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The Republican presidential nominee spoke for more than an hour, discussing a number of issues facing the country and then taking questions from reporters. He made a number of false and misleading claims. Many of them have been made before.
— Donald Trump recounted his assassination attempt in vivid detail and promised the largest deportation in U.S. history during a high-profile return to the social media platform formerly known as Twitter—a conversation that was plagued by technical glitches.
President Donald Trump stepped back into the presidency this week moving quickly to set a new agenda, but from his inaugural address continuing through a flurry of executive actions, press conferences and interviews Trump relied on an array of false and misleading information to support his case.
Here's a closer look at the facts.
Trump was asked at his appearance before the Economic Club of New York about his plans to drive down child care costs to help more women join the workforce.
"Child care is child care, it's something you have to have in this country. You have to have it," he said. Then, he said his plans to tax imports from foreign nations at higher levels would "take care" of such problems.
"We're going to be taking in trillions of dollars, and as much as child care is talked about as being expensive, it's—relatively speaking—not very expensive, compared to the kind of numbers we'll be taking in," he said.
How would they know that? Were they there?
But so now they like to say, "All right, so he's building the wall, but Mexico is not paying for it." Yes, they are, actually. You know what I mean, right? They are paying for it. They're paying for it. Oh, they're going to die when I put in this—what we're going to do. But, no, they're paying for it. And they're okay with it because they understand that's fair. But, no, Mexico is paying for it and it's every bit—it's better than the wall that was projected. We're doing it at a higher level. We have so many gadgets on that wall, you wouldn't even believe it. Sensors. We have things.
I said, 'No. Make it 10 percent. Make it more than 10 percent.' Because it's been a long time. It's been more than 10 years. It's been more than 10 years. That's a long time.
Donald Trump may have coined a new term in his latest false attack on Kamala Harris' presidential campaign. In a pair of posts on Truth Social over the weekend, the former president said that Vice President Kamala Harris "A.I.'d" photos of a huge crowd that showed up to see her speak at a Detroit airport campaign rally last week. (...) It would be nice to think that we could just say Trump's claims here are categorically false and leave it at that. But as artificial intelligence tools become increasingly good at generating photorealistic images, it's worth outlining the many specific ways we can tell that Harris' crowd photos are indeed authentic. Consider this a guide for potential techniques you can use the next time you come across accusations that some online image has been "A.I.'d" to fool you.
Donald Trump's false charge that his opponent used AI to forge a photo of a crowd of supporters shows yet another dimension of AI's potential to harm democracy.
Donald Trump continues to insist that he once took a scary helicopter trip with former San Francisco mayor Willie Brown, even as Mr Brown dismissed the story as "fiction".
But it turns out another California politician, Nate Holden, did accompany Trump decades ago on a turbulent chopper ride, US media report.
Both Mr Brown and Mr Holden are black. (...) Despite a flat denial from the former San Francisco mayor, Trump insisted the story was true in a call to the New York Times, saying he was "probably going to sue" without elaborating.
ABC News moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis fact-checked Donald Trump during Tuesday night's presidential debate, quickly correcting the record for millions watching at home after the Republican pushed falsehoods on abortion, migrants and the 2020 election.
The decision to live fact-check the candidates during the high-stakes telecast marked a departure from recent debates and stood in contrast to the first presidential matchup of the 2024 season, hosted by CNN and moderated by anchors Jake Tapper and Dana Bash. During the June debate, the moderators did not correct false claims made by Trump and President Joe Biden. Instead, the network provided a fact check online and on television following the telecast.
Ahead of Tuesday night's debate in Philadelphia, ABC News did not commit to live fact-checking, but as the event got underway both anchors stepped in to debunk false claims made by Trump on at least three occasions. (...) ABC's decision to live fact-check Trump from the stage drew the ire of his allies and those in right-wing media, who claimed the moderators were ignoring Harris' inaccuracies.
"Weird how the hack moderators at @abcnews are only 'Fact checking' Trump and allowing Kamala to lie nonstop. The Fake News is the enemy of the people!" Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. wrote on X.
