All politicians lie.
All politicians lie.
All politicians lie.
Ok, I said it 3 times, just so you remember. Other officials lie too. The White House Press Secretary, the leaders in Congress, news commentators, of which there way too many these days, candidates running for office, both Republicans and Democrats – they are all liars.
So why should I single out Donald Trump? I really didn’t. The fact checking sites, factcheck.org and politifact.com find nearly every weak, that he has lied to the American people, on very important issues.
The most recent example is his speech yesterday, on the health care bill to be voted on in the Senate, where he stated:
“Obamacare has broken our health care system. It’s broken. It’s collapsing.”
Politifact responds, “As for the individual insurance market, the part of Obamacare that Trump has said before is in a death spiral, we have rated statements like that False.”
Trump also was caught in a huge lie that his plan about allowing insurers to sell across state lines, would bring insurance premiums by 60 to 70%. He made up this stuff!
Link: http://www.factcheck.org/2017/07/selling-insurance-across-state-lines/
It is true that both Democrats and Republicans have told huge lies during the health care debate. House leader Nancy Pelosi stated that hundreds of thousands of people will die under Trump’s health care bill. Politifact concludes that the relationship between health care policies and mortality rates is really difficult to determine, and Pelosi (and Bernie Sanders) distorted the research in this area by saying many people will die as a result of Trump Care.
Link: http://www.factcheck.org/2017/07/deaths-health-care-bill/
The Russian investigation has produced all sorts of terrible lies from Trump, including allegations of criminal activity by FBI Director Comey, as follows from factcheck.org.
President Donald Trump made the unfounded accusation that former FBI Director James Comey illegally “leaked CLASSIFIED INFORMATION to the media.” His claim appears to have been based on a news story that makes no such determination.
Link: http://www.factcheck.org/2017/07/trumps-unfounded-leak-claim/
And likely confirmed by Jay Sekulow, a frequent guest on Fox News and part of Trump’s legal defense team. Way too much poop for me.
Now, perhaps I digress. Back to the main question- How much of what Trump says is true? Politifact checked 427 statements of “fact” made by Trump, and determined 5% or 20 of these statements were true. Yikes! Of the other 95%, 12% were mostly true, and 15% were half true. This leaves an astonishing 68% on the side of mostly false, false and pants on fire.
Link: http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
I always liked Patrick Moynihan’s quote: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
Do Republicans lie more than Democrats? From a quick sampling of July’s reviews, it seems so, at least as of July 24, 2017:
Link: http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/
The worse of the bunch is not Trump or any other politician within Washington. It’s bloggers, specifically websites which broadcast, via email and twitter, a load of fictional stories. These are lumped into the category of bloggers.
If a news story came from the Organization dedicated to the Responsible and Truthful Analysis of the New (just for example, don’t Google this name), and it can’t be collaborated with the mainstream media news, it is probably made up. The fact checkers will help you filter out the nonsense.
Stay tuned,
Dave
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