Donald Trump, The Liar
A lot of bloviating on behalf of Donald Trump going on the other thread.
I've got a Trump lie for you. He said he lost "hundreds" of friends in the twin towers on 911. He can't even name one of them and there is no recollection of him being seen at any of the funerals.
He was asked for the names of a couple of these friends and he came up empty.
Trump is a lying sack of shit, always has been, always will be. I could spend the rest of the weekend laying out Trump's lies, but frankly, the attentions of the people defending him here isnt worth the trouble.
Trump Won’t Name Any of the ‘Hundreds of Friends’ He Says Died on 9/11
If the GOP front runner lost hundreds of friends on 9/11, and donated hundreds of millions of dollars to 9/11 victims, there’s no public record of it.
Two days after Donald Trump claimed that he “lost hundreds of friends” at the World Trade Center as a result of the 9/11 attack, his campaign continued to ignore a Daily Beast request that he name even one.
With silence comes the possibility that Trump told the most reprehensible lie of the campaign, just a few breaths from when he called both Sen. Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush liars.
By his math, Trump is trying to tell us that at least one in 10 of the 2,983 who died on 9/11 were his friends.
“If he has hundreds of friends, he should be able to tell us about them,” said a Port Authority police officer who never talks about how many comrades he lost. “If he can tell us about the hundreds of friends he lost, who they were, what kind of person they were, I might have some respect for him.”
The PA cop—who has sought to learn all he could about every single person who died in addition to the many he personally knew—wonders why nobody has seen Trump at the September 11 Memorial and Museum.
The cop also wonders why nobody seems to recall seeing Trump at the seemingly endless funerals that followed the attack. The FDNY, which had lost 343 members, had so many funerals and memorials in those dark days that the city asked citizens to attend them to fill the churches.
“I don’t remember Trump at any of them,” the cop noted. “Not even the ones that were held at St. Patrick’s, which were right down the block.”
....four years after the attack, Trump did not make a single contribution to assist the victims of 9/11, hundreds of friends or no.
The Smoking Gun reports that the records of the Donald J. Trump Foundation show a single donation in 2006 of $1,000 to a “detox” Scientology program of uncertain value for first responders.
Trump did pledge $10,000 to the Twin Tower fund while calling into The Howard Stern Show , but an online search produces no record of him actually making it. Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks has told the Daily Mail that Trump “has donated close to half a million dollars to organizations as a result of the 9/11 tragedy including the American Red Cross and the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Fund.”
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If you want to see Donald trump lies, we can make a spectacle out of it. It's up to you guys.
I can show you a hundred different Trump lies, big and small, and you will say Obama "lied" about "you can keep your doctor". And then you will say it agains and again and again.
Anyone who compares Trump's narcissistic diseased habitual lying to Obama's "lie" about the AHCA arrangements is very disingenuous themselves.
Not that there is any surprise in that.
Here's a good Trump lie, or does it simply prove he's a fucking idiot? It's a close call.
Feb. 7 “And yet the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years, right? Did you know that? Forty-seven years.” (It was higher in the 1980s and '90s.)
What Trump could have been correct about was if he had said that the increase from 2014 to 2015 was the highest in 40 years, but that's not what he said. He said the murder rate is the highest in 47 years and that is not even close to being true.
This is also one of those lies about which Trump has been corrected but he keeps repeating it anyway.
It is a lot more scary to people to tell them the murders are at a 50 year high rate than to tell them even though there was an increase last years the rate is still low.
Trump knew what he was saying was wrong and said it anyway. Or he is a careless moron. What's your pleasure?
Let's see who wants to read the TRUTH about Trump.
Please dont use a separate comment for each lie. Combine a bunch of them into one comment.
No there isn't any difference, and there are a lot more lies than just the ACA debacle.
But then, in reasoned discussion between reasonable people, it only takes one......
Something that is lost to the radical.....
I'm surprised that this article is allowed when the previous one was locked.....
I locked the other one NM, which is the seeders prerogative.
Too much blowharding going on over there.
When was the last time one of the nation's papers of record had an article headlining 1000 lies by the sitting president? It sounds kind of unprecedented to me.
