Remember back in our innocent days, when newspapers were too timid to say “Trump lied?” He was “less than truthful,” “inaccurate,” and “misrepresenting facts.”
The pundits fretted that a lie is intended to deceive; how could they know whether he really believed his falsehoods? It doesn’t matter.
He’s spreading false information, intending that others believe him. If he doesn’t believe it, he’s a con man. If he does believe it, then he’s living in an alternate reality – and isn’t that just as bad, or worse?
In the Biden-Trump debate, Trump dominated with his weaponized storytelling, flooding the zone, and baffling Biden and the rest of us with his BS.
Democrats have made Biden the whole debate story, but we need to pay attention to what happened on the left side of the divided screen where Trump showed that he is nothing but a liar and a fabulist who has no grip on reality, is devoid of factual information, and is not fit to be president.
Hours after the debate, the CNN factchecker counted 30 lies, falsehoods and misrepresented facts. That’s a ridiculous undercount. He failed to note that most of them were repeats: “We have a border that’s the most dangerous place anywhere in the world.” The tale of 18 million criminals, terrorists, rapists, murderers, drug traffickers, and the mentally ill crossing the border was told 19 times. (I count 19 lies right there.)
Lie big and stick to it.
It works. Tens of millions of people parrot the stories Trump wove from his lies during the debate and plan to vote for Trump: a reality-TV politician whose final deal (scam) is selling out America.
Trump on his term as president: “We had the greatest economy in the history of our country.” “No wars.” “The tax cuts spurred the greatest economy that we’ve ever seen.” “We had the safest border in the history of our country.” “We had no terror at all during my administration.” “I gave him a country with no inflation – it was perfect.” “I had the best environmental numbers ever.” “I have the biggest heart on the stage.” “I gave you the largest tax cut in history.” “Nobody’s ever created an economy like us. Nobody ever cut taxes like us.” And number one: “I didn’t have sex with a porn star.”
Totally false. Trump’s glorious tale of the wonder years. In Trump reality, everything he does is the greatest, the biggest, the safest, no war, no terror, no inflation – it was perfection. It just never happened.
Trump term perfect, Biden term dire. Ten times Trump said no one respects Biden or the United States. “We’re no longer respected as a country.” They don’t respect the United States anymore.” “We’re a seriously failing nation.” “We’re now laughed at, we’re like a bunch of stupid people.”
Trump says, “On January 6, we were respected all over the world.”
The CNN factchecker didn’t touch any of this “respect” BS. Did CNN not know what to call it? I call it 11 more lies.
Our country might as well be carpet-bombed for the destruction Trump described: Joe Biden is “destroying all of our medical programs.” “He is destroying Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.” “Our country is being destroyed [by immigrants].” “He’s destroyed our country.” Biden destroying the country – ten mentions – 10 more lies.
Joe Biden also “caused inflation” (4x) and had “the worst presidency in the history of our country.” (8x) “He gets paid by China. He’s a Manchurian candidate.”
As always with Trump, there was a lot of projection since Trump is Russia’s Manchurian candidate.
Trump also lied that some Democratic-led states allow babies to be executed after birth (3x), that every legal scholar and everybody in general wanted Roe v. Wade overturned (2x), that there were no terror attacks during his presidency, that Iran didn’t fund terror groups during his presidency, that the US has provided more aid to Ukraine than Europe has, that Biden for years referred to Black people as “super predators” (2x), that the J6 committee destroyed all its records, that Biden is planning to quadruple people’s taxes (2x), that he got NATO to put up hundreds of millions of dollars (2x), that then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned down 10,000 National Guard troops for the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 (2x), that Biden has the largest deficit in US history (4x), that Americans don’t pay the cost of his tariffs on China and other countries, that Europe accepts no American cars, that he got the Veterans Choice program through Congress, and that fraud marred the results of the 2020 election.
The CNN factchecker found 10 other major Trump lies I haven’t mentioned.
Trump gave the most accurate account of his own debate performance: “I’ve never seen anyone lie like this guy.” “And everything he does is a lie. It’s misinformation and disinformation.”
Instead of live fact-checking, CNN needed a really irritating buzzer for every Trump falsehood. It would have been continuous cacophony. Since no one stopped him, the carnival barker for MAGA world stepped right up and gave his spiel of specious arguments and invented tales, backed by outright lies – a 90-minute firehose of falsehoods.
Bash and Tapper repeatedly thanked him for his lying, ranting and bullying. Were they automata?
Here’s the deal: Trump lied non-stop for 45 minutes, refused to answer any questions, and attacked not just Joe Biden, but all of us. We must see this, call it out, and reject it.
Donald Trump is Not Fit to Be President.
Vote Democratic, Defeat Trump. Elect a Democratic Congress.