, the clip shows.

Viral video taken from another vantage point shows an officer pump several rounds into the apparently unarmed man’s back.

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Trump campaign communications manager Tim Murtaugh during call Wednesday called Blake’s shooting “very troubling.”

JACOB BLAKE PROTESTS PUT KENOSHA COUNTY 'UNDER ATTACK,' OFFICIALS TELL WISCONSIN GOVERNOR

“It is apparent to anyone who’s seen video tape of the shooting ... that it is a very troubling and disturbing situation,” Murtaugh said, adding that what plays out on the video tape is a “horrific scene.”

“The president was briefed a number of times about that,” he continued, adding that the president is “in contact with local authorities.”

He added: “It’s a very serious situation.”

Meanwhile, videos on social media showed a chaotic scene after nightfall Tuesday, as crowds seemed to chase a man carrying a rifle down the street, before eventually knocking him to the ground and trying to grab his weapon, Reuters reported. A bloodied man was seen with what appeared to be a serious arm wound. Another video showed a man with a head injury as crowds gathered around him to treat him.

NBA COACH ON JACOB BLAKE, BLM MOVEMENT: T-SHIRT, SLOGAN 'NOT DOING ANYTHING TO STOP THE VICIOUS CYCLE'

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, had called for calm earlier Tuesday, while also declaring a state of emergency under which he doubled the National Guard deployment in Kenosha from 125 to 250. The night before, crowds destroyed dozens of buildings and set more than 30 fires in the city’s downtown.

The White House said Tuesday that Evers had rejected an offer for additional federal support.

Murtaugh, during the call with reporters Thursday, said that “everyone supports the First Amendment” and the “right of people to assemble.”

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“Everyone celebrates that, including the president,” Murtaugh said, noting that it is what the “foundation” of the country is built on. “Where the president draws the line is where peaceful protesters crossed the line with outside groups like Antifa, and erupts in violence.” He added: “It doesn’t serve anyone’s purpose to cause mayhem so I think that’s a great concern.”

Brooke Singman is a Politics Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @BrookeSingman.

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God Bless Republicans who protect the unborn.

The Pro Life movement is in accordance to scripture. Abortion is murder !!!

He should. He is the president and has the power. 

Trump and Ali are now asserting their Presidential powers as the Bottom House Crew whine and complain. 

Is this true bai ?

Bette Midler walks back tweet mocking Melania Trump's accent: 'I was wrong'

The actress tweeted, 'Oh, God. She still can’t speak English' during the first lady's RNC speech Tuesday night

 

Charlie Hurt reacts to first lady’s RNC speech: Melania Trump struck the right tone

Fox News contributor Charlie Hurt weighs in on first lady Melania Trump’s RNC speech on ‘America’s Newsroom.’

Actress Bette Midler has walked back a tweet that mocked Melania Trump's accent.

Midler caused a firestorm on social media Tuesday night as the first lady made remarks from the White House Rose Garden on the second night of the Republican National Convention.

"Oh, God. She still can’t speak English," Midler tweeted, prompting critics to accuse her of being "xenophobic."

BETTE MIDLER ACCUSED OF XENOPHOBIC TWEETS MOCKING MELANIA TRUMP: 'SHE STILL CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH'

On Wednesday, the "Hocus Pocus" star addressed the controversy but stopped short of an apology.

"Well, all hell has broken loose because I said Melania 'still can’t speak English' last night. I was wrong to make fun of her accent. America is made up [of] people who speak with all kinds of accents, and they are all welcomed always," Midler said.

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However, Midler posted multiple tweets attacking the first lady, with one reading, "#beBest is back! A UGE bore! She can speak several words in a few languages. Get that illegal alien off the stage!"

CNN ANALYST SLAMMED FOR TWEET HITTING NIKKI HALEY'S CLAIM THAT AMERICA 'IS NOT A RACIST COUNTRY'

Midler also told the first lady, "You are one lucky Slovenian! And after all that surgery, you hit a kind of horrible jackpot, chained to [a] colossal idiot."

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Other outspoken critics of President Trump also attacked the first lady.

"Seriously, f--- this b----," comedian Kathy Griffin tweeted.

