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How will the United States recover?Every fifty years — since The Civil War — The United States goes through a period of intense political turmoil. I am old enough to have lived through two of these; the late 1960’s and the late 2010’s. The turmoil of the late 1960’s is arguably more acute than what we are experiencing today. In 1968 we experienced the assassinations of the leader of the civil rights movement, the candidate who was the odds on favorite to win the presidency, riots outside the Democratic convention in Chicago, entire cities set on fire by rioters and near constant protests against the war in Vietnam. The turmoil of the 1960’s peaked in 1968 but it was a ten year ordeal that began with the assassination of John F Kennedy and ended with the resignation of Richard Nixon.While The United States may seem terribly divided at the moment and certain aspects like a political party being influenced by a foreign power whose goal is to destabilize our government may seem unprecedented, this really is something we have experienced before. The United States has survived by making reforms.So what might we anticipate at the end of our long national nightmare?A Political RealignmentThe turmoil of the 1960’s was fueled by two political parties which basically had the same opinion on the two most divisive issues of that decade; civil rights and the war in Vietnam. Neither party opposed the war and both parties hedged their bets on civil rights. However, by 1980 both parties completed their political transformation. The Democratic Party expanded the focus of Civil Rights to include gender equality while The Republicans argued that outside of enforcing Constitutional protections — narrowly defined — the issue should be left to the states to decide. In foreign policy The Republicans emphasized a strong national defense and an interventionist policy while the Democratic Party emphasized human rights, diplomacy, non intervention and trade.The United States is currently experiencing a political realignment and until the election of 2016 both parties had similar stances on free trade, immigration, healthcare (both parties favor private insurance over a mandatory single payer system. Obamacare was nothing more than a change in the regulatory structure that the insurance industry operates under) and income inequality. The difference today is that the populist candidate of 1968, George Wallace, ran as a third party candidate while Donald Trump won both the GOP nomination and the presidency. However, neither Wallace nor Trump style populism represent what the political realignment of the 21st century will look like.The real political divide is between socialism and libertarianism. As the political realignment process unfolds over the next decade I predict that the liberal party will advocate Western European style socialism while the Conservative party will have a Koch Foundation soft libertarian platform. Whether the two political parties will still maintain the Democrat or Republican brand will remains to be seen. However, a two party system rather than a multiparty parliamentary system is likely to remain because our constitution favors such a system. (Americans are not likely to accept the House of Representatives selecting our President when a candidate fails to secure 50 percent of the Electoral College which would happen when three or more parties seriously contend for the Presidency.)Political ReformThe abuses of both the Johnson and Nixon administrations were addressed in the 1970’s. The War Powers Act put limits on the President’s ability to wage war without the approval of Congress while Watergate reforms sought to limit executive privilege and increase transparency. Also, both parties fully embraced a system where the nominees were chosen through primaries and caucuses. The proverbial smoke filled rooms that selected presidential nominees became a thing of the past. The states of Iowa and New Hampshire became kingmakers.So what are some of the likely reforms we will see over the next decade?1: Public funding of elections. Our current system where elections are funded by donors leaves the United States particularly vulnerable to foreign interference. Look for Citizens United to be overturned.2: Each party will require its nominee to obtain a high level security clearance, psychological evaluation and the release of his or her tax returns before securing the nomination. This makes sense and is unlikely to have serious opposition.3: The return of the fairness doctrine and regulation of the internet. The public airwaves and internet will no longer be a platform for the unfiltered dissemination of political propaganda, wacko conspiracy theories, the recruitment of political extremists and terrorists and potentially dangerous trends like the anti vaxer movement.4: A renewed dedication to building up our political institutions like the Senate, Congress, the executive and judicial branches of government. Political leaders are accountable to the institution they have been elected or selected to serve, all