took $9.8 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s funding to support Immigration and Customs Enforcement?
FEMA is responsible for providing coordination and relief from major disasters, including hurricanes and wildfires.
asked his top economic adviser to “print money” to lower US debt?
In Bob Woodward’s 2018 book Fear, former chief economic advisor Gary Cohn explained Trump’s suggestion to deal with the United States’ record national debt: “Just run the presses — print money.”
Printing money to offset debt can lead to runaway inflation, which Cohn said he went on to explain to the President.
Trump made similar remarks in his campaign about how the United States could never default because it could simply print more money.
Cohn also described Trump as “an idiot surrounded by clowns” that is “less a person than a collection of terrible traits.”
CNBC – Trump told Gary Cohn to ‘print money’ to lower the national debt, according to Bob Woodward’s book
CNN – Trump: U.S. will never default ‘because you print the money’
The Hill – Trump’s plan to help eliminate the federal debt was to print money: Woodward book
said he didn’t care if sexual assault accusations about his SCOTUS pick were true?
Trump made the remark during a 60 Minutes interview after his SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed.
STAHL: Do you think you treated her with respect?
TRUMP: I think so, yeah, I did.
STAHL: But you seem to be saying that she lied.
TRUMP: I’m not going to get into it, because we won. It doesn’t matter. We won.
Trump was referencing the allegations that Dr. Christine Ford’s levied against SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh. She said that a drunk Kavanaugh held her down on a bed grinding and groping her, pulled off her clothes, and covered her mouth when as she tried to scream. Ford, professor of psychology at Palo Alto University and research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, also provided polygraph exam results regarding her allegations.
Trump had repeatedly dismissed Dr. Ford’s allegations.
The Wall Street Journal – Trump: Mockery of Christine Blasey Ford “Doesn’t Matter. We Won.”
The Week – Trump says that if Christine Ford’s sexual assault allegations were ‘as bad as she says,’ she should have reported it immediately
Wikipedia – Christine Balsey Ford, Sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh
dismissed a United Nations report on climate change?
The report was created by a the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a panel of 91 scientists from 40 countries. Trump explained,
“It was given to me. And I want to look at who drew it. You know, which group drew it. I can give you reports that are fabulous, and I can give you reports that aren’t so good. But I will be looking at it, absolutely.”
Trump has referred to climate change as a “Chinese hoax” and claimed that windmills cause cancer. He also withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, an international coalition of nations seeking to combat climate change.
The US Department of Defense has called climate change a national security threat.
ABC News – State Dept casts doubt on UN climate report as Trump says: ‘I want to look at who drew it’
US Department of Defense – DoD Releases Report on Security Implications of Climate Change
called protesters of SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh “elevator screamers” that were paid by George Soros?
Trump made the remark on Twitter in October 2018. Trump also claimed they were paid by billionaire George Soros.
Talking Points Memo – Trump Calls Kavanaugh Protesters ‘Elevator Screamers’ Paid By Soros
said tariffs he instituted and tweeted about didn’t exist?
During an interview with The Wall Street Journal, when asked about his tariffs, Trump said, “We don’t have any tariffs. I didn’t put tariffs. Where do we have tariffs? We don’t have tariffs anywhere.”
Hours before sitting down with the reporters, Trump tweeted about billions’ of dollars worth of tariffs.
The Wall Street Journal – Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal – ‘Where Do We Have Tariffs?’ Trump Asks. Here’s a List
Reason – Do Trump’s Tariffs Actually Exist?
asked “a pretty Korean lady” intelligence analyst why she wasn’t part of North Korean negotiations?
The analyst was briefing Trump on Pakistan when he asked where her people were from and why she wasn’t involved with North Korea.
The remarks came a day after Trump made a reference to “shithole countries.”
Business Insider – Trump’s ‘pretty Korean lady’ comment draws swift backlash
The Guardian – Trump asked why ‘pretty Korean lady’ analyst wasn’t in North Korea negotiations
released intelligence on the Russia investigation at the request of Sean Hannity?
Trump declassified a variety of documents pertaining to the investigation of Russian election interference and his administration’s own possible obstruction of that investigation. It included reports on warrants, interviews, and personal text messages of FBI agents. The intelligence community immediately derided the move as unprecedented and dangerous.
Trump said he had not reviewed any of the documents in question, but made the decision because of Fox News commentators:
I have not reviewed them. I have been asked by many people in Congress as you know to release them. I have watched commentators that I respect begging the president of the United States to release them….I have been asked by so many people that I respect, please — the great Lou Dobbs, the great Sean Hannity, the wonderful great Jeanie Pirro.
The Hill – READ: President Trump’s exclusive interview with Hill.TV
Wired – The Collateral Damage of Trump’s Extreme Declassifications
New York Magazine – Trump Ordered the Release of Sensitive Intelligence at Sean Hannity’s Request
said, “what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening”?
During a speech, Trump railed against media reports on him, saying it’s all fake news.
BBC News – Donald Trump: ‘What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening’
