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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWaPo fact checker Glenn Kessler: Trump claims a 98-1 vote equals "very little Democrat support"
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For more on the bill in question, see the following:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/03/senate-is-poised-send-sweeping-opioids-legislation-president-trump/?utm_term=.e0c69fe1a5a2
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/28/17913938/congress-opioid-epidemic-support-bill-law
As Kessler points out, the bill was bipartisan, and in fact the coverage emphasized that fact.
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WaPo fact checker Glenn Kessler: Trump claims a 98-1 vote equals "very little Democrat support" (Original Post)
CBHagman
Oct 2018
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Wintryjade
(814 posts)1. The real harm is Republicans, his supporters, will never learn the truth.
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)2. Didn't you hear?
Truth isnt truth anymore. It was on TV.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)3. Don't you know you can't trust TV to tell you the truth?
Midnight Writer
(21,767 posts)4. Of course. I saw it on TV.
Gregory Peccary
(490 posts)5. Thank god we have the radio
That shit is always true.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,491 posts)6. Aww shucks. Surely you don't mean that.
What about Super Bowl commercials? The Clydesdales, Doritos men and GEICO critter are all lying?.....
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)8. The only one I trust is puppy/monkey/baby
He won't lead me astray!
C Moon
(12,213 posts)7. Trump and his den of theives are making ready to steal another election.
And I wouldn't doubt if the Democratic party wins big in November, that Trump will protest the election and claim rampant voter fraudhe's already alluded to that in his childish Tweets.
I don't think our government is going to run smoothly while he's in office, and until we rid our system of Russia and the likes of McConnell.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)9. You mad, Glenn?
Isn't the current political climate the dream of oligarchs everywhere, including the one who signs your paychecks?