of their constituents and the general good of the nation. Currently, our officials are primarily accountable to their party and the donors who put them in office. Gridlock has become the norm because there is nothing to be gained by political compromise. Shitting all over the institutions you are seeking to serve may play well with the base but in the long run it works against effective governance. It wasn’t always this way.Reform of Other Institutions, Especially the PressAfter the 1960’s the press took on a more investigatory role. Over the decades, however, editorial pieces, analysis pieces and partisan bias have replaced the simple “who, what, when, where, why and how” that we were taught constituted the foundation of good journalism.We may also see the end of the 24 hour a day news cycle. News networks today have to be fiercely partisan with a focus on analysis and editorials in order to attract an audience. This has the effect of destabilizing us politically because it creates a situation where the basic facts of a story are distorted and disputed. Our country survived for over 200 years in a situation where people consumed news in the morning, the evening and before they went to bed.The United States should survive this period of instability. However, the younger generations may live through a similar period in the 2060’s and 2070’s.

Woof. Off the top of my head my first answer would definitely be California Governor and three-time candidate for the presidency Edmund “Jerry” BrownJerry Brown - The rise and fall and rise again of Jerry Brown is one for the ages. One of the youngest governors in California history, three time Presidential also-ran, Dead Kennedys lyric, practitioner of eastern mysticism and oldest governor in California history. So lemme tell ya about the saga of Governor Moonbeam (as Linda Ronstadt liked to call him)…The RiseThe son of California Governor Pat Brown, Jerry was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He had both the privilege and the inclination to follow his weird muse wherever it took him. The first place, believe it or not, was the seminary.Jerry Brown spent four years studying to be a priest. Although he didn’t follow through with it that experience DEFINITELY informed his inexplicable, heterodox, almost mysticist approach to politics. His “philosopher king” schtick was very similar to another solid candidate for this question, Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy.But I digress.So non-priest Jerry goes to UC Berkeley and Yale School of Law. He’s got a noggin on him for sure. After that he pretty much begins to climb full-speed up the ladder of California politics. In short succession he goes from Chair of the Los Angeles Community College Board of Trustees to Secretary of State to Governor of California, right on the heels of Reagan.His election to the Governorship was something of a surprise but remember, this was right after Watergate. 1974. People didn’t trust Republicans and Reagan was not as popular as one might think. As Secretary of State Brown pushed initiatives for electoral reform and was seen as pretty ethical. Very “right place, right time” but the man knew how to capitalize on his success.Higher & Higher (To A Certain Extent)So now this dude is Governor of the most populous state in the country at 36. He’s young, handsome, dynamic, idealistic. He’s dating Linda Rondstat and trying to save the planet. This dude is DEEPLY Californian. Jerry’s on a roll.As Governor his big priorities were environmentalism, fighting the death penalty and a surprising fiscal restraint. He presided over one of the biggest budget surpluses in California history to the tune of about $5,000,000,000. Being the ascetic almost-monk that he was he didn’t live in the governors’ mansion. He drove a Plymouth Satellite to work. For reference, that’s this janky jalopy over here:So he’s doing his thing and the 1976 Democratic Primary rolls around. He drags his feet on hopping in until Jimmy Carter is already pretty clearly ahead. He jumped in AFTER Super Tuesday but still managed to take California, Maryland and Nevada, fifteen percent of the popular vote and ten percent of the convention delegates despite not appearing on the ballot in a BUNCH of states.So the map looked like this:For reference:Salmon Pink is Georgia Governor Jimmy CarterStrawberry Pop Rocks Pink is Alabama Governor George WallaceProperly Refrigerated Mustard Yellow is Arizona Representative Mo UdallMustard Left Out In The Sun Yellowish-Brown is our old pal Jerry BrownMilk Chocolate Brown is “Uncommitted”Dark Chocolate Brown is Washington Senator Henry “Scoop” JacksonNew Flavor of Mountain Dew Blue is Idaho Senator Frank ChurchDark…Lavender, Or Whatever Color West Virginia is is West Virginia Senator Robert ByrdNot that impressive until you remember how late he got in. In all likelihood had Brown entered at the beginning of the race he would have been the nominee, not Carter.BUT I DIGRESSSo he loses. But he’s still Governor of California and wins a second term. He continues to follow his own often politically inconvenient muse.Brown:Appoints