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You talk about healthcare? Ok, let's talk about that. Trump said he has a wonderful Obamacare replacement plan. Now he won and we found out conclusively that he lied and actually had no real plan at all.
Obama's false statements are of course troubling but were quite rare and once he was corrected he never kept circling back to them the way Trump does.
The equivalency arguments are simply false, no high profile politician pumps out as many lies as Trump:
Considering the biased source, skew each of those 10-20% in the proper direction, because the ones in the middle are usually up to interpretation.
There is also sample bias involved.
Denial. That's what you are doing.
Trump said he'll try to persecute Clinton - he lied about that.
Trump said he has a ACA replacement - lied about that.
Trump keeps saying, despite factual correction that he had a landslide victory - he is either a fucking moron or he just doesn't give a shit and is lying even about something so pathetic.
He is a liar and he lies quite often, don't even need a graph to know that. Just need a minimally functional brain.
He can still do it if he feels like it. Even politifact hasn't ranked that promise yet, it's still "no ranking"
Still in the works, and he started the process and now needs congress to pitch in.
Don't care about that one.
Again denial. After he won he specifically said that Hillary-for-prison was just electioneering:
As Trump spoke at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as part of his post-election “Thank You Tour,” some supporters began chanting “lock her up” ― a common refrain during the Republican convention and Trump’s campaign events.
“No, it’s okay,” Trump said as the crowd jeered a reference to Clinton. “Forget it. That plays great before the election. Now, we don’t care, right?”
Trump Admits His Threat To Lock Up Clinton Was Just For Show | The Huffington Post
A wonderful ACA replacement wouldn't need "pitch in", it would be wonderful and unveiled ASAP for congress to take up. No person familiar with the healthcare debate thought that Trump's promise was anything but empty promises. The matter is waaay too complex for his campaign to have a real solution in hand. And of course when election smoke cleared his admin had ZERO novel ideas, let alone a comprehensive plan. Your denial that it could still secretly exist is nonsense.
Then that will be his first "promise broken" on politifact once they decide he's not going through with it.
Somewhere out there is a group of people trying to figure out how to either replace Obamacare with something tractable, or eliminate it without too much fallout.
So far, he's still "in progress" on it.