Please add Lies, Mistakes & Distortions in Trumps speech tonight
Text here Politico.com page and here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141525986
Just a few to get this going. Looking for your viewpoints. Also, rating the whoppers as to importance or opportunity to knock his campaign off the rails is good too.
* A 21 year old college graduate woman is not a "young girl". It is misogyny to treat women that way.
* Household incomes down $4000 since the year 2000: all that and more due to Bush. Obama mostly fixed that.
* Iran deal did not "give us nothing"
* Hillary created ISIS -- not. Bush's unnecessary war did and he left Afghanistan unfinished.
* Obama does not regret appointing Hillary Secretary of State
* Hillary is not messaging that "things will never change".
* Trump, not Hillary, "rakes in millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers", like Gaddafi's tent and Trump's $25,000 donation to Florida AG Bondi for quashing the Trump University lawsuit.
* Trump is running an amateurish campaign and a disastrous convention so it is not true that "Nobody knows the system better than me".
* "Millions of Democrats will join our movement" -- not a chance.
* "I have made billions of dollars in business making deals" -- not deals, but by bankruptcies and lawsuits and not paying hard working Americans.
* "That includes renegotiating NAFTA to get a much better deal for America – and we’ll walk away if we don’t get the deal that we want." Start walking. Canada and Mexico gave up a lot for NAFTA; they won't be interested in giving away more.
* Hillary Clinton is not "planning a massive tax increase", unless perhaps you are a billionaire.
* "America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world." False.
* "Excessive regulation is costing our country as much as $2 trillion a year, and we will end it. We are going to lift the restrictions on the production of American energy." Nonsense figure and disastrous policy. Drill baby drill.
* "This will produce more than $20 trillion in job creating economic activity over the next four decades." Bogosity to the max. Anything can happen in 40 years.
* "We will repeal and replace disastrous Obamacare." Not disastrous at all (just the opposite) and people love ObamaCare whenever you don't call it ObamaCare.
* "My opponent wants to essentially abolish the 2nd amendment." Same thing they've been saying for 30 years and it is 30 times false.
* "An amendment, pushed by Lyndon Johnson, many years ago, threatens religious institutions with a loss of their tax-exempt status if they openly advocate their political views. I am going to work very hard to repeal that language" It's not an amendment.
* "You have so much to contribute to our politics, yet our laws prevent you from speaking your minds from your own pulpits." As it should be, due to separation of church and state. Church corporations who want to promote candidates from the pulpit should pay taxes at the same rate as mega-corporations who promote candidates are supposed to.
* "now, my sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for our country" -- Nah. Trump first. Outsource policy to the hard right christian-first Pence.
* No Hillary loyalty pledge -- what a load of twaddle to call her slogan that.
Haven't had time to get into his statistics which are cherry-picked and misrepresented, to say the least. This post is based on the version released as the evening began.
Please chime in, especially with points where he departs from the text.