the first gay state judge AND the first lesbian state judgeProposes an innovative irrigation system that gets shot downTries to get California it’s own satellite (which, after his governorship, actually happens)Gets “California Uber Alles” written about him, seemingly takes it in good humorAs far as the last one is concerned Jello Biafra later said that Jerry Brown wasn’t as bad as he had thought and that many California politicians like Schwarzenegger and Reagan were far worse.The FallSo Brown runs for the presidency again in the 1980 cycle. He totally whiffs it this time. Jimmy Carter is now the incumbent and his chief rival is Ted Kennedy, for whom JUST enough time has passed that people don’t really care about Chappaquiddick anymore. Brown hustles for it but ultimately, with firmly defined lanes and an incumbent president, he gets no states.Really, “Uncommitted” did better in the primaries than Brown did this time around.So Jerry goes home. He decides not to run for a third term as Governor and instead pursues a Senate seat in 1982.He loses. Pretty badly, in fact, to Pete Wilson. The new Republican Governor George Deukmejian is a staunch Brown critic and thinks he like, totally sucked as Governor. So at this point Jerry Brown is basically out of options. He’s gone from a hot winning streak to losing over and over again, seemingly on a dime. So he spends the next few years wandering the earth in search of wisdom. Y’know, like the Hulk.Wilderness YearsSo, in keeping with his whole “mystic politician” thing, Brown goes to Japan to study Zen Buddhist philosophy and learn how it applies to politics, producing one of my favorite quotes on politics ever:"Since politics is based on illusions, zazen definitely provides new insights for a politician. I then come back into the world of California and politics, with critical distance from some of my more comfortable assumptions."This may have been the moment when I said “This dude is a crazy genius”.He goes to Calcutta to work in the hospitals of Mother Teresa, which produces ANOTHER quote I love:“Politics is a power struggle to get to the top of the heap. Calcutta and Mother Teresa are about working with those who are at the bottom of the heap. And to see them as no different than yourself, and their needs as important as your needs. And you're there to serve them, and doing that you are attaining as great a state of being as you can."So this guy basically learns about Zen and poverty to improve his political strategies instead of, y’know, consulting at a think tank or something and honestly, it kind of…works?Jerry Returns, For the First TimeAfter six years in the wilderness he comes back in 1988 to immediately run for California Democratic Party Chair. He wins, pretty handily, but is still in a very minor post. He’s generally considered washed up. However, against the advice of pretty much everyone, he mounts one of the strangest and most innovative presidential campaigns ever in the 1992 Democratic PrimariesThird Time’s The Charm? (No, It Isn’t)This time Brown was like a proto-Bernie in style, if not substance. He mounts an insurgent campaign, only takes donations up to $100 a person, runs cheap ads for a 1–800 campaign number. He took as much free/cheap media attention as he could, running cable spots and going on talk shows. He railed against “politics as usual”, running as a populist polemic and being criticized as a “political televangelist”This is what one would call “asymmetrical warfare”His policy positions were a sometimes inexplicable mix of right wing and left wing. He advocated for a flat tax and the abolition of the Department of Education yet managed to get a great deal of left wing enthusiasm.All of a sudden he’s a contender again. Brown is sweeping up victories and SEEMS poised to win New York until, in a major gaffe, he says to a largely Jewish crowd that he would consider Jesse Jackson as a running mate.Yeah, the “Hymietown” guy. Needless to say this is probably what lost him New York and his momentum pretty much stalled from there. That’s what’s so fascinating about Jerry Brown is that sometimes he seems preternaturally brilliant and other times he seems like the least self-aware person on Earth.This time it was:This time it went;Salmon Pink - Arkansas Governor Bill ClintonCotton Candy Pink - Our drifting wanderer Jerry BrownGrape Jelly Purple - Massachusetts Senator Paul TsongasLimeade Green - Iowa Senator and Kasich Club Member (candidates who only won their home state) Tom HarkinBruise That’s Kind of Healed But Not Entirely Blueish-Purple - Nebraska Senator Bob KerreyBrown got 20% of the vote this time around and laid the groundwork for Howard Dean/Bernie Sanders-style grassroots campaigns. He innovated in a lot of areas that other politicians found more success with later. I still maintain that a lot of Perot voters started out backing Jerry Brown.Jerry Returns Again But This Time It’s Personal II: The QuickeningSeven more years pass. He’s a bigger has been than ever. He’s a footnote, a punchline.So he runs as an independent for the mayoralty of Bay-area city Oakland, California. He actually wins, despite little previous connection to the area and runs the city to mixed reviews.He gentrifies or revitalizes, depending upon how one sees it. He invites the Marines to do training exercises in the city. He supports charter schools, including a military academy. He also increases investment in the city and turns its flagging economy around.Again, a man of sometimes confusing and heterodox positions.And he runs for Attorney General.The Rise, Again, Of Jerry BrownIn the 2006 Attorney General’s election, in the Age of Arnold, Brown won in a landslide. 