Posted on 07/14/2017 6:29:38 PM PDT by Ennis85
Over the past two years, many thousands of broadcast hours and probably millions of words have been devoted to Donald Trumps relationship with the truth. Equally, the President has made accusations of dishonesty and bias against the media and his political opponents a central part of his persona and presidency.
What lies are told about the President? Is he lying when he makes these allegations? In a feverish atmosphere of claim and counterclaim, when everyone seems to reflexively accuse everyone else of fake news, it can be difficult to know whats what.
There are many articles that exist detailing lies and misleading claims made by the Trump administration. This article is intended as a neutral, reliable analysis of the lies, false allegations and misleading claims made about and against Donald Trump since his inauguration in January 2017. Weve attempted to strip away the hyperbole, name-calling and generalizations, and examine the patterns and trends at work: what characterizes these lies and exaggerations, the effect they have, what might explain them.
We pay particular attention to selected examples claims that have gained prominence among the mainstream opposition to Trump, revealing much about the methods, priorities, and tone of that opposition, and illustrating how this movement both cultivates and plays off a number of caricatures of the 45th President and at times falls prey to a handful of identifiable and repeated errors of thought.
This is nothing new. Supporters and opponents of every high-profile politician in American history have done exactly the same, but in the current cultural atmosphere, where the truth is universally, even manically, exalted as an abstract concept but then widely degraded in practice, its essential to confront, correct, and analyze patterns of falsehoods like these.
(Excerpt) Read more at snopes.com ...
"Taxation macht frei."
For the blacks:
“welfare macht frei”
The big lie from the marx-o-crats.
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