Trump is lying: a daily diary

[JimandChristy 1,689]

21 minutes ago, jg121783 said:

 

The Washington Compost.

Funny how you attack the paper but all the lies are straight from the horses mouth.

[CaliCat 3,957]

13 minutes ago, JimandChristy said:

Funny how you attack the paper but all the lies are straight from the horses mouth.

 

Well, in a way, the other posted just proved your point for you. 

 

Bridges for sale. Coming soon to a circus near you!

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

58 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

Well, in a way, the other posted just proved your point for you. 

 

Bridges for sale. Coming soon to a circus near you!

No Bridges but we have three rings 

 

"Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses"

Edited July 20, 2017 by Il Mango Dulce

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/07/20/does-trump-know-hes-lying/

Does Trump Know He’s Lying?

 

Yes. He just doesn’t care.

by Nancy LeTourneau

July 20, 2017 2:27 PM

POLITICAL ANIMAL

 

Shortly after the inauguration in January, Jennifer Rubin posed an interesting question.

The supposition among pundits, elected officials and political insiders is that Trump, like his argument over the inaugural crowd size, “lies” to make himself feel better. His staff salutes, repeats his lies and then gets bashed. What if, however, he thoroughly, “honestly” believes his crazy, unsubstantiated claims? When he denies saying something, what if he honestly does not, cannot recall statements that now come back to haunt him?

…Before reverting to sycophantic form after his primary defeat, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), incensed about Trump’s assertion that Cruz’s father participated in the JFK assassination, called Trump a “pathological liar.” He said, “He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. And he had a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook. His response is to accuse everybody else of lying.”

Putting aside the psychiatric lingo, Cruz’s essential point — Trump cannot tell what is real and what is not — surely looks right on point less than a week into the presidency.

We may now have an answer to the question about whether or not the president is aware that he’s lying.

During the campaign, this is the kind of thing that Trump said repeatedly.

He claimed that the job numbers were rigged and that unemployment was actually as high as 42%. But at a “Made in America” roundtable discussion this week, he said this:

 

 

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When we got those great reports, I kept saying, ‘you know, those numbers, whether it’s 4.2, 4.3 [percent], I said, for a long time, they don’t matter. But now I accept those numbers very proudly. I say they do matter.

In February, Sean Spicer said this at a press briefing when asked about the jobs report:

I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly: ‘They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.’ “

There was a hint of a smile on Spicer’s face when he said that, so it was hard to tell if he was joking. Based on what Trump said this week, it’s clear he wasn’t.

All of this adds up to the fact that Trump was lying during the campaign and knew it.

None of this is a refutation of what I’ve written previously about his mental unfitness for office. Contrary to what Rubin was suggesting, he knows the difference between the truth and a lie. The situation is actually more dire. He doesn’t care.

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 hour ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/07/20/does-trump-know-hes-lying/

Does Trump Know He’s Lying?

 

Yes. He just doesn’t care.

by Nancy LeTourneau

July 20, 2017 2:27 PM

POLITICAL ANIMAL

 

Shortly after the inauguration in January, Jennifer Rubin posed an interesting question.

The supposition among pundits, elected officials and political insiders is that Trump, like his argument over the inaugural crowd size, “lies” to make himself feel better. His staff salutes, repeats his lies and then gets bashed. What if, however, he thoroughly, “honestly” believes his crazy, unsubstantiated claims? When he denies saying something, what if he honestly does not, cannot recall statements that now come back to haunt him?

…Before reverting to sycophantic form after his primary defeat, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), incensed about Trump’s assertion that Cruz’s father participated in the JFK assassination, called Trump a “pathological liar.” He said, “He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. And he had a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook. His response is to accuse everybody else of lying.”

Putting aside the psychiatric lingo, Cruz’s essential point — Trump cannot tell what is real and what is not — surely looks right on point less than a week into the presidency.

We may now have an answer to the question about whether or not the president is aware that he’s lying.

During the campaign, this is the kind of thing that Trump said repeatedly.

He claimed that the job numbers were rigged and that unemployment was actually as high as 42%. But at a “Made in America” roundtable discussion this week, he said this:

 

 

 Follow

Kyle Griffin 

 

✔@kylegriffin1

Trump on jobs reports: "For a long time, they don't matter. But now I accept those numbers very proudly."

