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Can We Expect a New Trump After Lewandowski’s Firing?
Posted On 21 Jun 2016
The media, the majority of campaign staffers, and indeed, Corey Lewandowski himself were stunned on Monday when Donald Trump fired his long-time campaign manager.
Lewandowski was a controversial and divisive figure, but his success in leading Trump to a dominant victory in the primaries could not be denied. While it’s hard to say how much Lewandowski had to do with that and how much was purely Trump, it was clear that Trump regarded his campaign manager as a valued and trusted advisor.
According to reports (denied by Trump), the billionaire’s children – Donald Trump, Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump – were instrumental in convincing their father to go in a new direction. That direction appears to include handing over the reins of the campaign to Paul Manafort, a veteran Republican strategist who has reportedly been locked in a power struggle with Lewandowski for months.
Several Republican officials and donors expressed relief at the change. RNC chief Reince Priebus told Trump last week that it was becoming increasingly difficult to work with Lewandowski.
Others hope that his departure will finally pave the way for Trump to pivot away from his more controversial comments and policies.
“It would be welcome if new people come in who have more experience and can move him to a more inclusive, more substance-oriented campaign,” GOP fundraiser Fred Malek told the New York Times.
However, Malek wasn’t completely convinced that we would see such a move. “How much the absence of a national kind of campaign is due to Corey and how much is due to Donald is kind of hard to tell. It looks to me like Trump drives his own train.”
While there’s room for Trump to improve when it comes to fundraising and loose-lipped remarks that have little to do with the election (Judge Curiel), it would be a mistake to start “acting presidential” at the expense of the very thing voters love about him. Trump’s greatest strength is that he’s not a typical politician, not a typical Republican, and not hewed in by the usual boundaries of political correctness.
At the same time, he’s facing down a political war machine that has come to the battlefield prepared, armed, and laser-focused. If Hillary Clinton was a rather weak candidate in the primaries, it’s now clear why: She was saving all of the good stuff for the general. And it can’t be ignored that if the election were held tomorrow, Trump would lose decisively.
Trump can’t win the presidency with die-hards alone. But he’s proven capable of drawing in new voters, Democrats, and independents; he’s up against an opponent with a long, troubling history; he’s a candidate of change in a year where that’s exactly what the voters want. He doesn’t need a top-to-bottom makeover to defeat Hillary. A small, calculated shift, though? Yes, that would help.
The only change I see is more appeals to Bernie Sanders supporters by suggesting as he did at the Dallas rally Thursday last week that he agrees with some of Sander’s positions but for different reasons.
Perfectly said. Bernie Sanders supporters are enthusiastic workers. With Trump, though, they’ll probably see a better paycheck.
Obviously Sanders supporters don’t like hitlery let’s hope they like Trump more than hitlery and VOTE FOR TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT 2016
I’ve read reports that as few as 20% and as much as 45% of Sanders voters have said they will vote for Trump in the election. Their votes for Sanders were protest votes against lying, crooked Hillary.
A little socialism on the Left is better than a little fascism on the Right.
Clevis doesn’t care to entertain your comment! NEXT
I’m seeing reports that 20 to 45% of Sanders voters plan/planned on all along, to vote for Trump. Their primary votes were merely an effort to thwart Hillary. Let’s hope this is correct.
The GOP must realize that winning the fall national election is about more than a concern for Donald Trump’s personality. The vital issue is keeping the Clinton’s from regaining the W.H. and it’s crucial effect on the balance in the Supreme Court.
Donald Trump’s personality, if left unchecked, will cost us the election. He can get his message out without whining – “I’m not being treated fairly” as he has done so many times even though he was treated the very same way as the rest of the republican candidates were. And the vile things he’s said about women, Megyn Kelly in particular, are never acceptable. The spoiled brat has to grow up an it appears that with yesterday’s speech he has. Lets hope he remembers the lesson.
More importantly than the “personage of either POTUS” candidate, is what direction we want the country to go and grow into in the immediate future! Do we want to continue the Liberal mess and fearful conditions existing in our nation and the world, brought about by the failed O’Bama years? Or do we want a strong Conservative admin. led by a unified GOP leadership to bring about real change!
The oval office isn’t for white people only!
The prayer rug must be removed.
Muslims are protected by the Constitution, just as much as Christians.
That does not include Illegals.
America is a nation of immigrants, therefore we are all anchor babies.
You really are an idiot. You should keep your mouth shut and stop proving it to readers.
Well said.
Barbara your a dumb ass hoe and I suggest you go fuck yourself you nigga hating white trash bitch!
Legal Immigrant Chlldren are not anchor Babies you fool.
Who gives a damn your retired fat ass!
You should not talk about your Mother like that,
BTW aren’t you related to Caitlyn Jenner or are you its mother?
Jenner is now your sister.
But I bet your old ass is!
Republicans hate illegal immigrants, unless they need their lawns mowed or their houses cleaned.
Funny, I have a young white male doing my lawn and costs less than the Illegals. My neighbor has had a young man do his lawn by non illegals.
And that was a hypocritical lie!
Well Retard hopefully they will help the Democrats get more votes! Anything to keep Republican’ts out of the oval office.
Read your history, ThomasJefferson had a run-in with Muslims … Died”from the shores of Tripoli” ring s bell. The founders envisioned freedom of religion as being Christian (and Jewish). The first schools used the Bible as text, etc. Again, read up on John Adams, Madison, etc. They are protected, but not their sharia law which conflicts with our Constitution and our laws.
They do not realize that freedom of religion at that time was that the government would not be allowed to be ruled by one religion as it is today by a Muslim.
It’s the constitution not the bible fool!
You have no clue about either one.
You couldn’t buy a clue to save your life!
