- Trump, the liar-in-chief, is not just an ordinary liar he’s a pathological liar. All I’ve ever seen him do was lie; every word I’ve ever heard come from his mouth was a lie. And he’s not even good at it, he lies about things that are mostly easy to check on and find the truth out about. He started with lying about Obama and every word out of his mouth during his campaign was either a lie or something stupid he just made up off the top of his head. He tweets crazy lies and verbal attacks on anybody and/or anything at 3:00 in the morning. And he mostly lies about stuff that can be easily disproved. Trump even creates his own fake news, for example, a Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs, it’s fake.
- Even more serious news than fake magazine covers came out on August 1st 2017 about fake news that Trump and Fox News conspired together to create. The Fox News Channel and a wealthy supporter of President Trump worked in concert under the watchful eye of the White House to concoct a story about the death of a young Democratic National Committee aide, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday (August 1st 2017). The explosive claim is part of a lawsuit filed against Fox News by Rod Wheeler, a longtime paid commentator for the news network. The suit was obtained exclusively by NPR.
Wheeler alleges Fox News and the Trump supporter intended to deflect public attention from growing concern about the administration’s ties to the Russian government. His suit charges that a Fox News reporter created quotations out of thin air and attributed them to him to propel her story. Fox’s president of news, Jay Wallace, told NPR on Monday (July 31st 2017) that there was no “concrete evidence” that Wheeler was misquoted by the reporter, Malia Zimmerman. The news executive did not address a question about the story’s allegedly partisan origins. Fox News declined to allow Zimmerman to comment for this story.
The story, which first aired in May, was retracted by Fox News a week later. Fox News has, to date, taken no action in response to what it said was a failure to adhere to the network’s standards.
Mr. Rich, who worked for the Democratic National Committee, was fatally shot in July 2016. The case is unsolved. The retracted article, citing law enforcement sources, said Mr. Rich had shared thousands of D.N.C. emails with WikiLeaks — a theory that would undercut the assertions that Russia had interfered in the election on behalf of Mr. Trump. Mr. Wheeler, who is black, states in the suit that he has faced discrimination at Fox News because of his race. Mr. Wheeler, who is paid a set amount for each appearance he makes on the network, says that he has received less airtime, money and notoriety than his white colleagues.
On All In with Chris Hayes The President of the United States stands accused, in a federal lawsuit, of conspiring with Fox News to promote a fringe conspiracy theory about a murdered DNC staffer, Seth Rich, in order to invalidate the Russia scandal.
On The Rachel Maddow Show Paul Butler, former federal prosecutor, talks with Joy-Ann Reid about whether Donald Trump can legally be compelled to testify about his role in fabricating a fake news story in a lawsuit against Fox News.
- During the campaign Trump claimed that 4.9% unemployment was “phony”, that the real number was as high as 42%. During the depression in the 1930s unemployment was only as high as 25%; do you know what this country would look like with 42% unemployment, it would look like a 3rd world country here. On March 10th the newest job numbers came out at 4.7% unemployment and Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, said that Trump wanted him to quote Trump saying “they may have been phony in the past but it’s very real now” then Spicer laughed. The numbers were done the same way by the same agency so to say that the numbers were phony before but real now doesn’t even make any sense and it’s an insult to one’s intelligence. And on top of it Trump takes credit for good things that happened that he had nothing to do with, like a 4.7 unemployment rate which he had absolutely nothing to do with what so ever. Trump hasn’t done anything about the unemployment rate one way or the other, the unemployment rate was from what Obama had done previously because the unemployment rate had been dropping for more than a year before Trump got into office. The inauguration was on January 20th 2017 here is what things looked like the day before Trump was President on January 19th. Or like companies that increased jobs even though they may have planned to do that a year or more before Trump got into office. Trump lies to the point that not only does he not actually care but it’s an insult to one’s intelligence, at this point people have to be truly stupid to believe anything that Trump says or they just don’t care anymore, which is a mistake.
On The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell In December, Chuck Jones, the head of the union representing Carrier workers, was attacked on Twitter for saying Trump was wrong to claim he helped save “a minimum of 1,100 jobs” at the plant. We now know who was telling the truth. Jones gets the last word.
