After nearly 2 years, a lawmaker finally fact-checked President Trump to his face

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Source: think progress




Pelosi to Trump: "What the president is representing in terms of his cards over there is not factual."
Ryan Koronowski
Dec 11, 2018, 3:26 pm

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“It’s been very effective,” he said. “…If you look at San Diego, illegal traffic dropped 92 percent once the wall was up. El Paso, illegal traffic dropped 72 percent, then ultimately 95 percent once the wall was up. In Tucson, Arizona, illegal traffic dropped 92 percent. Yuma, it dropped illegal traffic 95 to 96 percent.”

Pelosi rejected that assertion, suggesting the president’s claims about the effectiveness of a border wall were overblown. San Diego, for instance, is by far the biggest gateway for illegal drugs, despite the fact that Trump previously praised the city for building a wall along the southern border. There is no wall in Tucson, Arizona because it is not on the border.

“What the president is representing…is not factual,” Pelosi said. “We have to have an evidence-based conversation about what does work, what money has been spent, and how effective it is. This is about the security of our country we take an oath to protect and defend, and we don’t want to have that mischaracterized by anyone.”.................


.............................In a press conference with reporters after the meeting, Pelosi described the conversation as “unfortunate.”

“We didn’t want to contradict the president when he was putting forth figures that had no reality to them, no basis in fact,” Pelosi said. “[But] we have to, if we’re going to proceed in all of this, have evidence-based, factual, truthful information about what works and what doesn’t.”
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Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/fact-checking-trump-in-oval-office-pelosi-schumer-government-shutdown-border-wall-funding-d2d18c8b57f5/

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I do not know if Trump knows what hit him today.

Link to tweet

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Trump doesn't know facts, just emotions, so of course he doesn't know what hit him. But also

I really like the Democratic emphasis on facts. I'm all for reality-based decision making.

[mahannah]

2. I don't know if Trump knows.

[Ahpook]

3. He is so full of it

He just throws out random numbers as if based on fact. I hear his degenerate cult members doing the same thing. If caught in their lie by fact they pull the fake news card.

Its all bullshit

[noneof_theabove]

4. I stand on the side of

scientific proof.

Is the glass half full or half empty.
Pessimist half empty.
Optimist half full.
Scientist you got the wrong glass.

Private Bonespurs, THE GLASS IS EMPTY.

Remember pure water is colorless, odorless. - moron

[yonder]

5. Zing!

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“[But] we have to, if we’re going to proceed in all of this, have evidence-based, factual, truthful information about what works and what doesn’t.”

Paul Ryan could/should take a lesson there.

Yay, Madame Speaker.

[Canoe52]

6. Geez louise, it's about time, GO NANCY!

Tucson has a wall? who knew?

[Yellowdog88]

7. Somebody please...

Tell that moron that a wall in Tucson would be ceding a shit-ton of the US to Mexico.

I don't need a cheat card for that.