asked staff to falsify records related to the Mueller investigation?
After Trump tried to fire the Special Counsel through White House Counsel Don McGahn, Trump later directed McGahn to put in writing that the request had never been made. The President remarked, “if he doesn’t write a letter, then maybe I’ll have to get rid of him.” McGahn refused, and though Trump backed down from his threat, McGahn ultimately resigned.
McGahn noted that during his tenure, he had been asked to “do crazy shit.”
The Special Counsel originated in an FBI investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, and officially formed after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey.
US Department of Justice – Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election (The Mueller Report), pages 86, 115-118
The Hill – Mueller tells House panel Trump asked staff to falsify records
NBC News – Mueller report found Trump directed White House lawyer to ‘do crazy s—“
wrote his own letter of health?
During his campaign, Trump’s personal doctor gave a full bill of health, concluding that he would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”
The letter reads,
To Whom My Concern:
I have been the personal physician of Mr Donald J. Trump since 1980. His previous physician was my father, Dr Jacob Bornstein. Over the past 39 years, I am pleased to report that Mr Trump has had no significant medical problems. Mr Trump has had a recent complete medical examination that showed only positive results. Actually, his blood pressure, 110/65, and laboratory test results were astonishingly excellent.
Over the past twelve months, he has lost at least fifteen pounds, Mr Trump takes 81 mg of aspirin daily and a low dose of a statin. His PSA test score is 0.15 (very low). His physical strength and stamina are extraordinary.
Mr Trump has suffered no form of cancer, has never had a hip, knee or shoulder replacement or any other orthopaedic surgery. His only surgery was an appendectomy at age ten. His cardiovascular status is excellent. He has no history of ever using alcohol or tobacco products.
If elected, Mr Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.
“He dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter,” Bornstein later revealed to CNN. His office was subsequently raided for all of Trump’s medical records.
Trump was notorious for his fast food habits, and said that the body is like a battery such that exercise depletes its finite energy. Nevertheless, he may have received sufficient exercise through his regular golfing.
The Atlantic – The Bizarre Words of Donald Trump’s Doctor
BBC News- Donald Trump wrote own health letter, says physician Harold Bornstein
USA Today – Trump, not his doctor, wrote glowing 2015 letter on his health, physician now says
Business Insider – In stunning reversal, Trump’s personal doctor says Trump dictated a letter declaring he was in ‘astonishingly excellent’ health during the 2016 election
NPR – Doctor: Trump Dictated Letter Attesting To His ‘Extraordinary’ Health
The Atlantic – The Problem With Trump Dictating His Own Medical Assessment
acknowledged that he made up a claim about having a trade deficit when speaking to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau?
Trump explained to donors that when he was told by the Prime Minister that the US didn’t have in fact have a trade deficit with Canada, he said:
“‘Wrong, Justin, you do.’ I didn’t even know. I had no idea. I just said, ‘You’re wrong.'”
CBS News – Trump tells donors he made up trade claim in Trudeau talk
The New York Times – Trump Says He Made Up Deficit Claim in Talk with Trudeau, Baffling Canadians
The Washington Post – In fundraising speech, Trump says he made up trade claim in meeting with Justin Trudeau
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 that the US will never default on its debt because “you print the money”?
Printing money to offset debt can lead to massive inflation.
CNN – Trump: U.S. will never default ‘because you print the money’
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