"Makes me want to vomit," CNN political analyst and Playboy White House correspondent Brian Karem replied to Griffin.

Former NBA player Rex Chapman also compared Melania Trump's dress to Adolf Hitler.

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Last weekend, Melania Trump was attacked as a "foreigner" by former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald after she unveiled her renovations to the Rose Garden.

“It is a destruction of our history, something no other First Lady would have had the gall to do,” Eichenwald tweeted. “This is the first time I have been furious that @FLOTUS is a foreigner. She has no right to wreck our history.”

Eichenwald later deleted the tweet and issued an apology.

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Make America Great Again starts at 8 PM. Third night comes with happy hours. Only where I am.  

Make Logging Great Again is on.   Any dysfunctional part of human organs can be rejuvenated if you watched the RNC.  

@Former Member posted:

 

God Bless Republicans who protect the unborn.

The Pro Life movement is in accordance to scripture. Abortion is murder !!!

Why are all of Trump's children from different wives are his advisers? What advisory experience they have to advise the president of the United States? Please tell me why before my blood runneth over. Liking the president is not the same as accepting the wrong appointments of family members. 

Blood is 'thickerer' dan water and his children are the only ones Trump don't lie to, because they already believe his lies. In Trump's mind Pro Choice and Pro Life are the same and like most other things, he don't know the difference.    

Trump's Pence rambling all over without a focus in his speech.

As Mike Spence clearly stated ... "America Remains America".

And so in the November 2020 the elections, the Democratic Party will emerge as the winner to indeed have "America Remains America".

Fact-checking Mike Pence, night 3 of the 2020 RNC

By PolitiFact Staff August 26, 2020, Source - https://www.politifact.com/art...ight-three-2020-rnc/

Vice President Mike Pence arrives with his wife Karen Pence to speak on the third day of the Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

We're fact-checking speakers on the third night of the Republican National Convention, headlined by Vice President Mike Pence at Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Md.

This story will be updated with more fact-checks.

Richard Grinell, former acting director of national intelligence

"The Obama-Biden administration secretly launched a surveillance operation on the Trump campaign."

This is wrong because it ignores the firewall between the FBI and the White House. The FBI did investigate four people with some degree of ties to the Trump 2016 campaign. But there’s no evidence that former President Barack Obama initiated that work.

The FBI operation, called Crossfire Hurricane, targeted four men within the Trump campaign orbit, including campaign manager Paul Manafort and national security adviser Michael Flynn.

That FBI investigation itself has been the subject of investigations by the Justice Department and Congress. Not one concluded that the FBI lacked good reason to launch the investigation. Not one found that Obama initiated or meddled in the FBI’s work.

A recent Senate Intelligence Committee report, approved by both Republicans and Democrats, said that Manafort "sought to secretly share internal campaign information with (Konstantin) Kilimnik." It called Kilimnik "a Russian intelligence officer."

The Senate did not directly assess the origins of the FBI’s investigation. The Justice Department Inspector General did. The inspector general looked at whether the FBI followed department rules for opening investigations and whether politics had played a role.

"We did not find documentary or testimonial evidence that political bias or improper motivation influenced (the) decision to open Crossfire Hurricane," the Inspector General’s 2019 report said.

An FBI lawyer recently pleaded guilty to falsifying the paperwork to justify electronic surveillance. But American University law professor Jennifer Daskal said any missteps were the FBI’s alone: "By all accounts, President Obama did not — and would not, per at the time well-established protocol — dictate the nuances of the FBI investigation."

Kayleigh McEnany, White House press secretary 

"I can tell you that this president stands by Americans with preexisting conditions."

McEnany was sharing her personal story of having a preventive mastectomy to minimize her risk for breast cancer, which was prevalent in her family. Trump called to see how she felt after her surgery and, she said, has since continued to be a source of support.

However, the support he provided her has not translated into supporting legal protections for people who have preexisting conditions from being excluded from health plans or charged higher rates. In fact, we rated a claim by Trump in which he said he was the person who saved pre-existing conditions as Pants on Fire. He got a False rating for saying he would protect those with pre-existing conditions. 

