TRUMP to his critics, in a fundraising letter from his 2020 campaign: 'How many times do I have to be exonerated before they stop?' THE FACTS: Trump has not been exonerated by Mueller at all.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump listened to Robert Mueller testify to Congress this past week, then misrepresented what the former special counsel said. Some partisans on both sides did much the same, whether to defend or condemn the president.
Earlier, a half-dozen GOP-led House committees conducted protracted investigations of the 2012 attacks on U.S. diplomats in Benghazi, Libya. Republican-led investigations of the 2009-2011 Operation Fast and Furious episode — a botched initiative against drug cartels that ended up putting guns in the hands of violent criminals — lasted into the Trump administration.
The Pentagon's Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency, which is responsible for recovering U.S. war remains and returning them to families,"has not received any new information from officials regarding the turn over or recovery of remains," spokesman Charles Prichard said this month. THE FACTS: Trump has not been exonerated by Mueller at all."No," Mueller said when asked during his Capitol Hill questioning whether he had cleared the president of criminal wrongdoing in the investigation that looked into the 2016 Trump campaign's relations with Russians and Russia's interference in the U.S. election.
Following Mueller's testimony, Trump abruptly took a different stance on the special counsel's report. After months of claiming exoneration, and only hours after stating as much in the fundraising letter while the hearing unfolded, Trump incongruously flipped, saying"He didn't have the right to exonerate."TRUMP, on why Mueller did not recommend charges:"He made his decision based on the facts, not based on some rule.
Even that came with a caveat, though. Mueller did not answer whether the statute of limitations might put Trump off limits to an indictment should he win re-election. Special counsels have wide latitude, and are not directed to avoid writing about"potential crimes that weren't charged or decided," as Ratcliffe put it.
THE FACTS: Johnson echoes a widely repeated false claim by Trump that the Mueller probe was biased because the investigators were all a bunch of"angry Democrats." In fact, Mueller himself is a Republican. Trump has been assailing Ocasio-Cortez and three other liberal Democratic women of color in the House for more than a week, ever since he posted tweets saying they should"go back" to their countries, though all are U.S. citizens and all but one was born in the U.S.TRUMP:"And when they're saying all of this stuff, and then those illegals get out and vote — because they vote anyway.
THE FACTS: Wealthier Americans have largely benefited from the stock market gains, not blue-collar workers. The Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that only one group of Americans has gotten an average annual 401 gain in excess of 50% during Trump's presidency. These are workers age 25 to 34 who have fewer than five years at their current employer. At that age, the gains largely came from the regular contributions instead of the stock market. And the percentage gains look large because the account levels are relatively small.TRUMP:"We have the best economy in history.
According to Labor Department data, 60.6% of people in the United States 16 years and older were working in June. That's below the all-time high of 64.7% in April 2000, though higher than the 59.9% when Trump was inaugurated in January 2017.THE FACTS: They are not the best ever.
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