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applegrove

(118,615 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 07:42 PM Feb 2020

Trump's Story About Vet's Comeback Not True

Trump’s Story About Vet’s Comeback Not True

February 13, 2020 at 5:06 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 108 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/02/13/trumps-story-about-vets-comeback-not-true/

"SNIP.....

“Tony Rankins, a formerly homeless, drug-addicted Army veteran, got a standing ovation at the State of the Union after President  Trump described how he turned his life around thanks to a construction job at a company using the administration’s ‘Opportunity Zone’ tax breaks targeting poor neighborhoods,” the AP reports.

“But that’s not completely true.”

“Rankins, who indeed moved out of his car and into an apartment since landing a job refurbishing a Nashville hotel two years ago, doesn’t work at a site taking advantage of the breaks and never has done so.”

......SNIP"

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Trump's Story About Vet's Comeback Not True (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2020 OP
Someone should make an ad of Trump's 2020 SOTU speech and applegrove Feb 2020 #1
"Someone should make an ad...." Talitha Feb 2020 #5
I'd be more surprised if it were C_U_L8R Feb 2020 #2
The lies keep mounting and the Republicans just shrug their shoulders livetohike Feb 2020 #3
few people will know of this Trump lie. sad riversedge Feb 2020 #4

applegrove

(118,615 posts)
1. Someone should make an ad of Trump's 2020 SOTU speech and
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 07:45 PM
Feb 2020

all the lies that have been proven. Like the little girl already enrolled at the charter school and the above (don't put the name and likeness of the little girl in the ad). Then say "what else is he lying about in that SOTU speech" and show the health care claims.

C_U_L8R

(44,997 posts)
2. I'd be more surprised if it were
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 07:45 PM
Feb 2020

Has this clownjob ever told the truth or done an honest thing in his life??? WTF is he doing in the Oval Office??

livetohike

(22,138 posts)
3. The lies keep mounting and the Republicans just shrug their shoulders
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 07:54 PM
Feb 2020

and yawn. This all needs to end soon.

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