Here’s what’s really wonderful – once Obama is out lots of people will do all they can to prove he never had the right to run for the office of the presidency, let alone hold it. And that evidence, while hidden now, exists. Once found and a judge rules the Obama presidency was illegal – everything Obama did becomes illegal. All the illegals who came here legally under Obama get tossed out, all the illegals get tossed out. Every ‘executive’ order gets reversed (but Trump will do that on day one). All laws Obama signed are voided. All laws he refused to sign are up for signature by a legitimate president. Obama phones will disappear and on and on and on. And the people who pay the bills will rejoice in the streets!
Oh how mighty white of you Barkbra, Let me let you in on a NEWS FLASH for dumb ignorant trailer trash white people that smoke meth because is better than weed smoking bitches! My whole blessed generation has worked all of our lives no matter what whitey what is office. K We all own our own homes cars and paid for our educations as well. So I would be glad if your were not trying to try me. Because you have been raising your family standing on street corners of NYC. We started in Brooklyn bitch and we were paying our bills till we moved to the mid-west, hot arid deserts, southern states and then to the sunny west coast. And the majority of us adopted poor white trash children and druggies children as well,some of us have retired we eat well and sleep well. SO White bitch don’t you ever talk about paying bills to me you ain’t got shit on this! So kiss my white ass you have not hoe!
Well said you nut job! isn’t that what Trump is wearing on top of his orange face!!!
Nope it’s the real deal
It’s really a damn shame that the first non white person in the office had to be a Muslim/Marxist homosexual with a transgendered male posing as a woman and his wife – & the mother of his kids (a literal impossibility). I know you can’t stand the truth, if I were you I wouldn’t like it either – but that’s what you have in Obama. He has so hurt the nation & blacks and the possibility of another black man or woman holding this office you’ll be long gone before one is ever voted in again.
Inside every white barbarafromnyc there is a Republican that is a Klansman or a Nazi waiting to
bloom.
HOW VERY RACIST OF YOU! Fool that you are, you don’t see how blacks and Hispanics are used by the left & kept in place.
It takes one to know one! I agree to disagree with you at all times!
Republicans that gays are most likely in the closet themselves.
your a damned shame do not come out in the daylight!
It wasn’t for white people only – after Obama, you can bet it will be throughout your lifetime. He should have thought of the nation first not the Muslims. He doesn’t give a damn about blacks unless they are criminals. He spoiled it for all blacks, save those who have solid republican/conservative credentials.
That is right-wing rhetoric! Don’t you have any insight of your own!
I think this nation is fed up with the liberals/leftists and the Muslim/Marxist occupying the White House. I fully expect Trump to win and win big. Then we have to hope and pray he steers right, literally!
Trust me that will never happen!
Your racist remarks tell me a) you are black and b) you are on the dole. Trust me, it will happen, those who pay the bills are good and fed up.
Look Bark bark I dismiss every retarded thing that you say towards me.a) I know your mamma did not raise you right! Democrats think for themselves and Republicans have to form think tanks like this one to do it for them. Your such a damned idiot arguing with you is such a damn waste of time!
Democrats think for themselves, Please! You march in step like the good little Nazis you are.
Dumocraps think in lock step like robots
You sound just like hitlery
Yeah DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT 2016
Who let the Jungle Bunny out of his cage. We did not know Obama has a son .
Your illegitimate mother is a jungle bunny whT is that some old throw back term. Your funnier than and plane crash full of old white naked perverts in the middle of Disney World’s Never – land!
Are B J BILL&HITLERY ON THE PLANE WITH YOU
Yes it will . Go to you tube and look up the clinton chronicles and then decide if you still want to support killery
Ed I will not be entertained with that RIGHT-WING smear propaganda! Dump Trump forever 2016!!!! BOOM
Hitlery president cell block 69
DONALD J. TRUMP PRESIDENT 2016!!!!!!!!
You didn’t go to yhe clinton chronicles did you
Donald Trump has called Hillary Clinton crooked, a liar, a murderer, a
misogyny enabler, corrupt, unqualified, and even has said she belongs in
prison.
Yet she just keeps climbing steadily in the media polls.
You really have to wonder if there is anything else he can say that’s going
to work. He’s so far given two big speeches to lay out his case against her and
both have been ineffective.
These are the advantages of 100% name ID. There’s nothing that’s been said
about Hillary Clinton that hasn’t already been said by old men on the left and
the right. Yet there she is, still standing.
I wouldn’t go so far as to say this election is a done deal. But I will say
it’s going to take something extraordinary to dislodge her from a very strong
position.
There’s only one man in this country who has beaten Hillary Clinton in an election
and he is throwing his full strength behind her.
If you’re a Republican, or just someone who hates Clinton for whatever
reason, you’d better do something new and do it soon.
The Donald is ‘controversial’ but never flat-out wrong in the press, because it cares
more about being ‘fair’ and ‘objective’ than anything else.
On
Sunday afternoon, Donald Trump retweeted an objective lie. The lie
claimed that 81 percent of murdered white people are killed by black
people. In truth, 84 percent of murdered white people are murdered by
other white people, almost the exact opposite the claim. Not only were
the statistics wrong, but the tweet cited the “Crime Statistics
Bureau—San Francisco.”
This organization doesn’t exist.
The bureau was the creation of a white supremacist on Twitter, advancing a racist meme with a lie. Trump hasn’t taken down the tweet, apologized, or even acknowledged it.
But because of the way the Internet values its information, Donald Trump lied again, and he will once again get away with it.
Here were the headlines from mainstream outlets about Trump’s entirely made up piece of information:
“Trump Tweet on Black Crime Sets Off Firestorm,” wrote Fox News.
“Fact Checking Donald Trump’s Questionable ‘USA Crime Statistics’ Tweet Broken Down by Race,” wrote the New York Daily News.
