Eight wars settled and Chinese windfarms: factchecking Trump’s Davos claims

The president’s address in Switzerland featured a range of dubious assertions, from exaggerated to false Donald Trump’s address at the World Economic Forum in Davos featured a parade of dubious claims about everything from peace deals to wind farms. Several assertions ranged from exaggerated to provably false. Here’s what Trump got wrong. Continue reading…

Trump’s Davos speech shows influence of deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller’s racist worldview

President’s anti-Somalia tirade and insults to European leaders were in line with Miller’s white nationalist politics Donald Trump turned up in Davos wielding an insult bazooka. He mocked Emmanuel Macron’s aviator sunglasses, chided Mark Carney (“Canada lives because of the United States”), asserted that the Swiss are “only good because of us” and had a … Read more

Fired DHS worker sues agency after he criticized Noem on an alleged fake date

Brandon Wright alleges criticism of the homeland security secretary is protected by the first amendment A former employee of the Department of Homeland Security who was fired after video circulated of him on a date criticizing the agency’s head, Kristi Noem, sued the department on Monday, alleging the termination violated his first amendment rights. Brandon … Read more

Gabbard slams Democrats’ ‘hostility towards God,’ condemns anti-ICE agitators who stormed church

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard said the incident involving anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agitators who descended on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., is an example of what made her leave the Democratic Party, slamming what she described as her former party’s “hostility towards God.” “One of the main reasons I left … Read more

Trump cites Minnesota fraud cases to warn against migration from ‘failed’ societies

President Donald Trump took a shot at Somalia and claimed that the investigations Minnesota faces into alleged fraud schemes is a reminder that the West cannot allow mass migration from “failed” societies.  Minnesota has encountered heightened scrutiny in recent months as the state faces investigations into multiple alleged fraud schemes plaguing the state’s social services … Read more