Rebecca Solnit: The Loneliness of Donald Trump
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Donald Trump is a liar. Not just in the sense that we are all fallible human beings who probably say things that aren’t true sometimes — he has made flagrant disregard for the truth a hallmark of his approach to business and politics....
He wrote about his strategic use of dishonesty in The Art of The Deal. He admitted to routinely lying about important matters in a sworn deposition...."
The raging controversy over whether to call Trump’s lies "lies," explained
'Trump approval ratings'
How Trump’s Popularity Is Holding Up, By State
How Popular Is Donald Trump?
"What is patriotism? Let us begin with what patriotism is not. It is not patriotic to dodge the draft and to mock war heroes and their families. It is not patriotic to discriminate against active-duty members of the armed forces in one's companies, or to campaign to keep disabled veterans away from one's property. It is not patriotic to compare one's search for sexual partners in New York with the military service in Vietnam that one has dodged. It is not patriotic to avoid paying taxes, especially when American working families do pay. It is not patriotic to ask those working, taxpaying American families to finance one's own presidential campaign, and then to spend their contributions in one's own companies. It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It is not patriotic to cultivate a relationship with Muammar Gaddafi; or to say that Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin are superior leaders. It is not patriotic to call upon Russia to intervene in an American presidential election. It is not patriotic to cite Russian propaganda at rallies." Timothy Snyder
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
Wait.....did you say 'lies'??????
That term is reserved for Hussein Obama.
Let's prove it together:
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"We can't drill our way out of this problem." Any time he talks about energy, he trots out that phrase. Whatever the problem, increasing domestic oil supply is never the solution. In 2012, when running for re-election, the president declared: "Even if we drilled every square inch of this country right now, we're going to be relying on other countries for oil."
The Daily Bulletin - December 8, 2014 | RealClearEnergy
“Sorry, Mr. President: Turns Out We Can Drill Our Way to Lower Gas Prices” Sorry, Mr. President: Turns Out We Can Drill Our Way to Lower Gas Prices - American Energy Alliance
Could his lies about drilling have anything to do with this???
“Obama's OMB ignores document subpoena; Upton/Stearns House panel says Monday morning or else…The subpoena is for thousands of documents requested months ago by the committee's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations concerning OMB's evaluation
of a Department of Energy economic stimulus program loan guarantee worth $535 million for Solyndra, Inc.,…”
http://www.sfexaminer.com/blogs/bel...ocument-subpoena-uptonstearns-house-panel-say
2.
Obama…a supporter of infanticide…which is why he lies to support Planned Parenthood.
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...on abortion, Obama is an extremist. He has opposed the Supreme Court decision that finally upheld the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act against that form of infanticide. Most startlingly, for a professed humanist, Obama – in the Illinois Senate – also
voted against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
I have reported on several of those cases when, before the abortion was completed,
an alive infant was suddenly in the room. It was disposed of as a horrified nurse who was not necessarily pro-life followed the doctors’ orders to
put the baby in a pail or otherwise get rid of the child.” Infanticide candidate for president
…who has stated that he didn’t want his daughters ‘
punished’ with a baby…..told this lie:
You’ve got issues like Planned Parenthood, where that organization provides millions of women cervical-cancer screenings, mammograms, all kinds of basic health care.”— President Obama during an interview on “The Tonight Show,” Oct. 24, 2012
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The president has suggested time and again that Planned Parenthood directly provides mammograms, but the organization only offers referrals and helps women find financial resources for the exams. This suggests
an intentional attempt to mislead voters…”
Obama’s ‘Tonight Show’ remark: Planned Parenthood provides mammograms
3. Get this lie:
“’more black men languish in prison in America than attend college.” Obama
"the most frequently quoted statistic about black men in the United States."
4. Lies, damn lies….and Obama lies:
Obama: Doctors Choose Amputation Because Surgeons Get Paid More Than Physicians
Obama: Doctors Choose Amputation Because Surgeons Get Paid More Than Physicians
….and….
5. Obama’s claim that Keystone XL oil ‘bypasses the U.S.’ earns Four Pinocchioshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2015/03/02/obamas-claim-that-keystone-xl-oil-bypasses-the-u-s-earns-four-pinocchios/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8c2ed3f65ed8
….and….