The trouble with your sort is that you are desperate to normalize something that cannot be normalized. So you try and casually compare Obama's hedging about policy to trump's demented inability to tell the truth. You are an intelligent man, you know there is no comparison.
John, A lie is a lie is a lie....
And in that respect T-Rump is no different than many other presidents that came before.
Ronald Reagan was known to tell a little white one from time to time and i have personal knowledge of this fact. Hell Even Abraham Lincoln wasn't above stretching it when he felt it was required.
The practice of keeping score like this of stretching everything a person says into a lie, for hates sake?
The delusion isn't being exposed as to the accused, it is being exposed as to the list keeper.
Obama is easiest cause his lies are freshest.
We could examine a list of all the lies presidents tell, but what is the point. they ALL lie when needed.
It's part of the job/privilege of office.
So by doing what your doing is only revealing as to you. and what it reveals is about you.
Not him...
Trump was a pathological liar long before he ever stated running for president.
The man who wrote The Art Of The Deal for Trump was allowed to sit in on Trump's business calls for over a year. He relates that he would have to contact the people Trump was talking to in order to fact check what Trump was saying (before he could use it in the book) because so much of it turned out to be untrue.
When was the last time one of the nation's papers of record had an article headlining 1000 lies by the sitting president? It sounds kind of unprecedented to me.
I believe this is the first time. Of course, this is the first time that you have the media actually pushing an agenda to take down a sitting President at any cost without first making sure of the facts. Since Trump won the election, the Democratic Party, Never-Trumpers within the Republican Party, and the media have joined forces to take down someone they DO NOT LIKE without a shred of evidence that the person they are trying to take down committed anything that would warrant such actions. From the beginning, we have heard various politicians and media talking heads call for Trump's impeachment without there being any evidence of a High Crime or Misdemeanor being committed. And, any accusations of such ended up being proven the opposite of what was accused. Frankly, everyone needs to take a step back and accept that Trump is our President and that until there is actual proof of wrongdoing, to stop jumping for joy when there is another accusation.
Trump should go, whether he has committed any crimes or not. He is ignorant of our history, of our politics, and of our ethics and morals. Also ignorant of his own policies and his party's policies. Constant liar. Humongous blowhard. Disunifier.
He doesn't belong in that office any more than you or I do, and probably less.
"Obama's hedging"?
Nice spin for LIE John!
Trump isn't lying, he's hedging!
Jul 31, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“Unemployment - lowest in 17 years.”
Source: Remarks after swearing in John Kelly as chief of staff
This is minor, but Trump keeps adding an extra year. At the time he spoke, the unemployment rate was the lowest in 16 years. He got it right later in the week.
“As you know, the border was a tremendous problem and they’re close to 80 per cent stoppage.”
Source: Remarks at Cabinet meeting
In fact: This is incorrect in two ways. First, the actual number is wrong. Trump and others use the number of apprehensions on the southwestern border as a way to measure illegal immigration. Comparing the five full months of Trump’s tenure — February through June — to the same months in 2016, apprehensions were down 58 per cent, not 78 per cent. Second, this is a percentage decrease in apprehensions, not a percentage of total migrants who were stopped; it is not clear how many people made it past the border patrol.
“And even the president of Mexico called me – they said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they’re not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment.”
Source: Remarks at Cabinet meeting
In fact: After Mexico’s government said no such call occurred, Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Sanders, admitted that it did not occur. She said the conversation actually happened in person, not over the phone.
“2.6 is a number that nobody thought they’d see for a long period of time. Remember, I was saying we will hit three at some point in the not-too-distant future, and everybody smiled and they laughed and they thought we’d be at one.”
Source: Remarks at Cabinet meeting
In fact: Economists scoffed at his campaign pledge of annual growth of 4 per cent or higher, but most experts predicted growth in the neighbourhood of the second-quarter rate of 2.6 per cent; as FactCheck.org noted, entities like the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Moody’s had projected growth higher than 2.6 per cent at one point or another. Further, growth in the third quarter of 2016 was 3.5 per cent, so a 2.6 per cent quarter is not even shocking in the context of the past 12 months.
