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To: longnshort who wrote (1177567)	11/13/2019 6:32:46 AM
From: sylvester80	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1574001

LYING LIAR tRump: Trump just claimed Ivanka created 14 million jobs. The entire economy only added 6 million. This whopper shows how Trump’s lies take on a life of their own. By Aaron Rupar @atrupar Nov 12, 2019, 5:00pm EST vox.com From Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential inauguration through the middle of last month, the American economy added a total of about 6 million jobs. But during a speech to the Economic Club of New York on Tuesday, he credited his daughter Ivanka with personally creating more than double that many jobs than that over the same timespan. “When she started this, two and a half years ago, her goal was 500,000 jobs,” Trump said, referring to the goal of a White House workforce policy advisory board co-chaired by Ivanka. “She’s now created 14 million jobs ... 14 million from 500,000. Fourteen million and going up.” Watch: Aaron Rupar ?@atrupar Replying to @atrupar Here's Trump absurdly claiming his daughter Ivanka has "created 14 million jobs." "14 million and going up," he adds. 945 11:39 AM - Nov 12, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 796 people are talking about this To be clear, the economy isn’t in bad shape, even if Trump’s jobs record to date lags behind Obama. While GDP growth so far this year has been unspectacular and wages are stagnant, the unemployment rate is at a 50-year low. That means that people who want to find a job can, for the most part, find a job. But there isn’t a shred of evidence that Ivanka Trump has created a single one of them, much less tens of millions — aside perhaps from the 18 people who worked for her namesake fashion brand before she shut it down in July of last year. The workforce policy board Ivanka co-chairs works with private companies to get them to offer training opportunities to workers. In a fact-check published earlier this year, the Washington Post reported that the fruit of that effort has been companies offering more than 6.5 million training opportunities to workers. That’s nothing to sneeze at — workforce development is important — but a training opportunity is not the same thing as an actual job. Trump, however, is conflating the two — and in this example, he has seemingly rubbed off on his daughter. Speaking at a White House event in October of last year, Ivanka alluded to the training opportunities created with the help of her workforce policy board and said “we’re up to 6.3 million new jobs. That represents 5 percent of the current workforce. So it’s really remarkable.” Again, however, a training opportunity is not a job. RELATED The viral video of Ivanka Trump at the G20 perfectly captures the problem with nepotism Not only is Trump’s claim about Ivanka and job creation totally absurd, but it also illustrates how some of Trump’s lies grow more outlandish over time as he gradually embellishes them. During a White House event in February of this year, Trump claimed that Ivanka “ has created millions of jobs.” That claim was obviously false and prompted the aforementioned Washington Post fact-check. By July, however, Trump added a veneer of specificity to his fib by saying Ivanka “ has worked on almost 10 million jobs.” Now, on Trump’s third telling, not only has Ivanka “worked on” jobs, but the number she’s supposedly directly created has been jacked up all the way to 14 million. This sort of lie escalation is commonplace for Trump. In fact, a similar dynamic was on display during another part of his speech in New York on Tuesday when he bragged about how tariffs are hurting the Chinese economy. Daniel Dale ?@ddale8 Replying to @ddale8 Trump says China, which has reported its lowest GDP growth in 27 years, is having its worst year is "more than 57 years." He'd been consistently saying "57" for a while after starting with the correct figure and then going all the way up to "61." 154 10:54 AM - Nov 12, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 56 people are talking about this To cite another example, last month I detailed how it took Trump mere weeks to go from claiming America “was very low on ammunition” when he took office to escalating things and saying even more absurdly that “when I took over our military, we did not have ammunition.” And this week, Trump claimed on Twitter that his election-eve rally in Kentucky helped “lift the poll numbers of Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin by 19 points” — a false claim even more outlandish than the one he initially made last week, when he tried to take credit for Bevin not losing by more than he did by claiming that because of his rally Bevin “picked up at least 15 points in [the] last day.” (The last poll conducted before the Kentucky election actually showed Bevin ahead by 5 points.) Of course, it’s not exactly breaking news that Trump’s truth barometer is broken beyond repair. As of August, he had made more than 12,000 false or misleading claims over the course of his presidency. Yesterday, I wrote about how he’s willing to lie even in situations where the most cursory examination of what he’s saying proves that he’s fibbing. But Trump’s lie about Ivanka creating more jobs than have been added to the entire American economy since he took office shows how he just can’t help himself. He builds on his lies until what he’s saying becomes so untethered from reality that it’s impossible to take seriously. The dynamic would be comical if Trump wasn’t supposed to be the leader of the free world.

To: longnshort who wrote (1177567)	11/13/2019 6:34:14 AM
From: sylvester80	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Respond to of 1574001

OOPS! Supreme Court lets Sandy Hook families sue gun maker Remington Arms; The lawsuit could send a message to the gun industry. By German Lopez @germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Nov 12, 2019, 1:50pm EST vox.com The US Capitol lawn is covered with thousands of pairs of empty shoes to memorialize the children killed by gun violence since the Sandy Hook school shooting, in a display organized by the global advocacy group Avaaz in 2018. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear an appeal on a lawsuit against a major gun manufacturer, effectively allowing the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, to sue firearms maker Remington Arms. Remington appealed the Connecticut Supreme Court’s decision in March to let the lawsuit proceed, but the US Supreme Court declined to hear the motion. The federal justices didn’t offer any explanation for their decision, Bill Chappell reported for NPR. The families argue that Remington violated Connecticut law when it “knowingly marketed and promoted the Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle for use in assaults against human beings.” They argue that the AR-15–style rifle, which a shooter used to kill 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, was marketed to emphasize its capabilities in war and even to promote its use by a lone gunman. As one ad put it: “Forces of opposition, bow down. You are single-handedly outnumbered.” The 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) gives gun makers and dealers sweeping legal protections from lawsuits. The law was supported by the National Rifle Association and other gun rights advocates to prevent lawsuits that, they feared, could help cripple the firearms industry. Prior to this legislation, lawsuits against the gun industry had generally failed — but the industry was worried one would eventually break through, and expose industry secrets that could make manufacturers and sellers look bad, including connections to illegal trafficking. Since the law passed, it has been repeatedly cited by courts to dismiss litigation against the gun industry. But the families behind the lawsuit pointed to exceptions to legal protections in the PLCAA, including for gun makers and dealers that violate state marketing laws. The families argued their lawsuit fell within the exceptions, so they could sue Remington for what they described as irresponsible marketing. A lower court in Connecticut wasn’t persuaded, originally dismissing the lawsuit. But the state Supreme Court ruled the exceptions in the PLCAA were enough to let the lawsuit continue. Remington argued the Connecticut Supreme Court interpreted the exceptions too broadly, and appealed its case to the US Supreme Court. Now that the appeal has failed, the lawsuit will proceed in the lower courts. The suit is meant to hold the gun industry accountable, and send a message that may encourage a few more checks, on the manufacturers’ or sellers’ part, to marketing and selling firearms. More broadly, gun control advocates have pushed to ban assault weapons. The research suggests such a ban would not have a significant impact on overall gun violence, because most US gun violence is carried out with handguns, but experts say that such a ban may reduce the overall deadliness of mass shootings, like the one in Sandy Hook. With Congress unlikely to pass an assault weapons ban anytime soon, some victims of mass shootings are turning to litigation against the companies who made the weapons.

To: longnshort who wrote (1177567)	11/13/2019 6:46:34 AM
From: pocotrader	Respond to of 1574001

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