Posted on 12/31/2018 1:01:17 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Since President Trump’s inauguration, The Post’s fact-checkers have tracked more than 7,600 lies from the president. He’s repeated some of them so frequently that they had to create a whole new Pinocchio category — the “Bottomless Pinocchio” — to do justice to his refusal to relinquish provable falsehoods. Trump’s ability to maintain his parallel universe in which he is responsible for nothing and yet has achieved everything now defines his presidency. Only in that universe is the Islamic State vanquished, climate change a hoax and a wall needed to stop a horde of immigrants.
Trump is getting worse and more dishonest with time. Glenn Kessler writes:
The fusillade of tweets was the start of a year of unprecedented deception during which Trump became increasingly unmoored from the truth. When 2018 began, the president had made 1,989 false and misleading claims, according to The Fact Checker’s database, which tracks every suspect statement uttered by the president. By the end of the year, Trump had accumulated more than 7,600 untruths during his presidency — averaging more than 15 erroneous claims a day during 2018, almost triple the rate from the year before.
The New York Times tries to categorize his lies, which include “repeating and inflating falsehoods, shifting his statements, embellishing or omitting details and offering misleading attacks.”
Trump’s lies are not inconsequential. They are a necessary foundation for his political survival (in an investigation that has indicted more than 30 people, he still screams “Witch hunt!”) and for an agenda that is based on ignorance and deception. And because of the centrality of lying to his survival and agenda, Republicans who continue to support him increasingly must live alongside him in his alternative universe. (When Republicans do refuse to accept his lies, they inevitably...
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The Compost is projecting. Again.
If embellishing or omitting details is a lie, then every reporter on the face of the planet is a liar.
Projecting liars.
Speaking of liars is Jennifer Rubin still claimed to be a Conservative?
7,600 lies. Does Jennifer name them one by one with specifics and why they are lies? didnt think so.
Any opinion that differs from theirs is considered by them a lie. Being a far left communist ideology, that’s about every single one.
Queen #NeverTrump
Interesting to see how the left ‘feels’.
These articles go on for paragraphs without stating a lie that Trump has told. They should start with five so-called lies, & then I’ll decide who’s lying.
And no, I didn’t read beyond what was posted here. ;-)
Turn that WAPO lie light onto Sparticus Booker, Kamala Harris, Fauxahontus, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton and Obama, who REALLY LIED, “ If you want to keep your doctor, you can keep your doctor!”
“..the Islamic State vanquished..” - As a territorial governing body in Syria and Iraq, then apparently YES.
“...climate change a hoax..” - CAGW IS a hoax.
“...a wall needed to stop a horde of immigrants..” - if it is desired to stop a horde, a wall will significantly help.
Are these their strongest points?
What convoluted universe does this woman live in? Oh, that’s right. She resides and works in DC, which I now refer to as Dementia City! Rubin is a Democrat who infiltrated the GOP. A useless DC Repuke!
Jennifer Rubin = RUBBISH
This dopey broad has a JD from Berkeley and she’s writing opinion pieces for the Wash Compost?
What’s the matter Jenny couldn’t hack it in the real world?
Or was your real degree from Berkeley an Mrs. degree?
“Only in that universe is the Islamic State vanquished, climate change a hoax and a wall needed to stop a horde of immigrants.”
1. Somebody show that gal a current map of Syria.
2. The “hoax” of Climate Change is the proposed use of theft and control as the “solutions” to climate change.
3. Wall? Worth a shot. Nothing else has come close to working.
NEVER!
EVER!
Believe anything you read in the Washington Compost!
If having a predetermined spin of a story no matter what happens, or shopping for,slurces that will say what you want them to say....
Yup the libtard media all does this as well.
WaPo and all of the MSM are such total #FakeNews with their claims of “lies” by POTUS Trump. They take any statement they disagree with in any aspect, while they exaggerate or mislead or lie themselves about the same topic, and then assert that Trump has told the “lie”.... then they count every instance in which he has asked a question or expressed doubt, and they call it a “lie”.... They take matters of OPINION call call disagreements “lies”... as though their opinions are facts.
They are propagandists and Jennifer Rubin is among the worst.
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