Posted on 04/16/2017 5:02:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
The furor over Trump’s tweet regarding being wiretapped lives on. His detractors characterize everything that comes out of his mouth as either annoying, destructive or an outright lie. Since these people cannot be used as a gauge of his veracity, I decided it was important to do my own analysis.
My interest started after I wrote a column about factors surrounding the issue of his tweet stating he was wiretapped. I took the position that you had to analyze his statement and not take it literally. He really meant he and his people were having their activities and communications surveilled and the word “wiretapping” was a catchall. A friend queried me, asking “since when should we not take what a president says literally?” The simple reply: “Obama.”
This is not a disguised attack on Obama, simply because he was not the first president to lie to the American people. When I say a “lie,” I mean a misstatement of fact that was intentionally designed to mislead the American people. That would rule out the misstatement by George W. Bush regarding WMDs in Iraq. That is because there was legitimate worldwide intelligence that Hussein had WMDs. Also, he had used WMDs many times on his own people. Additionally, there was clear evidence – way after the fact -- of WMDs found buried in Iraq.
Lies by a president need to be of a significant nature. Little lies are told all the time to mislead us. We should focus only on the big ones which really impact our lives or cost lives. A perfect example was the lie President Lyndon Johnson told about the action in the Gulf of Tonkin which was used to escalate our involvement in the Vietnam War. Another that comes to mind is “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” That one is not nearly as important as LBJ’s, but came at the wrong time and caused a constitutional crisis.
President Obama had two humongous lies which were of great significance. First, there was Benghazi. This lie came at a critical time in 2012, just two short months before the presidential election. The incumbent did not want his Middle East policy described day after day in the press as a failure nor did he want four American deaths hung around his neck. That is when he sent out Susan Rice to execute the myth of the internet documentary causing an uproar across the Muslim world. This was an outright lie and was a centerpiece of a PR campaign to engineer his reelection.
The second major lie, which is far more reaching, is the lie about the crimes done by Lois Lerner and her crew of crooks at the IRS. Mr. Obama told Bill O’Reilly there wasn’t a “smidgen” of evidence that there was corruption at the IRS. Obama’s Justice Department buried the prosecution which was dictated by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s report. The after effects have been massive as the agency has been largely neutered by Congress. The budget for next year will be a 21% reduction in real terms and a 30% reduction in cost-adjusted terms from six years ago. The agency is a mess and everyone is baffled why the current Commissioner of the IRS has not been fired because he perpetuated the crimes and has not cleaned house. The recent report that the IRS has stolen money from innocent citizens because of the nature of their legal cash deposits just expedites the nosedive in terms of creditability for the IRS, all engineered under Obama.
We are now facing another Obama lie that has cost lives, has endangered Americans and could endanger American military members in the near future. In 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry said the State Department “got 100 percent of the chemical weapons out” of Syria. Susan Rice was still furthering that statement even this January.
We now know that was also a lie. There are only three scenarios here that could have happened, and two make the Obama administration statement a lie. First, they did not get all the chemical weapons. Second, they did not destroy all the chemical weapons manufacturing capability. Third, the only possible salvation for the Obama administration on this issue is that the chemicals were provided to Assad by the Russians or the Iranians. Personally, I am picking one of the first two scenarios and that makes it another major lie.
And we have not even confronted the lies by Obama about our health care that helped to catapult the ACA into law and control over our national health care system.
I may be wrong, but I cannot think of one lie from Trump that has had any major consequences. There is no question that, at times, Trump paints pictures that are different than reality. Trump haters think everything he says is a lie. Until he says something that seriously affects our public policy or actually costs Americans lives, his “lies” are pedestrian political pabulum.
I wouldn’t care if it was a lie.
It Distracted Big Time from the Russia nonsense and put the dems on defensive.
The days of the “gentleman loser”, i.e., George Will, are over.
Wait...wut?
Two? Not on the list of "two humongous lies"....
"You can keep your plan if you like it. Period."
Please, add more. But that omission reminds me of the $11,500 deductible I pay.
My interest started after I wrote a column about factors surrounding the issue of his tweet stating he was wiretapped. I took the position that you had to analyze his statement and not take it literally. He really meant he and his people were having their activities and communications surveilled and the word “wiretapping” was a catchall. A friend queried me, asking “since when should we not take what a president says literally?” The simple reply: “Obama.”
