All the President's Lies

[Carnal_Flower]

Great Article Cataloguing Trump's Lies in the NY Times:

TRUMP'S LIES


It's got all sorts of graphs and pie charts and everything.

Many Americans have become accustomed to President Trump’s lies. But as regular as they have become, the country should not allow itself to become numb to them. So we have catalogued nearly every outright lie he has told publicly since taking the oath of office.

Some examples:

Jan. 21*“A reporter for Time magazine — and I have been on their cover 14 or 15 times. I think we have the all-time record in the history of Time magazine.” (Trump was on the cover 11 times and Nixon appeared 55 times.)

Jan. 23*“Between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused me to lose the popular vote.” (There's no evidence of illegal voting.)

Jan. 25*“Now, the audience was the biggest ever. But this crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes. This crowd was massive.” (Official aerial photos show Obama's 2009 inauguration was much more heavily attended.)

Jan. 25*“Take a look at the Pew reports (which show voter fraud.)” (The report never mentioned voter fraud.)

Jan. 25*“You had millions of people that now aren't insured anymore.” (The real number is less than 1 million, according to the Urban Institute.)

Jan. 25*“So, look, when President Obama was there two weeks ago making a speech, very nice speech. Two people were shot and killed during his speech. You can't have that.” (There were no gun homicide victims in Chicago that day.)

Feb. 6*“The failing @nytimes was forced to apologize to its subscribers for the poor reporting it did on my election win. Now they are worse!” (It didn't apologize.)

Feb. 6*“And the previous administration allowed it to happen because we shouldn't have been in Iraq, but we shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out. It created a vacuum, ISIS was formed.” (The group’s origins date to 2004.)

Feb. 7*“And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years, right? Did you know that? Forty-seven years.” (It was higher in the 1980s and '90s.)

Feb. 7*“I saved more than $600 million. I got involved in negotiation on a fighter jet, the F-35.” (The Defense Department projected this price drop before Trump took office.)

Feb. 9*“Chris Cuomo, in his interview with Sen. Blumenthal, never asked him about his long-term lie about his brave ‘service’ in Vietnam. FAKE NEWS!” (It was part of Cuomo's first question.)

Feb. 9*Sen. Richard Blumenthal “now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him?” (The Gorsuch comments were later corroborated.)

Feb. 10*“I don’t know about it. I haven’t seen it. What report is that?” (Trump knew about Flynn's actions for weeks.)

Feb. 12*“Just leaving Florida. Big crowds of enthusiastic supporters lining the road that the FAKE NEWS media refuses to mention. Very dishonest!” (The media did cover it.)

Feb. 16*“We got 306 because people came out and voted like they've never seen before so that's the way it goes. I guess it was the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan.” (George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama all won bigger margins in the Electoral College.)


To which I think we can add:

1. It's going to be a great health care plan. Everyone's going to be covered, and much cheaper.

2. I'm not going to cut Medicare or Medicaid.

3. I never said that. ("I hope you can let Flynn go")

4. Why would I ask for loyalty? I never asked for loyalty, I hardly know the guy.

 

[magicalmoments]

Don't forget:
"We're going to cancel the Paris climate change agreement."

All he has managed to do is withdraw the USA. The agreement is still going strong.