2:07 PM - 19 Jul 2017

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When we got those great reports, I kept saying, ‘you know, those numbers, whether it’s 4.2, 4.3 [percent], I said, for a long time, they don’t matter. But now I accept those numbers very proudly. I say they do matter.

In February, Sean Spicer said this at a press briefing when asked about the jobs report:

I talked to the president prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly: ‘They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.’ “

There was a hint of a smile on Spicer’s face when he said that, so it was hard to tell if he was joking. Based on what Trump said this week, it’s clear he wasn’t.

All of this adds up to the fact that Trump was lying during the campaign and knew it.

None of this is a refutation of what I’ve written previously about his mental unfitness for office. Contrary to what Rubin was suggesting, he knows the difference between the truth and a lie. The situation is actually more dire. He doesn’t care.

 

 

At this point I don't believe he even knows he is lying anymore. He sounds erratic in his speech, then there is covfefe, and more and more people are beginning to question his mental health, or what little left he has of it. It's sad for him and for the country. 

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

As I said several times here, he is branding himself to feed his frail ego by repeating lies, things he wants to be true but that aren't.
His pattern has been to lie and repeat....lie and repeat....the people who fall for it are being brainwashed, he loves the uneducated as he said.
Why ? Because they fall for it and he loves to manipulate them. Look at this forum and some people parroting his lies as if they are facts.

Just like he repeats "fake news" and "failing this and that", he believes that repeating a lie will be talked about so much that it will morph into a
perceived truth and become a fact. He is a creator of untruths because he craves praise and attention, he thinks it boosts him when in reality
it will bring him down, lie by lie.
That is narcissistic thinking, speak lies, speak whatever you want to be a fact and it will become a fact. He is one sick puppy.
If people truly voted for him believing he will create jobs fine, but when they start repeating the same lies and actually believe them then I
gasp at what this country has become under this man.
Even when faced with hard cold facts he denies them, according to his lawyer from way back, Cohn, that is what he taught Trump.
Trump embraced it and lapped it right up. Research his past to understand who he is today.

So 42% was the unemployment rate under Obama but now he accepts the 4.whatever rate which was fake before. Right.  I ask myself what kind of an educated human being
believes this trash and keeps on defending his lies ?
He knows he lies and that is why he accuses others of it.
 

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

24 minutes ago, Ebunoluwa said:

As I said several times here, he is branding himself to feed his frail ego by repeating lies, things he wants to be true but that aren't.
His pattern has been to lie and repeat....lie and repeat....the people who fall for it are being brainwashed, he loves the uneducated as he said.
Why ? Because they fall for it and he loves to manipulate them. Look at this forum and some people parroting his lies as if they are facts.

Just like he repeats "fake news" and "failing this and that", he believes that repeating a lie will be talked about so much that it will morph into a
perceived truth and become a fact. He is a creator of untruths because he craves praise and attention, he thinks it boosts him when in reality
it will bring him down, lie by lie.
That is narcissistic thinking, speak lies, speak whatever you want to be a fact and it will become a fact. He is one sick puppy.
If people truly voted for him believing he will create jobs fine, but when they start repeating the same lies and actually believe them then I
gasp at what this country has become under this man.
Even when faced with hard cold facts he denies them, according to his lawyer from way back, Cohn, that is what he taught Trump.
Trump embraced it and lapped it right up. Research his past to understand who he is today.

So 42% was the unemployment rate under Obama but now he accepts the 4.whatever rate which was fake before. Right.  I ask myself what kind of an educated human being
believes this trash and keeps on defending his lies ?
He knows he lies and that is why he accuses others of it.
 

[CaliCat 3,957]

The guy's a trove of lies.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/us/politics/donald-trump-interview-factcheck.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

 

He misrepresented how health insurance works.

“You’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time you’re 70, you get a nice plan,” Mr. Trump said. “Here’s something where you walk up and say, ‘I want my insurance.’”

Mr. Trump’s description aligns with life insurance or Social Security more accurately than health insurance. A 21-year-old who took out a whole life insurance policy, for example, would pay premiums until death, and the amount accumulated over the decades would be paid out to beneficiaries.

 

He falsely said the wife of the Japanese prime minister ‘doesn’t speak English,’ not even ‘hello.’

Motoko Rich, The Times’s Tokyo bureau chief, refuted Mr. Trump’s claim. Though Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks Japanese in many public international appearances, she delivered a 15-minute speechin English in New York three years ago and made a public service announcement on H.I.V./AIDS for MTV in English.

