Comments by "maynunal" (@maynunal) on "Pence reacts to Pelosi's 'new low' at the State of the Union" video.
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The Trump Lie On The whistleblowers disappearing
"There was supposed to be a second whistleblower. What happened to him?... There was supposed to be an informer. What happened to the informer? All of these people disappeared. And when they saw this transcript, they said, 'We got problems.' But they went ahead because they were already there. After all, they -- they had a phony, concocted story made up." -- January 22 press conference in Davos, Switzerland
"...the second Whistleblower (who vanished after I released the Transcripts)..." -- January 23 tweet
Facts First: There is no evidence that either the second whistleblower or a source for the first whistleblower, whom Trump calls "the informer," have "disappeared," much less that they said "we got problems" when Trump released the rough transcript of the July call with Zelensky. The second whistleblower's lawyers had always said that this person -- who was revealed after Trump released the rough transcript -- never planned to file a separate whistleblower complaint, merely to offer corroborating information in private.
"The whistleblowers have not vanished," Bradley Moss, a colleague of Mark Zaid, a lawyer for the two whistleblowers, said on Twitter in October when Trump made another version of this claim.
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Β @USMC-es4yyΒ The Trump Lie On The whistleblowers disappearing
"There was supposed to be a second whistleblower. What happened to him?... There was supposed to be an informer. What happened to the informer? All of these people disappeared. And when they saw this transcript, they said, 'We got problems.' But they went ahead because they were already there. After all, they -- they had a phony, concocted story made up." -- January 22 press conference in Davos, Switzerland
"...the second Whistleblower (who vanished after I released the Transcripts)..." -- January 23 tweet
Facts First: There is no evidence that either the second whistleblower or a source for the first whistleblower, whom Trump calls "the informer," have "disappeared," much less that they said "we got problems" when Trump released the rough transcript of the July call with Zelensky. The second whistleblower's lawyers had always said that this person -- who was revealed after Trump released the rough transcript -- never planned to file a separate whistleblower complaint, merely to offer corroborating information in private.
"The whistleblowers have not vanished," Bradley Moss, a colleague of Mark Zaid, a lawyer for the two whistleblowers, said on Twitter in October when Trump made another version of this claim.
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The Trump Lie On Highway approval time
Trump claimed that highways used to take "21 years to get approved," but "we have that down to two years now. And we think we'll have it down to one year." -- January 24 speech to mayors
Facts First: There is no apparent basis for Trump's claim that it now takes just two years to get environmental approvals for highways. According to the Federal Highway Administration's National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) page, the department's median environmental impact statement completion time was 47 months in 2018, up from 46 months in 2017 and 44 months in 2016.
At a Trump event earlier in January, Council on Environmental Quality chairwoman Mary Neumayr said, "The Council on Environmental Quality has found that the average time for federal agencies to complete Environmental Impact Statements is four and half years. Further, for highway projects, it takes over seven years on average."
Brad Karkkainen, a University of Minnesota law professor and expert on environmental and land use law, said in an email that he has "never heard of a highway project taking 18 or 20 years, though it's certainly possible that when the median time was six or seven years, a few projects took twice as long, perhaps more." He said some projects can "sail through" much faster than the median time, "but to suggest as Trump does that the typical time has gone from 17+ years to two years is just nonsense."
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