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Trump's Cavalcade of Lies
Topic Started: Jun 19 2018, 12:44 AM (109 Views)
Brewster
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Trump opens his mouth — and spews lies
On Friday, President Trump strolled out to the White House lawn to speak to reporters. What followed was a cavalcade of lies, mischaracterizations, and breathtakingly inappropriate statements. Here’s just a sampling:

On the release of an FBI Inspector General report on the investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server, he said, “I’ve been totally exonerated” and claimed that the report shows “I did nothing wrong, there was no collusion, no obstruction.” This proves, Trump said, “that the Mueller investigation has been totally discredited.” Trump also argued that the “top people at the FBI” (who he also called “scum”) were plotting against his election. The report did no such thing. In fact, the report had nothing to do with the Russia investigation.

When asked about Paul Manafort, his former campaign manager, who had his bail revoked Friday for tampering with witnesses, Trump described him as someone who “had nothing to do with” his campaign and worked for him for “a very short period of time.” In fact, Manafort worked for Trump for approximately five months and ran the Republican National Convention for Trump.

In regard to Mike Flynn, his former national security adviser, Trump said, “Maybe he didn’t lie.” Not only did Flynn plead guilty to lying to the FBI, but the president fired Flynn for the specific reason that Flynn misled Vice President Mike Pence about his contacts with Russian officials.

On North Korea, Trump said that he had “great chemistry” and a “really great relationship” with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is a serial human rights abuser. He also said that when Kim speaks, “his people “sit up at attention” and he’d like “my people” to do the same. {Later he lied that it was a "joke".}
Trump bragged about the success of the summit with Kim, which he said has “solved” the “nuclear problem” with North Korea.

Of course, that’s not true at all. But Trump also said that the deal he signed with Kim would lead to repatriation of American war dead from the Korean War, which is something he claimed that the parents of Korean War veterans had begged him to do. The Korean War ended 64 years ago. Any parents of those killed in the war have long since passed.

When asked about the his administration’s recently enacted policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border, Trump said it was a law that had been forced upon him by Democrats. This is an egregious, bald-faced lie — even for Trump. There is no such law, and a month ago Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, gave a public speech in which he boasted about the new separation policy. Trump’s own chief of staff, John Kelly, has publicly stated that the policy was necessary to deter immigrants from entering the country illegally.

Trump complained that Russia was expelled from the G-8 because President Obama “didn’t like” Vladimir Putin. He also accused his predecessor of having “lost Crimea” and said that he “gave away” the region to Russia. Unmentioned by the president was that Russia invaded and annexed Crimea.

Finally, Trump told a female reporter who was persistently asking him questions to be “quiet” and called her “obnoxious.”

Here’s the thing: This impromptu Trump presser, first with “Fox and Friends” host Steve Doocy, and then with a gaggle of actual reporters, was both unprecedented and not at all unusual. Granted, it’s rare for a president simply to wander out on the White House lawn to talk to reporters. What’s not rare is Trump repeatedly and brazenly lying. It’s even less rare that Trump praised and defended an authoritarian ruler, mindlessly attacked the FBI, denied he had much to do with his former campaign manager, or acted rudely toward a woman.

What’s so striking about Trump’s performance is that in the context of the last three years of American politics, it’s not striking at all. These kinds of presidential performances, which once upon a time would have been stunning and exceptional, are now just routine parts of the news cycle.

It’s simply become impossible for those of us to cover this White House to capture the daily onslaught of outrage and scandal. Consider, for example, that 24 hours ago the New York attorney general’s office, after a two-year investigation, sued the Trump Foundation and the Trump family for a multitude of campaign finance violations, self-dealing, and unlawful coordination with a presidential campaign and even went so far as to send referral letters to the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Election Commission.

But it does say everything about the truly insane political moment that we are living in that this lawsuit — which suggests the president of the United States broke the law — is at best a one-day story.