"MORE FACT CHECKING FROM ABC – THIS IS THE WORST ANCHOR PILE-ON I HAVE EVER SEEN. 3 against 1," Megyn Kelly, the former Fox News and NBC host turned conservative podcaster, wrote on X.
Former President Donald Trump has delivered a barrage of lies and distortions about the federal response to Hurricane Helene.
His response to the child care question, the subject of some ribbing by his political opponents, could accurately be described as a ramble without an answer. It's worth looking closer at an issue that affects so many Americans.
It has long been a truism that politicians lie, but with the entry of Donald Trump into the U.S. political domain, the frequency, degree, and impact of lying in politics are now unprecedented [...] Donald Trump is different. By all metrics and counting schemes, his lies are off the charts. We simply have not seen such an accomplished and effective liar before in U.S. politics.
Donald Trump lies so often that some have wondered whether he has poisoned the well [...] We expect politicians to stretch the truth. But Trump is a whole different animal. He lies as a policy.
A hallmark of the Trump presidency was a stream of false statements, many of which were repeated dozens or even hundreds of times. But whether (and to what extent) this repetition translates into public misperceptions remains an open question. We address this question by leveraging the most comprehensive data on Trump's repetition of misleading claims during his presidency. In a national survey asking Americans to evaluate the truth of claims from this database, we find a clear partisan asymmetry. An increase in the number of repetitions of a falsehood corresponded with increased belief among Republicans but decreased belief among Democrats. We also find an important moderating role of media consumption. The effects of repetition were larger when people consumed more right-leaning cable news and when falsehoods were mostly repeated on Twitter. We discuss implications of these findings for misinformation research.
This chapter will document some of President Trump's "conventional" lies similar to those that politicians often tell in order to look good or escape blame; the number of these types of lies by Trump vastly exceeds those of previous presidents. But the most significant Trump lies are egregious false statements that are demonstrably contrary to well-known facts. If there are no agreed upon facts, then it becomes impossible for people to make judgments about their government. Political power rather than rational discourse then becomes the arbiter. Agreement on facts, of course, does not imply agreement on policies or politics.
Many of Trump's tweets or statements delivered via interviews may now be classed as bullshit since they are not knowledgeable, are ignorant and deceptive: they show no concern for the facts or the truth, only for a version of reality that suits Trump's aims. They are often, in addition, designed to defame and offend 'while simultaneously inflating or fabricating the president's accomplishments in order to make him look competent'
Video shows Vice President Kamala Harris arriving for a campaign rally in Romulus, Michigan, on Aug. 7. (Credit: Pool) [From video description]
ABC's immoderate moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis uncorked the most flagrantly unfair and unbalanced debate in the history of modern presidential debates, going back to the Nixon-Kennedy debates of 1960. They don't care that anyone objects to their strategic decision to join in debating former President Trump, giving everyone the distinct impression that this was a three-on-one conversation.
This chapter will document some of President Trump's "conventional" lies similar to those that politicians often tell in order to look good or escape blame; the number of these types of lies by Trump vastly exceeds those of previous presidents. But the most significant Trump lies are egregious false statements that are demonstrably contrary to well-known facts. If there are no agreed upon facts, then it becomes impossible for people to make judgments about their government. Political power rather than rational discourse then becomes the arbiter. Agreement on facts, of course, does not imply agreement on policies or politics.
Judge Carter...identified potential criminal activity related to a knowingly false representation by Donald Trump to a Federal court. He wrote: 'The emails show that President Trump knew that the specific numbers of voter fraud were wrong but continued to tout those numbers, both in court and in public.' As John Eastman wrote in an email on December 31, 2020, President Trump was 'made aware that some of the allegations (and evidence proffered by the experts)' in a verified State court complaint was 'inaccurate.' Dr. Eastman noted that 'with that knowledge' President Trump could not accurately verify a Federal court complaint that incorporated by reference the 'inaccurate' State court complaint...Despite this specific warning, 'President Trump and his attorneys ultimately filed the complaint with the same inaccurate numbers without rectifying, clarifying, or otherwise changing them.' And President Trump personally 'signed a verification swearing under oath that the incorporated, inaccurate numbers 'are true and correct' or 'believed to be true and correct' to the best of his knowledge and belief.' The numbers were not correct, and President Trump and his legal team knew it.