We rated a claim by Trump in which he said he was the person who saved pre-existing conditions as Pants on Fire. He got a False rating for saying he would protect those with pre-existing conditions. 

The Affordable Care Act, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010, put in place protections against preexisting condition exclusions. Polling consistently shows this to be among the law’s most popular provisions. But since the 2016 campaign, Trump has supported overturning the ACA. In 2017, Trump supported a congressional effort to repeal the ACA, which barely failed to pass. The Trump administration is now backing the efforts to overturn the ACA via a court case, Texas v. U.S. which is slated to be heard before the Supreme Court in November. He has also expanded short-term health plans that don’t have to comply with the ACA

Trump has also yet to advance a replacement health plan for the ACA that would maintain these protections. On Aug. 8, Trump said during a press briefing that in the next two weeks he would pursue an executive order "requiring health insurance companies to cover all preexisting conditions for all customers." So far, that order has not materialized.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.

"If the Democrats had their way, they would keep you locked in your house until you become dependent on the government for everything. That sounds a lot like communist China to me. Maybe that is why Joe Biden is so soft on them. Why Nancy Pelosi says that China would prefer Joe Biden."

This distorts what House Speaker Pelosi said. To clarify, Pelosi was on CNN’s State of the Union, talking about a report from the intelligence community on election interference. Officials shared few public details, but their core finding was that Russia aimed to undercut Biden, while China and Iran didn’t want Trump to win.

Pelosi said Russia’s and China’s interference efforts were not on the same scale. And she repeated what U.S. intelligence officials had told lawmakers.

 "What they said is, China would prefer Joe Biden," Pelosi said Aug. 9. "Whether they do — that's their conclusion, that they would prefer Joe Biden."

Contrary to Blackburn’s coloration, Pelosi noted her personal distaste for China.

"I take second place to no one on my criticism of China for over 30 years," she said. "Because of their human rights violations, their trade policy, their proliferation of weapons and that."

Finally, China doesn’t prefer Biden because he would lock people in their houses. U.S. intelligence officials have said China views Biden as more stable and predictable than Trump.

Lara Trump

"Abraham Lincoln once famously said, ‘America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves’."

This is Mostly False. Lincoln didn’t say that, but it is close in its sentiment to something he said in one of his first major speeches.

"It is not accurate, in that Lincoln never spoke or wrote it. But it is not totally fabricated either," Christian McWhirter, a Lincoln historian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, told PolitiFact in 2019.

On Jan. 27, 1838, Lincoln spoke before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Ill., about "the perpetuation of our political institutions." 

During that address, Lincoln said: "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

Madison Cawthorn, North Carolina congressional candidate

"James Madison was just 25 years old when he signed the Declaration of Independence."

This is false. While Madison turned 25 in 1776 — the same year the Declaration of Independence was produced — Madison didn’t sign the document. 

The website for the National Archives contains a list of all of the names. Contacted by PolitiFact, Cawthorn’s spokesman said he meant to point out Madison’s age at the time of the declaration.

Burgess Owens

"Mobs torched our cities while popular members of Congress promote the same socialism my father fought against in World War II."

The United States didn’t fight socialists in World War II. The U.S. fought fascists (Germany and Italy) and an empire (Japan). The U.S. fought on the same side as communists (the Soviet Union).

Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Samantha Putterman, Amy Sherman, Paul Specht, Miriam Valverde and Kaiser Health News reporter Victoria Knight contributed to this report.

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@Locutus posted:

When I think of a Social Conservative, I think of an emphasis on "traditional values" including the blurring of the lines between religion and the state, against LGBTQ rights, marriage can only be between a man and a woman, anti-abortion, no embryonic stem cell research, no women in the military, prayers in schools, the right to bear arms, etc. etc.

While I recognize there are different grades of social conservatism, where does Jagdeo fall in the spectrum?

That's not the meaning of Social Conservative.  The American values are not Guyanese values.

@Ramakant-P posted:

That's not the meaning of Social Conservative.  The American values are not Guyanese values.

So what does a Guyanese social conservative believe in. I am not trying to be difficult I am just trying to learn. Frankly I never thought of social conservatism in a Guyanese context so any colour you can share will be helpful. 