“Unemployment is the lowest it's been in 17 years.”
Source: Remarks at Cabinet meeting
This is minor, but Trump keeps adding an extra year. At the time he spoke, the unemployment rate was the lowest in 16 years. He got it right later in the week.
“3 Republicans and 48 Democrats let the American people down. As I said from the beginning, let ObamaCare implode, then deal.”
Source: Twitter
Trump did not say from the beginning that he wanted to let Obamacare implode. For the entirety of his campaign, and then for the first six months of his presidency, he advocated repealing and replacing Obamacare.
“Any time we have a trade deficit, it's very easy – which is almost everywhere. We have trade deficits with almost every country because we had a lot of really bad negotiators making deals with other countries.”
Source: Speech to law enforcement on MS-13
In fact: The U.S. does not have trade deficits with almost every country. In fact, it has more surpluses than deficits. According to U.S. government data, the U.S. had surpluses with 134 countries or territories in 2016, deficits with just 99 — and that is only counting trade in goods. If the data included trade in services, at which the U.S. excels, the numbers would be even better.
“And she's seen crowds in her life, and she said, boy, those are really big crowds. Crowds of people all lining the streets, all the way over to here.”
Source: Speech to law enforcement on MS-13
In fact: There were not crowds of people lining the streets of Long Island all the way to Trump’s arrival to his speech venue — and where there were crowds, on a few streets, they were mostly protesters, the Associated Press reported. There were also “a handful of supporters.”
“MS-13, the cartel, has spread gruesome bloodshed throughout the United States.”
Source: Speech to law enforcement on MS-13
In fact: MS-13 is a gang, not a cartel. It has developed relationships with actual cartels.
“You know, when you wanted to take over and you used military equipment — and they were saying you couldn’t do it — you know what I said? That was my first day: You can do it. In fact, that stuff is disappearing so fast we have none left.”
Source: Speech to law enforcement on MS-13
In fact: Trump has not made significant changes to the government program that allows local police departments to obtain surplus military equipment. Police forces have been hoping that Trump will overturn a Barack Obama executive order that imposed some restrictions on the program, but he had not yet done so at the time he spoke.
“You know, the border is down 78 per cent."
Source: Speech to law enforcement on MS-13
In fact: Trump and others use the number of apprehensions on the southwestern border as a way to measure illegal immigration. Comparing the five full months of Trump’s tenure — February through June — to the same months in 2016, apprehensions were down 58 per cent, not 78 per cent.
"Under past administrations, the border didn’t go down — it went up."
Source: Speech to law enforcement on MS-13
In fact: Trump is far from the first president to preside over a decline in border apprehensions. As Politifact noted, the number of apprehensions on the southwest border fell from 1.6 million in 1986 to an average under 500,000 during Barack Obama's tenure.
“And they (MS-13) were all let in here over a relatively short period of time. Not during my period of time, believe me. But we’re getting them out. They’re going to jails, and then they’re going back to their country. Or they’re going back to their country, period.”
Source: Speech to law enforcement on MS-13
In fact: Trump wrongly suggests that MS-13 was “let in” to the United States from abroad in a brief flurry of immigration under his predecessors. In fact, MS-13 was founded in the United States — in Los Angeles — in the 1980s. Similarly, it is impossible for Trump to send all MS-13 members “back to their country,” as many of them are American citizens.
“But we had certain countries in South America where they wouldn’t take the people back. And I said, that’s okay, no more trade. All of a sudden they started taking their people back. It’s amazing, isn’t it? They used to send to the former Secretary of State of the country, ‘Please call. Would you please work it so that we can take’ — and they used to just tell her, ‘No, we won’t take back.’ They take back with us, every single time. We’re having very little problem.”
Source: Speech to law enforcement on MS-13
In fact: This is an exaggeration. Trump has indeed had success in persuading so-called “recalcitrant countries” to take back illegal immigrants convicted of crimes in the U.S. — but his success has been far from total. The Washington Times reported in July that the list of countries refusing to take back their nationals had been cut in half, from 23 to 12, but that still leaves major countries like China, Pakistan, Egypt, Nigeria and Brazil, among others. And a U.S. judge has blocked a mass deportation to Iraq, expressing concern that the deportees could face peril there.
