Donald Trump Lies About Positions on Libya and Iraq

[hazlnut]

Is he banking his supporters don't have internet?

Why would he tell such blatant lies?

In the tech/media age, people have to be too smart for this kind of b.s.

Watch Donald Trump Lie About His Positions On Libya And Iraq

In fact, Trump’s views on Libya and Iraq have been totally, and demonstrably, inconsistent. It doesn’t take much digging to discover that Trump was originally in favor of increased United States involvement in both countries.

In a video blog about Libya from 2011, Trump said, “Qaddafi in Libya is killing thousands of people, nobody knows how bad it is, and we’re sitting around, we have soldiers all [around] the Middle East, and we’re not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage… Now we should go in, we should stop this guy, which would be very easy and very quick.”

Trump reiterated the point a few seconds later, saying, “We should do on a humanitarian basis, immediately go into Libya, knock this guy out very quickly, very surgically, very effectively, and save the lives. After it’s all done, we’ll go to the protesters who end up running the country, they’re going to end up liking us a lot better than if we don’t do it.”

Trump’s position regarding Iraq has followed a similar pattern. Trump has repeatedly claimed during his presidential campaign that he was opposed to the 2003 invasion of Iraq all along. But Trump’s only on-record comment about Iraq during the months preceding the invasion features him saying “Yeah, I guess so” in September 2002 when asked by Howard Stern if he was in favor of military action.

There is no doubt that Trump is a compulsive liar.

 

[Camp]

The excuses his supporters use to defend and deny Trump's lies are beyond ridiculous. You can see them today on current active threads running on this site.

 

[Fenton Lum]

The Donald understands his supporters have rejected abject reality in favor of reality television.

 

[Bleipriester]

Who admits that he has been fooled by western news?

 

[Fenton Lum]

Who admits that he has been fooled by western news?

In the US 6 major multinational corporations now preside over 90% of what americans see, hear and read. A conduit for poison is all it is.

 

[aaronleland]

Trump supporters have stopped even pretending they give a shit what he says.

Trump once revealed his income tax returns. They showed he didn’t pay a cent.

The last time information from Donald Trump’s income-tax returns was made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid the federal government $0 in income taxes.

The disclosure, in a 1981 report by New Jersey gambling regulators, revealed that the wealthy Manhattan investor had for at least two years in the late 1970s taken advantage of a tax-code provision popular with developers that allowed him to report negative income.

Today, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Trump regularly denounces corporate executives for using loopholes and “false deductions to “get away with murder” when it comes to avoiding taxes.

“They make a fortune. They pay no tax,” Trump said last year on CBS. “It’s ridiculous, okay?”

 

[Bleipriester]

Who admits that he has been fooled by western news?

In the US 6 major multinational corporations now preside over 90% of what americans see, hear and read. A conduit for poison is all it is.

Trump should have read this before talking about Libya:
Pro-Qaddafi Rally Draws 1.7 million – 1/4 of the Population