If you were my friend and you told me 5.5 lies a day I would categorize you sort of like people who walk down the street talking to themselves. I might feel sorry for you but I wouldn't believe ANYTHING you ever said again. I think Americans are pretty much in the same place with Trump now. He is the "King of Tall stories". He is on his way to 1999 false claims by the end of his first year in office.
The Tax Cut is one of his biggest lies so far which actually steals money from the poor and middle Class if you take it out 10 years and gives tax breaks only to millionaires and billionaires. Today all Catholic Bishops came out against the tax bill because it will seriously harm the poor and Middle Class all over America. The tax cut will result in thousands of deaths by eliminating the Mandate which will completely cut off insurance for pre-existing conditions throughout the U.S. They will just lose their insurance and die within a year without health insurance for example. So, the tax bill is the murder of thousands and just stealing from the middle Class and poor and that's all. If you don't believe me actually read the bill yourselves. IF reading the actual bill doesn't sober you up about the harm even to Medicare and Social Security benefits I don't know what will.
begin quote from:
Donald Trump says something that isn't true 5.5 times a day. Every day ...
www.cnn.com/2017/11/14/politics/trump-fact-checker-1628/index.html
Nov 14, 2017 - Washington (CNN) Alternative facts. Lies. Distortions. Exaggerations. Misstatements. Half truths. Call it what you want, but there's one indisputable fact: Donald Trump
does a stunning amount of it. According to a count maintained by The
Washington Post's Fact Checker and updated Tuesday morning, ...
Trump lies 5.5 times a day, on average - Mashable
mashable.com/2017/11/14/trump-lies-falsehoods-washington-post-tracker/
Nov 14, 2017 - President Donald Trump
is quick to use the term "fake news," but in reality a lot of what he
himself says is as fake, misleading, and inaccurate as it comes. He even
tried to claim he came up with the term "fake news." Add that to
growing list of falsehoods. The Washington Post has been tracking Trump's lies ...
President Trump has made 1,628 false or misleading claims over 298 ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../president-trump-has-made-1628-false-or-misleading...
Nov 14, 2017 - Well, the numbers are in and now we know why: In the past 35 days, Trump has averaged an astonishing nine claims a day. The total now stands at 1,628 claims in 298 days, or an average of 5.5 claims a day. That puts the president on track to reach 1,999 claims by the end of his first year in office, though ...
Donald Trump says something that isn't true 5.5 times a day. Every day.
Washington (CNN)Alternative facts. Lies. Distortions. Exaggerations. Misstatements. Half truths.
Call it what you want, but there's one indisputable fact: Donald Trump does a stunning amount of it.
According to a count maintained by The Washington Post's Fact Checker and updated Tuesday morning, Trump has now made 1,628 false or misleading claims in his 298 days in office. That's an average of 5.5 a day. Five and a half misleading or outright false statements for each day -- including weekends! -- that Trump has been president.
By
the Fact-Checker's estimates, Trump -- if he keeps up his current pace
-- will blow past 2,000 misstatements and/or untruths in his first year
in office.
Stop. Go back and read that last sentence. Then read it again.
The
President of the United States has misled or lied more than 1,600 times
since January 20. That's so important I am going to repeat it -- and
underline it: The president of the United States has misled or lied more than 1,600 times since January 20.
There are consequences to that remarkable record of misleading. And they are already being realized in our culture.
Trump,
through his rhetoric and his conduct, has redefined "truth." Truth,
now, lies in the eye of the beholder. There is no agreement on settled
facts. Everything is seen through the lens of "fake news."
Take the ongoing Roy Moore situation in the Alabama Senate race.
Five days ago, The Washington Post wrote a story in which four women accused Moore,
the GOP nominee and a two-time former state Supreme Court chief
justice, of pursuing sexual relationships with them when he was in his
30s and they were between 14 and 18 years old. On Monday, a fifth woman,
named Beverly Young Nelson, went public -- this time alleging that Moore sexually assaulted her when she was 16.
Moore
has totally denied all of the accusations and insisted the entire thing
is the product of some sort of broad-scale conspiracy involving
Democrats, the media and establishment Republican types like Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
"Fake news," Moore insisted -- and lots and lots of people believe him.
The
facts, however, are as follows: None of the five women knew one
another. None of them contacted The Washington Post to tell their story.
All of them have gone on the record and allowed their names to be
released to the public. The Post spoke to more than two dozen
corroborating witnesses who knew Moore when he was serving as a district
attorney between 1977 to 1982 -- when these alleged episodes occurred.
At least two of the women voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
Nelson showed a 1977 high school yearbook in which Moore had written an
inscription calling her "beautiful" and signing it "Love, Roy Moore
D.A."
When you compare these facts to Moore's denials, it's not a close call. The facts far outnumber Moore's insistence that this is all one big Democratic-media conspiracy.
None of that is a partisan statement. Facts are not partisan. They are just facts.
Unfortunately,
we as a country can't agree on the facts anymore. Fact and opinion have
become conflated. Lots of people confuse the two -- or have no clue
where one ends and the other begins. It feels like New York Sen. Daniel
Patrick Moynihan's famous dictum -- "You are entitled to your opinion.
But you are not entitled to your own facts" -- comes from another time.
Hell, it feels like it came from another universe.
Not
all of this lies at the feet of Donald Trump. But the President sets
the tone. And this President has -- from the moment he announced his
presidential bid in June 2015 -- shown a total lack of concern for
facts. Not only that, he has flaunted his lack of adherence to
established facts as a sort of badge of honor -- a symbol of his lack of
commitment to politics as usual.
Telling
the truth isn't politics as usual, however. It's just plain decency.
And Trump violates that, on average, 5.5 times a day. Every day.
No comments:
Post a Comment