Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Wednesday's Headlines: Trump calls wall the only solution to ‘crisis of the heart’ at the border

 
Democracy Dies in Darkness
 
 
Today's Headlines
The morning's most important stories, selected by Post editors
 
 
Trump calls wall the only solution to 'crisis of the heart' at the border
In a forceful and fact-challenged televised plea to the nation for his long-promised border wall, the president portrayed undocumented immigrants as murderers, rapists and drug smugglers in a dark Oval Office address. Democrats said he was stoking fear and governing by "temper tantrum."
The Fix | Analysis
Annotated transcript of Trump's Oval Office address
Read the full transcript, with fact checks and annotations added by The Fix.
 
Fact Checker | Analysis
Trump paints a misleading, bleak picture of the border situation
The first misleading statement in came in the first sentence. Another came moments later. He pumped up numbers, exaggerated the public safety risks of immigration and repeated false claims regarding how to fund a border wall.
 
As Trump appeals to nation for wall, cracks show in his GOP support
Vice President Pence scrambled to get House Republicans to stand with Trump, but dissension was evident over whether to declare a national emergency.
 
Pelosi, Schumer present united front in challenging Trump on border wall
The relationship between the two Democratic leaders dates to at least 1987, when both were in the House, and they have grown closer as they work in tandem to battle the president.
 
The Take
President tries one more gambit in a battle he seems to be losing
In a dramatic escalation of his efforts to sway public opinion, President Trump chose the gravity of the Oval Office to try to create a sense of crisis in pursuit of an elusive campaign promise.
 
Partisan warrior with little experience steers Trump's shutdown response
Conservative firebrand Russell T. Vought took the helm of the Office of Management and Budget a little more than a week ago.
 
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Trump's nothingburger speech
 
Trump won the night. Schumer and Pelosi lost.
 
Trump tried to play a normal president on television. The result was very strange.
 
Trump is diverting America's gaze from the real emergencies
 
The networks interrupted their programming for the lamest rerun on television
 
Why should I support a political party that is marginalizing me out of existence?
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@PKCapitol | Analysis
Democratic drive for gun control reflects changing political dynamic
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Manafort shared 2016 polling data with Russian employee, filing says
The apparently inadvertent revelation indicates a pathway by which the Russians could have had access to Trump campaign data.
 
U.S. lawsuit by Post journalist seeks $1 billion in damages from Iran to deter taking of hostages
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Police seeking DNA of male staff at health-care facility where woman in vegetative state gave birth
The birth has cast a harsh glare on conditions at a nonprofit organization that bills itself as a leading provider of health care for Phoenix's medically fragile.
 
     
 
 
 
 

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