President Donald Trump turned a Philadelphia fourth grader into a poster child for the school-choice movement Tuesday when he told the nation that thousands of students were “trapped in failing government schools" and announced that the girl was at last getting a scholarship to attend the school of her choice.

But Janiyah Davis already attends one of the city’s most sought-after charter schools, The Inquirer has learned. In September, months before she was an honored guest at Trump’s State of the Union address, she entered Math, Science and Technology Community Charter School III.

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Davis, who along with Janiyah flew home to Philadelphia on Air Force Two this week, said she supports Trump’s push for school choice, but is “not sure” about the rest of the president’s positions.

For Janiyah, the speech was “a wonderful experience," Davis said. She said her daughter has been “nonchalant about it. … I know she’s happy. I still feel like she’s trying to process it all.”.

The Hoarse Whisperer
@HoarseWisperer
If only there was a room in the White House where she was able to speak to the press.

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Acyn Torabi
@Acyn
Stephanie Grisham claims all the Sunday news shows refused to have White House officials on. She adds Fox News also cancelled her upcoming Sunday appearance

D onald Trump Jr.
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@DonaldJTrumpJr
Allow me a moment to thank—and this may be a bit of a surprise—Adam Schiff. Were it not for his crack investigation skills, @realDonaldTrump might have had a tougher time unearthing who all needed to be fired. Thanks, Adam! 🤣

Vince Olson , Councilman , Big Water , Utah
@SteelToeTruth
Wanna hear something completely " suspicious " ?
I'm at the County Clerks
Office to check on my voter's registration .

Guess who's ... " inactive " ?

" Yeeeah , we sent
you a notice , it came
back undeliverable " .

I'm the
DEMOCRATIC
PARTY
CHAIRMAN !

How " convenient " .

1/ One of Trump's favorite tactics is taking credit for Obama's economy. Democrats need to stop letting him get away with it.

A quick thread debunking some of his favorite lies ⬇️
2/ Job Creation

Obama created 227K jobs a month in his last three years in office. In Trump's first three years, it's only been 191K per month.

Job creation numbers were 20% higher under Obama during that three-year span.
3/ Deficits

Trump DOUBLED the budget deficit, creating over $3 trillion in new debt.

Where did all this money go? Mostly to tax cuts for corporations and rich people. But instead of boosting the economy, business investment has actually fallen since the tax law passed.
4/ Wages

Real wages aka what you can buy for the amount of money you take home, are actually doing worse under Trump.

They increased just 0.8% since Trump took office, compared with 1.3 percent over a similar period under Obama.
5/ Trade War

Trump's self-inflicted trade war contributed to outright job declines last year in states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Indiana and New York.

Overall, the trade war with China cost America 450,000 jobs in 2019.
6/ Obama inherited the worst financial crisis since the great depression and pulled America out of it.

Trump was handed a healthy economy and has made things harder for working families while juicing corporate profits.

Don't let his lies try to tell you otherwise.

Shades of humility, shades of dignity, and, well, shades of humanity, looking Presidential. It was a master class yesterday in the difference between humility and hubris, between class and someone who is classless.”

Don Winslow
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@donwinslow
I have multiple sources inside the Justice Department that tell me when Barr became Attorney General he shut down *six* separate investigations into Trump and Trump related companies and surrogates.

I'm told Barr has also prevented *two new* investigations from moving forward. https://twitter.com/brhodes/status/1225575893424312324

GREENVILLE, S.C. – At least two Republican groups in South Carolina are organizing efforts to skew South Carolina's Democratic presidential primary to make a point and to help reelect President Donald Trump.


They are urging loyal Republicans to vote in the Democratic primary Feb. 29 for candidates perceived to be weak in opposition to Trump – for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont in one case and for "the worst Democrat" in another, dubbed "Operation Chaos."

Since South Carolina has open primaries where voters do not have to register by political party, voters can cast ballots in either race.

Senator Rick Scott (R., Fla.) on Thursday announced he would introduce a constitutional amendment to raise the House voting threshold to approve articles of impeachment to three-fifths of the chamber, instead of a simple majority.

“An act as divisive as impeachment must have bipartisan backing and overwhelming support,” Scott said in a statement. “It should be harder — much harder — for either political party to take the process our Founders created as a last resort against a tyrannical leader and use it instead as a tool for the tyranny of the political majority.”

Scott’s proposal comes a day after President Trump was acquitted on two articles of impeachment in a Senate trial. The House vote to approve the articles fell almost completely along party lines, with one Democrat voting against, while Mitt Romney (R., Utah) was the only senator to break ranks with his party and vote to convict the president.