Robert Reich: Trump lies more and more every day (40 per week now)

[Demovictory9]

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/reich/article/Robert-Reich-Trump-lies-more-and-more-every-day-13090304.php

As the political season heats up, Donald Trump is ramping up his lies through three amplifiers: his rallies, Fox News and his Twitter account.
The three function as a big propaganda machine.

According to the Fact Checker’s database, the average daily rate of Trump’s false or misleading claims is climbing.

The problem isn’t just the number or flagrancy of the lies — for example, that Vladimir Putin and the Russians didn’t intervene in the 2016 election on his behalf, or that the Robert Mueller investigation is part of a Democratic plot to remove him.

And it’s not just that the lies are about big, important public issues — as when he says immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans, or that trade wars are harmless.

The biggest problem is that his lies aren’t subject to the filters traditionally applied to presidential statements — a skeptical press, experts who debunk falsehoods, and respected politicians who publicly disagree.
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Trump's Political Lies Blanket TV, Twitter - And They Are Being Tracked

Lies can be fun -- especially in fictional TV dramas and comedies, and maybe even with some reality shows. Political lies? It's not a game show. On TV and other media, falsehoods have real-life consequences.

At the beginning of his administration, President Trump’s false claims from his words/statements/tweets, on TV and other media platforms, had been running around eight lies a week.

Now -- through late June -- it is up to 40 lies a week, according to research from The Toronto Star.

Most of his lies comes in speeches, 648. Why? His speeches aren’t always fact-checked. Or they spill from off-the-cuff, improvisational stuff, according to analysis. Lies in interviews are now at 380; informal remarks at events, 369; Twitter, 339; and press conferences and so-called “scrums” -- informal gathering of the press -- 192.



https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/322488/trumps-political-lies-blanket-tv-twitter-and-t.html

[duforsure]

1. He has to lie

And attack the truth in order to make his propaganda work. We see now the more lies he tells the more he has to tell to cover his original lies. This will only continue to escalate, and like ponzi schemers and con men it almost always collapses on them, as this will on trump and putin too. His level of corruption ,and crimes though out his career is coming back to haunt him now, and its just the tip of the iceburg.

[democratisphere]

2. And still the redumbliCONS support their massive liar.

[mucifer]

3. I believe one huge problem is the news generally normalizes his behavior and even continues

to treat him as presidential.

[Timmygoat]

4. One thing that irks me

Is that a traitor like Trump who is sucking up to Russia, is picking on black people who take a knee at football games, they are the patriots, he is the traitor.