“You know, I said from the beginning: Let Obamacare implode, and then do it. I turned out to be right. Let Obamacare implode.”
Source: Speech to law enforcement on MS-13
In fact: Trump did not say from the beginning that he wanted to let Obamacare implode. For the entirety of his campaign, and then for the first six months of his presidency, he advocated repealing and replacing Obamacare.
“The previous administration enacted an open-door policy to illegal migrants from Central America. ‘Welcome in. Come in, please, please.’”
Source: Speech to law enforcement on MS-13
In fact: Not so. Politifact reported: “Obama returned more than two million Central Americans in his first seven years in office, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Immigration Statistics.”
Is this where you show us you have absolutely no life and have an unhealthy like for the President?
You are aware of why John asked you to group listings instead of a bunch of single comments?
Spamming an article/FP is a violation of the CoC and has been ever since I came here, (about 6 years ago)
Might want to consider this when multiple posting of the same content.
The CoC's ONLY comment on SPAM.
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There is actually two documents, the CoC and Site Moderation Policy.
The CoC states the rules.
The Site Moderation Policy stated how the rules applied.
On the old site both were linked to be read by anyone.
But I don't know if the site policy statement made the changeover from the old Ning Platform.....
But it did exist.
And repeated spamming of an article causing the front page to list a single article with the same repetitive content was also a violation.
I guess we will find out.
NWM is correct here. If the content is essentially the same, you should put it all in the same post. I have combined your 3 posts into one.
Actually those 3 posts were Trump comments from three different days, so they were all unique comments and not the same thing SPAMmed 3 times. Three sets of unique Trump quotes from Three seperate Days. But it doesn't really matter much. The evidence is there, even without the dates, that Trump is a LIAR.
No problem. Trump is a liar and that fact is an established and proven FACT.
Jul 25, 2017 TRUMP LIED:
“And she lost easily, you know, 306 to 223 I think, right – 223, something like that.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: Hillary Clinton earned 232 electoral votes on Election Day, not 223.
“You know, I won the state (of Ohio) by 9 or 10 or something, by 9 or 10 points, without any governor support, OK? So you have the governor of Ohio not supporting you and you win by almost 10 points, which is pretty good…”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
Trump won Ohio by 8.1 percentage points, which does not round to “9 to 10” or “almost 10.”
“And I got a call from the head of the Boy Scouts saying it was the greatest speech that was ever made to them, and they were very thankful.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: After the Boy Scouts said there was no call at all, Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Sanders, admitted that there was not. (She claimed the conversation happened in person, not over the phone.)
“We’re the highest-taxed nation in the world, essentially, you know, of the size. But we’re the highest-taxed nation in the world.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: The U.S. is far from the highest-taxed nation in the world. While its corporate tax rate is near the top, it is below the average of developed OECD countries when other taxes are included.
“I mean, it used to be, when we talked during the debate, $2.5 trillion, right, when the most elegant person — right? I call him Mr. Elegant. I mean, that was a great debate. We did such a great job. But at that time I was talking $2.5 trillion. I guess it’s $5 trillion now. Whatever it is, it’s a lot more. So we have anywhere from 4 [trillion] to 5 or even more trillions of dollars sitting offshore.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: There is no evidence of a dramatic spike since last year in foreign profits stashed overseas by American companies. While Trump’s $2.5 trillion figure from last year was correct — the Joint Committee on Taxation released an estimate of $2.6 trillion in August 2016 — no authority has since issued an estimate of $4 trillion or $5 trillion, and experts said they were not aware of a massive jump in the following 12 months. “I do not know of anyone who increased the estimate so much recently,” said Steven Rosenthal, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center. “Like many things, I assume he made this up on the fly,” said another expert on the subject, who requested anonymity.