6. After accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Obama bombed more countries than any President since WWII
“U.S. Bombed Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Somalia in 2016”
The U.S. dropped an average of 3 bombs per hour last year
His whole presidency was a lie by the Left.....and suckers bought it like it was on sale.
7. Is this a lie, of just the sort of thing Liberals do?
The Peace Prize for
a man who had a kill list in the Oval Office:
“The
Disposition Matrix, informally known as a
kill list, is a database of information for tracking, capturing,
rendering, or
killing suspected enemies of the
United States.
[1] Developed by the
Obama administration beginning in 2010, the "Disposition Matrix" goes beyond existing kill lists and is intended to become a permanent fixture of U.S. policy.
[1] The process determining criteria for killing is not public and was heavily shaped by National Counterterrorism Director and former
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director
John O. Brennan.
[2]
8. “Team Obama: Sorry, America, the ‘new normal’ may be here to stay
The good times may be over for good. In a speech to the Economic Club of New York yesterday, US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said the US GDP growth rate, adjusted for inflation, is now projected to run a little above 2% a year.”
Team Obama: Sorry, America, the 'new normal' may be here to stay - AEI
Then, along came Trump….
“U.S. households are back to their free spending ways, with the strength of May’s retail sales figures implying that second-quarter real consumption growth (and GDP growth for that matter) will now be more than 4% annualized.
9. “Obama’s whopper of a claim on tax cuts
“We said working folks deserved a break, so within one month of me taking office, we signed into law the biggest middle-class tax cut in history, putting more money into your pockets.”
— President Obama, Sept. 5, 2011
10.
10. “Obama’s claim that ‘90 percent’ of the current deficit is due to Bush policies
…he can’t blithely suggest that 90 percent of the current deficit “is as a consequence” of his predecessor’s policies — and not his own.
It is astonishing to see the president repeat this faulty claim once again, as if it were an established fact.”
Obama’s claim that ‘90 percent’ of the current deficit is due to Bush policies
"It is astonishing to see the[Democrat Obama] repeat this faulty claim once again, as if it were an established fact.”
And they're still lying!!!
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. Obama called ISIS the JV and then said he didn’t call them the JV…
“Obama said he “wasn’t specifically referring” to ISIS when he made the junior varsity reference during an interview with
The New Yorker in January. But the magazine article and a transcript of the interview — which
Washington Post Fact Checker
Glenn Kessler obtained and wrote about earlier this month —
shows that Obama was referring to ISIS when he said “if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.”
Obama Fumbles 'JV Team' Question - FactCheck.org
WaPo calls him a liar……again.
12. Here he goes again:
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Obama in 2015: ‘Assad Gave Up His Chemical Weapons…Those Have Been Eliminated’”
Really???
Then explain this:
“The April 4 attack in Khan Sheikhun, which cost the lives of more than 80 people ….
Defense Secretary James Mattis said Monday the firing of 59 cruise missiles from two U.S. Navy destroyers in the Mediterranean was intended to “show the United States will not passively stand by while [President Bashar] Assad murders innocent people
with chemical weapons, which are prohibited by international law
and which were declared destroyed.” Obama in 2015: ‘Assad Gave Up His Chemical Weapons…Those Have Been Eliminated’
13. President Obama: “So let’s start with this fact: For more than a thousand years, people have been drawn to Islam’s message of peace.
And the very word itself, ‘Islam,’ comes from ‘salam’ — peace.”
Why did Obama say this? Even Muslim websites acknowledge that
“Islam” means “submission” [to Allah], that it comes from the Arabic root “aslama” meaning submission, and that “Islam” is in the command form of that verb.
14. Obama Saying 'Islam has been Woven into the Fabric of our Country Since its Founding'
15. The unemployment rate announced three days after his election was 6.5%....not particularly terrible. But it was the only economic news, and had Obama insisting we were suffering "the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression."
Obama: U.S. in worst crisis since Depression
16. The Kick-Back to Donors Plan….I mean the Stimulus…
In Barack Obama’s speech to the joint session of Congress, the President emphasized that his new jobs plan had four specific qualities that made it easy to pass this bill immediately, as Obama chanted repeatedly during his speech. His plan would be fully funded, it would not add to the deficit, it would create jobs immediately, and it was chock-full of bipartisan ideas. The Associated Press
fact-checked these claims, and found them all false.
