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Daniel Dale: It's easy to fact check Trump's lies. He tells the same ones all the time.
Ive made it my mission to fact-check every word Donald Trump utters as president. That means trying to watch every speech, read every transcript, decipher every tweet. Ive accidentally established a reputation for using Twitter to point out that hes lying within seconds of him telling a lie.
People sometimes ask in response how I can blast out these corrections so quickly. But I have no special talent. My secret is that Trump tells the same lies over and over.
On his fifth day in office, Trump baselessly alleged widespread voter fraud. He did the same thing this past week. In his third month in office, Trump falsely claimed that the United States has a $500 billion trade deficit with China. He has said the same thing more than 80 times since.
Listen to this president long enough, and you can almost sense when a lie is coming. If Trump tells a story in which an unnamed person calls him sir, its probably invented. If Trump claims he has set a record, he probably hasnt. If Trump cites any number at all, the real number is usually smaller.
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Meanwhile, the press continues to blast out the lies unnoted. Two weeks ago, Axios and the AP uncritically tweeted his nonsense about the United States being the only nation to grant birthright citizenship. (They updated after they were criticized.) It happened again Monday, when Trump earned credulous tweets and headlines from ABC, NBC and others for his groundless assertion about massively infected ballots in Florida.
Theres nothing especially strategic about much of Trumps lying; he does it because that is what he has always done. But the president also knows the lies will be broadcast unfiltered to tens of millions of people by some of the very outlets he disparages as fake news.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/its-easy-to-fact-check-trumps-lies-he-tells-the-same-ones-all-the-time/2018/11/15/5effb25c-e874-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html
People sometimes ask in response how I can blast out these corrections so quickly. But I have no special talent. My secret is that Trump tells the same lies over and over.
On his fifth day in office, Trump baselessly alleged widespread voter fraud. He did the same thing this past week. In his third month in office, Trump falsely claimed that the United States has a $500 billion trade deficit with China. He has said the same thing more than 80 times since.
Listen to this president long enough, and you can almost sense when a lie is coming. If Trump tells a story in which an unnamed person calls him sir, its probably invented. If Trump claims he has set a record, he probably hasnt. If Trump cites any number at all, the real number is usually smaller.
...
Meanwhile, the press continues to blast out the lies unnoted. Two weeks ago, Axios and the AP uncritically tweeted his nonsense about the United States being the only nation to grant birthright citizenship. (They updated after they were criticized.) It happened again Monday, when Trump earned credulous tweets and headlines from ABC, NBC and others for his groundless assertion about massively infected ballots in Florida.
Theres nothing especially strategic about much of Trumps lying; he does it because that is what he has always done. But the president also knows the lies will be broadcast unfiltered to tens of millions of people by some of the very outlets he disparages as fake news.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/its-easy-to-fact-check-trumps-lies-he-tells-the-same-ones-all-the-time/2018/11/15/5effb25c-e874-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html
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Daniel Dale: It's easy to fact check Trump's lies. He tells the same ones all the time. (Original Post)
demmiblue
Nov 2018
OP
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)1. Here's the real challenge....
See if you can recall anything he's said that's true.
dalton99a
(81,432 posts)2. Brainwashing relies on repetition
He knows exactly what he is doing