“Trump Takes Heat for Tweet About Black Murder Rates,” wrote The Hill.
Noticeably absent from these headlines was that Donald Trump’s tweet was entirely fabricated. The Hill’s doesn’t even dig into the credibility of the statistics until the ninth paragraph.
Donald
Trump lied. And yet traditional news organizations can’t or won’t call
him that in the name of “objectivity”—appearing to favor one party over
another—even if one candidate is spreading a rumor that unfairly maligns
an entire race.
“The incentive for candidates [to lie] is that
most media outlets don’t have the resources to check for accuracy
immediately, but since the U.S. news media is based on the commercial
model—and more eyeballs on the page or the screen is good for
business—the networks love it when someone like Donald Trump says
outrageous stuff,” Michelle Amazeen, an assistant communications
professor at Rider University, told The Daily Beast.
“Fact-checking rains on the parade of that revenue model.”
Amazeen
co-authored a study for the American Press Institute that largely had
great things to say about fact-checking. Prevalent fact-checking
operations like Politifact or FactCheck.org
do, in fact, serve as a deterrent for candidates who are thinking about
lying during an election cycle, she and her co-authors found.
But
when a candidate figures out that he can say whatever he wants in order
to advance a narrative and can have immediate benefits—and knowingly
exploits it—all bets are off.
“Beyond being ineffective,
correcting claims about a highly controversial issue can actually
backfire. People who are diehard believers hold their beliefs even more
firmly when those beliefs are challenged,” Amazeen wrote earlier this year in The Washington Post.
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“We
know that a lot of people don’t even read past the first sentence, so
the initial information gets passed around and, unfortunately, there’s
not much stopping them,” Amazeen told The Daily Beast. “Fact-checking is
spreading, but not nearly as fast as that first information.”
As Poynter’s Craig Silverman once put it, “Initial, inaccurate information will be retweeted more than any subsequent correction.”
Trump’s candidacy turned misinformation into ammunition in just four easy steps.
First,
say or tweet an incorrect piece of information, knowing any network
that calls you on it will be dubbed partial by one of the two political
parties.
Two, watch as mainstream news outlets write about the
controversy of your statements—as the right and left line up on
predictable sides—but not call you out on it. The stories will often
present an objective fact-check, placed with seemingly equal weight to
what one of your supporters feels is true. “Objectivity” and
“balance” means treating someone who is factually wrong, even lying, the
same as the person who is right and honest.
Three, fire up your base when one news organization dares to disobey the second rule. Call them “biased,” “failing,” or “unfair.”
Four, watch your Q rating soar!
And Trump’s campaign is built on lies more than any other in recent memory.
“This
cycle is very different with the number of flat-out wrong claims,” said
Angie Drobnic-Holan, editor-in-chief of Politifact. “Some of our
fact-checks are not all clear cut. Some are in the mostly true range,
and that’s fine. But this year, the amount of things that did not or
could not have happened? Just go through our ‘Pants On Fire’ section.
You’ll see way more examples than in previous years.”
Politifact’s
“Pants On Fire” designation is reserved for the most severe,
unbelievable lies told by politicians on any side of the aisle.
“Take
Donald Trump’s scorecard and compare it to Michele Bachmann or Mitt
Romney at this time [in the election cycle]. Bachmann is probably the
closest parallel, because she said some very provocative things that
turned out to be completely wrong,” she said. “It’s not even close. And
she only won the Ames poll, then that was it. He’s different.”
Even by 2016 standards, Trump is lapping the field in “Pants On Fires.”
“Tell
you what: Look at Jeb Bush’s scorecard. Look at Marco Rubio’s
scorecard. Anybody’s. If you’re a politician, and you’re talking about
controversial things, odds are you’ll say something wacky at some
point,” she said. “But they don’t look anything like Donald Trump’s.”
On
a basic human level, too, Drobnic-Holan can see how this kind of thing
goes uncovered by beat reporters and mainstream media. Journalists are
tired. They can’t check everything right away when they’re on deadline.
But writing a story about a controversy over a piece of misinformation
one already knows is untrue, and not reporting it that way?
“If
you’re repeating information that you know to be wrong without letting
your readers know, then you’re doing them a disservice,” she said.
“That’s the most vital service we provide, don’t you think? Is that
controversial?”
It shouldn’t be, but it is.
The radio silence on Trump’s lies may have a direct and lasting effect on the country, too.
“These claims get repeated down ballot,” said Amazeen. “Governors, judges, dog catchers.”
So how can we stop it?
“We need to re-examine what our news media are doing. We need to find a way to get readers to value the content,” she said.
That means driving news outlets away from placing objectively true information next to feelings
about what happened in an effort to shield themselves from the ridicule
of one side. That ridicule, in the current economy of the Internet,
could lead to a loss of unique visitors—the thing that matters most to
advertisers on the Web. News companies, one way or another, need to keep
the lights on.
A better way of monetizing the news is coming
(like paid subscriptions), but until then candidates like Trump can
revel in a mostly controversy-first, fact-second news cycle.
“Fact
checking is spreading, but not nearly as fast as the misinformation
before it. This is what journalists are supposed to be doing,” said
Amazeen. “Journalism has been gutted over the years because it’s not
making the money that it used to make. We’ve had a hollowing out of
journalism.”
Drobnic-Holan sees a better future. She says her site
is being cited more frequently this time around, that there’s a real
appetite for it in the 2016 race.
“I really take seriously we’re
independent, that we’re not taking sides, that we’re not making a
judgment on the overall candidacy of a specific candidate, just their
facts,” she said. “We’re trying to provide information for voters to
inform the voters, then let the process play out.”
But shouldn’t
everybody be doing that? Isn’t that just what journalism is? Isn’t fact
checking the whole thing—not just the eighth paragraph underneath the
controversy?
