This year’s Turning Point women’s summit was different than in years past, @elainejgodfrey reports: more Christian women’s empowerment, less electoral politics. https://t.co/aSUL521mJ5
📸: Ariana Gomez
President Trump’s post threatening to block the opening of a major new US-Canada bridge was filled with important omissions and misleading claims.
- Trump professed astonishment that the Canadian government would expect him to support the project. He didn’t mention that he explicitly endorsed the project in a 2017 joint statement with then-PM Trudeau, calling it a “vital economic link” and saying he looked forward to its quick completion.
- Trump, complaining about Canada, said “we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset.” But the state of Michigan already owns half of the bridge.
- Trump said, “I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them.” But Canada paid for the entire bridge construction.
- Trump complained about a Buy American waiver Obama granted the project, then claimed the waiver let Canada “not use any American products, including our Steel.” But the waiver actually allowed Canadian and US steel to be treated equally in consideration for the project, and numerous Canadian officials and Republican former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder say some American steel was indeed used. (Also worth noting the Obama administration said it was granting the waiver out of a “basic notion of fairness” because the project was a “unique circumstance…under which Canada is assuming all financial liability and risk for the construction.”)
Fact check: https://t.co/yjLPjJEWuz
Donald Trump is withholding billions of dollars in New York infrastructure unless he gets Penn Station and Dulles Airport named after him.
This is not only brazenly corrupt. It is sick, twisted and egomaniacal. The time is long overdue for sane Republicans to stand up to Trump.
Minnesota attorneys claimed Trump is forcing control over elections through the massive federal immigration operation after Pam Bondi implied the administration would retreat ICE agents if the state relinquishes access to its voter rolls.
https://t.co/sItZd1uePN
Can confirm White House is letting in a reporter from Russian state news agency TASS to cover the bilat between Trump and Zelenskiy. Reuters and AP were excluded.
You know what makes me the most sad?
During the Civil War, we praised the Underground Railroad.
During World War II, we praised The Resistance and the Partisans who hid Jews.
Now a large chunk of America wants to turn in those who hide oppressed people.
We’re going backwards.
“Democrats figured out the hard way that they couldn’t rely on Gabbard,” @elainejgodfrey writes. “Republicans may soon learn the same”: https://t.co/EfLSZfHedV
“Let the children be satisfied first…I was hungry and you fed me… what you do to the least of us, you do to me.” -Jesus Christ
“Like I said last year, hard pass.” -Kim Reynolds
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