Brian Rittmeyer

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@azcentral Did you ask him?

[ProPublica @propublica]

After receiving a request from Peter Navarro, the Pentagon rushed to approve a deal to lend $620 million to a company linked to Donald Trump Jr.

Now, lawmakers are demanding answers from the White House.

https://t.co/d5cwxt7OO0

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@azcentral Unfortunate for one airline.

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@landofthe80s I did, but not like that.

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

The House approved a war powers resolution Wednesday that would halt the U.S. military action against Iran, defying President Donald Trump as a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats.
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[The Hill @thehill]

#BREAKING: Senate GOP drops $1 billion for White House ballroom from budget package
https://t.co/fwEDt2OnyQ

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@RyanDeto I don't understand the point of comparing the length of a water feature to a building.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Here’s a fact check of some of President Trump’s claims, including a bunch of long-debunked lies, from a single softball New York Post interview released this morning.

Claim: “We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots.” Truth: Dozens of countries have mail-in ballots, including Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland.

Claim: The 2020 election was “rigged” and has “been proven to be rigged.” Truth: Not rigged, there’s no proof for Trump’s assertion more than five years later, and he lost fair and square.

Claim: Trump won “three” presidential elections. Truth: He won in 2016 and 2024, lost in 2020.

Claim: In the 2024 election, “There were areas that were just rigged…rigged against me.” Truth: Nonsense again; he won that election fair and square but lost some areas of the country fair and square.

Claim: Democrats “could not win” “if they didn’t cheat.” Truth: Democrats, like Republicans, clearly win various elections legitimately.

Claim: California mails out “38 million ballots," and while "some people get three, four, five ballots," "Republicans get, oftentimes, none.” Truth: California mails a ballot to all active registered voters, of which there are 23 million, not the “38 million” figure Trump has used repeatedly; while there are occasional errors by county elections offices and the postal service, there's no general anti-Republican bias in ballot-mailing in the state.

Claim: “I inherited the highest inflation in the history of our country…Biden had like 9, 10% inflation. And I inherited that, and we have it way down.” Truth: The inflation rate the month Trump returned to office was 3.0%, lower than the most recent rate of 3.8%; Biden-era inflation did peak at 9.1%, but that was in mid-2022, and it wasn’t close to the all-time record of 23.7%. Regardless, it had fallen substantially before Trump’s inauguration.

Claim: “We have $18 trillion being invested in the country in just 11 months.” Truth: This is a completely fictional figure. The White House’s own website says there have been $10.6 trillion in “major investment announcements” this term, and even that’s a massive exaggeration that counts vague pledges, not-even-pledges, and pledges that are about mutual trade rather than investments in the US.

Claim: Trump had gas prices at “$1.85 in Iowa” on the day he visited there in January. Truth: The Iowa average gas price that day was $2.57 per gallon, per AAA; GasBuddy found four stations in the state out of 2,036 selling for $1.97 that day, none at $1.85; the station outside the venue where he spoke was at $2.69. (Ethanol-gas blend E85 was around $1.85, but that can only be used in a small percentage of cars, and he didn’t say that was what he was talking about.)

Claim: Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was still wearing a mask “a couple of months ago.” Truth: I've found no evidence for this; the Talarico video many Republicans have mocked shows Talarico wearing a mask in 2022, not 2026.

Claim: Mitch McConnell was “losing by a lot” in the 2020 Senate election in Kentucky but then Trump endorsed him and got him elected. Truth: McConnell, running in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, led in all but one public poll in that race, and that one exception was a poll conducted for a pro-term-limits group in which he trailed by just one point; he was always the overwhelming favorite.

Claim: The Jan. 6 attack was “nonsense” in which “the FBI said, ‘Go in. Go in.’” Truth: That was a riot perpetrated by Trump supporters, and there's no evidence the FBI ever told rioters to illegally enter the Capitol. DOJ’s inspector general found the FBI had zero undercover agents at the riot…and Trump was president at the time and had personally appointed the FBI director.

Claim: Former VP Harris “was the border czar” but “never went.” Truth: She went to the border twice as VP, and the Biden administration repeatedly emphasized she was never “border czar” but had a narrower assignment focused on the “root causes” of migration from Central America.

Claim: Under Biden, “25 million people” poured over the border. Truth: This is a further exaggeration from the wildly exaggerated “21 million” figure Trump used to use; even counting “gotaways,” it’s not even close to correct.

Claim: Democrats are so dumb that “we had 11,888 murderers, most of whom committed more than one murder, allowed into our country.” Truth: The federal data it appears Trump is referring to is about people who entered the US over the course of multiple decades, *including during Trump’s own first administration.*

Claim: Under Biden, countries emptied their jail populations into the US – “the whole jail was emptied into our country.” Trump and his team have never substantiated this claim even though he’s made it for years, and experts on global prison policy and on the countries he has previously identified as the supposed culprits have told me they’ve seen no evidence for it.

More details: https://t.co/NtFk7PUfwN

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@azcentral Interesting of the brand.

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@azcentral Unfortunate for restaurant in metro Phoenix.

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

As is usually the case, Trump's claim that the Eiffel Tower was supposed to be taken down immediately after the World's Fair is incorrect.

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump is floating the possibility of keeping the UFC arena on the White House South Lawn — built for a series of fights on his birthday and Flag Day — permanently.

Read more: https://t.co/PdI3ZarEYr

[City of Pittsburgh @Pittsburgh]

City Hall is glowing with Pride!

Pittsburgh is a city where everyone deserves to feel welcomed, respected, and supported. Happy Pride Month to our LGBTQ+ community and all those celebrating across our city. 🏳️‍🌈

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@RyanDeto So you're saying the pool is not filled with:
Jello
Vodka
Gravy
Mountain Dew
Iron City Beer
...

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@azcentral Grats to joint selling burgers that many like.

[Michael Warburton @For_Film_Fans]

The best worst rear projection ever.

AIRPLANE! (1980)

Released 46yrs ago today.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

"Should have never been president. He lost the election in a landslide," President Trump lies about Joe Biden in a new interview conducted 5.5 years after Biden won the 2020 election 306-232 in the Electoral College and received 7 million more votes than Trump.

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@centredaily Many will miss locations of burger chain.

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@centredaily Many will miss elementary school in Bellefonte.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Brian Rittmeyer @BCRittmeyer]

@azcentral Grats to staple.