The former president took to his Truth Social platform late Friday and suggested that Brown had spoken before about a ride in a Trump aircraft. (...) "He's just angling for another ride in Trump's jet (helicopter!). But now Willie doesn't remember? No, he remembers!" Trump insisted.
Analyzing Trump's tweets with a regression function designed to predict true and false claims based on their language and composition, it finds significant evidence of intent underlying most of Trump's false claims, and makes the case for calling them lies when that outcome agrees with the results of traditional fact-checking procedures.
During the lie-filled briefing, Trump made a series of false and wild claims—with one in particular raising eyebrows: his boast he has drawn in crowds comparable to MLK Jr.
"They didn't correct her once. And they corrected me, everything I said, practically. I think nine times or 11 times," he told Greg Gutfeld.
Trump then referred to the nonexistent audience.
"And the audience was absolutely—they went crazy," he said.
One of the rules of the September 10 debate was that there would be no live audience, in addition to the candidate's microphones being switched off when they weren't answering questions and that they could not wear earpieces.
Social media went into a frenzy following Trump's comments on the Fox News show. (...) It is unclear if Trump was referring to the TV ratings when he spoke about the "crazy" audience.
The Republican nominee gave a two-minute, 362-word response [Includes video]
While the Republican did not concede last week's crowd in Michigan was real, he also did not continue expressing the false narrative that artificial intelligence generated the thousands of people shown in images at the gathering.
The NBC News/WSJ poll was conducted April 13–15 of 900 registered voters—more than half of whom who were reached by cellphone—and it has an overall margin of error of plus-minus 3.3 percentage points.
Republican and Democratic politicians and officials have in recent days resorted to pleading with people to stop spreading false information related to Hurricane Helene, with many saying that rumors and conspiracy theories are hampering recovery efforts.
Trump said the people who have been arrested as a result of the storming the Capitol have been treated unfairly. Then, unprompted, he compared his "Stop the Steal" rally before the protesters marched toward the Capitol to King's "I Have a Dream" speech, which was held on the National Mall.
Trump said he once flew with Willie Brown in a helicopter that "went down" when he was asked about Vice President Kamala Harris' past relationship with the former mayor and whether he thought the relationship had played a role in her career path.
(...) This "sanewashing" of Trump's statements isn't just poor journalism; it's a form of misinformation that poses a threat to democracy. By continually reframing Trump's incoherent and often dangerous rhetoric as conventional political discourse, major news outlets are failing in their duty to inform the public and are instead providing cover for increasingly erratic behavior from a former—and potentially future—president.
According to a link to the recording on Trump's X profile, 27.7 million people have so far "tuned in" to the two-hour interview. This figure is much closer to that listed on the Republican National Committee's website, which says 24.1 million people watched. It is unclear what the 1 billion figure is referencing.
Donald Trump has said that when he got fact-checked by moderators during his presidential debate with Kamala Harris, the audience "went crazy." But there was no audience at the debate hosted by ABC.
Appearing on the Fox News show Gutfeld! on Wednesday, the Republican presidential nominee said the "audience" reacted to his unfair treatment during the debate against the vice president.
"They didn't correct her [Harris] once and they corrected me," Trump said. "Everything I said, practically, I think 9 times or 11 times. And the audience was absolutely, they went crazy." (...) There was no audience present at the live broadcast. It's possible the former president was referring to TV audiences. [Includes video]
How would they know that? Were they there?
Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Road, Jamaica, was discharged.
The 38-minute video below shows how Donald J. Trump's persistent repetition of lies and calls to action over two months created an alternate reality that he won re-election.
[His] statements reflect the strategy Mr. Trump has long used to address controversy, by turns denying any wrongdoing while directing attention elsewhere. Some of the messages also reflect his penchant for false and misleading claims.