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Not even a factor. As Trump himself pointed out, “wires tapped” was in quotes in the original tweet, indicating that it wasn’t meant to be taken literally.
Bill Clinton called the video tapes of him with Charlie Trie films. No one except Rush made notice.
“I didn’t get elected to help fat cat bankers on Wall Street.”
Jon Corzine - not so much detained for questioning in the theft of $1.6 billion dollars from clients.
The furor over Trump’s tweet regarding being wiretapped lives on.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Furor? facts have proven President rump 100% correct.Just ask Susan Rice about doing Obama’s bidding.
And Obama? Where is he? In hiding in French Polynesia.
Obama Avoiding subpoena by the Congressional House and Senate Committees on Intelligence.
That whips up a lot of left furor.
Obama should be subpoenaed and arrested for treason and sedition.Same with Rice. That’s what the furor is all about. The lefty effers can smell it coming.
We have had a president for the last 8 years who never said what was true or what he actually believed. Obamaisms have become the standard of presidential speech, especially for liberals.
Now comes a president who does not give a thought to how he will say what he thinks. He just talks. Sometimes it is garbled but typically it is powerful and brilliant, cutting to the essence of the matter.
Liberals cannot understand President Trump. They are so used to having to parse every word Obama said that they are left dumbfounded with Trump.
So, because it is their primary mode of understanding, they believe every lie about Trump that is spoken. They believe he is vulgar, misogynistic, hates the disabled, and makes up ridiculous charges.
Of course, nothing liberals believe about Trump is true. They sincerely believe truth is lies and lies are truth. How else is it possible to understand their deep love and respect for Hillary?
We know Hillary as a foul-mouthed, traitorous, thief and murderess who amassed a large fortune by selling her government influence.
Liberals know her as a sweet, thoughtful, capable, gentle woman of principle who never considers her self-interest but always puts others first. Can both be true? No.
We are in a new age, an age where truth is spoken with no apology. Lots of liberal heads will explode before they finally get it, if they ever do. In the meantime we just keep on winning. MAGA
But Trump was telling the truth; he and his people were under illegal NSA surveillance.
As an astute commentator has said — you can take President Trump literally, or you can take him seriously.
He sometimes speaks in an “expansive” way (he’s a New Yorker) and if people really insist on taking him literally, those people might think he is a clown or even a liar.
But if you take him seriously, you realize that he’s right on target and really understands what’s wrong with the country, and really has a plan to fix it.
Journalists take him literally. They should take him seriously — almost everyone else does.
“There is no question that, at times, Trump paints pictures that are different than reality. “
Just FUD to set up the propaganda that Trump lies.
That's the tragedy of it. Lying has now been institutionalized. It's a valid part of governance.
Well everyone knows that arrogant pos former occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave lied constantly, but than, he’s a liberal and lying comes natural to them.
I believe all or almost all of President Trump’s tweets have been vindicated after all the dust has settled. People think he tweets as a spur of moment thing. His tweets are well planned and pretty well executed. The concept is one I agree with tactically: Outrageous but true. The liberals glom onto the concept of outrageous and then look more and more like the fools and liars that they are. And when needed, the tweets become “squirrels” that shift the news.
I don’t give a rats atz!
Whatever Trump says or does is for a reason and I’m not smart enough or qualified to question his motives.
I have faith in him, others should try it.
Be sure to read the article before jumping to conclusions on the title...
“Wiretapped” means listened in on, bugged, spied on, etc. How can that be a “Trump lie?”
Be sure to read the article before jumping to conclusions on the title...
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Now why would anyone do that. It’s too damn easy to make assumptions.
“...lying comes natural to them.”
I don’t know if that is the best way to describe it. It seems that they have no real concept of lying, it is more like whatever they say becomes the truth because they said it and anything said by the other side is a lie because of who said it. They would never admit that but it seems to be their modus operandi. In their world if Obama says that a gnat’s ass will stretch over a fifty five gallon drum they believe it but if Trump says that the Sun rises in the East they think someone has reversed the rotation of the Earth because he has to be lying.
Perhaps the biggest lie in American political history was Obama promising that the Affordable Care Act would save people money. It did just the opposite.
And the second biggest lie was the Democrats calling this costly and destructive piece of legislation ‘Affordable’.
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