Posted on 09/24/2016 12:06:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
All politicians bend the truth to fit their purposes, including Hillary Clinton. But Donald J. Trump has unleashed a blizzard of falsehoods, exaggerations and outright lies in the general election, peppering his speeches, interviews and Twitter posts with untruths so frequent that they can seem flighty or random — even compulsive.
However, a closer examination, over the course of a week, revealed an unmistakable pattern: Virtually all of Mr. Trump’s falsehoods directly bolstered a powerful and self-aggrandizing narrative depicting him as a heroic savior for a nation menaced from every direction. Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist, described the practice as creating “an unreality bubble that he surrounds himself with.”
The New York Times closely tracked Mr. Trump’s public statements from Sept. 15-21, and assembled a list of his 31 biggest whoppers, many of them uttered repeatedly. This total excludes dozens more: Untruths that appeared to be mere hyperbole or humor, or delivered purely for effect, or what could generously be called rounding errors. Mr. Trump’s campaign, which dismissed this compilation as “silly,” offered responses on every point, but in none of the following instances did the responses support his assertions.
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The Slimes better get used to it.
Didn’t the New Yawk Slimes just “endorse” the Queen of Whoppers this morning? The only thing worse than a hypocrite is a commie hypocrite in the DNC’s propaganda “media”.
The smell of desperation in the air.
Lies are the bread and butter of the NYT.
Every one of their so-called whoppers is simply a partisan rendition of a comment by Trump.
For example, Trump saying he opposed the war.
1. There is no doubt that he opposed it shortly afterward.
2. He appeared on Howard Stern as a non-politician and the discussion turned to the invasion of Iraq. Stern asked if he supported such an action if it happened. Trump said, “...I suppose so...” Mind you, this WAS before the invasion despite what the NYT says.
Trump did not say “Absolutely, I support it!” He said an equivocating “I guess so.” In other worlds, EVERYONE would acknowledge that “I guess so.” is the answer of a man who hasn’t yet made up his mind.
There is no public record, but to say a man cannot resolve his mind after such a weak answer in even 24 hours is ridiculous. Also, Trump’s opposition so early in the war when it was far more fashionable to support it, says that Trump probably did decide before the war that he wasn’t in support of the invasion. As I recall, Hans Blix was still offering anti-WMD statements all the way up to the invasion and afterwards.
To put this in perspective, I did support the invasion and the presence of WMDs (or precursors + recipe). I still support the idea of presursors and recipe being present.
Clinton whoppers and excuses:
1. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time.
Ever. These allegations are false.
2. It all depends on what your definition of is, is.
3. Its a vast right wing conspiracy.
4. Its just another thing to throw against the wall to see if it sticks.
5. I dont recall.
6. At this point, what does it matter?
7. We didnt do anything wrong.
8. We didnt know we were doing anything wrong.
9. You cant prove we knew we were doing anything wrong.
10. Theres no evidence of any wrongdoing.
11. There is no controlling legal authority.
12. Thats old news. It’s all been gone over in the last few weeks/ months/ years.
13. I would never do that.
14. Nobody does that
15. Everybody does that.
16. Ah hah hah hahahahaha
17. It was all a mistake/misunderstanding.
18. This is very much like Benghazi. Its just a hit job.
19. They’re just grasping at straws.
20. I havent done the job I should have explaining.
21. Its all a ploy.
22. Im not concerned at all.
23. Its a non event.
24. Its absurd.
25. Its retroactive classification designed to sabotage me.
26. There is no criminal investigation.
27. I can’t recall.
28. Have I ever lied to the American people? I’ve tried not to.
29. I’m not even going to answer that question.
30. Arf, Arf, Arf, Arf
31. There was no classified material on my private server.
32. None of the material on my server was classified at the time.
33. I have not sent or received classified material.
34. No One From the FBI Has “Reached Out” to Me Yet in the Server Investigation.
35. The FBI report is just what I said it was.
36. What I did was allowed. It was allowed by the State Department. The State Department has confirmed that.
37. I think last August I made it clear I’m more than ready to talk to anybody anytime.
38. It was fully above board. Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was using a personal email.
39. The system we used was set up for President Clinton’s office. And it had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service. And there were no security breaches.
40. It’s the same story...it’s not an issue that will affect my campaign or my Presidency.
41. They clarified the rules after I left.
42. We didn’t do anything different from Secretary Powell.
43. “There was no reason I needed to talk to the Inspector General because he could just read the statements I made “in the public arena.”
44. What do you mean wiping the server? With a cloth?
45. I must have Short Circuited.
46. At the end, I chose not to keep my private, personal emails. Emails about planning Chelsea’s wedding or my mother’s funeral arrangements. Condolence notes to friends, as well as yoga routines, family vacations: the other things you typically find in in boxes.”
47. “My emails are so boring. I mean, I’m embarrassed about that - they’re so boring.”
45. “So we’ve already released, I don’t know, 30,000-plus - so what’s a few more?”
47. Colin Powell told me do it
48. “ I cant remember details on points of handling classified information because of a concussion I got.”
49. “I cant recall when I received my security clearance or whether it was carried over from my time in the Senate.”
50. I cant recall any briefing or training by the State Department related to the retention of federal records or the handling of classified information.”
51. ‘I believed that the letter “C” on State Department Emails stood for cookies.
52. “I didn’t know what the ‘(C)’ meant at the beginning of paragraphs... I thought it was referencing paragraphs marked in alphabetical order.”
53. “I’ve overheated, let’s go to Chelsea’s.”
Gee, two major liberal newspapers using the exact same story, with only slight variations in vocabulary, to try and thwart a conservative candidate.
Yeah sure, this is clearly a vast right wing conspiracy lol. Idiots.
It can only be counted a major feather in his cap that The New York Times, America’s premier voice for the Marxist-Leninist Left, goes so far out of its way to trash Trump.
Although I agree with your premise, saying “I guess so” is certainly an affirmation. It has never been taken as anything else but an affirmation, actually. If I ask a friend if he / she wants to go out to dinner and they say, “I guess so”, I don’t say, “Okay, we will stay at home then”.
I may follow up and ask if they are sure, but I wouldn’t assume their affirmation is anything else but what it is.
I’m going to have to disagree. If I said to my wife “Do you want to go to see the baseball game tonight, and she said “I guess so.”, I would be wrong to assume that to be a solid “yes”.
If is an equivocal answer. It’s equivalent to saying “Maybe.”
I don’t want to click the Times. Is there anything substantive about this article?
Washington Post and New York Times, same day....
And I’m the tooth fairy.
MAGGIE HABERMAN loves Whoppers-
slimes editorial staff must be splitting time between their normal activities and writing resumes.
Falsehoods,untruths,lies?
Sounds like NY Times needs to hire him.
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