“I think so. I think people are starting to see how
powerful this form of journalism is,” she says. “That if a journalist’s
not fact checking, they’re not doing their jobs.”
TRUMP 2016 FOR PRESIDENT
Donald Trump is a serial liar. Okay, to be a bit less Trumpian about it, he
has trouble with the truth. If you look at Politifact, the Pulitzer
Prize-winning site that examines candidates’ pronouncements for accuracy, 76
percent of Trump’s statements are rated either “mostly false,” “false,” or
“pants on fire,” which is to say off-the-charts false. By comparison, Hillary
Clinton’s total is 29 percent.
But if Trump doesn’t cotton much to the truth, he doesn’t seem to cotton
much to his own ideas, either. He waffles, flip-flops and obfuscates, sometimes
changing positions from one press appearance to the next, as Peter
Alexander reported on NBC Nightly News this past Monday — a rare
television news critique of Trump.
I say “rare” because most of the time, as Glenn Kessler noted in The Washington Post this
week, MSM — the mainstream media — just sit back and let Trump
unleash his whoppers without any pushback, even as they criticize his manners
and attitude.
In an ordinary political season, perhaps Trump would be under fire for his
habitual untruths, like the one that Ted Cruz’s father might have been involved
with Lee Harvey Oswald. This time around, though, neither the media nor the
public — least of all his supporters — seem to care. Which leads to the
inescapable conclusion that these days, as far as our political discourse goes,
truth, logic, reason and consistency don’t seem to count for very much.
The question is why.
One simple explanation is that Trump has changed the rules. He is not a
politician but a provocateur, and he isn’t held to the same standards as
Clinton or Bernie Sanders or even Cruz, all of whom actually have policies. For
Trump, policies are beside the point.
… Truth, logic, reason and consistency don’t seem to count
for very much. The question is why.
Another explanation is that long before Trump, social scientists observed
that truth matters less to people than reinforcement, and that most of us have
the ability to reformulate misstatements into truth so long as they conform to
our own biases. We believe what we believe, and we are not changing even in the face of opposing facts (without this
capacity for self-deception there would be no Fox News).
There is, however, another and even more terrifying explanation as to why
the truth doesn’t seem to matter. It has less to do with Trump or our own
proclivities to reshape reality than it has to do with infotainment — with the
idea that a lot of information isn’t primarily about education or elevation,
where truth matters, but entertainment, where it doesn’t. You might call it
“the Winchell Effect.”
Walter Winchell, about whom I wrote a 1994 biography, was a hugely popular
New York-based gossip columnist for the Hearst newspaper chain and an equally
popular radio personality, although saying that is a little like saying that
Michael Jordan was a basketball player. Winchell was the gossip
columnist, with an estimated daily audience of 50 million. He practically
invented the form, and the form was a long chain of snippets — rumor,
prediction, innuendo — racing down the page, separated by ellipses.
Some of these snippets were scarcely more than a noun, a verb and an object:
Mr. So-and-so is “that way” about Miss So-and-so. Does her husband know?
In this way, Winchell became not only the minimalist master of gossip but also,
quite possibly, the first tweeter – before Twitter.
If you are wondering how this is relevant to the 2016 campaign, in time
Winchell turned his roving eye from entertainment to politics, deploying
exactly the same arsenal to the latter as he had to the former. Thus did gossip
leap the tracks from Hollywood and Broadway to Washington. In this, Winchell’s
approach was a precursor of modern election coverage. He was obsessed with
letting readers in on what was going to happen — the clairvoyance of rumor —
rather than with what was happening or what it actually meant. That is, he was
a horse-race handicapper long before horse-race coverage became the dominant
form of political journalism.
One prominent example: At the behest of the White House, Winchell spent
months floating trial balloons for Franklin D. Roosevelt and his ambitions for
a third term. Basically, it was presidentially endorsed gossip.
But Winchell’s influence didn’t stop at conflating entertainment with
politics — and this is where the indifference to truth comes in. Winchell
reported dozens of tidbits of gossip each day. Presumably, that’s why people
read him or listened to him on the radio; they wanted to be ahead of the curve.
But the vast majority of these tidbits were unverifiable, and nearly half of the
flashes that were verifiable turned out to be false, according to a
survey conducted for a six-part New Yorker profile of Winchell by St.
Clair McKelway. Since there was always a passel of new scoops every day, no one
seemed to notice — or care — that he was usually wrong.
One can only assume this was because readers seemed to relish the excitement
of the “news” more than they desired its accuracy. Or, to put it another way,
gossip was entertainment, not information. Thus the Winchell Effect.
The Winchell Effect is alive and well in today’s politics in two respects.
First, candidates can get away with saying pretty much anything they want
without being held accountable so long as what they say is entertaining and so
long as they keep the comments coming. Trump has been the major beneficiary of
this disinclination by the MSM to examine statements. The blast of his
utterances always supersedes their substance. And the MSM plays along.
To wit: Trump announced his tax plan way back in September 2015. With
kudos to the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, which did look at his plan, it is just this week that most of the MSM are getting around to examining it — even
as he changes it. (I may have missed it, but I still have yet to see a single
story delving into Trump’s tax policies on the network news.)
The blast of his utterances always supersedes their
substance. And the MSM plays along.
Perhaps better late than never, but the fact that he could throw out wild
schemes involving trillions of dollars without the media feeling the need to
vet them means that primary voters had no way to understand his tax plan and
see its flaws. Of course, from the MSM’s perspective, analyzing a plan would be
tackling policy, not providing entertainment. And make no mistake, the
candidate and the mainstream media are in the entertainment business.
And that is the second way in which the Winchell Effect changes our
politics. If candidates are not accountable, neither are the political media.
Like Winchell, they are not only besotted with strategies, polls, predictions,
and — in the case of a few cable networks — wild, unverifiable charges, they
are, like Winchell, seldom challenged when they get it all wrong.
