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So, the Biggest LIE of the year is that Trump and Russia is a made up story. That has not been proven yet in court but it has been proven in the hearts and minds of reasonable people worldwide already. Just repeating a LIE over and over again does not make it true. It just makes most of the people of the world Know our PRESIDENT ENJOYS telling lies (or it means he isn't sane the way most people consider what sanity is worldwide.) And this is the "MADNESS OF KING DONALD TRUMP" in action to America and to the world.
It's difficult when the President is the BIGGEST LIAR on earth in the news, isn't it?
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Opinion: Trump gets the honor he deserves
Trump finally gets the honor he deserves
Dean Obeidallah, a former attorney, is the host of SiriusXM radio's daily program "The Dean Obeidallah Show" and a columnist for The Daily Beast. Follow him @deanofcomedy. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his.
(CNN)Donald Trump is right -- he doesn't always get the credit he deserves. And Trump isn't bashful about making that point.
In November while on Fox News -- his seemingly go-to network for daily "intelligence briefings" -- he complained
to host Laura Ingraham that despite leading "one of the greatest"
economic revivals in "the history of our country," he was "not getting
enough credit for it."
And
Trump made that very point yet again a few days ago with his tweet:
"... So many things accomplished by the Trump Administration, perhaps
more than any other President in first year. Sadly, will never be
reported correctly by the Fake News. Media!"
Finally, it looks like
things are changing. The non-partisan PolitiFact.com -- the Pulitzer
Prize-winning fact-checking media outlet -- recently announced its
signature annual award.
After reviewing scores of statements made by politicians this year, it has declared that the big winner of "Lie of the Year"
for 2017 goes to one told by (cue the drum roll and prepare the
confetti) Donald J. Trump! That has to bring some joy for Trump as he
spends time this week at his exclusive, for-profit country club
Mar-a-Largo -- or as he has nicknamed it the "Winter White House."
You
might be asking which Trump lie did PolitiFact choose, considering
Trump has served up more "whoppers" than Burger King. Well, it goes back
to May 2017 when Trump told NBC's Lester Holt that, "This Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story."
As PolitiFact notes, Trump told different versions of that lie several times in 2017, such as in September when he tweeted, "The Russia hoax continues."
But it was his comment in May that earned Trump this "honor."
Although
there hasn't been any evidence that points to direct collusion between
Trump and Russians, there is no denying that the Russians interfered in
the presidential election. Still, the President continues to do just
that -- despite evidence of Russian meddling. As PolitiFact pointed
out, "Trump could acknowledge the interference happened while still
standing by the legitimacy of his election and his presidency -- but he
declines to do so. Sometimes he'll state firmly there was "no collusion"
between his campaign and Russia, an implicit admission that Russia did
act in some capacity. Then he reverts back to denying the interference
even happened."
I wish Trump would
give a speech accepting this award. I could see him thanking himself for
being one the greatest fabricators ever. Trump would then slam the
"haters and losers" and of course those in the "fake news" who doubted
he would ever win such an honor.
But
simply recognizing Trump for this one lie is unfair to all the others
he told in 2017. So let's take a quick stroll down Trump "Pants on Fire"
lane, courtesy of PolitiFact, to look back at some of the other tall
tales he gave us.
Trump slams Russia dossier as 'bogus' 02:44
There were Trump's lies about policy. For example, in September while stumping to build support for tax cuts, Trump declared
that ending the estate tax would "protect millions of small businesses
and the American farmer." In reality, this tax at the time only applied
to estates worth over $5.49 million for individuals or $10.98 million
dollars if a married couple. Add to that, this tax was paid by a total
of 5,460 estates in 2017. Thus, Trump's claim that millions of small
businesses and farmers would benefit was a big, fat lie.
Trump
also lied when attacking his political opponents. In July, Trump took
to Twitter to go after Amazon because its founder, Jeff Bezos, is also
the owner of The Washington Post which has dared to criticize the
President. In a possible effort to spark a congressional inquiry into
the company, Trump tweeted, "Is Fake News Washington Post being used as a
lobbyist weapon against Congress to keep Politicians from looking into
Amazon no-tax monopoly?"
In reality, Amazon
is neither a monopoly nor a company that doesn't pay taxes. Amazon
actually paid $412 million in taxes in 2016, according to regulatory
findings. Who knows what Trump paid? The American people don't, because
Trump has refused to release his tax returns.
Trump
even lied while attacking people who were standing up to white
supremacy. In August, Trump stated that white nationalist protesters in
Charlottesville "had a permit. The other group didn't have a permit." This was the same press conference where Trump infamously stated that there were "very fine people on both sides." In reality, those protesting the vile white supremacists actually had a permit despite Trump's attempt to smear them.
And there were just so many other "Pants on Fire" lies
by Trump in 2017 from his February statement that terrorism attacks in
Europe are so frequent it has "gotten to a point where it's not even
being reported," to his lie last week that the federal government's
diversity visa program gives us "the worst of the worst" of people from
other countries.
Although
Trump's "Lie of the Year" award may be a bit tarnished in his eyes
because he isn't the first president to receive it -- one of his
arch-nemeses, President Barack Obama,
beat him to it when he received this honor back in 2013 -- at the rate
Trump is going, I bet he will win this award many, many more times
before he finally leaves the White House.
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