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Search results for "President Trump is traveling halfway around the world for a state visit to China"

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Donald Trump stated on October 13, 2014 in a broadcast of "Fox and Friends" on Fox News:
Says President Barack Obama’s recent New York fundraising trip "cost between $25 million and $50 million."
By Jon Greenberg• October 14, 2014
Joe Biden stated on April 05, 2020 in an ABC "This Week" interview:
"45 nations had already moved” to enforce travel restrictions with China “before the president moved.”
By Miriam Valverde• April 13, 2020
Rick Santorum stated on April 13, 2020 in on CNN:
"The president looks like he was ahead of the curve – as you know, he talks about this all the time – on shutting down travel from China."
By Jessica Calefati• April 14, 2020
Donald Trump stated on April 16, 2020 in a tweet:
Says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi deleted a video of her telling people to go to Chinatown.
By Miriam Valverde• April 16, 2020
Donald Trump stated on April 18, 2017 in a speech:
"We’ve lost 70,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization."  
By Tom Kertscher• April 19, 2017
Chris Murphy stated on May 11, 2020 in an MSNBC interview:
Says President Donald Trump implemented “a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions.”
By Bill McCarthy• May 13, 2020
Hillary Clinton stated on March 05, 2008 in an interview on CNN's <i> American Morning</i>:
"I've been standing up against ... the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights."
By Adriel Bettelheim• March 11, 2008
Facebook posts stated on April 22, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Pelosi was in (Wuhan) China 6 days after the impeachment HOAX failed.”
By Amy Sherman• April 30, 2020
Colin Kaepernick stated on October 08, 2017 in a tweet:
Says Winston Churchill said, "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
By Joshua Gillin• October 9, 2017
Jon Huntsman stated on July 26, 2011 in a speech at Dartmouth College.:
China is or soon will be "the largest English-speaking nation" in the world.
By John Gregg• August 19, 2011
Chain email stated on April 04, 2014 in a chain email:
Says Michelle Obama waved "red communist flags" on her trip to China.
By Louis Jacobson• April 4, 2014
Center for American Progress Action Fund stated on April 16, 2017 in the website IsTrumpAtMarALago.org:
"A trip to Mar-a-Lago costs taxpayers approximately $3.6 million, according to a Government Accountability Office report."
By Lauren Carroll• April 18, 2017
Eric Trump stated on May 18, 2021 in a Fox News appearance:
The Biden White House has "no one there. They don't travel. They don't go down to the border. They don't go overseas."
By Bill McCarthy• May 20, 2021
Jesse Watters stated on March 31, 2020 in comments made during an episode of "The Five" on the Fox News Channel:
“We were slow with the testing, but very quick with the travel ban. And that's been much more critical in saving lives.”
By Shefali Luthra• April 3, 2020
Donald Trump stated on April 27, 2016 in a foreign policy speech in Washington:
"When President Obama landed in Cuba on Air Force One, no leader was there, nobody, to greet him -- perhaps an incident without precedent in the long and prestigious history of Air Force One."
By Louis Jacobson• April 28, 2016
Facebook posts stated on September 24, 2022 in a Facebook post:
“President Xi of China under house arrest” amid “coup by the PLA.”
By Jeff Cercone• September 28, 2022
Michele Bachmann stated on November 03, 2010 in a CNN interview:
"The president of the United States will be taking a trip over to India that is expected to cost the taxpayers $200 million a day."
By Robert Farley• November 4, 2010
Donald Trump stated on March 26, 2020 in a Hannity show interview:
Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”
By Miriam Valverde• March 27, 2020
Kayleigh McEnany stated on September 09, 2020 in a White House press briefing:
Says President Donald Trump “never downplayed the virus.”
By Jon Greenberg• September 9, 2020
Xi Jinping stated on November 12, 2014 in a press conference in Beijing.:
"China has made enormous progress in its human rights. That is a fact recognized by all the people in the world."
By Steve Contorno• November 17, 2014

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