17. Obama lied and misled the American people in his description of his relationship with terrorist Bill Ayers as casual and arm's-length:” just a guy in my neighborhood.” His spokesman even claimed he ony knew him because his kids went to school with Ayers’ kids. Now it is clear that the relationship was close, and the evidence is that Ayers actually wrote Obama’s ‘autobiography.’
18.
Report: Released Criminal Aliens Committed Nearly 10 Times More Crimes Than Obama Admin. Told Congress
Report: Released Criminal Aliens Committed Nearly 10 Times More Crimes Than Obama Admin. Told Congress | Breitbart
19. Do you recall this Obama response at one of the debates: “I think America's greatest moral failure in my lifetime has been that
we still don't abide by that basic precept in Matthew that whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me.”
Perhaps this is the biggest hypocrisy and the greatest look into his character:
“The average American household gives about two percent of adjusted gross income,” …Obama…less than 1%
And he wouldn’t help the ‘least of his own brothers’ out of poverty:
"Barack Obama's half brother, George Onyango Obama, was found living in a 6 by 10 foot slum hut in Huruma estate just outside of Nairobi. According to reports George Obama survives on $12 a year in the slums of Kenya."
Barack's Half Brother: George Obama's Hut Is In The Slums Of Kenya
20. “Obama: 'I Didn't Have Scandals.' So What Are All These?
Former president Barack Obama might not have experienced the fallout from a scandal, but that's very different from never having been involved in one.”
Obama: 'I Didn't Have Scandals.' So What Are All These? | RealClearPolitics
21. Not only do the Leftists like Obama lie to their base with no compunctions….but they laugh at how gullible their voters are:
Charlie Rose and President’s Speechwriters Laugh About ObamaCare Lie ‘If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.’
22. The lies often serve the purpose of appealing to particular constituencies…..here, to Jewish voters:
"The Nazi death camp that Barack Obama's great-uncle helped liberate
MAY 27, 2008 | 4:21 PM
Barack Obama, at a Memorial Day event in Las Cruces, N.M., credited his great-uncle,
Charlie Payne, as being among the U.S. troops who liberated the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz.
The trouble with that bit of history -- as the Republican National Committee pointed out today -- is that the Soviet Red Army was the military force that liberated the World War II death camp."
The Nazi death camp that Barack Obama's great-uncle helped liberate
23. The lies are often revealed in the actions of the Democrats. While thumping their collective chests about how they feel for black Americans….their actions reveal something altogether different:
Obama's US Civil Rights Commission, 2010 Report:
"The United States Commission on Civil Rights (Commission) is pleased to transmit this report, The Impact of Illegal Immigration on the Wages and Employment Opportunities of Black Workers. A panel of experts briefed members of the Commission on April 4, 2008 regarding the evidence for economic loss and job opportunity costs to black workers attributable to illegal immigration. The panelists also described non-economic factors contributing to the depression of black wages and employment rates.
Illegal immigration to the United States in recent decades has tended to depress both wages and employment rates for low-skilled American citizens, a disproportionate number of whom are black men."
USCCR: Page Not Found
24. Here is Democrat apparatchik George Stephanopoulos ‘correcting’ Obama’s mention of his Muslim faith…
His actions throughout his presidency make this an admission more than a gaffe.
The big question about Hussein Obama was always was he Sunni or Shia…and with the Iran deal, we got answer.
25. "My expectation is that if you want to be president, you have to work for everyone, not just for some," Obama said in a taping of the "Late Show" with David Letterman... …the job of the President is to “represent all people.” “If you want to be President, You have to work for everybody, not just for some."
Obama: As president you represent everyone, most people don't think they're victims
“According to the experts who contributed to the Brookings Institution report, Barack Obama numbers among the most polarizing presidents in American history.”
These Are the Most Polarizing Presidents (and How Donald Trump Compares)
“A Gallup poll released Wednesday shows that former President Obama's approval ratings are easily the most polarized in modern American history, with Democrats rating him highly and Republicans rating him poorly.
"Throughout his presidency,
Barack Obama averaged 83% job approval among Democrats and 13% among Republicans," reports Gallup. "That 70-percentage-point party gap in job approval ratings easily eclipses the prior high — 61 points for George W. Bush.
"All other presidents had party gaps of 55 points or less."
Gallup: Obama approval ratings most polarized in US history
The Democrats wanted to put Hussein Obama on Mt. Rushmore....but they don't have enough room for two more faces.