2020 Election
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Networks Cut Away, CNN Calls Trump ‘Pathetic’ After Speech Falsely Claiming He’s Been Cheated
Multiple TV networks — including MSNBC, NBC News, CNBC, CBS News and ABC News — cut away from a speech filled with falsehoods from Donald Trump, in which he baselessly claimed he was being cheated in the election, spread misinformation about the legality of mail-in ballots and falsely claimed he would have won if only the “legal” votes were counted.“Here we are again, in the unusual position of not only interrupting the president of the United States but correcting the president of the United St
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Trump’s Latest Whopper: California Requires ‘Special’ Masks That Can’t Be Removed
President Trump came up with a brand new COVID-related falsehood on Wednesday during a campaign rally in Arizona, where he baselessly claimed that people in Californian are forced to wear a “special mask” that cannot be removed “under any circumstances.”Obviously, it goes without saying that this is absolutely not true.“In California, you have a special mask. You cannot under any circumstances take it off. You have to eat through the mask,” Trump said. “It’s a very complex mechanism, and they do
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People Had Thoughts About Trump Saying He’s the ‘Least Racist Person in This Room’ at Final Debate
Donald Trump said he was the “least racist person in this room” when asked about racism in America at Thursday’s final debate with Joe Biden, and viewers on social media were quick to pull out the receipts — and the bleak jokes.“Trump: ‘I’m the least racist person in this room.’ The room,” “Saturday Night Live” writer Steven Castillo tweeted alongside a photo of a KKK cross-burning.“A full page ad, from the least racist person in that room,” actor and comedian Patton Oswalt tweeted alongside a p
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Jim Carrey Says the Election Is a Choice Between ‘Blatant Corruption’ and ‘Corruption Light’ in Latest Cartoon
With less than two weeks until the election, Jim Carrey offered a blunt critique of both the Republican and Democratic parties.In Carrey’s latest cartoon, published on Wednesday, a blindfolded person is seated at a table with their hands on two different canned drinks: a red “blatant corruption” one, complete with toxic-looking slime pouring out of the top, and a blue “corruption light” one. A black-and-white American flag offers a bleak backdrop.“There are 2 parties to choose from in our corpor
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Trump Says ‘Maybe I’ll Have to Leave the Country’ If I Lose
President Donald Trump is thinking about the possibility he’ll lose the presidency to Joe Biden and what his future will hold if he does. “Maybe I’ll have to leave the country, I don’t know,” Trump told the crowd Friday night at a Georgia rally.Trump hit the campaign trail Friday, traveling to neighboring states Florida and Georgia for one last attempt to energize undecided voters. The POTUS went all-in on attacking his Democratic opponent, saying, “Lock up the Bidens, lock up Hillary [Clinton]”
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Trump Admits He Failed in Biden Campaign’s Deliciously Petty Ad
Ever thought you’d hear President Trump admit he failed at managing the COVID-19 pandemic? Us neither, but that didn’t stop the Biden campaign from taking some cues from the Trump campaign in crafting its latest attack ad.Coming in response to the Trump campaign’s ad released last week, which featured comments from Dr. Anthony Fauci that he says were taken out of context and used in without his permission, the Biden campaign edited together clearly different, out-of-context snippets of Trump’s p
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Jim Carrey Depicts a Fiery, Swastika-Haired Trump in Latest Cartoon
Jim Carrey’s latest political cartoon offered a fiery critique of Trump’s failure to condemn white supremacy and militia groups during Tuesday’s night debate.“Trump’s allegiances couldn’t have been any clearer in that debate if his hair were on fire — and it was,” the comedian wrote in the caption accompanying his cartoon, which featured Trump’s hair in the shape of a swastika while the outline of Adolf Hitler’s face gazed from the side amid engulfing flames.At the debate, the moderator Chris Wa
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