By Michael Woyton
By now we all know, if anyone’s even paying a little attention, that the convicted felon plays fast and lose with the truth.
In January 2021, The Washington Post tallied up former president Donald Trump’s false or misleading claims beginning with 492 “suspect claims” during his first 100 days of his administration.
“By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency — averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day,” The Post reported.
There was a ramp up of false claims each year of his time in office, The Post said, with Trump averaging about six a day in his first year, 16 per day in his second year, 22 claims a day in his third year and 39 claims a day in his final year.
He hasn’t stopped on the campaign trail — obviously — with the city of Springfield, Ohio, feeling the brunt of his baseless lies about the community’s Haitian immigrants.
According to The New York Times, children in the city were greeted by state troopers at their schools after Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, deployed law enforcement because of a wave of bomb scares.
Art Candee, who watches Trump’s rallies so you don’t have to and summarizes them on the site formerly known as Twitter, said that the former president told the rally-goers in Uniondale, Long Island, Wednesday that the Teamsters endorsed him, he didn’t lose the 2020 election, all the infrastructure implemented during the Biden-Harris administration is fake, he “took out ISIS” in four weeks and other provable lies.
In case you need more documentation, CNN’s Daniel Dale, who does the heavy lifting of fact-checking the former president for news network, put together a list of 12 completely false stories Trump has been spouting over the past month.
They include the Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, as well as Vice President Kamala Harris having notes to help her during her late August CNN interview, schools sending students to have gender-affirming surgeries and the overturning of abortion rights being something that “everybody” wanted.
Abortion rights, Dale said, was “not even remotely accurate,” adding that Roe v. Wade, the 50-year-old decision overturned by the United States Supreme Court in 2022, was consistently supported by a majority of the American public, including 80 percent or more of Democrats.
I will never understand how people can choose to ignore what we know about Trump — the racism, the disrespect of military personnel, the misogyny and the massive amount of lying — and still believe he deserves to sit in the Oval Office.
Lead art: Screen grab from FOX News.
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