Trump Lied Or Distorted 162 Times In Recent Press Conference
70. “I know Josh Shapiro. He's a terrible guy. And he's not very popular with anybody. ” A Fox News poll last month showed Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a finalist to be Harris’ running mate, had a 61% approval rating in the state. Other polls also found him with a net-positive rating, though, not quite as high.
I think Trump might be the only person on earth who thinks that Shapiro is not popular with ANYBODY.
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The reason I really like the NPR article on Trump's misstatements is because it goes into areas that expose Trump's CONSTANT reckless and distorting use of language. It appears to be impossible for Trump to make a comment about anything without either aggrandizing himself or disparaging someone else. He NEVER speaks about anything for more than 30 seconds without saying he knows more about it than anyone else, or has the biggest whatever it is , or "everybody says" about something that most cases are not something "everybody says".
Trump not only routinely misuses language and distorts facts and truths, he does it constantly. In this case 162 times in a little over an hour.
I am posting part of this article because showing all 162 misstatements and inaccuracies, and lies, would make this one of the longest seeded articles in NT history.
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32-34. “And I'm no Biden fan, but I'll tell you what, from a constitutional standpoint, from any standpoint you're looking at, they took the presidency away. … And they took it away.”
There’s nothing in the U.S. Constitution about picking presidential candidates. This is a party process, and everything has been done within party rules. And, again, the presidency wasn’t taken away: Biden is still president.
35. “They said they're going to use the 25th Amendment.”
This was never floated as a possibility to get Biden to withdraw from the race. Biden’s Cabinet members are all people he appointed and who are loyal to him. In addition, the 25th Amendment outlines a procedure for removing a sitting president from office, not from running for a second term
36-39. They're going to hit you hard. ‘Either we can do it the nice way. I heard, I know exactly, because I know a lot of people on the other side, believe it or not. And, they said, ‘We'll do it the nice way, or we'll do it the hard way.’ And he said, ‘All right.”
This was not said; he did not hear; no Democrats in the know are talking to Trump; and this dialogue is made up.
40. “We're leading, we're leading.”
The race is statistically tied in national polls and in the states. In some national polls, Harris leads. In some, Trump does.
41-42. “I'm saying it's a–, for a country with a Constitution that we cherish, we cherish this Constitution to have done it this way is pretty severe, pretty horrible. … But to just take it away from him, like he was a child.”
Again, this is Trump talking about how Biden stepped aside, and there’s nothing in the Constitution about how the political parties should pick candidates. And nothing was taken away.
43-46. “And he's a very angry man right now, I can tell you that. He's not happy with Obama, and he's not happy with Nancy Pelosi. Crazy Nancy, she is crazy, too. She's not happy with any of the people that told him that you've gotta leave. He's very unhappy, very angry, and I think he, He also blames her. He's trying to put up a good face, but it's a very bad thing in terms of a country when you do that. I'm not a fan of his, as you probably have noticed, and he had a rough debate, but that doesn't mean that you just take it away like that.”
Trump can’t speak to Biden’s state of mind; all evidence is that Nancy Pelosi is perfectly sane – see her recent multiple rounds of interviews about her book, including with NPR ; again, Trump doesn’t know Biden’s state of mind; and again, nobody took it away.
47-51. “She's trying to say she had nothing to do with the border. She had everything. She was appointed to head the border. And then they said border czar. Oh, she loved that name. She loved that name. But she never went there. She went to a location once along the border, but that was a location that you would love to go and have dinner with your husband or whoever. That was a location that was not part of the problem. That was not really going to the border. So I– essentially she never went to the border.”
(1) As previously noted, she was not put in charge of the border and certainly did not have “everything” to do with it; (2) she was not appointed to head the border; (3) if “they” is the White House, then “they” did not call her “border czar”; (4) Trump doesn’t know what Harris might have thought about the term; (5) Harris did not go to a place at the border “you would love to go and have dinner with your husband or whoever.”
In 2021, Harris toured border patrol facilities in El Paso, Texas, visited an area where asylum seekers were screened, and met with migrants. Republicans criticized her at the time for not going to the Rio Grande Valley.
