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jml510
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July 26, 2020
Catalog of 45*'s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, & Crimes
More: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-complete-listing-so-far-atrocities-1-796
Early in President Trumps term, McSweeneys editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trumps cruelties, collusions, and crimes, and it felt urgent then to track them, to ensure these horrors happening almost daily would not be forgotten. This election year, amid a harrowing global health, civil rights, humanitarian, and economic crisis, we know its never been more critical to note these horrors, to remember them, and to do all in our power to reverse them. This list will be updated between now and the November 2020 Presidential election.
Various writers have compiled this list during the course of the Trump administration. Their work has been guided by invaluable journalistic resources, including WTFJHT, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other sources, to whom we are grateful.
February 10, 2011 In 2011, Donald Trump stoked false claims that Barack Obama had lied about his education. During a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump said, Our current president came out of nowhere. Came out of nowhere. In fact, Ill go a step further: The people that went to school with him, they never saw him, they dont know who he is. Its crazy. This is false. Numerous accounts from Obamas college classmates refute Trumps claim, including Obamas Columbia roommate, Phil Doerner.
March 30, 2011 Donald Trump was a vocal proponent of the birther myth, claiming Barack Obama was not born in the United States. In 2011, Trump told Bill OReilly, If you are going to be president of the United States you have to be born in this country. And there is a doubt as to whether or not he was He doesnt have a birth certificate. He may have one, but theres something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim. I dont know. Maybe he doesnt want that. Or he may not have one. But I will tell you this. If he wasnt born in this country, its one of the great scams of all time. In response to the birther conspiracy theory, the State of Hawaii released Barack Obamas short- and long-form birth certificate.
Various writers have compiled this list during the course of the Trump administration. Their work has been guided by invaluable journalistic resources, including WTFJHT, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other sources, to whom we are grateful.
February 10, 2011 In 2011, Donald Trump stoked false claims that Barack Obama had lied about his education. During a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump said, Our current president came out of nowhere. Came out of nowhere. In fact, Ill go a step further: The people that went to school with him, they never saw him, they dont know who he is. Its crazy. This is false. Numerous accounts from Obamas college classmates refute Trumps claim, including Obamas Columbia roommate, Phil Doerner.
March 30, 2011 Donald Trump was a vocal proponent of the birther myth, claiming Barack Obama was not born in the United States. In 2011, Trump told Bill OReilly, If you are going to be president of the United States you have to be born in this country. And there is a doubt as to whether or not he was He doesnt have a birth certificate. He may have one, but theres something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim. I dont know. Maybe he doesnt want that. Or he may not have one. But I will tell you this. If he wasnt born in this country, its one of the great scams of all time. In response to the birther conspiracy theory, the State of Hawaii released Barack Obamas short- and long-form birth certificate.
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