Snopes has suddenly become busy because of Trump

[gotsnowgotslush]

August 9, 2016

Trump is benefitting from clear, outright lies and fabrications.
Lies that are easily traced and disproven.

Smears using falsified documents, and reconstructed videos.

No, there is no proof of an invitation sent to Seddique Matteen (father of the man that killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.)

WPTV television grabbed a shot of Seddique Mateens sitting with a crowd, behind Hillary Clinton.

NPR has a statement from a Hilllary Clinton spokes person, that he was not invited.

Trump activists made a video that misquoted Hillary Clinton.

They walked it back.

A troll falsified Hillary's health records.

They used a photograph of Hillary Clinton, after she slipped on a stairway to imply she was in ill health.


Sadly, even The Hill site is creating false impressions. I thought they were better than that.



They tweeted a photograph from April 19, 2016 to illustrate the Clinton rally on August 8, 2016 in St. Petersburg, Florida

They did not intend to give the false impression that she was not popular in
Florida, did they ?

http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/09/politics-sites-mismatched-clinton-rally-image-goes-viral/


http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/09/hillary-clinton-invited-orlando-shooters-father-to-florida-rally/

How lucky Trump is! His statements are so off the wall, no one can really say for certain what he meant.

No one can tell he is he is joking or not.

Conveniently, his statements use Republican dog whistles, so the more extreme branches of the Republican party have the option of imagining that they have heard what they wanted to hear.

Sadly, since he does not make statements that are clear, concise, and easily interpreted, journalists are left with no clear answers.

Plausible deniability ?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

August 12, 2016

Trump Mocks Media for Believing He Actually Means the Words He Says


Trump mocked the media for believing him when he swears he’s telling the truth.


"Trump has attacked the press for a lot of things over the past 14 months. But this is the first time he’s assailed the Fourth Estate for giving him too much credence when he insists that he’s being honest."

March 17, 2016

Donald Trump likes to read "The Snake" at his rallies. The author's family wants him to stop


Trump read the song lyrics at his rally Sunday in Bloomington, Ill., just after the part of his campaign speech where he alluded to the threat of Islam and his thoughts on terrorism. The song, he said, prepping his audience, "represents terrorism."

Oscar Brown Jr.'s grandson, Sidakarav Dasa, first noticed Trump's use of "The Snake" in January and posted a long objection on his Facebook page. An excerpt:

"I see you liked 'The Snake,' a poem and song written by my revolutionary grandfather, the late, great 'Grandpap of Rap,' Oscar Brown Jr. (who was recently honored by having a street named after him on Chicago's South Side, where he lived). It would have been nice if you credited him for his work, but I can see how telling your crowd that you were quoting a man who resigned from the Communist Party in 1956, declaring himself 'just too black to be red,' might be problematic."


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...cago-poem-perspec-0314-jm-20160316-story.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...a-for-thinking-he-means-anything-he-says.html

“I’m not even sure he knows he’s lying — I think he just doesn’t care about what the truth is.”

- John Oliver
Last Week Tonight


"Trump has been recorded on video, on multiple occasions, saying he met Vladimir Putin, including one meeting that couldn’t possibly have taken place. Now that their ostensibly close relationship has proven to be a political liability, he is denying, also on video, that they ever met."


Never Happened


The ironclad laws of space and time pose a major challenge to Trump’s 60 Minutes story. As Time explained, 60 Minutes doesn’t have a green room, and, more important, Trump and Putin “weren’t even on the same continent” at the time: “Trump was interviewed by CBS’s Scott Pelley in his New York City penthouse for the season premiere of the hour-long docu-series, while Charlie Rose travelled to Moscow to interview Vladimir Putin.”

"The Trump and Putin meeting in Moscow never happened.”


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...abricating-interaction-with-other-people.html

Svitlana Olifira, a spokeswoman for Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau, confirmed that documents were recovered, but cautioned that the probe was in early stages.



Serhiy Leshchenko, a Ukrainian lawmaker, said he believes that the ledger correctly reflected the funneling of what he called "corrupt money."

"I'm convinced that this information is accurate and (that these) documents are genuine, because all this content can be confirmed by historical events, evidence and statements by other public figures who are on the list," Leshchenko said.



http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...rump-manafort-russia-ties-20160815-story.html


August 13, 2016

In addition to Russia’s military buildup, it has been conducting provocative military exercises in the region, with more planned near the Ukrainian border and inside Crimea next week. The BBC reports that it has now delivered advanced air-defense missile systems to Crimea as well. Those missiles are designed to hit airborne targets from as far away as 249 miles, which means they could reach deep into Ukrainian territory.

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article95488232.html

He's almost like someone with an addiction who can't stop," Fagen said. "Until he gets help and admits it, he won't be able to change."

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/08/15/wsj-warns-trump-serious-nomination-pence.html


https://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/wa...e-nomination-over-to-pence-if-he-cant-behave/


gsgs comment-

Putting out the fire, with gasoline ?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

UK newspaper aids the search for the facts


Lyin' Trump: a weekly fact-check


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/lyin-trump-a-weekly-fact-check

They do not spare Hillary Clinton.

They take whacks at her, too.

owww

 

[underguy1]

UK newspaper aids the search for the facts


Lyin' Trump: a weekly fact-check


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/lyin-trump-a-weekly-fact-check

They do not spare Hillary Clinton.

They take whacks at her, too.

owww

LOLz. The Grauniad has been pumping for Clinton for at least 2 years.

The sycophancy has been sickening.