Another Big Night at RNC.

5 key moments from the RNC's third night

Praising America's heroes was a major theme of the night

 

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Night three of the Republican National Convention saw Vice President Mike Penceformally accept his nomination for November's election and included warnings against what the U.S. might be like under a Democratic administration and celebrations of America's heroes.

Here are five key moments from Wednesday night.

Vice President Pence warns that Americans "won't be safe" if Biden wins

While accepting the Republican vice-presidential nomination, Mike Pence painted a dark picture of what the nation would look like if he and President Trump lose November's general election, warning that “you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.”

Pence noted that Biden "didn't say one word" last week at the Democratic National Convention about the violence in American cities and then declared: “We will have law and order on the streets of this country."

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The vice president emphasized that he and Trump “know the men and women that put on the uniform of law enforcement are the best of us" and said “the American people know we don't have to choose between supporting law enforcement and standing with African American neighbors to improve the quality of life in our cities and towns.”

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Pence also addressed the economic crisis that has hit the country along with the coronavirus pandemic and said only Trump can be trusted to bring the country out of it.

Pence urged voters to “ask yourself: Who do you trust to rebuild this economy? A career politician who presided over the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression? Or a proven leader who created the greatest economy in the world?”

"We will make America great again -- again," Pence said.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw says America "is a country of heroes"

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, focused on the heroes of America during his RNC speech, saying they are what sets the U.S. apart. Crenshaw, himself a U.S. military veteran, lost his right eye from an explosion while serving his country in Afghanistan.

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“Here’s the truth about America: We are a country of heroes,” he said. “We are a people with a common set of ideals conceived in liberty. People that have sacrificed time and again for our freedom and the freedom of others. That’s something no other country ever anywhere can claim.”

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The congressman said that "America’s heroism isn’t relegated to the battlefield," pointing to everyday people who serve their communities and their families.

"It’s the nurse who volunteers for back-to-back shifts to care for COVID patients because she feels that’s her duty," he said. "It’s the parent who will relearn algebra because there’s no way they’re letting their kid fall behind while schools are closed. And it’s the cop that gets spit on one day and will save a child’s life the next.”

Crenshaw then spoke of heroism in the context of calling out characteristics associated with the far-left, cancel culture, violent protests and calls for removing statues of America's founding fathers.

“We need to remind ourselves what heroism really is," he said. "Heroism is self-sacrifice. It’s not moralizing and lecturing over others when they disagree. Heroism is grace, not perpetual outrage. Heroism is rebuilding our communities, not destroying them. Heroism is renewing faith in the symbols that unite us, not tearing them down.”

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He concluded by saying that Americans must be the heroes they admire and that America’s future “will be protected by you.”

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem slams Democrats over violence, divisiveness

In her convention address, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem praised Republican ideals of supporting individual rights and freedoms while accusing Democrats and the far left of threatening the foundation of the country.

"It took 244 years to build this great nation -- flaws and all -- but we stand to lose it in a tiny fraction of that time if we continue down the path taken by the Democrats and their radical supporters," Noem said.

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"From Seattle and Portland to Washington and New York, Democrat-run cities across this country are being overrun by violent mobs," she continued. "The violence is rampant. There’s looting, chaos, destruction and murder. People that can afford to flee have fled. But the people that can’t -- good, hard-working Americans -- are left to fend for themselves."

To counter this, she claimed that the GOP's "commitment to individual rights and self-government is as necessary today as it was in 1860 when we won our first presidential election."

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Noem said Republicans treat people as individuals instead of playing identity politics to lump people together by their backgrounds or ideologies.

"Our party respects individuals based on who they are. We don't divide people based on their beliefs or their root," she said. "We don't shun people who think for themselves. We respect everyone equally under the Constitution and we treat them as Martin Luther King Jr. wished, according to the content of their character, not the color of their skin."

Kayleigh McEnany recalls how President Trump supported her in a difficult time

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany shard an emotional, personal story in her convention speech.

