With 8 days to go until the US Presidential election I thought I’ll make a list of some of the lies told by Trump during his campaign. My hope is that the lies will count against him at the ballot box but I fear his support base lapped it up. They don’t appear to be the brightest and seem to detest facts.
- Barack Obama was not born in the United States – common knowledge that Hawaii is a state of the USA
- Hillary wants to go to single-payer healthcare – no that was Bernie Sanders
- People are coming into our country, like, we have no idea who they are, where they’re from, what their feelings about our country are – the USA has one of the most intensive screening processes for refugees in the world
- I don’t know Putin, I know nothing about Russia – in 2014 Trump said “I was in Moscow recently and I spoke, indirectly and directly, with President Putin, who could not have been nicer, and we had a tremendous success” and, in 2013, “I do have a relationship and I can tell you that he’s very interested in what we’re doing here today.”
- She is raising everybody’s taxes, massively – only if your definition of “everybody” is “the highest earners and corporates”
- Look at what she did in Libya with Gaddafi, Gaddafi’s out, it’s a mess – Trump actively supported this action, his own words “We should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be be very easy and very quick. We could do it surgically.”
- On being called out about a tweet, “It didn’t say check out a sex tape” – the actual tweet, “Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?”
- Ambassador Stevens sent 600 requests for help and the only one she talked to was Sidney Blumenthal – It was the Pentagon’s responsibility and they did send assistance although it arrived too late. Eight investigations found no evidence that Hillary knew about these requests
- Says Hillary Clinton is “wrong” to say he mocked a disabled reporter – At the rally where he discussed Kovaleski, Trump said, “You gotta see this guy” wildly flailing his arms, his right hand flopping as he shouted in a weird voice: “Ahh, I don’t know what I said! Ahh, I don’t remember!”
- Whites killed by whites, 16%. Whites killed by blacks, 81% – The correct number for whites killed by whites was 82 percent in 2014, while the number of whites killed by blacks was 15 percent
- Kuwait never paid U.S. back for ousting Saddam Hussein – Total reimbursements: $54 billion pledged, $47.3 billion paid in cash, $5.6 billion paid in kind. Total paid: $52.9 billion
- Even our nuclear arsenal doesn’t work. It came out recently they have equipment that is 30 years old. They don’t know if it worked – the US has been spending $35 billion a year to upgrade its nuclear stockpile
- Our real unemployment is anywhere from 18 to 20 percent. Don’t believe the 5.6. Don’t believe it – The highest official government statistic for under-employment is 10.8 percent
- The Islamic State just built a hotel in Syria – they did managed to occupy an empty hotel in Iraq but that’s not Syria and they didn’t build it
Donald Trump winning the election may a danger to the free world and to America’s democracy. The man is an habitual liar and cannot be trusted.