The crowds at Ms. Harris's events, including one in Detroit outside an airplane hangar, were witnessed by thousands of people and news outlets, including The New York Times, and the number of attendees claimed by her campaign is in line with what was visible on the ground. Mr. Trump falsely wrote on his social media site, Truth Social, that "there was nobody at the plane, and she 'A.I.'d' it."
A spokesman for the Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
In a 30-minute appearance, Mr. Trump made false and exaggerated claims about Ms. Harris, overstated his role in securing funding for historically Black colleges and universities and repeated his false assertion that he did more for Black Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln. He also rehashed several other inaccurate claims about inflation, immigration and other topics that have become staples of his public appearances.
Fact-checking Donald Trump's claims about immigration, Vice President Kamala Harris, President Biden and more.
His solution for the deficit? Tariffs. The crisis for middle-class families struggling with child care? The economic growth he said would be spurred by things like tariffs. A complicated international supply chain that has the wings of military aircraft manufactured in one country and the tail in another? Tariffs.
With the passage of time, the 78-year-old former president's speeches have grown darker, harsher, longer, angrier, less focused, more profane and increasingly fixated on the past, according to a review of his public appearances over the years. [Includes short videos]
... a president who is delivering untruths on an unprecedented scale. Mr Trump did this both while running for president, and he has continued to do so in office. There is no precedent for this amount of untruths in the US
Former President Trump has for several days now spread lies and spouted conspiracy theories about the federal government's response to Hurricane Helene. The disinformation is causing confusion among those most desperate for help and answers.
He either mixed it up," Holden said. "Or, he made it up. This was just too big to overlook. This is a big one. Conflating Willie Brown and me? The press is searching for the real story and they didn't get it. You did.
[Sequence of live updates by multiple authors, both fact-checking statements and describing the event.]
In actuality, once the Twin Towers were decimated, the 71-story Trump Building at 40 Wall Street was the second-tallest building still standing in Lower Manhattan, according to the Washington Post. It was 25 feet shorter than the building at 70 Pine Street.
There's been a lot of chatter about how the press—maybe deliberately and maybe inadvertently—makes Trump sound more coherent and normal. The clever word to describe this: sanewashing. Like greenwashing (taking superficial actions in the name of helping the environment), or sportswashing (using sporting events to burnish one's reputation and gloss over corruption or human rights abuses), sanewashing is the act of packaging radical and outrageous statements in a way that makes them seem normal.
Critics accuse many in journalism of doing just that.
The bubble of conservative-oriented media has distorted what many people even believe is fair news coverage and increased the amount of misinformation and disinformation in the public space. But I think one of the biggest problems facing mainstream news outlets now is the belief among nonconservative consumers that coverage of this election cycle let them down by "sanewashing" and normalizing Trump's excesses. Traditional journalists who have already lost the confidence of conservative consumers are now facing diminishing trust from the news consumers who are left, which is not a great combination.
Fox News pundit Mary Katherine Ham suggested Donald Trump's recent erratic press conference at Mar-a-Lago could be attributed to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
It's worse than a single surveillance scandal. It's three huge ones, intertwined. All were abuses of power. Some were crimes.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump sat Monday for a friendly two-hour interview with billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Musk's social media platform X, after technical problems delayed the start of the event for more than 40 minutes.
Musk, who has endorsed Trump, blamed the difficulties on a distributed denial-of-service attack, in which a server or network is flooded with traffic in an attempt to shut it down, though his claim could not be verified.
Reuters assessed seven statements made by President Donald Trump during his inaugural address on Monday. While we monitored the speech in its entirety, we did not examine opinions or policy pledges. The statements are listed with timestamps in Eastern Standard Time (ET).
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump laid out his economic vision for the country on Thursday during a speech at the New York Economic Club.
'All of a sudden a lot of the places they were using to hold up, they are having a big surge—and I don't want that, I don't want that,—and they're saying 'whoops',' Trump said at a conference.
'Even New Zealand, you see what's going on in New Zealand,' he said. 'They beat it they beat, it was like front page [news] they beat it because they wanted to show me something.
