memeorandum: Fact check: 20 false and misleading claims Trump made in his announcement speech (CNN)

11:05 AM ET, November 16, 2022

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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:

Donald Trump, who tried to overturn Biden's legitimate election, launches 2024 bid — Donald Trump, who tried to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election and inspired a deadly riot at the Capitol in a desperate attempt to keep himself in power, announced he is running again for president in 2024

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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:

Trump Is Running in 2024. The White House Has a Plan. — The president's advisers have been working on a strategy for how the White House will respond to what they expect will be a constant stream of attacks from former President Donald J. Trump. — WASHINGTON — With Donald J. Trump's announcement …

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Axios:

Scoop: Stephen Schwarzman comes out against Trump in major defection — Stephen Schwarzman — chairman, CEO and co-founder of private-equity giant Blackstone — says in a statement to Axios that he's defecting from former President Trump for the 2024 presidential race.

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Axios:

Trump's low-energy reset — Advisers knew former President Trump, bleeding support among Republicans for his wild antics over the past week, needed a reset during last night's 2024 announcement. So the text was deliberately low-key. … - The tightly scripted, staff-driven speech reflected Trump's weakened position post-midterms.

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Semafor:

Good morning Washington! Good morning Palm Beach! — President Trump wants to be President again and told us that he would “make America great and glorious again.” Some hardcore Trump supporters were inspired, but as our Shelby Talcott reports, the main reaction was that the speech …

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CNN:

Fact check: 20 false and misleading claims Trump made in his announcement speech — Former President Donald Trump began his 2024 presidential campaign just as he ended his presidency in 2021: with a whole lot of inaccuracy. — Like many of Trump's speeches as president …

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David Smith / The Guardian:

Trump plays the ousted autocrat struggling to recapture past glory — Ex-president appears over the hill at 2024 announcement to an enthusiastic - but dwindling - group of loyalists — From plastering his name on buildings to hiring his own children, from salivating over military parades …

National Review:
No. — To paraphrase Voltaire after he attended an orgy, once was an experiment, twice would be perverse.

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Jeremy Barr / Washington Post:
Broadcast networks take a pass on Trump campaign announcement

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Amanda Carpenter / The Bulwark:
Trump Returns, Too Weak Not to Run Again

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Kipp Jones / Mediaite: National Review Savages Trump Over 2024 Announcement: ‘Once Was an Experiment, Twice Would Be Perverse’

Chris Cillizza / CNN:
Democrats are openly rooting for another Trump presidential bid

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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
The Real Reason Trump Runs

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Wall Street Journal:

NATO Says Missile That Hit Poland Was Likely Ukraine Air Defense — Alliance meeting assesses fatal explosion that occurred amid Russian barrage across Ukraine — BRUSSELS—Top NATO officials said a missile that crashed in Poland and killed two people was likely a Russian-made weapon fired …

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Alex Gangitano / The Hill:

Biden speaks with Polish President Duda after Russia missile strike — President Biden called Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday after Russian missiles crossed the border and killed two people in Poland, reiterating the “ironclad commitment” of the United States to the NATO alliance.

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Politico:
Western leaders on high alert after explosion in Poland kills 2

Nate Cohn / New York Times:

Trump's Drag on Republicans Quantified: A Five-Point Penalty — An analysis based on House districts shows a pattern in the results of his preferred primary candidates. — Donald J. Trump's announcement on Tuesday that he would run for president in 2024 came at an especially awkward time for Republicans.

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Hugo Gurdon / Washington Examiner:
Trump 3.0 is a changed man — he's now a loser

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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
I would like to know Ron DeSantis' opinions on major policy issues

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Harriet Alexander / Daily Mail:
The Republicans in line to take on Trump in 2024: Ron DeSantis, Mike Pence and Nikki Haley lead list of favorites to run for the GOP (but what will they do now he has entered the race?)

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New York Times:

Elon Musk Fires Twitter Employees Who Criticized Him — Mr. Musk, who is rapidly transforming the social media company, also has cut its contractor work force. — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk continued cutting Twitter's work force in his third week of owning the social media company …

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Washington Post:

Musk issues ultimatum to staff: Commit to ‘hardcore’ Twitter or take severance — It comes as Musk's first major feature, Twitter Blue Verified, was halted while the company probes issues that arose from its launch — SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk issued an ultimatum to Twitter employees Wednesday morning …

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Javier Espinoza / Financial Times:
Elon Musk's Twitter on ‘collision course’ with EU regulators

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Wall Street Journal:

Kari Lake's Loss Destroys ‘Stop the Steal’ — Arizona candidates who took the Trump line on 2020 won fewer votes than a GOP state Treasurer. — By The Editorial Board — If anyone needs more evidence that “Stop the Steal” was a loser for the GOP this year, the party's Arizona wipeout is definitive.

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Jon Gabriel / CNN:
Kari Lake told Arizona's McCain Republicans to ‘get the hell out.’ They did

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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

The Jolt: Abortion ruling puts spotlight on Kemp and GOP lawmakers — The Fulton County ruling that suspended Georgia's antiabortion law Tuesday leaves many, many unanswered questions in state politics.Chief among them: Will an appeals court uphold the state's ban on most abortions as early …

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Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
Judge overturns Georgia's ban on abortion around 6 weeks

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

Senators float audit of Rick Scott's NRSC — The GOP's post-election finger-pointing intensified Tuesday, with two senators calling for an audit of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. — During a tense, three-hour-long meeting of the Senate GOP Conference, Sens. Marsha Blackburn …

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Brooke Singman / Fox News:

Ivanka Trump says she loves her father but does ‘not plan to be involved in politics’ — Ivanka Trump does ‘not plan’ to continue being involved in politics despite her father's announced 2024 presidential run — Trump facing calls to delay ‘big announcement’ at Mar-a-Lago

David Harsanyi / The Federalist:

‘National Conservatism’ Is A Dead End — A rant. — Since a civil war is about to break out and destroy the modern Republican Party — fingers crossed — let me tell you what grinds my gears. — Young NatCons, many of whom I know and like, seem to be under the impression …

John Ganz / Unpopular Front:

An Attempt at Intellectual Fraud, Pt. 2 — Phil Magness Can't Stop Lying — There is apparently no low to which Phil Magness will not stoop to defend his shoddy thesis that Marx was a “relatively obscure” figure in European intellectual life prior to the Russian Revolution.

Washington Post:

D.C. Council passes new criminal code, despite some objections — The bill will now go to Mayor Muriel E. Bowser, who has said she is concerned about some aspects of it — The D.C. Council unanimously approved a major overhaul of the city's criminal code Tuesday, despite objections …

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

John Fetterman made big gains in Trump country. New data reveals how. — For years, John Fetterman has wagered that steadily showing up in areas hostile to Democrats would ultimately pay off. After getting elected as Pennsylvania's lieutenant governor in 2018, Fetterman conducted a listening tour of the state's 67 counties.

NBC News:

UVa knew of gun conviction against student before triple murder but never started discipline process — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The University of Virginia admitted Tuesday it knew triple-murder suspect Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. had been convicted of a weapons charge weeks …

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