- Trump spoke at CPAC and he was talking about the lines outside to get into hear him went 6 blocks. That was easy enough to prove or disprove, people took cameras outside, there were no lines outside, nobody was outside. And he just keeps talking about how much he won the election by (“biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan”, nope, it wasn’t), how big his crowds were for the inauguration (millions, “this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period”, Sean Spicer said, no it wasn’t, not even). There were photos taken from the same place in Trump’s and in previous inaugurations that anyone with eyes could see the obvious difference, but photos didn’t seem to make a difference to Trump. And the fact that a large part of the inauguration route was empty didn’t seem to make a difference to Trump either so that was a fight for the 1st week or 2 after he got into office. Trump even made up a story about the rain on inauguration day that never happened. And Trump keeps talking about how good his TV ratings are (I don’t know about the ratings, he turns everything into a circus, but why does a President even care about that).
- In March Trump started accusing Obama of a felony federal crime which is wire tapping Trump Tower and Trump’s phones without a warrant before the election in a tweet. Trump was asked to provide proof by 3/13/17 but Trump has no proof or evidence of that what so ever, there is no basis in fact or even reality. And that’s not even something Obama could have done even if he wanted to. Even the agencies that would have actually done the wire tapping, if Obama had actually done any wire tapping, said that it’s not true. And it’s not like Mr. Obama would have been running around through Trump Tower with wires and tape recorders himself. Obama was a constitutional attorney if he ever had any wire tapping done of anybody at all there would have been a warrant. Trump and his buddy Jeff Sessions at the Justice Department asked for more time so they had until 3/20 to comply but nothing was ever produced, it was totally a wild goose chase. Then in April Trump started blaming Susan Rice, the former National Security Adviser under Mr. Obama, for wire tapping, yet another wild goose chase. Trump even dragged one of his Republican cohorts, US Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, who, as House Intelligence Committee Chairman, was supposed to be investigating the Trump Russian connection issue, into this wire tapping mess to try to create a fake scandal about the wire tapping claim. Trump and Nunes were trying to make it look like Nunes found some documents proving Trump’s wire tapping claim. But that didn’t work out that well for them especially for Devin Nunes, who, ended up stepping down as House Intelligence Committee Chairman. Just more of Trump’s lies, made up crap, delusions, hallucinations, distractions or what ever you want to call them.
- Trump’s people lie so much that one of them, Kellyanne Conway (a senior advisor), said something was an ”alternative fact” which is actually a lie. So then everybody was talking about Trump and his “alternative facts”. People are entitled to their own opinion but not their own facts, there are no “alternative facts”, either it is a fact or it is not a fact. Trump was speaking at a rally on the February 18th and he was talking about a terrorist attack in Sweden that happened on the February 17th but the Prime Minister of Sweden said he didn’t know what Trump was talking about because there was no terrorist attack in Sweden and asked what Trump was smoking. Kellyanne Conway said that there was a terrorist attack, a massacre in Bowling Green, Kentucky, she made it up there was no massacre in Bowling Green. Kellyanne Conway even said that microwave ovens can spy on you, no they can’t.
And don’t even get me started about White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, on a daily basis he aggressively defends the indefensible, Trump. And with no facts what so ever Spicer attacks the media in the process. And the new White House Press Secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, lies as much as the former White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer.
The issue is not who is standing at the podium and lying, the issue is that they are lying at all. You can not believe anything Trump says or that any of his people say, Trump does not have a credible bone in his body so people have to watch what he does not what he says because what he says are lies and a lot of it doesn’t even make any sense and he says one thing and then does a 180 degree turn to do something totally different.
- And, by the way, if you like the idea of the wall between the US and Mexico then I hope you like it enough to pay for it because that’s who’s paying for it, not Mexico, not before or after the wall is built, that is if the wall gets built at all.
- Huffington Post even had an article about Trump’s lies named “The First 100 Lies: The Trump Team’s Flurry Of Falsehoods”. An even larger list, basically a catalog of every lie, came out in the New York Times on June 23rd 2017 named President Trump’s Lies, the Definitive List or simply “Trump’s Lies”. There were so many lies that I did not mention them all here nor did I go through either the Huffington Post’s list of them nor the New York Times’ list of them in writing this post. But click on either article’s title to go through a list of more of Trump’s lies, they are both ridicules.
On The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell The New York Times Sunday published an extraordinary definitive list of the more than 100 lies Donald Trump has told as president. Lawrence O’Donnell talks to Stuart Thompson, who worked on the piece.
On The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell Kurt Andersen and Lawrence O’Donnell discuss Donald Trump’s many lies in office and a new poll that shows only 36% now view the American president as “honest” – which comes as the Trump White House has decided to pick a fight with the press corps.
