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applegrove

(118,462 posts)
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 02:57 AM Sep 2019

Okay, We Can Call This Donald Trump Video "Gaslighting," I GuessThis isn't normal.

Okay, We Can Call This Donald Trump Video “Gaslighting,” I GuessThis isn’t normal.

TIM MURPHYSenior Reporter Mother Jones

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/09/donald-trump-dumb/

(Mother Jones was calling it lying but changed because of the magnitude of these lies).

"SNIP......


President Donald Trump woke up angry on Saturday morning, called six members of Congress “savages,” and then went golfing. Fresh air and green spaces are proven to have a restorative effect, but Trump’s just a different cut of grass. So, a little while ago, he tweeted a direct-to-camera appeal to his voters (though it was filmed by government workers, not campaign staff) in response to perhaps the worst week of his presidency:

Donald J. Trump

✔@realDonaldTrump

They are trying to stop ME, because I am fighting for YOU!

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5:14 PM - Sep 28, 2019

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98.8K people are talking about this

......

Trump says Democrats “want to take away your health care”—but his administration is currently fighting in federal court to get rid of Obama-era protections that force insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions. In other words, he’s suing to take away people’s health care. He says Democrats “want to take your vote”—but Trump, whose election was aided by voter suppression efforts in Wisconsin, spent the first few years of his presidency pushing false claims about voter fraud in order to lay a foundation for new voter restrictions.

You can’t make this stuff up. Well, unless you’re Trump.

.....SNIP"

(Video at link)

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