 

He said he discussed adoptions with Mr. Putin. That’s a proxy for sanctions.

As The Interpreter column explained in The Times, Russia’s ban on American adoptions of Russian orphans is “practically synonymous” with sanctions on Russian officials. The Magnitsky Act of 2012, named for a young Russian lawyer who died in a Moscow prison after exposing corruption, prohibits Russian officials responsible for human rights abuses from entering the United States and freezes their American assets. The law infuriated Mr. Putin, who retaliated by halting adoptions of Russian children by Americans.

He incorrectly recounted the history of the F.B.I. and falsely said its director ‘really reports directly to the president of the United States.’

Mr. Trump said that the F.B.I. started reporting to the Justice Department “out of courtesy” after President Richard M. Nixon, but that “there was nothing official, there was nothing from Congress” to cement that relationship.

The F.B.I. was founded in 1908 by Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to conduct investigations for the Justice Department, according to the bureau’s website, and Congress expanded its jurisdiction through legislation in the next decade. It officially became the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935.

 

He described savings from health care and tax cuts as a ‘windfall’ for the middle class. The cuts are generally more beneficial to the wealthy.

The original version of the Senate health care bill would have repealed taxes totaling $700 billion over the next decade, with most of the money lining the pockets of the richest Americans, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

 

He incorrectly said Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, was ‘from Baltimore.’

Mr. Trump suggested that Mr. Rosenstein was from Baltimore and might have Democratic leanings because “there are very few Republicans in Baltimore, if any.” But Mr. Rosenstein grew up in Philadelphia and attended the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Trump’s alma mater. He was appointed the United States attorney for Maryland, based in Baltimore, in 2005 by President George W. Bush, a Republican.

Mr. Rosenstein lives in Bethesda, Md., a suburb of Washington.

He offered a distorted history of Paris and Napoleon.

Mr. Trump may have been confusing Napoleon Bonaparte with his nephew, Louis Napoleon or Napoleon III, when he claimed that Napoleon “designed Paris.” In 1853, about 30 years after the first Napoleon died, Napoleon III appointed Georges-Eugène Haussmann to carry out his reconstruction project, envisioned to accommodate rapid population growth and to discourage future revolutions, according to the Museum of the City.

“His one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death,” Mr. Trump continued.

While he identified the correct Napoleon, his version of the 18th-century conqueror’s failed attempt to invade Russia is garbled. Napoleon’s 1812 campaign into Russia lasted about six months, not, as Mr. Trump suggested, one night. And the French emperor did take Moscow in September, before withdrawing a month later as food supplies began to dwindle. Of nearly half a million men under his command, only about 6,000 made it back home and the others died in battle or s

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

19 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

The guy's a trove of lies.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/us/politics/donald-trump-interview-factcheck.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

 

He misrepresented how health insurance works.

“You’re 21 years old, you start working and you’re paying $12 a year for insurance, and by the time you’re 70, you get a nice plan,” Mr. Trump said. “Here’s something where you walk up and say, ‘I want my insurance.’”

Mr. Trump’s description aligns with life insurance or Social Security more accurately than health insurance. A 21-year-old who took out a whole life insurance policy, for example, would pay premiums until death, and the amount accumulated over the decades would be paid out to beneficiaries.

 

He falsely said the wife of the Japanese prime minister ‘doesn’t speak English,’ not even ‘hello.’

Motoko Rich, The Times’s Tokyo bureau chief, refuted Mr. Trump’s claim. Though Akie Abe, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, speaks Japanese in many public international appearances, she delivered a 15-minute speechin English in New York three years ago and made a public service announcement on H.I.V./AIDS for MTV in English.

 

He said he discussed adoptions with Mr. Putin. That’s a proxy for sanctions.

As The Interpreter column explained in The Times, Russia’s ban on American adoptions of Russian orphans is “practically synonymous” with sanctions on Russian officials. The Magnitsky Act of 2012, named for a young Russian lawyer who died in a Moscow prison after exposing corruption, prohibits Russian officials responsible for human rights abuses from entering the United States and freezes their American assets. The law infuriated Mr. Putin, who retaliated by halting adoptions of Russian children by Americans.

He incorrectly recounted the history of the F.B.I. and falsely said its director ‘really reports directly to the president of the United States.’

Mr. Trump said that the F.B.I. started reporting to the Justice Department “out of courtesy” after President Richard M. Nixon, but that “there was nothing official, there was nothing from Congress” to cement that relationship.

