Individual-1 had a poor celebrity turnout at a Beverly Hills fundraiser, but managed to visit his golf club in LA and stayed at his hotel in Las Vegas last night. Today it’s a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition with a Daniel Dale tweet thread below.
Date: April 6, 2019 at 12:46:01 AM EDT
Subject: WH travel pool report #23
The pool is back in the Ospreys departing Trump National Los Angeles.
We were loaded before the president emerge from the club and therefore, did not see him board Marine One.
The president’s dinner at the golf club was not opened to the press at any point. The only additional guidance the pool received was that it was not a fundraiser. (Not to be confused with the earlier dinner in Beverly Hills, which was a fundraiser)
https://t.co/DVQeHllab2
BEVERLY HILLS, California—Late Friday afternoon, Donald Trump landed in Los Angeles for a re-election fundraiser. The event was organized by Trump Victory, a fundraising partnership between the Republican National Convention and Trump’s campaign, and aimed to raise an estimated $5 million for the party. It was the president’s third visit to the celebrity-hub city and, by all accounts, not a star-studded one.
“Celebrities? No celebrities,” Rabbi Marvin Hier said of the event. Hier is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and gave the prayer at Trump’s inauguration. Multiple valets in royal blue jackets, who declined to give their names because of their job, echoed his sentiment.
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Even Rabbi Hier and his wife, Marlene, who spoke with The Daily Beast while leaving the fundraiser in a golf cart, could not agree on crowd size.
“Hundreds of people came,” Hier said. “Probably 400 people.”
“200,” Marlene corrected.
“No, 200 couples,” he said.
“Don’t quote him on that. It wasn’t 400.”
According to the Washington Post, 170 people attended the event at Lee Samson’s home.
www.thedailybeast.com/...
Speaking to the American Republican Jewish Coalition, Trump refers to Bibi Netanyahu as "your prime minister"
- Trump thanks various Republicans, then mockingly thanks Rep. Ilhan Omar, saying he "forgot" that "she doesn't like Israel." "I apologize," he says.
- Trump says of his advisor Jason Greenblatt and "a young man named Jared Kushner": "Peace in the Middle East. If they can't do it, nobody can."
- For at least the sixth time, Trump lies that Michelle Obama unsuccessfully campaigned for Stacey Abrams in Georgia. She did not in any way.
- Trump is again attempting to argue that his party actually did well in the midterms, even though you don't hear this from the "fake news." He says again that he just didn't have time to campaign much for Republican House candidates.
- Trump to Jews: "How the hell did you support President Obama? How did you do it? How'd you do it?" People in the room remind him that they didn't, since they are the Republican Jewish Coalition. He says, "You guys didn't, that's right."
- Trump falsely says that this is the lowest unemployment rate in "more than 50 years." If you ignore earlier periods of this presidency, it's the lowest since 2000. Trump does a lot of this: discarding excellent true numbers in favour of bigger false numbers.
- Trump is complaining about legislators who oppose his use of tariffs. He says, "Maybe you could explain that to some of your people, that say (mocking voice) 'oh we don't like tariffs.'"
- Trump falsely says that the U.S. has "lost" $800 billion per year on trade for "many years." Even if you ignore his use of "lost" to describe trade deficits, there hasn't been an $800 billion trade deficit if you count both goods and services trade.
- Trump says the U.S. is "now" the #1 producer of oil and natural gas. "Can you believe that? Two years." The Energy Information Administration said in 2017 that 2016 was the fifth straight year the U.S. had been the "world's top producer of petroleum and natural gas hydrocarbons."
- Trump boasts of his judicial appointments, including Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, then says,"Don't let the Democrats take it away from us. They'll take it all away. They'll take it all away. Including the judges."
- Trump falsely says Obama and Bush "forgot to mention" to NATO allies that they need to increase their military spending. As Canada and other allies can tell you, they did not forget to hector allies about this.
- Trump says that NATO will get $100 billion more "this year" because of his efforts. On his visit this week, NATO's secretary general said it'd be a $100 billion total increase, since Trump took office, by 2020. Trump rejected this, saying he thinks it's going to be this year.
- "Don't forget, I have a very good relationship with Kim Jong Un," Trump boasts. He says he "can't tell you what's going to happen," since he had to walk from the last proposed deal, but "we have a great relationship." He adds, "Relationship is very important."
- Trump tells a "sir" story in which a "previous general" told him, sir, it'd take two years to eradicate ISIS's caliphate but then he went to Iraq and different generals, including "Raisin Caine," said it'd take a mere one week, which was true.
- Trump touts his withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal ("they wanted to kill Israel") and his move of the embassy to Jerusalem ("unlike other presidents, I keep my promises").
- Trump is telling the story about how kings, queens, presidents and prime ministers called him to lobby against moving the embassy but he refused to take the calls, then called them back purposely late, asked what they wanted and said, "Wish I would've known! I did it yesterday."
- Trump predicts that it'll be a close election in Israel. When the crowd predicts Netanyahu will win, Trump says, "Two good people. Two good people."
- Trump on what he said to learn about the history of the Golan Heights: "Fellas do me a favor. Give me a little history, quick, I want to go fast, I gotta lotta things I'm working on. China, North Korea. Give me a quickie."
- Trump on the importance of the Golan Heights to Israel: "Never fight uphill. A lot of battles are lost with these generals, want to fight uphill. Right? You need the height."
- Trump says his ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is very strong and ambitious, but when Trump asked what he thought of recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan, Friedman was "like a wonderful, beautiful, baby," saying, "You would DO that, sir?"
- Trump to the Republican Jewish Coalition: "Some of you won't like this, maybe, but I would love to see peace in the Middle East."
- Trump: "Democrats are advancing the most extreme partisan agenda, by far, in American history. You see what's happening."
- Trump says the Green New Deal was proposed by a "wonderful young bartender, 29 years old. 29. No, I like her. She's 29 years old."
- Trump continues to invent imaginary provisions of the Green New Deal, saying people would have to take "trains to Europe, Hawaii and Australia" and would be limited to "one car."
- For the 60somethingth time, Trump lies that Democrats want "open borders."
- Trump repeats his usual conspiracy-lie about the green card lottery, falsely suggesting foreign governments dump their bad apples into it. "Do you think they're putting their finest? Do you think they're putting their great people there? No."
- Trump again mocks people who request asylum in the US, saying they look like UFC fighters even though they claim to be afraid. "Oh, give him asylum. He's afraaaid! He's afraaaid! We don't love the fact that he's got tattoos on his face. That's not a good sign."
- "We will have hundreds of miles (of wall) before the end of next year," Trump promises.
- Trump: "Walls build good neighbors. Right?"
- Trump mocks "stupid people" critics who said that the aid he is denying to Latin American countries was going to good use. No it's not, he said, it's "largely stolen." (I can't immediately fact-check this one.)
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- Trump calls the movement to boycott and sanction Israel antisemitic, saying "Republicans believe that we must never ignore the vile poison of antisemitism."
- Trump applauds Timothy Matson, police hero of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre, saying he visited Matson in the hospital and he was very muscular. "He is a massive guy. I looked at the chest, and it's muscle. Thank God you're massive and thank God you had a lot of muscle."
- Trump: "The Republican Party is the party for all Americans. It will be the party for great health care. You watch."
- Trump says that people keep talking about the spirit among Democrats, but Republicans have more spirit by far. "We may express it somewhat differently. And that's okay."