85-90. “So, but on crowd size in history, for any country, nobody's had crowds like I have, and you know that. And when she gets 1,000 people and everybody starts jumping, you know that if I had a thousand people would say, people would say, that's the end of his campaign. I have hundreds of thousands of people in, uh, South Carolina. I had 88,000 people in Alabama. I had 68,000 people. Nobody says about crowd size with me, but she has 1,000 people or 1,500 people, and they say, oh, the enthusiasm's back.”
There were at least six different misstatements here – (1) Trump has had large crowds, but “in history,” there certainly there have been people with larger crowds, from Barack Obama and others; (2, 3) her crowds have been larger than 1,000, which he repeats twice; (4) no serious analysts have said this is the end of Trump’s campaign. This race is very close; (5) there’s no evidence for crowds of the size Trump notes in South Carolina and Alabama; (6) people do talk about Trump’s crowd sizes.
91. “They wanna stop people from pouring into our country, from places unknown and from countries unknown from countries that nobody ever heard of.”
Someone has likely heard of whatever the unnamed country is.
92-93. “We're leading in Georgia by a lot. We're leading in Pennsylvania by a lot.”
The races in Georgia and Pennsylvania are within the margin of error, according to an average of the polls.
94. “So I won Alabama by a record. Nobody's ever gotten that many votes. I won South Carolina by a record. You don't win Alabama and South Carolina by records and lose Georgia. It doesn't happen.”
It does, and here’s why. Demographically, Georgia has become very different from South Carolina and Alabama. Georgia’s population is now majority-minority, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Alabama and South Carolina are 64% and 63% white, respectively.
Georgia’s Black population is also significant politically – 33% of the state’s population is Black. By comparison, Alabama is 27% Black, South Carolina 26%. Latinos also make up 11% of Georgia’s population and Asian Americans are 5%, both of which are higher than Alabama and South Carolina. And Georgia’s population is marginally younger – 15% of Georgia’s population is older than 65% compared to 18% in Alabama and 19% in South Carolina.
95. “If we have honest elections in Georgia, if we have honest elections in Pennsylvania, We're gonna win them by a lot.”
Winning them by a lot is highly unlikely, considering how close the states have been in recent elections, but perhaps more pressing is Trump’s insinuation that there were voting problems in the two states, which there were not. That’s why Trump is upset with Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, for example, because he upheld the valid 2020 election results even in the face of pressure from Trump.
96. “Of course there'll be a peaceful transfer. And there was last time.”
This wholly ignores the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol, which took place because of Trump’s election lies.
97. “Because I'm leading by a lot.”
Again, this is a very close race.
98. “We have commercials that are at a level I don't think that anybody's ever done before.”
This is false. Since Super Tuesday, Democrats have outspent Trump’s campaign and outside groups supporting him by more than double, according to data provided by AdImpact and analyzed by NPR – $373.5 million to $150.6 million.
99. “She's not smart enough to do a news conference.”
There is plenty of evidence that Harris is “smart enough to do a news conference,” as she has done in the past.
100. We're in great danger of being in World War III. That could happen.
Again, no serious analyst believes this.
101. “I think those people were treated very harshly, when you compare them to other things that took place in this country where a lot of people were killed.”
The Justice Department investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, is the largest and most complex federal criminal probe in U.S. history, the attorney general has said. More than 140 law enforcement officers were injured that day, in what U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves has described as the biggest mass casualty event involving police. It’s hard to find any comparable event in recent American history.
As of Aug. 6, 2024, according to Graves’s office, prosecutors have charged more than 160 people with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer. Prosecutors have also secured convictions on the rarely-deployed charge of seditious conspiracy, or attempting to overthrow the government by use of force, against top leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys.
Even so, only a small number of Jan. 6 defendants have been held in federal custody while they await trial. Mostly, these are the rioters who allegedly used the most violence on that day more than three years ago. Republican members of Congress have toured the jail facilities and decried conditions there, expressions of support that defendants facing ordinary charges in D.C. have not received. – Carrie Johnson, NPR national justice correspondent
102. “Nobody was killed on Jan. 6th.”