They were wrong about Trump not being a serious candidate. They were wrong
about Jeb Bush’s and Marco Rubio’s chances to get the nomination. They were
wrong about the likelihood of a contested GOP convention. Since they won’t call
one another out, no one calls them out. In effect, they are implicated
in the Winchell Effect as much as Trump is, which may be one reason why they
don’t challenge him. Neither Trump nor the press has to be right. They just
have to keep ginning up the excitement.
What this means is that our politics is no longer politics in the
traditional sense of policy and governance. It is, as most of us realize, a
show, a game, an ongoing reality TV saga. This is nothing new. The media have
been bored with policy for a long time and have been pressing the horse-race
narrative over real reporting for just as long. And when they do discuss
policy, as The Huffington Post’s Jason Linkins observed,
in a typically smart piece, they are likely to prefer the windy, absurd
generalities of a Trump to the wonky policies of a Clinton. It makes better
copy, and it has the added benefit that it doesn’t require any fact-checking.
Trump is the fullest flower of a non-political politics and the fullest
product of the Winchell Effect. With their mutual lack of interest in the
truth, Trump and the MSM deserve one another — a synergy of the showman and the
gossip columnists. But do we deserve them? Only if we allow our
politics to become a way of amusing ourselves rather than the way to select a
leader.
Meanwhile, Trump and the MSM will keep the misinformation coming, on the
sadly correct assumption that many of us don’t really care about facts so long
as we are being titillated.
Are you reading from a teleprompter sounds like it. TRUMP 2016 PRESIDENT YEAH!!!!!!!#
I would rather vote for a loud mouth billion than a lying sack of horse pookie
Unified GOP leadership TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT 2016 YEAH
As reported earlier, the mainstream media has begun to realize that Donald
Trump’s entire life is built on fraud. He is not the rugged, self-made individual he has built himself up to be.
CNN’s Don Lemon, host of CNN Tonight, interviewed
David Brock of Correct the Record,
a “strategic research and rapid response team designed to defend Hillary
Clinton from baseless attacks,” and what he found is not pretty.
It is no secret that Trump is a liar. He has been demonstrated to lie 9 out
of 10 times he opens his mouth to speak. He lies easily and without hesitation.
Mainstream media has until recently been complicit in his dishonesty, failing
to challenge his statements during interviews, or indeed, even after. What
David Brock shows us is that the Donald Trump we are seeing is not a new Donald
Trump. He has always been a liar.
DON LEMON (HOST): David, I am going to start with you. Your
organization Correct the Record analyzed 23 of the Washington Post’s fact
checks on Donald Trump. What did you find?
DAVID BROCK: Well, we found — What we did was we
took the most egregious we could find, and we actually set them to music. We
set them to a Mozart Symphony No. 41, and it runs 41 minutes. And the point
here is that every aspect that we looked at, of Donald Trump’s life and his
campaign, compulsive lying is an unavoidable aspect of it. We looked at the
first public statement we could find that Donald Trump had ever made, back in
1973 where he said it was ridiculous that he would engage in housing discrimination,
yet he settled a charge just to that nature four years before.
We looked at the first nine words that Donald Trump said when he
declared his candidacy, where he said there were thousands of people in
attendance and there were only 300. So, from 1973 to the time he announced his
candidacy, it was lie after lie. And the important thing here is that he’s
lying about himself, the story he tells about himself, that he’s a self made
man, and a business genius. For example, Trump University is a lie that begat a
fraud. And then on policy, he is lying to the American people on the promises
he is making to, for example, reduce the debt by $19 trillion, when the Chamber
of Commerce says he’s going to explode the deficit and put us in recession.
LEMON: David, did the Washington Post do fact checks
on Hillary Clinton, whether she’s telling the truth or not?
BROCK: Sure, in fact the agency that Jeffrey just
cited, Politifact, rated Hillary Clinton the most honest of all candidates they
looked at, and Donald Trump was the most dishonest. So, I think it’s a really
poor excuse to try to say that all candidates do this, all candidates embellish
and lie. What we have here is something — it is a difference of not degree, but
of kind.
It is the order of magnitude, the volume, the brazenness, and the
other thing, you know, so let’s say politicians do sometimes not tell the
truth. When they’re called out on it by something like the Washington Post fact
checker, they usually stop. What our video shows is that Donald Trump compounds
the problem time and again compulsively. He’s caught in a lie and keeps telling
it. That tells us something about character, tells us something about
temperament, and just unfitness for office.
Lying is not a new thing for Donald Trump. He is a compulsive liar and he
has apparently always been a compulsive liar. He has built up some sort of
superhero alternative version of himself in his own mind, and that is what he
is selling to the American public as we head down the stretch to Election Day.
As the mainstream media catches on to the truth, he will find it more and more
difficult to sell his lies to the American people.
Need I say more!!!
Yeah Vote FOR TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT 2016
It is our Media that is much worse than Trumps behavior .
Yes, the media is worse than Trump, but, it’s Trump that getting the wrong kind of attention – and he’s doing it delibrately. Now that he made the speech from a teleprompter he’s seeing his numbers rise dramatically. Hope its a lesson that sticks.
The only lesson that will be learned is on you! Trump is playing you all like boo boo the fool.
And Hillary is doing what – besides selling America for cash? Read the book “Clinton Cash” if you can read that is.
Hitlery & obozo already played you and many!!!!!###like you for fools. Keep drinking the koolaid
Oh yeah what media do you own??
What are you doing on a conservative newsletter’s site? Trying to poison the well. You’ll never achieve it. Are you a sadist? Seems so. You certainly don’t think you could win an argument here – or are you that stupid?
Your the one that needs your personality checked fool!