'The problem is [there is a] big surge in New Zealand, you know it's terrible—we don't want that. [...]'
'The American people can work out that what we have for a whole day, they have every 22 seconds of the day, that speaks for itself. [...].
Former President Donald Trump appeared on a taped segment of Fox News' "Gutfeld!" Wednesday, complaining once again that the ABC News debate moderators bothered to fact-check him while falsely claiming that the debate audience "went crazy" for his performance. (...) MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes argued that the Republican candidate's remark validated concerns about his age and mental capacity.
"Trump talking about 'the audience' at the debate (where there famously was no audience) is more delusional and unsettling than any moment of Joe Biden misspeaking all year and it's not close," Hayes wrote on social media.
See Cardownie, October 28, 2020, Edinburgh Evening News for accurate citation of newsletter[dead link]
Donald Trump lies so often that some have wondered whether he has poisoned the well [...] We expect politicians to stretch the truth. But Trump is a whole different animal. He lies as a policy.
This chapter will document some of President Trump's "conventional" lies similar to those that politicians often tell in order to look good or escape blame; the number of these types of lies by Trump vastly exceeds those of previous presidents. But the most significant Trump lies are egregious false statements that are demonstrably contrary to well-known facts. If there are no agreed upon facts, then it becomes impossible for people to make judgments about their government. Political power rather than rational discourse then becomes the arbiter. Agreement on facts, of course, does not imply agreement on policies or politics.
Notably, 88 percent of Republicans told Kaiser that they thought Trump was a reliable source of information on the virus, versus 19 percent of Democrats.
Context. The photo was real and, according to the Harris-Walz campaign, taken by a staff member. The campaign said it had not digitally manipulated the photo or used AI to create it. That said, it did appear that the version of the image that later went viral had been slightly manipulated to exaggerate its brightness and contrast.
Snopes' fact-checkers analyzed the candidates' statements for accuracy in real time.
Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance and a constellation of right-wing influencers elevated a dubious claim. (...) There is no evidence, outside of second- and third-hand social media gossip, to support the notion that Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio, are eating people's pet cats or their parks' waterfowl. The only alleged evidence in support of the former actually depicts an American in a different city. The alleged evidence of the latter stems from a single picture apparently taken in a different city.
Following the ABC News U.S. presidential debate on Sept. 10, 2024, the conservative blog Chicks on the Right published an article claiming that one of the network's two debate moderators—anchor Linsey Davis—said she and her co-moderator, David Muir, planned in advance to fact-check only statements by former President Donald Trump. (...) The Chicks on the Right post included information sourced from a Sept. 13 Fox News story [ABC's Linsey Davis admits fact-checking of Trump was because CNN let his statements 'hang' at first debate, by Gabriel Hays; re-published by the New York Post on September 14.]. That story sourced its material from a Los Angeles Times article published on Sept. 11—the day after the debate. The Times' story featured an interview with Davis, as well as a profile of her career.
(...) This shifting from topic to topic, with few connections—a pattern of speech called tangentiality—is one of several disjointed and occasionally incoherent verbal habits that seem to have increased in Trump's speech in recent years, according to interviews with experts in memory, psychology, and linguistics.
"I think ABC took a big hit last night," he continued. "To be honest, they're a news organization—they have to be licensed to do it. They ought to take away their license for the way they did that."
Trump used the interview to repeatedly complain that the debate was "three-to-one," meaning he felt that moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis were on Harris' side against him. [Includes video]
Furthermore, Willie Brown had nothing bad to say about Harris.
The pair dated nearly 30 years ago. Brown, 90, told the New York Times, adding: "No hard feelings."
Excerpts from his speeches do not do justice to Trump's smorgasbord of vendettas, non sequiturs and comparisons to famous people
Others have disputed Trump's story about that helicopter ride, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who was on the flight and called Trump's story "B.S."
Former President Trump on Thursday outlined his economic agenda if he is elected in November, doubling down on many of the policies that he leaned on during his first four years in office and vowing to undo numerous Biden administration moves.
