in defense of the truth - charles m. blow

[dherd]

March 22 “Well, now, if you take a look at the votes, when I say that, I mean mostly they register wrong — in other words, for the votes, they register incorrectly and/or illegally. And they then vote. You have tremendous numbers of people.” (There's no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

 

[dherd]

March 29 “Remember when the failing @nytimes apologized to its subscribers, right after the election, because their coverage was so wrong. Now worse!” (It didn't apologize.)

 

[dherd]

MARCH 31 “We have a lot of plants going up now in Michigan that were never going to be there if I — if I didn’t win this election, those plants would never even think about going back. They were gone.” (These investments were already planned.)

 

[dherd]

April 2 “And I was totally opposed to the war in the Middle East which I think finally has been proven, people tried very hard to say I wasn’t but you’ve seen that it is now improving.” (He was for an invasion before he was against it.)

 

[dherd]

April 2 “Now, my last tweet — you know, the one that you are talking about, perhaps — was the one about being, in quotes, wiretapped, meaning surveilled. Guess what, it is turning out to be true.” (There is still no evidence.)

 

[dherd]

APRIL 5 “You have many states coming up where they’re going to have no insurance company. O.K.? It’s already happened in Tennessee. It’s happening in Kentucky. Tennessee only has half coverage. Half the state is gone. They left.” (Every marketplace region in Tennessee had at least one insurer.)

 

[dherd]

APRIL 6 “If you look at the kind of cost-cutting we’ve been able to achieve with the military and at the same time ordering vast amounts of equipment — saved hundreds of millions of dollars on airplanes, and really billions, because if you take that out over a period of years it’s many billions of dollars — I think we’ve had a tremendous success.” (Much of the price cuts were already projected.)

 

[ThunderCat98]

Still:

 

[dherd]

April 11 “I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late. I had already beaten all the senators and all the governors, and I didn’t know Steve.” (He knew Steve Bannon since 2011.)

 

[dherd]

April 12 “You can't do it faster, because they're obstructing. They're obstructionists. So I have people — hundreds of people that we're trying to get through. I mean you have — you see the backlog. We can't get them through.” (At this point, he had not nominated anyone for hundreds of positions.)

 

[dherd]

APRIL 12 “The New York Times said the word wiretapped in the headline of the first edition. Then they took it out of there fast when they realized.” (There were separate headlines for print and web, but neither were altered.)

 

[dherd]

April 12 “The secretary general and I had a productive discussion about what more NATO can do in the fight against terrorism. I complained about that a long time ago and they made a change, and now they do fight terrorism.” (NATO has been engaged in counterterrorism efforts since the 1980s.)

 

[dherd]

April 12 “Mosul was supposed to last for a week and now they’ve been fighting it for many months and so many more people died.” (The campaign was expected to take months.

 

[dherd]

APRIL 16 “Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!” (There's no evidence of paid protesters.)

 

[dherd]

APRIL 18 “The fake media goes, ‘Donald Trump changed his stance on China.’ I haven’t changed my stance.” (He did.)

 

[dherd]

APRIL 21 “On 90 planes I saved $725 million. It's actually a little bit more than that, but it's $725 million.” (Much of the price cuts were already projected.)

 

[dherd]

APRIL 21 “When WikiLeaks came out ... never heard of WikiLeaks, never heard of it.” (He criticized it as early as 2010.

 

[dherd]

April 27 “I want to help our miners while the Democrats are blocking their healthcare.” (The bill to extend health benefits for certain coal miners was introduced by a Democrat and was co-sponsored by mostly Democrats.)

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/06/23/opinion/trumps-lies.html

 

[dherd]

April 28 “The trade deficit with Mexico is close to $70 billion, even with Canada it’s $17 billion trade deficit with Canada.” (The U.S. had an $8.1 billion trade surplus, not deficit, with Canada in 2016.)

 

[dherd]

April 28 “She's running against someone who's going to raise your taxes to the sky, destroy your health care, and he's for open borders — lots of crime.” (Those are not Jon Ossoff's positions.)

 

[dherd]

April 28 “The F-35 fighter jet program — it was way over budget. I’ve saved $725 million plus, just by getting involved in the negotiation.” (Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump.)

 

[mlblack16.]