56% to 38%. Jerry mellowed out some in his old age and became more pragmatic than idealistic, with him and the Governator failing to appeal Proposition 8. I think this was kind of a craven move but again, I’m talking about Brown as a politician and unfortunately, it was a savvy call strategically to play neutral and let the people make the call. 70’s Jerry would be very disappointed though.And then he runs for governor in 2010. Y’know, the job he had 35 years earlier. His opponent, eBay CEO Meg Whitman, runs a harsh campaign. Really they’re both pretty savage. But ultimately Brown wins again and is re-elected to a fourth term in 2014. At this point he’s the oldest governor in California history.It’s fitting that a man so interested in Buddhism had a political career that was ultimately cyclical. Although he came pretty close to the presidential nomination twice this seems the perfect ending for his career: right back where he started.In short, Jerry Brown was an odd bird. I disagreed with some of his ideas and think he made a few massive mistakes that cost him the presidency but there’s no denying he innovated. As far as the most gifted, innovative politician who sought but lost the presidency? Yeah, Jerry Brown all the way.

FIRST 10 MONTHS of Trump Lies….JAN. 21, 2017.“I wasn't a fan of Iraq. I didn't want to go into Iraq.” (He was for an invasion before he was against it.)JAN. 21, 2017.“A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine.” (Trump was on the cover 11 times and Nixon appeared 55 times.)JAN. 23, 2017.“Between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused me to lose the popular vote.” (There's no evidence of illegal voting.)JAN. 25, 2017.“Now, the audience was the biggest ever. But this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes. This crowd was massive.” (Official aerial photos show Obama's 2009 inauguration was much more heavily attended.)JAN. 25, 2017.“Take a look at the Pew reports (which show voter fraud.)” (The report never mentioned voter fraud.)JAN. 25, 2017.“You had millions of people that now aren't insured anymore.” (The real number is less than 1 million, according to the Urban Institute.)JAN. 25, 2017.“So, look, when President Obama was there two weeks ago making a speech, very nice speech. Two people were shot and killed during his speech. You can't have that.” (There were no gun homicide victims in Chicago that day.)JAN. 26, 2017.“We've taken in tens of thousands of people. We know nothing about them. They can say they vet them. They didn't vet them. They have no papers. How can you vet somebody when you don't know anything about them and you have no papers? How do you vet them? You can't.” (Vetting lasts up to two years.)JAN. 26, 2017.“I cut off hundreds of millions of dollars off one particular plane, hundreds of millions of dollars in a short period of time. It wasn't like I spent, like, weeks, hours, less than hours, and many, many hundreds of millions of dollars. And the plane's going to be better.” (Most of the cuts were already planned.)JAN. 28, 2017.“The coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost has been so false and angry that the Times actually apologized to its dwindling subscribers and readers.” (It never apologized.)JAN. 29, 2017.“The Cuban-Americans, I got 84 percent of that vote.” (There is no support for this.)JAN. 30, 2017.“Only 109 people out of 325,000 were detained and held for questioning. Big problems at airports were caused by Delta computer outage.” (At least 746 people were detained and processed, and the Delta outage happened two days later.)FEB. 3, 2017.“Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” (There is no evidence of paid protesters.)FEB. 6, 2017.“It's gotten to a point where it is not even being reported. And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it.” (Terrorism has been reported on, often in detail.)FEB. 6, 2017.“And the previous administration allowed it to happen because we shouldn't have been in Iraq, but we shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. It created a vacuum, ISIS was formed.” (The group’s origins date to 2004.)FEB. 7, 2017.“And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years, right? Did you know that? Forty-seven years.” (It was higher in the 1980s and '90s.)FEB. 9, 2017.“Chris Cuomo, in his interview with Sen. Blumenthal, never asked him about his long-term lie about his brave ‘service’ in Vietnam. FAKE NEWS!” (It was part of Cuomo's first question.)FEB. 9, 2017.