News
- Musk commits $45m/mo to new pro-Trump Super PAC as Silicon Valley throws its support behind him; Bill Ackman formally endorses Trump
- Trump asked if he's read JD Vance's book Hillbilly Elegy and gives evasive answer when prodded for his thoughts
- Trump sees little boost in post-assassination attempt polls, retains slight lead
- NYT: How JD Vance won over Donald Trump
- Report that House Dems have resigned themselves to a 2nd Trump presidency causes controversy
- Suddenly everyone's admitting Biden's mental decline, more stories are coming out
- New post-debate polls: Trump now has a big lead
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- NYT (Jun 18)
Nate Silver It's not a great sign for Biden that some of his worst numbers come from the best pollsters.
(Jun 17)- Jewish Insider (Jun 10)
- NBC (Jun 3)
- Haaretz (Jun 3)
- Bloomberg (May 30)
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- Daily Wire
- NYT
- Kabir K. (CBS)
- NBC
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- The New Republic (Sep 10)
- The New Republic (Sep 8)
For all that's been said about election misinformation, much of it has been anti-Trump!
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False claims
- An early claim that it was glass shrapnel from the teleprompter that struck him instead [Twitter]
Proof that the bullet did in fact graze his ear
- NBC (Jul 26)
- NYT (Jul 26)
- Snopes (Jul 17)
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People on the left pushing the claim
- Stephen Colbert implies it's true on his TV show [Tom Elliott]
- A senior researcher at Media Matters defending its use as revenge for alleged right-wing misinfo [Andrew Lawrence]
- A Twitter thread summarizing what they consider to be the best examples of the supposed meme [Threadreader]
- Libs doubt Trump was shotDespite confirmation from the media and law enforcement, they're still claiming it was only shrapnel, his injury overblown
- An incredibly hypocritical, typically sneaky way they push misinfo
Other fact-checks
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Claims made
The closest thing to proof is the video provided by Christopher Rufo, the animal in which has been dismissed as being a chicken instead of a cat, but that's not clear either.
- Twitter (Sep 17)
- Twitter (Sep 14)
- Twitter (Sep 11)
Debunkings
- NBC (Sep 13)
- Springfield News Sun (Sep 9)
- NYPost
- NYPost
- JD Vance is said to have dismissed school shootings as just a "fact of life" but what he actually said was nuanced
- Haitian migrants weren't actually eating cats in Springfield, OHThe pretty thinly-sourced accusation spread on the Internet before being denied by city officials and fact-checkers. What's been dug up as proof thin or irrelevant
The story of how Biden came to drop out of the race
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Finally the stories come out
“In January, I began hearing similar stories from Democratic officials, activists, and donors who came away from interactions with Joe Biden disturbed by what they had seen. I wrote about the conspiracy of silence to protect the president.” [Olivia Nuzzi]
Twitter (Jul 4)“Longtime friends of the Biden family, who spoke to me on the condition of anonymity, were shocked to find that the president did not remember their names.” [Jonathan Chait]
Twitter (Jul 4)- CNN (Jul 2)
- NYT (Jul 2)
What they said before
“Two weeks ago, WaPo gave “Four Pinocchio’s” to allegedly edited videos showing Biden clearly displaying cognitive problems, dismissing them as “pernicious” efforts “to reinforce an existing stereotype” while quoting the WH to say they were “cheap fakes” to mislead people.” [Drew Holden]
Twitter (Jul 2)- NYT (Jun 21)
Opinion
- 'White dudes for Harris' says it all: They can't even hide thr contempt in thr appeals
- An evergreen case for voting right: It's simply in your interests
- Yeah, we get why people dislike Trump. There's TDS, but obviously legit issues too: bullshitting decorum, classlessness, etc., but…
- Elections matter. This site was built to avoid the sort of base partisan bias that's fatal to so much of conservative mediaBut we're not going to pretend it doesn't matter who's president of the United States. This site is pro-right.
Another attempted assassination
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- NYPost
- Daily Mail
- NYT
1st Trump assassination attempt
- Over 1 hr timeline between Crooks first being identified as a person of interest and him firing on Trump reviewed
- The FBI has conducted over 200 interviews, reviewed over 14,000 images, and as of now established no motive: Director Wray in Congressional briefing
- Secret Service director says the (very lightly) sloped roof of the building Crooks shot from was why there weren't personnel stationed there
DNC 2024
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- “Organizers were hoping for 30-40k. The crowd is maybe 1/10th of that size? Crowd covering less than half this 3 softball field sized park.” [Christian Science Monitor journalist]Twitter
- Reporters note the long lines from logistical issues [David Weigel, Joe Gabriel Simonson]Twitter
GOP convention
Trump's legal trouble: A review
- Sentencing delayed in Trump's Manhattan hush money case until after the electionSep 6The decision is a major victory for the former president who'll now be able to run unimpeded
- Trump hit with superseding indictment in Jack Smith election subversion caseAug 27The charges were revised in response to the Supreme Court ruling that declared him immune from prosecution
- Judge Cannon dismisses the classified documents caseJul 15The judge ruled that Jack Smith's appointment violated the Constitution's Appointments Clause
Trump's legal trouble (Links)
- Trump rakes in more than $3 billion from the merger of the parent company of his Truth Social social media platform with another corporation, though the cash may not help in the short-term
- The NYT on how the prosecution was bungled: AG Merrick Garland was overly cautious in his approach
- Consequences for Trump's allies: his ex-finance chief Allen Weisselberg was sentenced to 5 months for perjury; former advisor Peter Navarro reported to prison for contempt of Congress