Would one of the mods please lock this thread? It has become Dtard's secret closet where he escapes to daily to masturbate.

I'm not bothering to read any of it. I would just like to not have it getting bumped daily.

 

[herdfan06]

Would one of the mods please lock this thread? It has become Dtard's secret closet where he escapes to daily to masturbate.

 

[dherd]

April 29 “As you know, I've been a big critic of China, and I've been talking about currency manipulation for a long time. But I have to tell you that during the election, number one, they stopped.” (China stopped years ago.)

 

[Walter Brennaneer]

Just an example of a catchphrase that needs not be politicized. Total bullshit and uncalled for.

 

[extragreen]

Here's a good one........

"Ending the estate tax would "protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer.""

 

[dherd]

Here's a good one........

"Ending the estate tax would "protect millions of small businesses and the American farmer.""

translation - republican to English dictionary - OUR BILLIONAIR BENEFACTORS AND DONALD TRUMP
ARE GETTING A YUUUUUUUGE TAX CUT. YUUUUUGE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH FROM THE
MIDDLE CLASS TO THE REPUBLICAN ELITE.

 

[Walter Brennaneer]

translation - republican to English dictionary - OUR BILLIONAIR BENEFACTORS AND DONALD TRUMP
ARE GETTING A YUUUUUUUGE TAX CUT. YUUUUUGE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH FROM THE
MIDDLE CLASS TO THE REPUBLICAN ELITE.

I swear dtard has Greed DNA.

 

[dherd]

APRIL 29 “I've already saved more than $725 million on a simple order of F-35 planes. I got involved in the negotiation.” (Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump.)

NOTICE HOW HE REPEATS THIS LIE OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
HE OBVIOUSLY KNOWS HE IS LYING, BUT REPEATS THE LIES ANYWAY EVEN
AFTER HE HAS BEEN CALLED OUT ON IT. #SHAMELESS

NOTHING TO POINT TO AS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT EXCEPT A LIE - SAD.

 

[dherd]

I swear dtard has Greed DNA.

you don't even know what dna is, you just heard it somewhere.

 

[dherd]

April 29 “We're also getting NATO countries to finally step up and contribute their fair share. They've begun to increase their contributions by billions of dollars, but we are not going to be satisfied until everyone pays what they owe.” (The deal was struck in 2014.

 

[dherd]

April 29 “When they talk about currency manipulation, and I did say I would call China, if they were, a currency manipulator, early in my tenure. And then I get there. Number one, they — as soon as I got elected, they stopped.” (China stopped in 2014.)

 

[dherd]

APRIL 29 “I was negotiating to reduce the price of the big fighter jet contract, the F-35, which was totally out of control. I will save billions and billions and billions of dollars.” (Most of the cuts were planned before Trump.)

 

[dherd]

April 29 “I think our side's been proven very strongly. And everybody's talking about it.” (There's still no evidence Trump's phones were tapped.)

 

[extragreen]

256 days and no investigation into the 3-5 million illegal votes that cost cheetos the popular vote. sad

 

[dherd]

256 days and no investigation into the 3-5 million illegal votes that cost cheetos the popular vote. sad

THEY ARE TO BUSY SPENDING MY MONEY TO PROVE THE 4 MILLION ILLEGAL VOTES THAT DO NOT EXIST DO EXIST.

 

[dherd]

MAY 1 “Well, we are protecting pre-existing conditions. And it'll be every good — bit as good on pre-existing conditions as Obamacare.” (The bill weakens protections for people with pre-existing conditions.)

 

[dherd]

MAY 1 “The F-35 fighter jet — I saved — I got involved in the negotiation. It's 2,500 jets. I negotiated for 90 planes, lot 10. I got $725 million off the price.” (Much of the price cuts were planned before Trump.)

 

[dherd]

May 1 “First of all, since I started running, they haven't increased their — you know, they have not manipulated their currency. I think that was out of respect to me and the campaign.” (China stopped years ago.)

 

[dherd]

May 2 “I love buying those planes at a reduced price. I have been really — I have cut billions — I have to tell you this, and they can check, right, Martha? I have cut billions and billions of dollars off plane contracts sitting here.” (Much of the cost cuts were planned before Trump.)