President Donald Trump is taking his interpretation of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation well beyond the facts. The FBI has legal grounds to open a probe if investigators have information they believe could lead them to a crime, even if one is not ultimately found.
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is taking his interpretation of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation well beyond the facts.
Trump's claims came in a week of plentiful exaggerations and misstatements, seen most prominently in a speech to Michigan supporters in which he sought credit for all manner of things, including money to clean up the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative actually was already getting that money ; Trump had proposed slashing it.
THE FACTS: He falsely suggests that the Russia investigation was started by Democrats after losing the 2016 election. Mueller's exact words in the report, as quoted by Barr, say:"While this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him." That effort included the hacking of the Democratic National Committee, Clinton's campaign and other Democratic groups. Russian intelligence officers then coordinated the release of stolen emails and internal documents.
THE FACTS: That's a misrepresentation of the circumstances behind the girl's death as Trump seeks to steer any potential blame for it away from his administration. By O'Rourke's count, U.S. involvement would date back to 1992, in an apparent reference to Operation Desert Storm, which ended in February 1991. President George H.W. Bush launched that operation in response to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. Bush declared a ceasefire in 1991.
THE FACTS: In this instance, unlike in the Great Lakes matter, Trump is acknowledging that it was his administration that had proposed to cut the money, though by blaming"my people" he did not take direct responsibility. President Barack Obama's health care law requires insurers to take all applicants, regardless of medical history, and patients with health problems pay the same standard premiums as healthy ones. Bills supported in 2017 by Trump and congressional Republicans to repeal the law could have pushed up costs for people with pre-existing conditions.TRUMP:"The Republican Party will become the party of great health care. ...
Trump's budget also called for hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare cuts to hospitals and other service providers, a nonstarter with lawmakers in Congress worried about re-election next year. Automakers have made announcements about new models being built in the state, but no other factories have been reopened. Ford stopped building the Focus compact car in the Detroit suburb of Wayne last year, but it's being replaced by the manufacture of a small pickup and a new SUV. That announcement was made in December 2016, before Trump took office.Trump can plausibly claim that his policies have encouraged some activity in the domestic auto industry.
Detroit automakers usually build larger vehicles in the U.S. because the profit margins are high enough to cover the higher wages paid there versus Mexico or another lower-cost country.TRUMP, on diversity visas:"They are giving us their worst people." — Michigan rally.The diversity visa lottery program is run by the U.S. government, not foreign governments. Other countries do not get to sort through their populations looking for bad apples to put in for export to the U.S.
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