“I’ll call, like, major — major countries, and I’ll be dealing with the prime minister or the president. And I’ll say, how are you doing? ‘Oh, don’t know, don’t know, not well, Mr. President, not well.’ I said, well, what’s the problem? ‘Oh, GDP 9 per cent, not well.’ And I’m saying to myself, here we are at like 1 per cent, dying, and they’re at 9 per cent and they’re unhappy. So, you know, and these are like countries, you know, fairly large, like 300 million people.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: We do not have definitive proof, but we can safely conclude that such conversations have not happened. For one, there are no other countries of approximately 300 million people. The only one that is close, Indonesia, is growing at about 5 per cent. No other “major” country is growing at 9 per cent; China and India are at or below 7 per cent. Finally, Trump has been telling this story since the election campaign, but without the added colour of the supposed phone calls.
“He had to pay $200 million in tax, Gary. Gary wrote a check for 200 (million dollars).”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: Gary Cohn did not have to pay over $200 million in taxes to take the job of Trump’s chief economic adviser. The truth is something close to the opposite: to take the job, he sold shares worth more than $200 million — then had the option of taking advantage of a special benefit for White House appointees that allowed him to defer taxes on the sale for years.
“When George Steinbrenner died, like with the estate taxes, the estate paid nothing. And if he would have died like two weeks later, they would have paid 50 percent of the Yankees.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: Trump’s timeline is off. Steinbrenner died in July 2010, during a temporary estate-tax holiday. But the tax took effect again six months later, on January 1, 2011, not two weeks later.
“Now, the E.U. was conceived to the point that they wanted to do something to compete with the United States.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: This is a vaguer version of an argument Trump made more clearly during his campaign, when he said the European Union was created to “beat the United States when it comes to making money.” Experts on the E.U. say that competing with the U.S. economically was not even on the list of the top reasons for the original formation of the European coalition or its evolution into the official European Union in 1993. “That effort was never to compete with the United States,” said Maxime Larivé, associate director of the European Union Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Its original incarnation, an economic “community” created in the 1950s, was intended “to simply foster peace through trade and economic exchange” of coal and steel, Larivé said.
“We have a $70 billion trade deficit with China, as an example.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: The deficit was $310 billion last year, according to data from the U.S. Trade Representative. Trump soon offered a more accurate figure for the deficit with China, and he may have been intending to refer here to Mexico, with which the trade deficit in goods alone was $63 billion.
“Look, we have a $70 billion (with Mexico) – we have a $70 billion trade deficit.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: It’s not that high. The U.S. trade deficit with Mexico was $56 billion last year, according to data from the U.S. Trade Representative. Excluding trade in services, it was $63 billion.
“What is anybody saying? With China, we have $350 to $504. Nobody can really define it, deficit. We have a trade deficit of $350 to $504 billion each year.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: The “$504 billion” figure is inaccurate. The U.S. trade deficit with China was $310 billion last year, according to data from the U.S. Trade Representative. Excluding trade in services, it was $347 billion. There is a clear, accepted definition of trade deficit: the difference between the value of goods and services exported and goods and services and imported.
“You know, I put out a letter from a very – from the biggest law firm saying Trump has no involvement with Russia. I don’t. I have no involvement. I mean, I had Miss Universe there, like, nine years ago, eight years ago, something like that.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: Trump had the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, four years ago.
“Immigration went down 78 per cent at the border – 78 per cent at the border. Kelly’s done a great job.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: Trump and others use the number of apprehensions on the southwestern border as a way to measure illegal immigration. Comparing the five full months of Trump’s tenure — February through June — to the same months in 2016, apprehensions were down 58 per cent, not 78 per cent.
“RNC has more than $80 million in cash, whereas the Democrats owe money, OK.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: As of late July, the Republican National Committee had $45 million in cash, the Washington Examiner reported. Trump may have been confusing “cash” with total fundraising, but even then, he would be wrong: “For 2017 so far, the RNC has raised $75.4 million,” the Examiner reported.
“There’s nobody on the campaign that saw anybody from Russia.”
Source: Interview with the Wall Street Journal
In fact: It is public knowledge that people on the campaign saw people from Russia. The very week Trump spoke, son-in-law Jared Kushner, who was a top campaign advisor, and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort met with congressional committees to discuss their controversial 2016 meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer. Kushner also discussed his in-person interactions with the Russian ambassador and a Russian banker.
