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Bill USA

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Mon Jan 23, 2017, 06:40 PM Jan 2017

Donny little hands has no problem with lying but plenty of problems with the truth - Vox.com

http://www.vox.com/2016/8/12/12390356/donald-trump-lying-truth


For a guy obsessed with the lies of others, Donald Trump doesn’t seem very concerned with the truth. Instead of using Wednesday's NBC Commander in Chief forum to set the record straight on his past policy positions, he dug himself further, insisting that he was against the war in Iraq (he wasn't) and that he didn't support intervention in Libya (he did).

Voters aren’t naive — people know politicians bend the truth and sometimes outright lie. But Trump seems to be pushing the limits of what’s to be expected. According to a Politico analysis this spring, the candidate lies every five minutes in speeches, and PolitiFact rates 70 percent of his major political statements as being either somewhat false or a complete lie.

Of course, the Republican presidential candidate’s relationship with the truth can sometimes seem unbelievable. Trump loves to say, "I get along with everybody," but there’s plenty of evidence that this isn’t true. We all remember the recurrent aggressive booing and the "unintelligible yelling" during the Republican presidential debates, and it’s not like he has a loving relationship with most members of the press. Just this week he claimed President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton founded ISIS together, a pretty laughable piece of complete and utter fiction.

Other lies, though, are not so inconsequential. For instance, Trump regularly brags about how he never supported the Iraq War, saying: "I said I don't want to go into Iraq. Iraq is going to destabilize the Middle East, and I was 100 percent right." (Not true.)

He frequently asserts "torture works" when there is no evidence to support that argument. In fact, according to the Senate report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program, enhanced interrogation is useless (aside from serious moral implications). He even went to drought-stricken California earlier this summer and claimed there was no drought. Trump also says he would never mock a person with a disability, proclaiming, "I didn’t mock the disabled," even though he did, on camera, in a clip that has been replayed over and over again.
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It would be far easier to keep track of the extremely rare times when he says something that is truthful than to keep up with his lies. Almost every claim out of this punks mouth is a lie. I never saw such an insecure kid (he's emotionally about 2 or 3 yrs old) in my life.

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