Comment: I wonder whether Trump's reptilian brain trust will try to retroactively brand these facts you list as 'fake news'.
They had not yet coined the cowardly 'fake news' label at that point. They have no integrity or shame, so I am sure they consider all unfavourable facts to be 'false news' because they know they are true.
Trump and gang keep running from the truth. They are not smart enough to realize that is not the road to success.