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Problem is that the acting head of the FBI & the person in charge of the Hillary investigation, Andrew McCabe, got $700,000 from H for wife!
Source: Twitter
In fact: “H” — Hillary Clinton — was not the source of this money; nor did it go to the acting head of the FBI. Here’s what happened: Jill McCabe, the wife of senior FBI official Andrew McCabe, was running for Virginia’s state Senate in 2015; her campaign received nearly $700,000 from political allies of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe. McAuliffe is a close ally of Clinton, but there is no evidence that the donations were improper or intended to influence Andrew McCabe, who was not put in charge of the Clinton investigation until three months after his wife’s campaign ended. Moreover, there is no evidence Clinton even knew about the donations.
“And you know the numbers, and you saw for many, many years Democrats – and they're really great – but Democrats, they win in Youngstown. But not this time. Right?”
Source: Saluting American Heroes event before rally in Youngstown, Ohio
In fact: Hillary Clinton beat Trump in every single district of Youngstown, and she earned 56 per cent of the vote in the city as a whole. That was a good result for Trump considering that Barack Obama had earned 72 per cent of the vote in the previous election, but he did not win the city.
“But if you look at Michigan and other places, the auto industry is starting to come back in a very, very big way.”
Source: Saluting American Heroes event before rally in Youngstown, Ohio
In fact: This is not happening. In fact, on the same day that Trump made the remark, the Detroit News ran a front-page article explaining that “the opposite” is happening: U.S. automotive jobs have declined for the first time in seven years. “Plants in Michigan and in Toledo have borne the brunt of reductions, with about 6,350 workers experiencing at least temporary layoffs,” the paper reported.
“The jobs are the best they've been in 17 years.”
Source: Saluting American Heroes event before rally in Youngstown, Ohio
In fact: This is minor, but Trump keeps adding an extra year. At the time he spoke, the unemployment rate was the lowest in 16 years.
”But I think that with few exceptions no president has done anywhere near what we've done in his first six months. Not even close.”
Source: Campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio
In fact: Trump was not even close to the presidential record for legislation signed at the six-month mark. The New York Times found that Jimmy Carter signed 70 bills, Bill Clinton 50. Trump was at 42 early in the week — and “about half were minor and inconsequential.” Trump has made significant changes through executive orders and regulations, but this is still an exaggeration.
“We’ve begun to process seamlessly transferring veterans’ medical records. Horrible situation. You couldn’t get your medical records. And now it’s so easy and so good. And the system is fixed, finally, after all of these years.”
Source: Campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio
In fact: The Associated Press reported that the effort to replace the system “has barely even begun. (The secretary of the veterans’ administration) has yet to negotiate pricing for the no-bid contract with the company that designed the Pentagon’s system.”
"We have Choice. ... We have nearly doubled the number of veterans given approvals to see the doctor of their choice."
Source: Campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio
In fact: Trump was exaggerating, the Associated Press reported. The AP wrote: “Trump is referring to the VA's Choice program, which offers federally paid medical care outside the VA….VA's approvals to veterans to use Choice have grown under Trump, but they haven't nearly doubled.” The head of the veterans’ agency wrote in a USA Today column the same week that “outside care programs for the first half of the year increased 26 per cent.”
“We've achieved a historic increase in defense spending to get our troops the support they so richly deserve.”
Source: Campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio
In fact: This is false in two ways. First, Trump’s proposed increase is far from historic. “In just the past 40 years,” The Associated Press reported, “there have been eight years with larger increases in percentage terms than the one he’s now proposing.” Second, Trump has not “achieved” any increase yet; Congress is still debating military funding levels.
“Since I took office we have cut illegal immigration on our southern border by record numbers. 78 per cent.”
Source: Campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio
In fact: Trump and others use the number of apprehensions on the southwestern border as a way to measure illegal immigration. Comparing the five full months of Trump’s tenure — February through June — to the same months in 2016, apprehensions are down 58 per cent, not 78 per cent.