“Sen. Richard Blumenthal...now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?” (The Gorsuch comments were later corroborated.)FEB. 10, 2017.“I don’t know about it. I haven’t seen it. What report is that?” (Trump knew about Flynn's actions for weeks.)FEB. 12, 2017.“Just leaving Florida. Big crowds of enthusiastic supporters lining the road that the FAKE NEWS media refuses to mention. Very dishonest!” (The media did cover it.)FEB. 16, 2017.“We got 306 because people came out and voted like they've never seen before so that's the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan.” (George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won bigger margins in the Electoral College.)FEB. 16, 2017.“Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just this year because of our various plans and initiatives.” (The jobs are a result of its investment plans announced in October 2016.)FEB. 16, 2017.“When WikiLeaks, which I had nothing to do with, comes out and happens to give, they’re not giving classified information.” (Not always. They have released classified information in the past.)FEB. 16, 2017.“We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. But we had a bad court. Got a bad decision.” (The rollout was chaotic.)FEB. 16, 2017.“They’re giving stuff — what was said at an office about Hillary cheating on the debates. Which, by the way, nobody mentions. Nobody mentions that Hillary received the questions to the debates.” (It was widely covered.)FEB. 18, 2017.“You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this?” (Trump implied there was a terror attack in Sweden, but there was no such attack.)FEB. 24, 2017.“By the way, you folks are in here — this place is packed, there are lines that go back six blocks.” (There was no evidence of long lines.)FEB. 24, 2017.“ICE came and endorsed me.” (Only its union did.)FEB. 24, 2017.“Obamacare covers very few people — and remember, deduct from the number all of the people that had great health care that they loved that was taken away from them — it was taken away from them.” (Obamacare increased coverage by a net of about 20 million.)FEB. 27, 2017.“Since Obamacare went into effect, nearly half of the insurers are stopped and have stopped from participating in the Obamacare exchanges.” (Many fewer pulled out.)FEB. 28, 2017.“The E.P.A.’s regulators were putting people out of jobs by the hundreds of thousands.” (There's no evidence that the Waters of the United States rule caused severe job losses.)FEB. 28, 2017.“We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five-year ban on lobbying by executive branch officials.” (They can't lobby their former agency but can still become lobbyists.)MARCH 3, 2017.“It is so pathetic that the Dems have still not approved my full Cabinet.” (Paperwork for the last two candidates was still not submitted to the Senate.)MARCH 4, 2017.“Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” (There's no evidence of a wiretap.)MARCH 7, 2017.“122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!” (113 of them were released by President George W. Bush.)MARCH 17, 2017.“I was in Tennessee — I was just telling the folks — and half of the state has no insurance company, and the other half is going to lose the insurance company.” (There's at least one insurer in every Tennessee county.)MARCH 22, 2017.“I make the statement, everyone goes crazy. The next day they have a massive riot, and death, and problems.” (Riots in Sweden broke out two days later and there were no deaths.)MARCH 22, 2017.“NATO, obsolete, because it doesn’t cover terrorism. They fixed that.” (It has fought terrorism since the 1980s.)MARCH 31, 2017.“We have a lot of plants going up now in Michigan that were never going to be there if I — if I didn’t win this election, those plants would never even think about going back. They were gone.” (These investments were already planned.)APRIL 11, 2017.“I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve.” (He knew Steve Bannon since 2011.)APRIL 12, 2017.“You can't do it faster, because they're obstructing. They're obstructionists. So I have people — hundreds of people that we're trying to get through. I mean you have — you see the backlog. We can't get them through.” (At this point, he had not nominated anyone for hundreds of positions.)APRIL 12, 2017.“The New York Times said the word wiretapped in the headline of the first edition. Then they took it out of there fast when they realized.” (There were separate headlines for print and web, but neither were altered.)APRIL 12, 2017.“Mosul was supposed to last for a week and now they’ve been fighting it for many months and so many more people died.” (The campaign was expected to take months.)APRIL 16, 2017.“Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!” (There's no evidence of paid protesters.)APRIL 18, 2017.“The fake media goes, ‘Donald Trump changed his stance on China.’ I haven’t changed my stance.” (He did.)APRIL 21, 2017.“When WikiLeaks came out ... never heard of WikiLeaks, never heard of it.” (He criticized it as early as 2010.)APRIL 27, 2017.