WASHINGTON — Citizens, here is a little true-false news quiz to see if you have been paying attention. Good luck.
1. True or false. A Chinese national with four cell phones, two passports, a computer, a hard drive and a thumb drive with malware was admitted to the president’s Florida home Mar-a-Lago — while he played golf nearby. She said she wanted to use the pool although she had not paid the $200,000 membership fee and had no swimsuit.
2. True or false. The Secret Service assumed the Chinese woman was related to a friend of Donald with connections to top Chinese communists. That friend once owned a massage parlor recently involved in alleged prostitution. She also has sold access to Trump to Chinese nationals.
3. True or false. Twenty-five people hired to work in the Trump White House did not pass national security clearance requirements for such reasons as large debt, foreign entanglements or blackmail potential. They were given access to classified information anyway because the president liked them.
4. True or false. The president of the United States believes the “oranges” of the Mueller investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election were disastrous, treasonous and should be investigated.
5. True or false. The Department of Justice and the president concluded the Mueller report, which cost taxpayers millions of dollars, cleared the president of doing anything illegal but should not be public. They don’t even want Congress to see it in entirety although members are entitled to classified information.
6. True or false. Trump agrees his recently considered plan to close the border with Mexico would cause economic chaos. But it would be worth it to keep out immigrants from Mar-a-Lago although the “Winter White House” has hired many immigrants.
7. True or false. Trump’s own people said closing the border would cost $1 billion a day. Every U.S. car company uses Mexican parts. A million people legally cross the border daily.
8. True or false. Trump says the government will fight in court to kill the highly popular Affordable Care Act. He will let us know what will replace coverage for pre-existing health conditions and young adults after he has won re-election in 2020.
9. True or false. The president of the United States surreptitiously moved a golf opponent’s ball to his own advantage but, in remarkable display of courage, his caddy told the other player.
10. True or false. Trump, who boasted of kissing attractive women he’d just met and grabbing them by the crotch and who has been accused by at least 19 women of sexual misconduct, is publicly mocking former vice president Joe Biden for his penchant for hugging and inappropriate touchy-feeliness.
11. True or false. The White House supervisor of a career security employee with a disability in the form of dwarfism purposefully moved supplies and files to higher shelves she could not reach.
12. True or false. Trump again said his father was born in Germany although he also has claimed his father was born in Sweden. The elder Trump was born in the Bronx.
13. True or false. Trump wrongly claimed wind farms cause cancer.
Sorry. This was a trick quiz. The answer in every case is “true.”
Ann McFeatters is an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service. Readers may send her email at amcfeatters@nationalpress.com.
