Monday, September 17, 2018

Q&A: How to Spot When Trump is Lying or Not: Easy Peasy — Just Listen to Him

Under oath or not: He can't tell the truth about anything

The latest string of lies from our president, so wake up America – wake up to the fact and realize that Trump loyalists have been and remain conned and duped. Cite this additional ton of lies from him that now total more than 5,000 to date here and in part here from The AP fact checking (with my emphasis added):

MIDDLE-CLASS INCOME

TRUMP: “Middle-Class Income Hits All-Time High!” @foxandfriends and will continue to rise (unless the Dems get in and destroy what we have built).  — Trump tweet last Thursday.

FROM VP PENCE: “Just today, if you hadn’t heard about it yet, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that, last year, middle-class incomes in America hit an all-time high — that’s worth celebrating — for working families.” — remarks in Grand Rapids, MI last Wednesday.

THE FACTS: These assertions are an example of how Trump and other administration officials often seek credit for trends in place before they took office. Trump’s own Census Bureau also cast doubt on the claims.

Median U.S. household income — the level at which half of the U.S. population earns more and half less — grew 5.1 percent in 2015 and 3.1 percent in 2016, during the Obama administration. It was the fastest two-year growth on record, dating to 1967.  

In 2017, Trump’s first year in office, median income grew at a slower pace of 1.8 percent to reach what technically was an all-time high, adjusted for inflation, of $61,372.

However, the same Trump Census Bureau also warned in its report last week that after adjusting for changes the 2013 methodology, last year’s figure was not actually an all-time high. Instead, it remained slightly below 1999′s level of $61,966, though the bureau noted that the difference was minor.
(I note: Yep but however, NOT minor in Trump’s me, me, me only me tweet one-track mind).

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TRUMP’S ‘DAMN’ BORDER WALL

TRUMP: “We’re building the wall, not only building it, we’ve already started it. We’ve started the wall. $1.6 billion last year, $1.6 billion this year, we’re rapidly in San Diego and other parts of the country. We’re picking the locations that are worse.”  — remarks at fundraising event in SD on September 7.

THE FACTS: Trump’s claim that he secured $3.2 billion for construction of a wall along the U.S-Mexico border is wrong. Nor is the construction underway adding any mileage to what’s already in place.

Congress allocated $1.6 billion for the wall and related security measures this year.

The administration requested an additional $1.6 billion next year to add 65 miles (104 kilometers) of wall in the Texas Rio Grande Valley but has not received any of it.

Legislative leaders in the House and Senate pledged agreement this past week on a short-term spending bill that would not address wall money. GOP leaders have said they preferred to resolve the issue after the November 6 elections.

Trump is correct that wall construction is underway in San Diego — as well as Santa Teresa, New Mexico, and Calexico, California — but it replaces or fortifies existing barriers NOT anything new under Trump. 

Barriers currently blanket 654 miles (1,046 kilometers), or roughly one-third of the border with Mexico, much of it built under President George W. Bush.
The $1.6 billion that Congress authorized this year came with a condition that the wall must adhere to existing designs. 

But last year, the Trump administration built eight prototypes in San Diego that were intended to guide future construction (not what Congress intended).

Other issues of major concern are here and in detail at The AP link:
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HURRICANE MARIA IN PUERTO RICO RESPONSE:

TRUMP: “3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths.”

“As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3,000.... This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico. If a person died for any reason, like old age, just add them onto the list. Bad politics. I love Puerto Rico!” — Trump tweets last Thursday.

THE FACTS: He is making a baseless assertion that massive deaths did not happen, even if the exact toll from the hurricane remains imprecise.

My 2 cents: First of all – what a sad pathetic hypocrite. On Trump’s point about hurricane deaths. This analogy clearly shows just how thick he truly is:

He misses any key points by a country mile, e.g., what if the hurricane wiped out a hospital or clinic where people were hooked up to medical machines. Then suddenly they have no life-support and they die. 

That Mr. Trump is a “hurricane-related death (i.e., cause and effect).” 

Your stance on this shows what a horrible shameless person you are, on top of being the nation’s all-time serial liar who is insensitive to anyone except your own pitiful self – shame on you.

I have never felt this repulsive of any president nor ever thought I’d call our president a serial liar and a proven one in fact (he now has a documented record of over 5,000 lies) – yet, somehow far too many still accept this new low standard — why it that do you suppose?

Continue at The AP source link above for more whoppers.

And, as always, thanks for stopping by.

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