Trump Organization Lied in Tweet About New Vancouver Tower: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Trump Organization called out for ‘laughable’ claim ahead of grand opening of Vancouver tower
“On the same day that demonstrators will descend on a Trump hotel in Vancouver to protest its grand opening, the Trump Organization is being called out for dubious claims it made about the tower on Twitter that some are dubbing ‘fake news.’
“The Trump Organization has now deleted a tweet composed on Monday claiming that the opening of its 69-story hotel and apartments will mark the first property to open in the city in over six years. Former Vancouver chief city planner Brent Toderian tweeted in reply that the claim is ‘so far from being true, it’s laughable.'”
2. Kevin O’Leary says he can’t be bought, sets $50,000 fundraiser minimum
“Conservative leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary says he won’t attend any high-roller fundraisers for less than $50,000 an appearance and predicts he will rake in $2-million before the votes are counted in late May.
“The Toronto businessman and reality TV star also told The Globe and Mail on Monday that he has been using private aircraft to fly to some campaign events but he is only expensing the standard price of an airline ticket.”
3. Does Stephen Miller speak for Donald Trump? Or vice versa?
“Today he has a heavy hand, along with Bannon, in crafting Trump’s policy plans and executive orders. Miller also drafts the president’s major speeches, including the one Trump will deliver to Congress on Tuesday night. When Miller goes on television to defend Trump’s words, he’s often defending his own writing. In a sense, Trump is giving voice to Miller as much as the other way around.”
+1: Germany’s Spiegel pays visit to Alex Jones’ Infowars studios – Spiegel
4. ‘Shell knew’: oil giant’s 1991 film warned of climate change danger
“The oil giant Shell issued a stark warning of the catastrophic risks of climate change more than a quarter of century ago in a prescient 1991 film that has been rediscovered.
“However, since then the company has invested heavily in highly polluting oil reserves and helped lobby against climate action, leading to accusations that Shell knew the grave risks of global warming but did not act accordingly.”
5. Amazon’s web servers are down and it’s causing trouble across the internet
“Amazon’s web hosting services are among the most widely used out there, which means that when Amazon’s servers goes down, a lot of things go down with them. That appears to be happening today, with Amazon reporting “high error rates” in one region of its S3 web services, and a number of services going offline because of it.”
