Notable misstatements about Donald Trump from 2017
By John Kruzel
December 12, 2017
Here are five notable misstatements about President Donald Trump from 2017.
2017 Lie of the Year: Russian election interference is a ‘made-up story’
President Trump continually asserts that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election is fake news, a hoax or a made-up story, even though there is widespread, bipartisan evidence to the contrary.
Fake news in the Alabama Senate race surges before Election Day
With Republican Roy Moore's reported history with underage girls looming large, Alabama voters have been getting more than their share of bad information.
Donald Trump rallies for Roy Moore, repeats falsehoods in Pensacola speech
Trump repeated some of his most prolific falsehoods since beating Democrat Hillary Clinton on Election Day and continued to attack the "fake news" media.
Did President Donald Trump break a promise to Florida’s Haitian population?
The Trump administration’s Nov. 20 decision came after a review of the Temporary Protected Status for Haitians who arrived after the 2010 earthquake. This announcement prompted outrage from Republicans and Democrats in Congress, including former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham, a Democrat in Florida’s governor’s race.
UPDATED: Lupe Valdez, a Democratic candidate for governor, often notes migrant worker roots
Lupe Valdez has long recapped her parents' migrant worker roots.
Do Jefferson, Lincoln prove Donald Trump can tell Justice Department what to do?
President Donald Trump kicked up a dust storm of punditry with a tweet that he "had to fire" former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn "because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI." Was this a key development in the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller?
In Context: Orrin Hatch’s comments about CHIP, people who ‘won’t lift a finger’ to help themselves
By Emily Tanaka
December 5, 2017
Joe Scarborough seized on a statement by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that the MSNBC host found "cold and callous" during the final push to pass a tax bill. Scarborough accused Hatch of linking Children’s Health Insurance Program recipients to people who "won’t lift a finger" to help themselves.
From Arctic tundra to church, here’s what else GOP tax bills might change
As negotiators from the House and Senate prepare to hash out the final bill to send to President Donald Trump, we decided to unpack a few of the notable non-tax provisions tucked into each bill.
Flynn’s guilty plea confirms he talked Russian sanctions, misled FBI
By John Kruzel
December 1, 2017
Flynn’s guilty plea marks an escalation of the special counsel’s probe into Trump campaign ties to Russia, and also corroborates anonymously-sourced media reports about Flynn’s contacts with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
The facts behind Elizabeth Warren, her claimed Native American ties and Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ insult
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has taken a lot of grief for claiming Native American roots without hard proof. President Donald Trump has mockingly called her "Pocahontas." We take a close look at exactly what she said and who she told.
The Walk-O-Meter: Rating 2 Scott Walker promises on higher education
He pledged to freeze technical college tuition, expand tuition tax deductions.