The toadies keep covering for him
By Jennifer Rubin
June 11 at 11:30 AM
The Post reports: “As of June 7, his 869th day in office, the president has made 10,796 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement the president has uttered.” That was before President Trump declared a brand-new deal with Mexico (false) to avoid tariffs plus a new promise (false) by Mexico to buy more of our agricultural products. He repeats the same lie so many times that new categories were needed to illustrate his dishonesty. (“He also now has earned 21 ‘Bottomless Pinocchios,’ claims that have earned Three or Four Pinocchios and which have been repeated at least 20 times.”)
Trump lies about foreign policy (e.g. we were on the verge of war with North Korea, we cannot tie Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder), his own election statistics, his approval rating among Republicans, the state of the economy, the state of the border, climate change and even his internal polls showing that he is a loser in general-election match-ups against former vice president Joe Biden.
As to the latter, “After being briefed on a devastating 17-state poll conducted by his campaign pollster, Tony Fabrizio, Mr. Trump told aides to deny that his internal polling showed him trailing Mr. Biden in many of the states he needs to win, even though he is also trailing in public polls from key states like Texas, Michigan and Pennsylvania,” the New York Times reports. “And when top-line details of the polling leaked, including numbers showing the president lagging in a cluster of critical Rust Belt states, Mr. Trump instructed aides to say publicly that other data showed him doing well.” He is too embarrassed to tell his followers, not to mention his opponents, that his unpopularity and political weakness are not products of media deception. No, he’s the one explicitly trying to con the voters.
Trump will lie about things captured on tape (e.g. calling Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, “nasty”), about things in writing, about events witnessed by multiple people and about his own words and positions. He has no shame; he dares one to affirm what is obvious, verifiable and utterly at odds with his lies ...
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