I’m going to make you ill. I LOVE THAT THE BRITS EXITED THE EU AND CAN’T WAIT FOR THE EU TO TOTALLY FALL APART! THE BRITS STARTED THE PROCESS OF TAKING BACK THEIR COUNTRY. AMERICA WILL DO THE SAME THING COME NOVEMBER! Head for the bathroom fool!
Blah, Blah, Blah loser!
Your nothing but a hypocrite!
Not so. I don’t care for Trump, but, I’ll take him any day of the week over any Clinton.
What are you a kindergarten teacher!
ACCOUNTANT – WITH A MASTERS DEGREE! Which welfare office do you go to?
I still make more money than you,you buffoon welfare hoe!
Good do me a favor get the hell up off your ass and lose some weight! Bye Felicia!
Oh yea I didn’t as for your two cents you need that to pay your rent stupid ass!
The trash must be taken out in Nov. before the US decays some more.
AMEN, AMEN, Retired:
similar retired & vet
The retired and Vets must stick together and keep Clinton out in Nov.. Both groups have suffered under Obama.
Now you know that is a lie and draft dodger Trump know this as well.
And Bill Clinton was in what branch of the service? Did you serve? I doubt it. But I’d bet you have your welfare cash, low rent apt, food stamps and Medicaid + free education to get a job you would never look for.
You are so jealous of me your mama GOD rest her fat fuggly face! Didn’t you hear me bitch I am retired Army Vet and I what I get paid and hour is none of your fucking white trash business! Now get a life welfare recipient trailer trash hoe!
Why are you so wrapped up in that shit your spewing! Are you frustrated because you don’t have all the answers and you live with uncertainty, you don’t know who to or what information you should trust because mainstream media and political rhetoric has left you in a ball of confusion! I keep my ears and eyes open which allows me to know what is going on in my surroundings. I don’t depend on or follow you or anyone that walks in hatred and fear.
Now you go on fool and stand in the welfare line that you are so wrapped around because I never had to thank God.
Next time you better make sure you know me before you try transpose your insecurities, hatred and racial slurs on me cause it didn’t and will not work! I am colorblind(race wise) it doesn’t matter what your race,creed or color, I fed,clothed and housed the poor and misplaced just like JESUS did which is unlike you! And what is it you do for your American neighbors, you white DEVIL???
I’m a Army vet and I would stick to your stinking ass if you paid me.
Yes we have TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT 2016 MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! !!!!!!!!
Your the reason that I’m going be cheering and jumping up down on TV when Hillary stomps Donald Duck into the damn dirt and becomes POTUS! Then you can take your KKK sign make America White Again and shove it up your pink Doo stain ass!
Looking forward to knowing that you will become physically ill when Trump wins.
I’m looking forward to see you choke off your teeth when they get knocked down your nigga loving throat!
Ah, now you’ve done it – this little ditty is proof positive that you are a moron!
I’m not a republican! so it is impossible to for me to be a moron!
The US stared to decay when your poor begging ancestors set foot on this native Americans land.
Actually, it started to decay when blacks moved north.
Now that would be when your white nigger loving ancestors raped beautiful black women and had illegitimate colored white niggas running all over the south!
Schmuck – my white ancestors were from northern Italy. As for rapes – well, Sicily has an enormously high number of Sicilians who have black blood from women being raped during invasions by blacks. Whatever occurred in the South, a hundred or more years ago had nothing to do with my family. But your words do reveal a lot about you. You’ve been steeped in leftist rhetoric and there’s no changing you. That would take functioning brains; something you lack. If memory serves, it was the North that went to war, shed blood to a level never before seen, and freed your slave ancestors – you’re welcome! And it was Republicans who made sure blacks would be citizens – you’re welcome again. Dems wanted blacks to have no rights at all. No good deed goes unpunished – & we have to put up with the likes of you! By the way – you’re free to return to your ancestral homeland – why not go? You’re obviously not happy living here. And I don’t buy for a minute your claim to be a veteran!!!
Barbara would you shut your HALF A NIGGA mouth up I am sick and tired of hearing your mother fuckn BS BITCH get a man or something! dAMN WHY IN THE FUCK YOU WHITE TRASH MOTHERFUCKA WANT TO COME FOR ME!
You’re posting on a site that by your own writings you don’t belong on. As far as I’m concerned, you’re a leftist plant. I see this regularly on conservative commentary. That you get so pissed off at my posts and replies to your garbage tells me I’m right! You’re not white, you’re not a veteran (unless from serving in some communist army) you’re not even literate. Look at how you rant, on and on and on. You’re really angry that I called you out. Want to feel better about yourself – post on Hillary/leftist sites and stay away from conservative venues. There’s always going to be someone like me who will, by using brains and reason alone, call you out for the phony & leftist you are.
Better give thanks for the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria – were it not for those ships with whites on them, you’d be jumping in the jungle, in a loin cloth with a bone through your nose!
Have you seen the results of the Brexit vote? Great Brittan opted out of the EU – now the EU will fall apart as one by one the nations take back their sovereignty. Your leftist buddies are now going to be turned back instead of tolerated everywhere!
Go to your room and cry your eyes out – Trump will win! Then we’ll see where Hillary & Bill end up. As to where you’ll end up – the back of the welfare line, too lazy to work to earn your keep.
I will tell you this you fucking stupid ass bitch! I got on your dumb ass nerves when I said that the Oval office was not for whitey only and you flipped the fuck out. And came for me with your racial slurs that your learn from a simpleton’s stereotypical republican rhetoric nickel or dime handbook bitch! So I don’t give a fuck about you and who you vote for and what you have to say to me I know who I am and who I belong to I don’t have insecurities or low self esteem like you. For one thing you dumb stank bitch you think you know me but you don’t! You are just jealous of me!
