Isabella Spiegel

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We all knew he was lying about the Reflecting Pool. The problem is that he lies so often that it’s almost impossible to keep up.

So I asked AI to compile claims from just the past twenty-four months and then checked them against official data, contemporaneous reporting and independent fact-checks.

Here is a partial list of 86 lies:
1. He promised to bring prices down “starting on Day One.” Grocery prices remained high and continued rising.
2. After winning, he admitted that prices are very hard to bring down once they have gone up.
3. He said egg prices had fallen 93 percent. They had not fallen remotely close to 93 percent.
4. He said he inherited the highest inflation in American history. He inherited an annual inflation rate of 2.9 percent.
5. When corrected, he changed the claim to the worst inflation in 49 years. That was also false. Annual inflation reached 23.7 percent in 1920.
6. He said there was virtually no inflation during his first term. Consumer prices rose approximately 8 percent.
7. He repeatedly claimed he had already brought inflation down, including during periods when the annual inflation rate was higher than the 2.9 percent reported shortly before he took office.
8. He told Congress inflation was “plummeting.” Prices were still rising overall, including major household expenses such as housing, electricity and medical care.
9. He claimed to have secured $18 trillion in new investment.
10. He then raised the figure to $19.2 trillion.
11. Even the White House’s own tracker listed far less, and its total included multiyear pledges, purchasing agreements, previously announced projects and commitments that might never become actual US investment.
12. He said America was building more factories than ever.
13. He said factory construction was rising.
14. He said the country had achieved its highest growth ever. Manufacturing employment declined, factory-construction claims depended on cherry-picked categories, and economic growth was nowhere near a historical record.
15. He called the country he inherited a dead country. The US economy grew 2.8 percent in 2024, faster than every other major wealthy economy except Spain.
16. He says foreign countries pay his tariffs. American importers pay them and frequently pass the cost on to American consumers.
17. He said the evidence overwhelmingly showed consumers did not pay his tariffs. Economic studies found that American consumers and businesses absorbed nearly all their cost.
18. He said tariff revenue came with “no inflation.” Prices continued rising, and economic research found that the tariffs themselves increased costs for American consumers and businesses.
19. He repeatedly said drug prices were down 70, 80 or 90 percent. No broad measure of prescription-drug prices showed anything close to those reductions.
20. He said Medicaid was “left the same.” The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation would reduce federal Medicaid spending by roughly $930 billion over ten years.
21. He said Americans were “not going to feel any of it.” The Congressional Budget Office projected that the legislation would leave approximately 11.8 million more people uninsured.
22. He said the Medicaid changes touched only waste, fraud and abuse. Independent analyses found that the legislation reduced coverage and federal spending far beyond fraudulent claims.
23. He said he had eliminated taxes on Social Security. The law created a temporary deduction, unavailable to many beneficiaries, that expires after 2028. It did not abolish taxation of Social Security benefits.
24. He said taxes would rise 68 percent without his bill. No credible independent estimate came close to supporting that figure.
25. He then declared, “I’ve kept all my promises and much more.”
26. He publicly promised at least 53 times to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours, or even before taking office.
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[Chris Meloni @Chris_Meloni]

The presidents agenda is:

Lock up Epstein files✔️
Enrich himself and family✔️
Build monuments to himself✔️
Use the military so he can feel tough✔️

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

The only reason @TheJusticeDept charged Olympian David Hearn was to sooth trump’s fragile ego.

The Justice Dept knew they were indicting an innocent person. This is unethical, radical, criminal behavior by @DAGToddBlanche and his thugs at the Department.

November is coming.

[Senator Thom Tillis @SenThomTillis]

Despite comments as late as yesterday that the fund is dead, President Trump clearly intends to resurrect the payout pot for punks either by inappropriately establishing another bogus fund or pushing Congress to vote for a bill that the majority of Republicans in the Senate would be against.

It’s unfortunate that Todd Blanche, who I consider qualified for the job, will not be confirmed because of this reversal. Hopefully, we can resolve this by Tuesday.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m old fashioned, but the sitting president has all but declared war on states that didn’t vote for him, and I feel like the media should be talking about that every once in a while, right?

