SEVEN of the 10 players teeing it up in the National Championship Match are @youthoncourse alumni.
An incredible program has resulted in incredible results 👏
@TheSavagesWife@mhillman@ColoradoDOT@GovofCO I thought the discussion was gas taxes.. obviously SB21-260 passed, 175 is proposed ( and the reason HB 26-1430) I do agree with you that dedicated funds should never be used for other things
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
@AmericaTex4ever Any 'baggage' Paxton has is rather minimal compared to the baggage that comes from being an effete twink soy-boy running for office in a state like Texas
@TheSavagesWife@mhillman@ColoradoDOT@GovofCO I’m a homeowner in CO and spend over half my time in CO.. but those are dedicated funds ( it’s constitutionally and statutory mandated) but since you you seem to love conspiracy theories and Trump go ahead and live in your alternate reality 🤡
HUGE scoop from @AndrewDesiderio and @LauraEWeiss16
MARK WARNER has told JOHN THUNE to try to get @pulte removed as DNI.
If he's in the job, Democrats are threatening to withhold their votes for FISA, which expires in 9 days.
FISA is at real risk of expiring due to Trump's decision to put PULTE in as DNI.
Almost certain that JOHNSON cannot put the bill on suspension now. And can he get it out of rules?
https://t.co/UkGDVuWdvX
MCCONNELL on PULTE at DNI:
“Very few Senate-confirmable positions come with statutory eligibility requirements. There are good reasons why the Director of National Intelligence is one of them. Anyone performing this role of such immense public trust must have the extensive national security experience required by statute, and no nominee who falls short of this requirement will earn my vote.”
@caseymurph1@TheDamaniFelder The days of supporting a decent human beings over a corrupt white Christian nationalists that Trump supports is all that matters to fake R’s anymore 💔
@kylegriffin1 Blanche should face bar discipline over this. It was a complete sham on the Court and the American people. He was conflicted three times over. He authorized a settlement without a cognizable claim or damages. The fact he's dropping it like a hot potato shows he knows it's wrong.
EXCLUSIVE: Hungary has signaled it will drop its long-standing opposition to Ukraine’s bid for EU membership, allowing it and Moldova to begin formal negotiations to join the bloc in the coming days, four diplomats told POLITICO. https://t.co/B4jaW4lByv