“I want to help our miners while the Democrats are blocking their healthcare.” (The bill to extend health benefits for certain coal miners was introduced by a Democrat and was co-sponsored by mostly Democrats.)APRIL 28, 2017.“The trade deficit with Mexico is close to $70 billion, even with Canada it’s $17 billion trade deficit with Canada.” (The U.S. had an $8.1 billion trade surplus, not deficit, with Canada in 2016.)APRIL 28, 2017.“She's running against someone who's going to raise your taxes to the sky, destroy your health care, and he's for open borders — lots of crime.” (Those are not Jon Ossoff's positions.)APRIL 29, 2017.“As you know, I've been a big critic of China, and I've been talking about currency manipulation for a long time. But I have to tell you that during the election, number one, they stopped.” (China stopped years ago.)APRIL 29, 2017.“We're also getting NATO countries to finally step up and contribute their fair share. They've begun to increase their contributions by billions of dollars, but we are not going to be satisfied until everyone pays what they owe.” (The deal was struck in 2014.)MAY 1, 2017.“Well, we are protecting pre-existing conditions. And it'll be every good — bit as good on pre-existing conditions as Obamacare.” (The bill weakens protections for people with pre-existing conditions.)MAY 4, 2017.“Nobody cares about my tax return except for the reporters.” (Polls show most Americans do care.)MAY 5, 2017.“We pay the highest taxes anywhere in the world.” (We're not.)MAY 8, 2017.“But when I did his show, which by the way was very highly rated. It was high — highest rating. The highest rating he’s ever had.” (Colbert's Late Show debut had nearly two million more viewers.)MAY 8, 2017.“Director Clapper reiterated what everybody, including the fake media already knows — there is ‘no evidence’ of collusion w/ Russia and Trump.” (Clapper only said he wasn't aware of an investigation.)MAY 12, 2017.“Again, the story that there was collusion between the Russians & Trump campaign was fabricated by Dems as an excuse for losing the election.” (The F.B.I. was investigating before the election.)MAY 26, 2017.“Just arrived in Italy for the G7. Trip has been very successful. We made and saved the USA many billions of dollars and millions of jobs.” (He's referencing an arms deal that's not enacted and other apparent deals that weren't announced on the trip.)JUNE 1, 2017.“China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So, we can’t build the plants, but they can, according to this agreement. India will be allowed to double its coal production by 2020.” (The agreement doesn’t allow or disallow building coal plants.)JUNE 4, 2017.“At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” (The mayor was specifically talking about the enlarged police presence on the streets.)JUNE 5, 2017.“The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C.” (Trump signed this version of the travel ban, not the Justice Department.)JUNE 21, 2017.“They all say it's 'nonbinding.' Like hell it's nonbinding.” (The Paris climate agreement is nonbinding — and Trump said so in his speech announcing the withdrawal.)JUNE 21, 2017.“You have a gang called MS-13. ... We are moving them out of the country by the thousands, by the thousands.” (The real number of gang members deported is smaller.)JUNE 21, 2017.“Your insurance companies have all fled the state of Iowa.” (They haven't)JUNE 21, 2017.“If [farmers] have a puddle in the middle of their field ... it's considered a lake and you can't touch it. ... We got rid of that one, too, O.K.?” (The Obama environmental rule to limit pollution in the country’s waters explicitly excludes puddles.)JUNE 21, 2017.“Gary Cohn just paid $200 million in tax in order to take this job, by the way.” Cohn sold Goldman Sachs stock worth $220 million.)JUNE 21, 2017.“We’re 5 and 0.” (Republicans have won four special elections this year, while a Democrat won one.)JUNE 21, 2017.“Last week a brand-new coal mine just opened in the state of Pennsylvania, first time in decades, decades.” (Another coal mine opened in 2014.)JUNE 22, 2017.“Former Homeland Security Advisor Jeh Johnson is latest top intelligence official to state there was no grand scheme between Trump & Russia” (Johnson, who had a different title, didn't say that.)JUNE 23, 2017.“Ratings way down!” (CNN's ratings were at a five-year high at the time.)JUNE 28, 2017.“Democrats purposely misstated Medicaid under new Senate bill — actually goes up.” (Senate bill would have cut the program deeply.)JULY 17, 2017.“We’ve signed more bills — and I’m talking about through the legislature — than any president, ever.” (Clinton, Carter, Truman, and F.D.R. had signed more at the same point.)JULY 19, 2017.“But the F.B.I. person really reports directly to the president of the United States, which is interesting.” (He reports directly to the attorney general.)JULY 19, 2017.“She did the uranium deal, which is a horrible thing, while she was secretary of state, and got a lot of money.” (There's no evidence Hillary Clinton was actively involved or benefited from the deal.)JULY 24, 2017.“It looks like about 45,000 people. You set a record today.” (Many fewer than 45,000 were there, and the attendance was not a record.)JULY 25, 2017.