Aug 28, 2020 · Donald Trump's name-calling is an effective page from Joe McCarthy's bully playbook. Trump is borrowing from Low Blow Joe to dream up mocking handles for Biden and Harris. It worked in 2016, from ...
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Answer (1 of 38): Well, it depends on whether your mind is open to being changed, or if you are merely pretending to listen to arguments and facts. We need to take this in steps. Question 1: Do you agree that there are experts on pretty much all …
First, Trump attacked him for declining to take a drug test; then he accused Biden of trying to avoid detection of a secret earpiece.
Biden replied by saying the suburbs have changed and have become diverse communities. "This is not 1950. All these dog whistles on racism don't work anymore," he said. President Donald Trump and Joe Biden in their first presidential debate in Cleveland on Tuesday. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters.
Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News tried to tamp down the antagonistic president, but his efforts to keep calm were quickly stymied as Trump refused to let his opponent speak and challenged Wallace directly. "I guess I'm debating you, not him. But that's OK," he told Wallace.
Harry S. Truman was told to “give ’em hell, Harry,” to which he famously replied: “I don’t give them hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s hell.”. But in general, it used to be something of a mini-scandal when a president was caught cursing in public.
In 2004, as vice president, Mr. Cheney told a senator on the Senate floor to “ go fuck yourself .”. His successor, Joseph R. Biden Jr., was overheard in 2010 using a variation of that profanity to tell Barack Obama what a big deal passage of health care legislation was.
But Biden himself has said repeatedly that he does not support defunding the police, as he wrote in an op-ed published in USA Today on June 10.
And Biden has proposed reversing the Trump administration’s “public charge rule,” which permits immigration officials to deny admission or a status change to immigrants who are “likely at any time to become a public charge” — meaning receive public assistance.
As of July, there were 139.6 million people employed — the fewest since October 2014, when it was 139.8 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. “Trump Touts Strong Jobs Report, Flubs Some Facts,” June 5.
False cures: The president has repeatedly touted hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial also used to treat lupus and other autoimmune conditions, as an effective COVID-19 treatment, despite a lack of evidence.
But some sources consider pepper spray a type of tear gas, while others say both chemicals have the same effect on people. According to Scientific American and the CDC, pepper spray is a type of “tear gas” or “riot control agent.”. “The Semantics of ‘Tear Gas’ Versus ‘Pepper Spray,’” June 4.
But the stock market isn’t the economy. Real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product measures economic growth. Prior to the pandemic, the economy grew by 2.2% last year, down from 3% in 2018 — which was the largest rate of growth under Trump, according to revised figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The day after the Brussels terrorist attack, Trump said in an interview with CBS “This Morning,” “I didn’t say shut it down. I said you have to be very careful. We have to be very, very strong and vigilant at the borders.”
The CNBC debate was a trainwreck by all accounts, but there was one nugget of information we got out of it: Trump is willing to lie about concrete facts regarding things he has expressed that are easily Google-able.
Ted Cruz tied Trump to Clinton-Obama foreign policy by noting that Trump supported their intervention in Libya’s civil war that resulted in Muammar Gaddafi’s overthrow. Trump responded with indignation: “He said that I was in favor of Libya? I never discussed that subject.”
After Pope Francis said, “A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not of building bridges, is not Christian. This is not the gospel,” Trump responded, “No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith.”