'We've had presidents that have lied or misled the country, but we've never had a serial liar before. And that's what we're dealing with here,' said Douglas Brinkley, the prominent Rice University presidential historian.
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Donald Trump's first public speech since the failed assassination attempt against him highlighted the final night of the Republican National Convention, and we were there to let you know when he and other speakers strayed from the truth. (...) Other speakers joining him in Milwaukee tonight included Eric Trump, Tucker Carlson and Hulk Hogan.
'40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest—and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest,' Trump said in the WWOR interview. 'And now it's the tallest.'
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'Our experts say the curve has flattened, and the peak in new cases is behind us,' Trump said. 'Nationwide, more than 850 counties, or nearly 30 percent of our country, have reported no new cases in the last seven days.'
The former president dusts off familiar falsehoods about tax cuts, inflation, energy independence, EV's, gas prices, crime, "illegal aliens" and more. (...) Here are 34 claims that caught our attention, in the order in which he made them.
In his half-hour sit-down with three journalists at NABJ, the former president and Republican presidential nominee unleashed his usual litany of falsehoods (...) Rather than repeat ourselves, we have provided links to previous fact checks at the end of this report.
Instead we will focus on a fresh claim he made. When asked about pardoning people convicted of violence during the Jan. 6 attacks—he said he would—he resorted to whataboutism. He asserted that people died in Seattle and Minneapolis during the social justice protests after the death of George Floyd in 2020—and nothing happened to those people.
How concerned are Americans about Trump's mental faculties?
The answer appears to be: increasingly concerned, and large numbers of people have long doubted his stability. But it's not clear that swing voters are overly concerned, and Trump's numbers in that realm are nowhere close to Biden's.
Let's take that first part. Few polls have regularly tested views of Trump's age and mental faculties. But the ones that do have shown a modest but steady erosion for Trump on those measures. [Pollers: Reuters/Ipsos, Pew Research Center, Marquette University Law School (Wisconsin), Marquette's national polling.] (...) That gets at the potential danger for Trump. He benefits in some respects because people have come to expect the bizarre from him. But we've also seen how his chaotic style — including after the 2020 election — can give people real pause. He's more popular today than he was during his presidency, but casual voters are starting to see more of him and consuming more of his strange behavior.
That has not generally been a recipe for his success; it's why Harris's campaign has repeatedly urged people to watch Trump's rallies and is now playing his remarks on big screens at her rallies. (...)
See Cardownie, October 28, 2020, Edinburgh Evening News for accurate citation of newsletter[dead link]
It has long been a truism that politicians lie, but with the entry of Donald Trump into the U.S. political domain, the frequency, degree, and impact of lying in politics are now unprecedented [...] Donald Trump is different. By all metrics and counting schemes, his lies are off the charts. We simply have not seen such an accomplished and effective liar before in U.S. politics.
... a president who is delivering untruths on an unprecedented scale. Mr Trump did this both while running for president, and he has continued to do so in office. There is no precedent for this amount of untruths in the US
Analyzing Trump's tweets with a regression function designed to predict true and false claims based on their language and composition, it finds significant evidence of intent underlying most of Trump's false claims, and makes the case for calling them lies when that outcome agrees with the results of traditional fact-checking procedures.
'We've had presidents that have lied or misled the country, but we've never had a serial liar before. And that's what we're dealing with here,' said Douglas Brinkley, the prominent Rice University presidential historian.
A hallmark of the Trump presidency was a stream of false statements, many of which were repeated dozens or even hundreds of times. But whether (and to what extent) this repetition translates into public misperceptions remains an open question. We address this question by leveraging the most comprehensive data on Trump's repetition of misleading claims during his presidency. In a national survey asking Americans to evaluate the truth of claims from this database, we find a clear partisan asymmetry. An increase in the number of repetitions of a falsehood corresponded with increased belief among Republicans but decreased belief among Democrats. We also find an important moderating role of media consumption. The effects of repetition were larger when people consumed more right-leaning cable news and when falsehoods were mostly repeated on Twitter. We discuss implications of these findings for misinformation research.