The F.B.I. was founded in 1908 by Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to conduct investigations for the Justice Department, according to the bureau’s website, and Congress expanded its jurisdiction through legislation in the next decade. It officially became the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935.

 

He described savings from health care and tax cuts as a ‘windfall’ for the middle class. The cuts are generally more beneficial to the wealthy.

The original version of the Senate health care bill would have repealed taxes totaling $700 billion over the next decade, with most of the money lining the pockets of the richest Americans, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

 

He incorrectly said Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, was ‘from Baltimore.’

Mr. Trump suggested that Mr. Rosenstein was from Baltimore and might have Democratic leanings because “there are very few Republicans in Baltimore, if any.” But Mr. Rosenstein grew up in Philadelphia and attended the University of Pennsylvania, Mr. Trump’s alma mater. He was appointed the United States attorney for Maryland, based in Baltimore, in 2005 by President George W. Bush, a Republican.

Mr. Rosenstein lives in Bethesda, Md., a suburb of Washington.

He offered a distorted history of Paris and Napoleon.

Mr. Trump may have been confusing Napoleon Bonaparte with his nephew, Louis Napoleon or Napoleon III, when he claimed that Napoleon “designed Paris.” In 1853, about 30 years after the first Napoleon died, Napoleon III appointed Georges-Eugène Haussmann to carry out his reconstruction project, envisioned to accommodate rapid population growth and to discourage future revolutions, according to the Museum of the City.

“His one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death,” Mr. Trump continued.

While he identified the correct Napoleon, his version of the 18th-century conqueror’s failed attempt to invade Russia is garbled. Napoleon’s 1812 campaign into Russia lasted about six months, not, as Mr. Trump suggested, one night. And the French emperor did take Moscow in September, before withdrawing a month later as food supplies began to dwindle. Of nearly half a million men under his command, only about 6,000 made it back home and the others died in battle or s

extracurricular  activities and Moscow go hand in hand. SO TRUE.

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 hour ago, Il Mango Dulce said:

extracurricular  activities and Moscow go hand in hand. SO TRUE.

 

And the more the so-called president denies any connection or collusion with Russia, the more Russians keep coming out of his closet. 

 

The winning is just unstoppable!  LOL.

[JimandChristy 1,689]

20 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

And the more the so-called president denies any connection or collusion with Russia, the more Russians keep coming out of his closet. 

 

The winning is just unstoppable!  LOL.

Donnie is going down!

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 minute ago, JimandChristy said:

Donnie is going down!

 

 

But Hillary! But Obama! Seriously, these people need to come up with new excuses.

[CaliCat 3,957]

1 hour ago, JimandChristy said:

Donnie is going down!

 

 

And he will pull everyone with him. A winner, for sure.

[CaliCat 3,957]

And the weekend would not be complete without yet anther lie by the so-called president. While Obama got Bin Laden, it seems Trump can't find his own meds. LOL. 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/23/us/politics/trump-tweet-new-york-times-national-security.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

 

How Trump Got It Wrong in Saying The Times ‘Foiled’ Killing of ISIS Leader

 

WASHINGTON — President Trump wrongly tweeted on Saturday that The New York Times had “foiled” an attempt by the United States military to kill Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State.

“The Failing New York Times foiled U.S. attempt to kill the single most wanted terrorist, Al-Baghdadi,” the president wrote. “Their sick agenda over National Security.”

Mr. Trump’s statement appeared to be based on a report by Fox News; he is known to be an avid viewer, and a version of the story was broadcast about 25 minutes before he posted. The report said that The Times had disclosed intelligence in an article on June 8, 2015, about an American military raid in Syria that led to the death of one of Mr. Baghdadi’s key lieutenants, Abu Sayyaf, and the capture of his wife, who played an important role in the group.

That Fox News report cited comments by Gen. Tony Thomas, the head of the United States Special Operations Command, in an interview conducted Friday by the network’s intelligence correspondent, Catherine Herridge, at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

General Thomas said that a valuable lead on Mr. Baghdadi’s whereabouts “was leaked in a prominent national newspaper about a week later and that lead went dead.” He did not name The Times.

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

And there you have it, he spreads these lies thinking he is helping to sink the NYT.
The only thing sinking and going down with a big fail is Trump and his cling-ons.

 

He is also setting the stage, so he thinks, about going into the media himself after he is done messing up the country so he must of course
try to sink the competition. I need to find that article where he stated going into the media TV or paper or both.