BTW The last time I saw a person that was jumping in the jungle, in a loin cloth with a bone through THEIR nose was when I saw YOU AND your mama and daddy on Naked and Afraid, and the rest of your uncivilized family that came on the NINA, THE PINTA and the Santa Maria! Now cry about that you NEANDERTHAL LOOKING POOR WHITE bitch!
You know what your said about that orange punk ass bitch looser Trump will not hold water, HE DOES NOT WANT TO BE PRESIDENT! Get ready for the big let down BITCH!!! OH IM SURE UR USED TO BEING LET DOWN THAT IS WHY YOUR SIT ON UR COMPUTER DAY AFTER DAY only coming out in the dark and sitting at home BEING JEALOUS and a HATER OF PEOPLE that don’t give a shit about you and are better than you and are doing better than you and the ones that are doing better with out you dragging them down in the gutter and those THAT YOU CANT MANIPULATE, ALL BECAUSE NO ONE CAN STAND TO LOOK AT YOUR PIZZA SHIT PIE FACE And BTW YOU TALK SO MUCH SHIT ABOUT WELFARE AND FOOD STAMP IM BEGINNING TO BELIEVE YOUR ARE A WHITE WELFARE QUEEN OF NYC!
SO BYE BOO BOO THE FOOL FAT FUKn COW!
Don’t U have some wine to make with your big clod hopping feet
Schmuck – “my white ancestors were from northern Italy. As for rapes –
well, Sicily has an enormously high number of Sicilians who have black
blood from women being raped during invasions by blacks”This is an insane person writing this BS!
I glad we can start with your fat white ass!
Yeah it’s starting to really reek in D. C.
We are seeing Donald Trump’s S.O.P. It works. Just look at the urban landscape as citizens of New York City see it. Trump buildings, the best and the biggest, even in places where there was nothing before. The press just need things to talk about. So do Democratic gossips.
I’m afraid we can expect a new Trump, and that’s very bad news, on two fronts.
The first is that it was the “old” Trump who stimulated the turnout in the primaries. It was the “old” Trump who openly expressed popular feelings suppressed by leftist political correctness. And it was the “old” Trump who represented the hope of a bypassed people.
The second is that if Trump can be turned so easily, what does that augur for his presidency?
Trump is a man for all seasons ,he can and will take care of Business. We must be with him all the way, what Trump is now doing , NOW that he has your ATTENTION! ,is speaking slower giving more answers to questions ,and getting the voters who must find their way to the voting machines the inspiration to do so.,please for your children and their children do the vote for TRUMP., this time is like no other time In the History Of OUR COUNTRY Vote for TRUMP IT IS WIN OR BE LOST FOREVER MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN LETS GET BACK THE LAND WE LOVE, DOWN WITH ALL THIS Pissy P.C. Names cant hurt you but ISSIS can KILL you. America is the land of the free and the home of the brave ,lets once again prove it. This world will be a better place when we as a country limit who ,we allow into our home land. NOW IF ONLY OBAMA WOULD STOP RELEASING ALL THE PRISNORS so they can turn right around and kill more Americans, AND the terrorist he has welcomed in ,and gave them more than the underprivliged of our own Country, Charity and love is for the home land first, and that is our Americas. WHO DOES HE WORK FOR ANYWAY???? In all his time in office any plan he has put fourth has been hurtful for us , Our Men and Women are trying to fight a war(which he has yet to call it a War ) our service people are litterly fighting with both hands tied. They have to call Washington before they can shoot their guns ??? Hello take away the security for
POTUS and watch the worm turn , What is he doing right about anything,like Hillary every thing she and her husband touch is for their own wealth,liars and cheaters, I hope she gets a life sentence when they find her guilty of all the stuff she is openly guilty of, I think in time a lady would be great as our president, BUT HILLARY IS NO LADY AND BUBBA IS NO GENTLEMAN.
ANOTHER THING WHY DOES HE KEEP BRINGING THE PEOPLE WHO ARE KILLING US INTO OUR COUNTRY,SET UP CARE FOIR THEM IN ONE OF THEIR OWN PLACES, tHIS LAND IS OUR LAND AND DONT FORGET IT. ,DOES HIS BRAIN NOT FUNCTION NORMALLY???
It’s not that he’s being turned. He can’t be president with that mouth running. He has to become more presidential. Do you want him speaking to the heads of other nations, especially those headed by women, with that vile mouth? I don’t. Now Trump will keep the support he had and gain the support of others who don’t want Hillary.
As long as he stays non-pc, I think a little polish will go a long way.
When Trump reads from a teleprompter…..therein is the lie. He reveals his true identity when he is candid.
Gee, Trump isn’t a politician, he’s learning though. Questions: Does your statement apply to Obama who rarely is off the teleprompter and when he is, fouls up? Or is it just for Trump?
I think the first thing to say is that the ads on this site are worthy of the National Enquirer, not a serious purveyor of news/commentary. I for one would like it if they would stop accepting these ads and be more dignified. As to Trump, he’s had 2 weeks of people being turned off by his big mouth. FINALLY, he’s learned a lesson. Glad to see it and I expect we will continue to see more of the same.
This action by Trump’s campaign is just a ploy to pamper his bruised looser ego and to keep his naive supporters hanging on to the next episode of free media advertising!
Trump will not be my pick, and should he be pruned by NRP he will only become suspect of saying what the voters want to hear. One statement I have grown to hate, and hear daily – “change the country” – needs to be discarded. BO has so blackened its meaning by his traitorous acts, Trump will need a very supportive Congress to “Take Back our Country” he will be hard pressed to make any change. Lewandowski may have been too inexperienced, but he was a-breath-of-fresh-air to say-whatever-the-public-wants-to-hear type campaigning. There was greater need for Trump to be true to himself, rather than backtracking and appearing to lie at least weekly.