“We don't want people that come into our country and immediately go on welfare and stay there for the rest of their lives.”
Source: Campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio
In fact: With a few exceptions, immigrants are prohibited from receiving welfare benefits for the first five years of their time in the U.S.
“We have the highest taxes anywhere in the world, and this will really bring them down to one of the lowest.”
Source: Campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio
In fact: The U.S. is far from the highest-taxed nation in the world. While its corporate tax rate is near the top, it is below the average of developed OECD countries when other taxes are included.
Squirrel, why don't you see if they would like to answer some of these before you put up any more?
They won't but I can stop for a while.
I actually just did respond to a claim regarding SPAM, which I believe to be a FALSE interpretation of the CoC.
However, if either YOU, the site's Resident Advisor or the moderators believe I am violating Rule 7 of the CoC then please let me know.
Thanks.
Well, @Thomas-Craig posted a total load of bullshit above. Can I go back to posting more EVIDENCE that Trump is a LIAR?
Ssshhh! Do you hear that? That's the sound of crickets chirping!
Hey Squirrel, don't you know lying is the thing to do these days? Obama made it popular. You see how well it worked for him. I think Trump is taking to politicking quite well, don't you?
Gore invented the Internet. Hillary was the first really big liar and she still holds the trophy for the funniest lies after all these years. Obama made lying popular again and Trump is building on that. Do you think he is going to take the trophy home?
Harry Reid was the most devious. I remember when he told us that his friend told him Romney hadn't paid any taxes in years. The cool part was when Dirty Harry was being interviewed after it became evident he made it all up and asked, something to the extent, did he feel bad about saying it? Hiding behind those exceedingly dark sunglasses after his brother beat him up he said, "Well he didn't get elected, did he? Now that will go down in history.
Yea, I believe Trump is just telling more lies because he talks fast and with short sentences. It doesn't take him as long to tell a lie. He's a more efficient liar. Smart, huh?
Your OPINIONS are really nothing more than opinions, really, if you don't back them up with evidence. You haven't supported a single claim. Everything you CLAIM about Obama, Reid, Hillary is pure unsubstantiated opinion, which translated means it is just BULLSHIT.
Yea, I believe Trump is just telling more lies because he talks fast and with short sentences. It doesn't take him as long to tell a lie. He's a more efficient liar. Smart, huh?
Yes! That is somewhat GOOD of YOU to admit that TRUMP IS A LIAR, for which I have provided evidence in the form of DIRECT QUOTES, which PROVE Trump is a LIAR. (And I can easily provide more if it's okay with John.) That is far more than YOU have done with your lame unsubstantiated bullshit opinions.
But, it is GOOD that YOU ADMIT TRUMP is "telling more lies" than anyone else ever. Thanks for that.
"than anyone else ever."
Does that mean you don't mind anyone lying as long as they don't tell too many lies?
Nope!
It means that TRUMP is "telling more lies" than anyone else ever.
Can't you read?
Can't you read?
I can. What I read in that last post is that you are itching for a slap fight. Not playing that!
I love this clip! Somehow I feel it's really appropriate to post here, now...
Yeah it was a great scene but then they fucked it up when they said the witness has rights. hahahahaha
Defending Trump in an article like this is basically just a form of trolling. His lies are copious and indefensible, but ... Obama ... Billary ... Planet Comet.
This whole article is a form of trolling. If somebody have the time to keep track of this, it really suggests you have nothing better to do with your spare time, or you have entirely too much spare time.
We get it Trump lied.
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My name here is Squirrel!
I will call others by their SCREEN NAME as that is NOT name calling, regardless of whatever else they may request or demand. If they want to be called something different than their current screen name, then they can change their current screen name.
My name here is Squirrel!
I am FLAGGING my own comment above, since the comment that prompted it seems to have been deleted.
Thus, this comment and the one above should probably be deleted as well.
Much thanks to the moderators here!
p.s. Well, I would FLAG it if I could, but it seems the FLAG diamond is grayed-out so I can't FLAG my own comments.
Perhaps Badfish would be so kind as to FLAG this one and the one above for me. Thanks!
closing this article
too many non responsive comments