Headline Roundup • February 6th, 2017
Trump Claims Fake News
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President Trump is encouraging his 24 million Twitter followers to ignore accurate polls.
On Monday he tweeted -- inaccurately -- that "Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election."
Washington Post
It was inevitable that we would get to this point, given the two years that preceded it.
On Monday morning, President Trump began the tweetweek with a response to recent polling showing that his executive order on immigration is more unpopular than it is popular.
President Trump continued his assault on mainstream polling on Monday morning, tweeting that any poll showing his controversial immigration ban is unpopular is “fake news” and asserting his internal statistics are superior.
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