Germany's official x-Twitter account claps back at Trump's debate claim that dissed their clean energy plan: "Like it or not: Germany's energy system is fully operational, with more than 50% renewables. And we are shutting down " not building " coal & nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest," Germany's foreign office tweeted. "PS: We also don't eat cats and dogs." read more
A nonpartisan immigration think tank has issued a report challenging misleading and false claims about immigrants prevalent in the presidential campaign season, including the frequent lie that up 20 million undocumented people live in the U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump has cited that number in promising to launch mass deportations if he is reelected -- This is strongly overstated.
During a conversation onstage at a Moms for Liberty event last week, Donald Trump said something that made even me look around in confusion at the people around me in the audience. Said Trump: "The transgender thing is incredible. Think of it; your kid goes to school, and he comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what's going to happen with your child." The is no epidemic of school-based gender-related surgeries. "You take a look at bacon and some of these products," he told a Wisconsin audience last week. "Some people don't eat bacon anymore. And we are going to get the energy prices down. When we get energy down " you know, this was caused by their horrible energy " wind, they want wind all over the place. But when it doesn't blow, we have a little problem." As my MSNBC colleague Ja'han Jones responded, "I don't know how you can even fact-check a tangent like that."
Donald Trump campaign volunteer in Massachusetts "will no longer have any involvement" in the campaign after he warned in an email that New Hampshire was "no longer a battleground state," according to the Boston Globe on Monday. read more
A woman visiting the Florida Keys from out-of-state with her husband to meet with a "possible employer" landed in jail after downing half a bottle of liquor in five minutes, crashing into a combination bar-liquor store and then fighting with sheriff's deputies, authorities said. Her husband wound up in jail, too. According to a Monroe County Sheriff's Office arrest report, Kimberly Marie Robins, 47, and Charles Fronefield Lambert, 41, both of Elizabeth City, North Carolina, were in Big Pine Key Monday morning to meet with that employer. The report states that Lambert told deputies that they drove to Coconuts Bar & Liquor Store, and Robins "went into the bar, purchased a bottle of Crown Royal and drank approximately half of the bottle in about (five) minutes," leading to a spat over her drinking. Deputies said Robins got in their pickup truck to "get away" from him, "then drove the truck into the side of the building, causing damage," just after 7:30 a.m.
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