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The Washington Post's Fact Checker columnist, revealing the truth behind the rhetoric. I tweet articles & comments I find interesting or provocative.

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  1. 44 minutes ago

    Opinion | Leon Panetta: Five lessons that never seem to be learned from shutting down the government

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    1 hour ago

    A top official in the White House under Kelly, dep chief of staff Zach Fuentes, is active-duty USCG

    Senior Admin sources tell me that personally stepped in & pushed his staff to find a way to get paid during shutdown after seeing news reports that USCG may not get next paycheck. Unlike other military, USCG fall under not .
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    3 hours ago

    Sunday - won’t turn into Corker or Flake now that he’s retiring. Instead, he just wants to keep being Lamar! Stick around for the kicker where we revisit his Crockett vs Houston analogy.

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  4. 2 hours ago

    Worth recalling that the Trump administration kept the girl's death while in Border Patrol custody a secret until broke the story in The Post -->

    ...children in question were very sick before they were given over to Border Patrol. The father of the young girl said it was not their fault, he hadn’t given her water in days. Border Patrol needs the Wall and it will all end. They are working so hard & getting so little credit!
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    3 hours ago

    What would be the reaction if another president blamed another political party for children who died in his government’s custody?

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    3 hours ago

    Trump politicizes deaths of two immigrant children to score points in border wall fight

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  7. 3 hours ago

    Reminder: Trump might have had a deal on DACA and the wall but tossed it away in favor of a plan to limit legal immigration that was roundly rejected by both Rs and Ds in the Senate.

    For those that naively ask why didn’t the Republicans get approval to build the Wall over the last year, it is because IN THE SENATE WE NEED 10 DEMOCRAT VOTES, and they will gives us “NONE” for Border Security! Now we have to do it the hard way, with a Shutdown. Too bad!
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  8. 4 hours ago

    Official: Guatemalan boy who died in U.S. custody tested positive for influenza B, final cause of death remains under investigation

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  9. 4 hours ago

    The father actually says she was healthy when they arrived at the border and claims that Border Patrol gave her no water while they were detained. DHS says she showed no signs of health issues when they arrived.

    ...children in question were very sick before they were given over to Border Patrol. The father of the young girl said it was not their fault, he hadn’t given her water in days. Border Patrol needs the Wall and it will all end. They are working so hard & getting so little credit!
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  10. 4 hours ago

    Two children have died in US border custody this month. Before that, none in a decade. Why now? via

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  11. 4 hours ago

    Fact check from June: "The Trump administration owns this family-separation policy, and its spin deserves Four Pinocchios."

    Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try! The two.....
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  12. 5 hours ago

    How is it possible for the White House to wait a week to deny what was reported all over the place based on information provided by the Pentagon?

    The White House says Donald Trump has not ordered the Pentagon to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, contradicting reports last week that had
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    8 hours ago

    “What at first seemed like ho-hum political brinkmanship is looking more like a prolonged, punishing shutdown, more akin to the 27-day funding lapse in 1995 and 1996 than the blink-and-miss-it shutdowns earlier this year."

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    6 hours ago

    Beatles’ “I Want to Hold Your Hand” was released in US 55 years ago this week:

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  15. 6 hours ago

    Reminder: the OIG report said there is no evidence the texts were deleted on purpose and also that OIG already recovered the more than 19,000 messages from Strzok and Page. -->

    The Mueller Angry Democrats recently deleted approximately 19,000 Text messages between FBI Agent Lisa Page and her lover, Agent Peter S. These Texts were asked for and INVALUABLE to the truth of the Witch Hunt Hoax. This is a total Obstruction of Justice. All Texts Demanded!
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    8 hours ago

    Agreed. ’s movie is brilliant.

    I don’t understand why everybody isn’t proclaiming Death of Stalin one of the greatest comedies/political movies ever made. Cos it totally is.
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  17. 7 hours ago

    Exclusive: Russian ex-spy pressured Manafort over debts to an oligarch

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    7 hours ago

    A few observations — WH trying to make this Democrats’ fault without actually selling that. — they are trying divide Schumer and Pelosi, with no luck — Pelosi hasn’t heard from Trump in 18 days.

    I am in the White House waiting for the Democrats to come on over and make a deal on Border Security. From what I hear, they are spending so much time on Presidential Harassment that they have little time left for things like stopping crime and our military!
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    21 hours ago

    So, a shipment of crickets for the lizard arrived via FedEx today. It was my first time ordering bulk crickets off the internet, and I naively assumed that they would be in like, a bag or some other contraption to facilitate easy transfer to another container. They were not.

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    17 hours ago

    China's soybean imports from the US plunged to zero in November, marking the first time since the trade war between the world's two largest economies started that China, the world's largest soybean buyer, has imported no U.S. supplies.

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