[Markku Ristola 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 @svegfinne]

Interesting fact though: Peru distributed both ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Peru had also the highest COVID death rate in the world, double that of U.S.
Coincidence? Might not be.

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

He attacks mail‑in voting while voting by mail. He mocks vaccines while getting vaccinated. He pushes “Buy American” while selling foreign‑made merchandise. He demands action against undocumented workers while his own properties hired them. He rages about classified information while mishandling it. And now he’s falling asleep on the job after calling Joe Biden “Sleepy.” The hypocrisy is staggering.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The corrupt Trump administration has just admitted to withholding taxpayer dollars from states based on how they voted.

Last I checked we were a democracy, not a dictatorship.

Where the hell is Congress?

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Just want to point out, with a few exceptions the Democrats absolutely sucked at the Todd Blanche hearing. They each just spoke and grandstanded, and didn’t focus on specific things…. Like Gislane Maxwell.

Ossoff made all the headlines and it wasn’t even the Blanch hearing. It was another dude.

Get it together yall

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

OMG, has Pete Hegseth seen this yet?

This is HILARIOUS!

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Republicans have controlled the House, Senate, and White House for two years now, and yet, they have not done one thing they promised to improve your life.

But they sure have done quite a bit for themselves and their rich buddies while everyday Americans are still struggling.

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

‼️A message to all “sane” Republicans:
He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals. You said nothing.
He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.
He interfered with the release of the Epstein files.
You said nothing.
He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself.
You said nothing.
He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift.
You said nothing.
He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil.
You said nothing.
He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide.
You said nothing.
He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations.
You said nothing.
His ill-conceived war k*lled 175 children on day one.
You said nothing.
He alienated and insulted our allies.
You said nothing.
His ICE Army terr*rized and mu*dered U.S. citizens.
You said nothing.
He committed m*rder on the high seas. You said nothing.
He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies.
You said nothing.
It's time to start talking.
~Anonymous

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Quick advice to any Democrat running for anything or already in office:

Every interview, in fact almost every sentence should end with “Trump crime family” or “corrupt.”

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

This is election interference.

[Geraldo Rivera @GeraldoRivera]

As expected President Trump‘s prime time address to the nation last night was just a rehash of his old grievances concerning the 2020 election. There is no significant proof the election was rigged. Mr. Trump get over it, the American people already have.

[Michael Steele @MichaelSteele]

Trump, you lost the 2020 election. If the election was rigged, it was rigged by your administration as your administration was in charge leading up to, during and after the election. There was no foreign interference. There was no fraud. The election was not stolen. You lost old man. I would say deal with it, but that would require a level of emotional maturity you obviously lack.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Delighted to see Trump’s speech last night backfire spectacularly with the American people. His greatest-hits-of-lies routine flopped even harder than his polls.

Impressive self-own, Donnie — you pathetic, scared, desperate loser. 🤣 🤣

#LoserTrumpsElectionLies

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Trump gave a 26-minute speech about election integrity and accidentally declassified a document proving Russia helped him. The call is coming from inside the house.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT: Lawrence O’Donnell just EVISCERATED “deeply sick” Donald Trump and his speech in the BEST way possible:

“He actually said the words, and he was reading this from a teleprompter: ‘We had transgender for everybody.’ So I guess that was, what? Donald Trump's way of coming out as transgender?

That's the sentence that was put in the teleprompter for him by the deeply sick people who work in the White House who pump that stuff into his teleprompter…

This obsession that he has with transgender issues and transgender people, and suddenly all three hundred million people in America were suddenly, in this demented man's hallucination, transgender. And then what?

He got us all back to whatever gender he thinks we were before?

Every single beat of this speech is deeply, deeply sick. A deeply sick delivery by a deeply sick person.”

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Yeah this was about attention.
Again.
That was all.
He’s under water on everything.
The Epstein files aren’t going away.
His thugs are murdering people on the streets.
The economy is a fucking disaster and we are STILL in an actual war HE started.
So, let’s have a prime time “address.”
Fucking clown show.