"When I was 21 years old, I got a call that changed my life. It was my doctor informing me that I had tested positive for the BRCAII genetic mutation," she said. "A mutation that put my chances of breast cancer at 84%. It was the same mutation that my mom had, compelling her to get a preventative double mastectomy, removing her breast tissue but protecting her from a disease that has taken far too many of our mothers, our sisters, our friends."

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She said that in May 2018 she followed in her mother’s footsteps.

“I was scared. The night before I fought back tears, as I prepared to lose a piece of myself,” she recalled.

“During one of my most difficult times, I expected to have the support of my family, but I had more support than I knew," she said.

“Days later, as I recovered, my phone rang. It was President Trump, calling to check on me,” McEnany said. “I was blown away. Here was the leader of the free world caring about me.”

She added: “Though I didn’t personally know the president at the time, I know him well now and I can tell you that this president loves the American people, stands by Americans with preexisting conditions and supports working moms.”

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McEnany went on to describe how the president supported her and her family ever since she became pregnant with her daughter.

“When I started working for President Trump, my husband and I became pregnant with our first child, I would see President Trump at rallies. He would routinely ask me how my baby was doing,” she said. “The same way President Trump has supported me, he supports you.”

Richard Grenell praises Trump for tough foreign policy

Former Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell began his speech by lauding Trump’s foreign policy of opposing lengthy wars and getting other countries to pay their fair share in international agreements.

Grenell, who was once the U.S. ambassador to Germany, praised Trump for standing up to foreign leaders on behalf of the American taxpayers.

“I’ve watched President Trump charm the chancellor of Germany while insisting that Germany pay its NATO obligations. I was proud to witness President Trump say to foreign leaders, ‘I don’t blame you for wanting America to pay for your security; I actually respect you for out-negotiating the presidents before me, but it stops with me.’”

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Grenell then turned his attention to Democratic nominee Biden. He noted that Biden was first elected to the Senate back in 1972.

“Every time Joe Biden offers a new idea, you should ask yourself, ‘Why didn’t he try that over the last 48 years?’”

He then slammed the Obama-Biden administration for “secretly” launching a “surveillance operation” on the Trump campaign in 2016.

Earlier this year, while serving as acting DNI, Grenell declassified a slew of documents related to the Russia investigation — and he shared his experience with voters on the third night of the GOP convention.

“As acting director of national intelligence, I saw the Democrats’ entire case for Russia collusion, and what I saw made me sick to my stomach,” Grenell said.

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“The Obama-Biden administration secretly launched a surveillance operation on the Trump campaign, and silenced the many brave intelligence officials who spoke up against it,” Grenell continued. “They presented bogus information as facts. They lied to judges. Then they classified anything that undermined their case.”

Grenell claimed that when Trump won the election in 2016, instead of continuing “the American tradition of helping the president-elect transition into the White House,” the Obama-Biden administration “tried instead to undercut him even more.”

Fox News' Paul Steinhauser and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

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BLM violence, looting and rioting supported by democrat states have backfired on them. 

Pack up and go home dems. This race is over. 

@Former Member posted:

BLM violence, looting and rioting supported by democrat states have backfired on them. 

Pack up and go home dems. This race is over. 

Black Lives Matter. What is MC?

I think that while the media has spent the last 4+ years pointing all the ways that Trump and his gang has lied their way through his administration many regular Americans have seen their pocket books become heavier. That is why I believe that had the economy continued as it was Trump would have been re-elected easily. I don't think that people whose pocket books had gotten heavier would concern themselves with how much Trump and his gang lies or what law or convention he was breaking. They leave that to the politicians and media to worry about.

But now that the pandemic is upon us and many have seen their pocket books gotten either lighter or empty Trump is going to feel challenged. Not by Biden but by the economy. We will see how things turn out in November. I also think that many voters who may pronounce on the current social injustice conditions will probably vote for Trump if they feel they are losing some of the securities they felt they had. Lastly, speaking about the pandemic, while I don't think it will go away after the elections I feel the media coverage of it will be curtailed significantly if Biden wins because I don't think the media is as concerned by the pandemic as they are about making Trump look unable to handle it. The truth is that Biden would not fare any better handling it so the media will cover it less so it doesn't look bad on Biden. 

Trump has invoked the same phrase as he campaigns for Republicans