“We have nearly doubled the number of veterans given approvals to see the doctor of their choice.” (The increase was 26 percent.)JULY 25, 2017.“Since I took office we have cut illegal immigration on our southern border by record numbers. 78 percent.” (The decline began before Trump's inauguration.)JULY 28, 2017.“The previous administration enacted an open-door policy to illegal migrants from Central America. 'Welcome in. Come in, please, please.'” (Obama deported millions.)JULY 28, 2017.“We have trade deficits with almost every country because we had a lot of really bad negotiators making deals with other countries.” (The U.S. has a trade surplus with more than 100 countries.)JULY 31, 2017.“2.6 is a number that nobody thought they’d see for a long period of time.” (Many experts predicted economic growth at least this high.)JULY 31, 2017.“And even the President of Mexico called me – they said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they’re not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment.” (Mexico's president says he didn't call Trump.)AUG. 3, 2017.“The Russia story is a total fabrication.” (It's not.)AUG. 15, 2017.“We want products made in the country. Now, I have to tell you, some of the folks that will leave, they're leaving out of embarrassment because they make their products outside.” (People resigned from Trump's business councils over his Charlottesville comments.)AUG. 22, 2017.“As everybody here remembers, this was the scene of my first rally speech, right?” (Trump's first rally was in New Hampshire.)AUG. 22, 2017.“We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently.” (The U.S. isn't projected to become a net energy exporter until 2026.)AUG. 22, 2017.“Look back there, the live red lights. They're turning those suckers off fast out there. They're turning those lights off fast. Like CNN.” (CNN didn't turn off its cameras.)SEPT. 14, 2017.“Also with the fact that I know in the case of FEMA and the case of Coast Guard, the job you've done in saving people, saving lives. As an example, in Harvey in Texas, we talked – over 16,000 lives.” (The real number is smaller.)SEPT. 14, 2017.“And in Florida you got hit with the strongest winds ever recorded.” (They weren't the strongest ever recorded.)SEPT. 22, 2017.“So he started off here, he was in third or fourth, he went to third, second, and now it's like almost pretty even.” (Strange consistently polled first or second in the Alabama Republican primary.)SEPT. 27, 2017.“I’m doing the right thing, and it’s not good for me.” (All available evidence suggests he would benefit.)SEPT. 27, 2017.“To protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer, we are finally ending the crushing, the horrible, the unfair estate tax.” (The real number of small businesses and farmers is vastly smaller.)OCT. 6, 2017.“They also just said that there has been absolutely no collusion. They just said that. Yesterday. Two days ago. Senate. There has been no collusion.” (The Senate didn't say that.)OCT. 10, 2017.“The Failing @nytimes set Liddle' Bob Corker up by recording his conversation. Was made to sound a fool, and that's what I am dealing with!” (Corker asked the Times reporter to record the call; his aides recorded it too.)OCT. 11, 2017.“We have missiles that can knock out a missile in the air. Ninety seven per cent of the time. If you send two of them, it's going to get knocked out.” (The effectiveness rate is about 60 percent.)OCT. 16, 2017.“I hear that Ireland is going to be reducing their corporate rates down to 8 percent from 12.” (Ireland has no plans to cut its tax rate.)OCT. 16, 2017.“If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn’t make calls.” (They did call families of soldiers killed in action.)OCT. 16, 2017.“All I can say is it’s totally fake news. It’s just fake. It’s fake. It’s made-up stuff, and it’s disgraceful, what happens, but that happens in the world of politics.” (Trump himself has bragged about groping women.)OCT. 18, 2017.“Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof).” (The wife confirmed Representative Frederica Wilson's account.)OCT. 18, 2017.“Nobody has ever heard of a five hitting land.” (Category 5 storms have hit land before.)OCT. 24, 2017.“Under our plan, more than 30 million Americans who own small businesses will get a 40 per cent cut to their top marginal tax rate.” (The real number is estimated to be less than 1 million.)OCT. 27, 2017.“Wacky & totally unhinged Tom Steyer, who has been fighting me and my Make America Great Again agenda from beginning, never wins elections!” (Steyer has financially supported many winning candidates.)NOV. 7, 2017.“When you look at the city with the strongest gun laws in our nation, it's Chicago.” (Several other cities, including New York and Los Angeles, have stronger gun laws.)NOV. 11, 2017.“I'd rather have him – you know, work with him on the Ukraine than standing and arguing about whether or not – because that whole thing was set up by the Democrats.” (There is no evidence that Democrats "set up" Russian interference in the election.)