I’m not writing this to once again bemoan the extent to which we’ve all become inured to the lying, law-breaking, corruption, inhumanity, incompetence, and daily gaslighting of this administration. That train has clearly left the station. There’s no way not to be inured to this unending avalanche of bad behavior.

Rather, I’ll ask the questions that I’ve been asking some variation of for the past three years: When is enough for the Republican Party? When will Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and the congressional leadership finally do something to stop the lying narcissistic madman running this country? Will there ever come a point when they have the courage to say this must end? And if they don’t — and let’s be honest, the chances that they will are somewhere between zero and none — can America emerge unscathed from two-and-a-half more years of this madness? I like to be optimistic, but days like today — that will likely be forgotten within the next 48-72 hours — make me seriously wonder and worry about what the future might hold.

The most disgraceful part about this article is that very similar pieces could have been written on virtually any day in the last two years -
and unless something is done to get rid of him, internally or by the voters, any time in the next six years as well.
Edited by Brewster, Jun 19 2018, 12:48 AM.
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Since you have never proven that there is or ever was a Left Wing Echo Chamber, your post is funnier than you think.

Your laughing at honest reporting on all of Trump's Lies IS is funny, especially since you Gullibles refuse to accept the truth even when the lies are all over virtually every TV station and news outlet in the land.
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You never proved there was a Right Wing Echo Chamber so your denial of an LWEC is more stupid than you think.

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I can prove it every day of the week, and I've done it repeatedly.

And you know it. You're just lying, as usual. And since the truth is available for all to see, you make yourself look - let's be charitable and call it "Silly".

The best at it was Neutral, who used to delight in claiming some Right Wing idiocy was true because one search on Google or whatever would pull up dozens of pages all making the same ridiculous claim - they'd use the same wording, the same everything.

They're getting a little more clever lately, changing a few words, but the stories are all the same.

You want proof? Try this: Obama lied about Clinton Emails.

It goes on for page after page, all echoing the same story. I can't prove it, but I strongly suspect all those sites are funded by the Koch Brothers.
Edited by Brewster, Jun 19 2018, 06:34 AM.
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I have proven that there is an LWEC. All you have to do is google one of the left wing latest headlines and you will get plenty of the same headline and article in multiple LWEC sites.

Your denying it just shows how far left you have gone in your hatred of the USA.

Edited by Berton, Jun 19 2018, 09:17 AM.
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When it comes to identifying echo chambers Brew is either brain washed or blind, deaf and dumb.
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Jun 19 2018, 09:17 AM
I have proven that there is an LWEC. All you have to do is google one of the left wing latest headlines and you will get plenty of the same headline and article in multiple LWEC sites.

Your denying it just shows how far left you have gone in your hatred of the USA.

ROFLMFAO!!!!! Another of Bertie"s fabulously stupid statements.

That is the trademark of real news, many outlets cover the story and essentially say the same thing as that is what happened.

Compare that tor Brietfart or WND
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Jun 19 2018, 09:17 AM
I have proven that there is an LWEC. All you have to do is google one of the left wing latest headlines and you will get plenty of the same headline and article in multiple LWEC sites.

Your denying it just shows how far left you have gone in your hatred of the USA.

But of course you haven't done it. Because it won't work - you'll get similar stories (That's what you searched for, after all) but you won't get page after page of virtually identical "opinions".

Try this one - Trump lied about the wall

Read the first ten articles - they're all about Trump's lies of course, since that was my query, but every single one takes a different tack - not an echo in the bunch.

You're lying again - it gets so tiresome.

And now you're lying about me hating the US, without a single scrap of evidence.

And of course, you will NEVER admit you're wrong.

Soo tiresome... :bedtime:
Edited by Brewster, Jun 19 2018, 11:46 PM.
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Actually Brew, it is you that has become tiresome. As for you hating America, I believe you do hate us as evidenced by your dailey hateful anti American posts.
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