'40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest—and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest,' Trump said in the WWOR interview. 'And now it's the tallest.'
In actuality, once the Twin Towers were decimated, the 71-story Trump Building at 40 Wall Street was the second-tallest building still standing in Lower Manhattan, according to the Washington Post. It was 25 feet shorter than the building at 70 Pine Street.
Fred Trump of 175-24 Devonshire Road, Jamaica, was discharged.
But so now they like to say, "All right, so he's building the wall, but Mexico is not paying for it." Yes, they are, actually. You know what I mean, right? They are paying for it. They're paying for it. Oh, they're going to die when I put in this—what we're going to do. But, no, they're paying for it. And they're okay with it because they understand that's fair. But, no, Mexico is paying for it and it's every bit—it's better than the wall that was projected. We're doing it at a higher level. We have so many gadgets on that wall, you wouldn't even believe it. Sensors. We have things.
The 38-minute video below shows how Donald J. Trump's persistent repetition of lies and calls to action over two months created an alternate reality that he won re-election.
See Cardownie, October 28, 2020, Edinburgh Evening News for accurate citation of newsletter[dead link]
This chapter will document some of President Trump's "conventional" lies similar to those that politicians often tell in order to look good or escape blame; the number of these types of lies by Trump vastly exceeds those of previous presidents. But the most significant Trump lies are egregious false statements that are demonstrably contrary to well-known facts. If there are no agreed upon facts, then it becomes impossible for people to make judgments about their government. Political power rather than rational discourse then becomes the arbiter. Agreement on facts, of course, does not imply agreement on policies or politics.
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It's worse than a single surveillance scandal. It's three huge ones, intertwined. All were abuses of power. Some were crimes.
'Our experts say the curve has flattened, and the peak in new cases is behind us,' Trump said. 'Nationwide, more than 850 counties, or nearly 30 percent of our country, have reported no new cases in the last seven days.'
I said, 'No. Make it 10 percent. Make it more than 10 percent.' Because it's been a long time. It's been more than 10 years. It's been more than 10 years. That's a long time.
Notably, 88 percent of Republicans told Kaiser that they thought Trump was a reliable source of information on the virus, versus 19 percent of Democrats.
It has long been a truism that politicians lie, but with the entry of Donald Trump into the U.S. political domain, the frequency, degree, and impact of lying in politics are now unprecedented [...] Donald Trump is different. By all metrics and counting schemes, his lies are off the charts. We simply have not seen such an accomplished and effective liar before in U.S. politics.
It has long been a truism that politicians lie, but with the entry of Donald Trump into the U.S. political domain, the frequency, degree, and impact of lying in politics are now unprecedented [...] Donald Trump is different. By all metrics and counting schemes, his lies are off the charts. We simply have not seen such an accomplished and effective liar before in U.S. politics.
A hallmark of the Trump presidency was a stream of false statements, many of which were repeated dozens or even hundreds of times. But whether (and to what extent) this repetition translates into public misperceptions remains an open question. We address this question by leveraging the most comprehensive data on Trump's repetition of misleading claims during his presidency. In a national survey asking Americans to evaluate the truth of claims from this database, we find a clear partisan asymmetry. An increase in the number of repetitions of a falsehood corresponded with increased belief among Republicans but decreased belief among Democrats. We also find an important moderating role of media consumption. The effects of repetition were larger when people consumed more right-leaning cable news and when falsehoods were mostly repeated on Twitter. We discuss implications of these findings for misinformation research.
Elon Musk's interview with former President Donald Trump ran into technical difficulties before the conversation even got started on Monday. However, as soon as the Space was functional again, nearly 1 million people joined in to listen to the conversation between the Republican nominee and the tech mogul. Elon Musk, who has endorsed Trump's presidential run, and Trump greeted each other as "Donald" and "Elon." They then began a friendly chat about immigration, the economy and President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The two men talked for over two hours with more than 1 million people listening in at the same time, according to X. [From video description]
[Interview with Peter Baker about his article]