Conservatives were upset at the time that one of the rioters, Ashli Babbitt, was killed when she was shot by police, as she was trying to force her way into the Speaker’s Lobby of the Capitol, which leads to the House chamber, with a crowd of others. Many officers were injured that day; one died of a stroke as a result of Jan. 6; and others later died by suicide that their families say was also a result of Jan. 6.
103-105. “And, you know, it's very interesting, the biggest crowd I've ever spoken to. … The biggest crowd I've ever spoken before was that day. … The biggest crowd I've ever spoken. … I've spoken to the biggest crowds. Nobody's spoken to crowds bigger than me.”
It was not the biggest crowd he’s ever spoken to. His inauguration would have topped that. And others have had bigger crowds, as noted earlier.
106. “I said peacefully and patriotically.”
While Trump did utter those words, it is misleading. Trump also said the word “fight” multiple times , and he told the already angry crowd because of the election lies he fed them: “We fight like Hell and if you don’t fight like Hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Trump aides testified that he “refused” to tweet the word “peaceful” in the days leading up to the rally because he thought it might discourage people from being there, and he was concerned about his crowd size.
107-108. “If you look at Martin Luther King, when he did his speech, his great speech, and you look at ours, same real estate, same, everything, same number of people. If not, we had more. …You look at the picture of his crowd, my crowd, uh, we actually had more people.”
First, the speeches did not take place at the “same real estate.” Trump spoke from a position just south of the Ellipse. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial
Second, the crowds were not the same size and Trump’s was certainly not larger. It is an extraordinary claim and shows just how much Trump cares about crowd size.
109. “We have a Constitution. It's a very important document, and we live by it. She has no votes.”
Again, there’s nothing in the Constitution about how parties should pick their presidents.
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Even I didnt read all 162 lies, disortions and delusions . The point of this article, in my opinion is that Trump constantly makes misleading or lying statements. Constantly. Sometimes a two or three times a minute like he did here.
This aberrant behavior has become normalized by the media after 13 years of him blowharding and being deceitful on the national political stage.
He is not mentally or psychologically or ethically fit to be president of the United States.
One of the key examples of the failure of the media to appropriately call Trump out is his lie about the classified documents case.
He now claims that he won the case. A lie, of course, since the case was dismissed by the judge based on her bizarre claim that the DoJ cannot appoint external special counsels. This is under appeal and I predict it will be overturned due to substantial precedent and the case reassigned to a new judge.
The reason Trump give for 'winning the case' is that as PotUS he was empowered by the PRA. He even claims that this makes Biden's case worse because Biden was not PotUS when he removed classified documents. The PRA, however, says the exact opposite of what Trump claims. The PRA states that any official document, classified or not, must remain under the jurisdiction of the government (typically NARA). It states that Trump had no right whatsoever to take any official document when he left office.
We are living in very strange and troubling times. The GOP has turned into a cult that blindly follows a vindictive, narcissistic scoundrel who is entirely out of touch with reality and our media treats this nutcase as though he were rational and worthy of respect.
This easily falsified bullshit illustrates that Trump, somehow, does not seem to care that his lies are known as such or he is so living in his own little alternate reality that he actually believes this crap. This is such bizarre behavior, one would think that he could be diagnosed with a mental illness.
Yet people continue to defend him and intend to vote to yield the power of the US presidency to this nutcase.
This sort of comment is totally normal for Trump, he says deliberately inaccurate statements like this any time he talks for more than 30 seconds.
Trump defenders are in denial mode.
I’m surprised he hasn’t brought in Sean Spicer to back him up on this thought.
these are funny.
Cartels are dangerous,, lie,,,
we could be facing depression: Lie
we’re close to a war.. Lie..
anyone republican could do this for a similarly long Kamala speech. Any opinion she offers that doesn’t match republican spin on an issue is a lie or distortion. its counting how many times trump doesn’t parrot dnc talking points.
I find Trump's incessant lies to be a very serious matter. As Obama noted, elections have consequences.
Partisan media lying about what constitutes a lie is funny. You can either laugh or cry that people fall for it. I choose joy.
Trump defenders are funny.
He is , by far, the most reckless and inaccurate public speaker , in a prominent national position, we have ever seen. To say he is no worse than Kamala Harris is laughably dishonest.