How It’s Done

[robosmith]

How It’s Done

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The Washington Post’s Fact Checker estimated Trump made 30,573 “false or misleading claims,” as they termed it, while he was in office. And the rate accelerated over time. Almost half of Trump’s lies came in the final year of his term in office. He started with claims of excessive crowd size on inauguration day, leading his advisor Kellyanne Conway to coin the term “alternative facts,” which was an attempt by the people handling him to reframe Trump’s lies. Instead, it became a mantra on the left, watching first in surprise and then in horror as Trump was permitted to spew lies without any check from people in his own political party.

Among the many lies the Post’s Fact Checker documented are the following:

● The coronavirus would disappear on its own, along with pitching bogus cures;
● Trump created the best economy in U.S. history;
● Caravans of criminals were approaching the southern border every time an election loomed;
● Trump passed the biggest tax cuts of any president;
● A modified map altering the scientific assessment of a hurricane’s path in Sharpie marker, and of course, the biggest lie;
● The 2020 election was rigged, and Trump lost due to fraud.

Trump, unchecked, has been free to repeat those lies over and over again, even when the falsehood has been thoroughly exposed and his claims debunked. So it was refreshing to read that Judge Merchan was having none of that in court in Manhattan Friday morning. On Thursday, Trump lied, telling a gathering of reporters outside of the courtroom where he is on trial that he would not be able to take the stand and testify in his own defense, because of the gag order imposed by Judge Merchan. Of course, that’s a lie. Trump has been promising he would testify—perhaps he was looking for a way to walk that back as the reality of being on trial settled in. But Trump was peddling trash in classic fashion, blaming the Judge and lying about the gag order.

Judge Merchan got right to the point Friday morning in court, before the jury was brought in. He told Trump the gag order “does not prohibit you from taking the stand.” He continued, “As the name of the order indicates, it only applies to extrajudicial statements.” That means Trump is only limited in statements he makes outside of the courtroom. In other words, Trump is free to testify in court; the choice is his. That’s it, just like that. The authority Trump was lying about refused to bend the knee and called Trump on the lie. 

 

Fortunately it's ONLY the MAGA CULT (like WCM) who believes Trump's LIES.
 

[Nationalist]

LOL...

More Libbie desperation.

[Fluffypants]

Notice they aren't counting Biden's lies? Hell he probably told the story about how his son was killed in Iraq and the BS "Joey baby" story about 1000 times alone.

I am pretty sure that recent CNN interview alone matched that number.

Biden told some whoppers during that one. That man actually said with a straight face that when he took over we had a 9% inflation rate.

It isn't about the number of lies its the size of the lies, almost of a Trump "lies" were hyperbole because I know for a fact WaPo fact checked whether the burgers really were stacked a mile high at the White House banquet honoring the college football champions or it was something subjective that they deemed a lie.

 

 

Edited May 10, 2024 by Fluffypants