If all of you republican’s put your head together with Trump you still would get beat by a liberal!!!
Hey, paranoid, angry, jealous white punk retard you got one foot on the banana peel and one foot in your grave where maggots will crawl in and out of you pea sized brain as you lie stinking and rotting to hell. And damn what is that smell that radiates from your body now..Oh yeah you’ve been sleep with your poor white trash mamma barkbrafromnyc!
ceevee, you have got to be the biggest fool I have ever seen on any site. there are plenty of libs that come to these conservative sites and spew their idiotic views, we put up with most of them just for fun. but your lies are the least intelligent I have ever seen. and you are not a vet, I am a twenty year vet, and I have never heard anyone in the service talk to a woman like you have. you reply to all of the comments with foul language and no facts, or what you call facts are pure bullshit. no one in the service has or had a better ability to turn the air blue then drill sergeants or bosuns mates in the u.s. navy. and I was the latter for twenty years, from sixty to eighty. and you are ridiculous saying your a vet, you controlled your own birth and so much more. do all real vets a favor and stop trying to pass yourself off as a vet.
I don’t have to let you know any of my business. And your a lie women are disrespected on the daily where I’m at. I work for the VA and I am a disabled Army soldier vet so go run and tell that!
david b no dick your a pansy ass lying troll get at damn life. That stupid talking white sheet is beneath me and so are you. I know your type your republican you people sit back and wait for something to happen while dems make things happen. You are one of the most fronting fools of the universe.
1. I’m not here to entertain your pea sized brain your just mad because I am telling the truth and you can’t handle the truth.
2. Most of all I think therefore I am not a Republican! You are not an authority on how a vet talks to ignorant people.
3.The facts in the comments is the truth and all have been fact checked! I don’t feel like playing while you are playing? Bible says “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8;32 So I am free from all that
Donald Trump’s plan to save America
You want to know why I have a fortune estimated by Forbes at $8.4kajillion?
You do? You want me to tell you?
It’s because I’m a winner. I’ve been a winner since birth. In fact, I was a
winner before birth. You want to be a winner, starting at birth’s too late.
That’s for losers. You got to start sooner. When I was a spermatozoon, I was
like, “I don’t want to be born into some loser family. I want to be born to a
real estate tycoon worth $400m.” So I worked my ass off, competing with
literally millions of other spermatozoa for the right to fertilise that goddamn
ovum, and what do you know – after just nine months, I’m born into a fabulously
wealthy American family.
Don’t let anyone ever tell you birth is a matter of luck. That, my friend,
is BS. Anyone tells you that, it’s because they’re a loser. They clearly didn’t
put in the hard yards up the Fallopian tubes.
So, number one in the Donald Trump List of Ways to Make America Great Again:
ensure everyone is born into a family of multimillionaires, minimum.
Isil
All these Muslim terrorists, running around the desert,
cutting throats, helping themselves to the oil that is rightfully ours – yet
our so-called President hasn’t got a clue what to do about them.
I can’t believe no one has noticed the foolproof solution staring us in the
face. A method of defeating Isil quickly and effectively and securing total
victory.
Kill them.
It really is as simple as that. How have we ended up with leaders who know
so little about military strategy?
Manufacturing
We got to beat China. They’re taking all our jobs. They make everything now.
In America these days we don’t manufacture a damn thing.
Last year I launched Trump Tags, a range of labels saying “Product of
America” to be sewn on to all the Chinese goods we import. Just $5 each. But
you’ll never guess what: the Chinese started making the same “Product of
America” labels for only a cent each. They’re killing us.
Immigration
It’s got to stop. Especially from the Third World.
Let’s face facts: America’s success was not built on a mass influx of poor
people coming from abroad to work for next to nothing.
Gun control
I see another mass shooting on the news, and it makes me weep. Because I’m
thinking: are we out of our minds? How did we allow this to happen?
How did we let those poor people go to church unarmed?
When I’m President, no one sets off to worship our peaceful and loving God
without packing a Glock and a good-sized rocket launcher. Same goes for
offices, malls, stadiums and kindergartens.
We will not end this bloodshed until we equip every man, woman and child in
our nation with the means to carry out slaughter on an unimaginable scale.
Widening gun ownership is the only way to protect our children. Because let
me tell you: if there’s one thing guaranteed to deter a trigger-happy
psychopath desperate to get himself on the news, it’s the prospect of a spectacular
gun-fight.
No one had better attempt any funny business with the voting, as we all will be spying.. You would be amazed at how good we got, at this! This procedure of the candidate having to raise tremendous amounts of money and give it to the Republican Party, makes absolutely no sense, at all, none whatsoever.
We are falling into the race war scenario. This is what the evil elite that are controling this world want, fighting and chaos so they can implement Marshal Law. This will take the rest of our freedom away.This is not going to help any one’s cause. Everyone thinks Hillary is so wonderful. One of her closest friend and mentor was Robert Byrd a long time member of the K.K.K. The Republicans tried to put a stop to the Klan. The Klan is endorsing Hillary and contributed $20,000 to her campaign. All Hillary want’s is your vote. Four more years of Democrats will finish off our once Great country. We need more love and less hate so as not fall into their trap.
Forget about Brexit, let me tell you about the suites in the lighthouse…
IOW, Trump was working his day job on his trip to Scotland. His
political “scampaign” is just his moonlighting gig he does for fun and
adulation and he gave that the attention he felt it deserved.
I’m willing to give him a pass for that, because it appeared to just be a
misstatement, but he intentionally babbled on and on about the suites in
the lighthouse. The pound has fallen off a cliff, the US stock market is down
600, and this tiny-fingered shitgibbon says Brexit is a good thing because more
people will go to his golf resort.
How is even one person voting for this mangled apricot hellbeast? Even
one?