White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, appearing on Fox News’ Fox & Friends program on Monday morning, suggested that media reports about the spread of coronavirus and criticism from Democrats over the administration’s response so far to the disease are nothing more than scare tactics meant to help them politically. “I just want to stress to…
Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski couldn’t believe Donald Trump’s false claims made yesterday — and many times before — that his father Fred was born in Germany. In fact Fred Trump was born in the Bronx, in New York City, in 1905. During today’s show Brzezinski played a series of video clips showing the numerous…
When it became public this week that Donald Trump ordered that Jared Kushner be given the highest national security clearance it was devastating for both the president and his son in law in more ways than one. Trump forced the issue even after White House officials deemed Kushner a security risk to the United States,…
Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe dropped a major bombshell today when he claimed that the FBI told a bipartisan group of lawmakers in 2017 that it had opened an investigation into President Donald Trump — and none of the Republicans in the group objected. In an interview with NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, on Tuesday’s “Today…
During his State of the Union (SOTU) Address Donald Trump once again laid claim to being the biggest liar in the history of the U.S. presidency. This is true even though he read the speech, which had been prepared in advance. The biggest lie, of course, is that Donald Trump is a legitimate president, which…
One of America’s most accomplished and highly-respected former generals said yesterday that President Donald Trump is “immoral†and he wouldn’t take a job in the Trump administration. Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal gave a rare interview to ABC News on Sunday and told anchor Martha Raddatz that he considers the current president not only immoral but…
Nearly two-thirds of American voters surveyed say that President Donald Trump “has not been truthful†about the investigation into Russian 2016 election interference and a possible conspiracy between his campaign and Russia. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday morning shows a heavy partisan discrepancy, however. The poll shows the following: 94 percent of…
Former Trump attorney and “fixer†Michael Cohen dropped some new bombshells on Friday when he told ABC News that Donald Trump knew that it was “wrong†when he paid hush money to two former mistresses during the 2016 presidential campaign. He also said that Trump knew about Donald Trump, Jr. and other top campaign officials…
Donald Trump said on Tuesday that much of the border wall he wants has already been built and has been “very effective.” But that is not true. He apparently was referring to old border fencing built decades ago. And nothing he’s done has been “very effective.†Even with his hard-line immigration policies and inflammatory rhetoric…
Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr.’s role in seeking to build a Trump Tower skyscraper in Moscow three years before their father’s presidential campaign, according to Yahoo News. An investigation published Thursday said that the president’s elder daughter, now-White House adviser, and his eldest son worked several years on…
The evidence is now clear that Donald Trump has lost whatever mental capacities he had. It is no longer correct to say he is “losing it†because he has already “lost it.†The evidence came out when he told reporters that he has already shut down the border with Mexico. He also said that he…
President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions are attempting to frighten and intimidate voters by making false charges of voter fraud. Both of them issued strong warnings on Monday about the threat of voter fraud in Tuesday’s elections. This is a continuation of Trump’s claims that massive voter fraud marred his 2016 election. These…
The 2018 midterm elections have turned into a referendum on President Donald Trump. He has made sure of that by holding dozens of campaign rallies all over the country. But the elections will also be a referendum on his brazen campaign strategy, where he has taken lying to an entirely new level. In every rally…
During the first 649 days of his presidency Donald Trump has told 6,420 lies, according to the Washington Post Fact Checker. And perhaps in a sign of his increasing desperation, over the past seven weeks of campaigning for the midterms his rate of lying has increased dramatically. During the first nine months that he was…
A Washington Post/ABC News poll released last week found Americans trust Democrats more on health care than Republicans by a 53-35 percent margin. Still, President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed that Democrats are putting patients with pre-existing conditions in danger. He said that Republicans will protect them, it what can best be described as a…
In addition to telling thousands of lies, Donald Trump has become the master of the false promise. When he unexpectedly told reporters over the weekend that middle-income Americans would receive a 10 percent tax cut before the midterm elections, it caught everyone off guard. But immediately the bureaucratic machinery of the Trump administration leaped into…
Trump has invented a new excuse to blame Democrats for his policy of child separation, and that involves falsely claiming that Congress needs to authorize family detainment.
Donald Trump clearly isn’t getting enough sleep. On Tuesday his tweets started shortly after 3 a.m. and they show that the president is losing his grip on reality. His outrageous tweets constitute a renewed effort on his part to taint the Russia investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller, and to accuse Democrats and the Obama…
President Donald Trump was in rare Twitter form on Friday morning as he launched into several unhinged attacks against Democrats, accusing the opposition party of rooting against him on North Korea. His tweets as usual show that he is extremely sensitive to criticism and prefers to blame others for his failures and defeats. “Democrats are…
The question likely isn’t whether Trump will lie under oath during his interview with Robert Mueller. Instead, it’s how many lies will the president tell.
Just when we thought the bar couldn’t sink any lower for this president, Donald Trump rises to the occasion and proves us all wrong.
Trump averaged 4.9 false or misleading claims a day after the first 100 days. Now, at the six month mark, Trump is averaging 4.6 false or misleading claims a day.
Trump is showing that he isn’t just more interested in attacking his critics than doing his job, but also that there is nothing he won’t lie about.
James Comey said that Donald Trump was a liar, so Trump responded by talking to Twitter and telling more lies about Comey.
“Rather than causing a big disruption in N.Y.C., I will be working out of my home in Bedminster, N.J. this weekend. Also saves country money!”
“Big win in the House – very exciting! But when everything comes together with the inclusion of Phase 2, we will have truly great healthcare!”
The lies from Trump’s team would have sent religious Republicans into near-fatal apoplexy if it was a Democratic administration.
“Trump made 16 false claims in his bonkers AP interview, the most of any interview of his presidency or his campaign. “
“Don’t let the fake media tell you that I have changed my position on the WALL. It will get built and help stop drugs, human trafficking etc.”
Not counting lies, an unprecedented sixteen (!) times AP couldn’t figure out what the heck Donald Trump was saying in a one-on-one interview
According to Gallup, 62 percent of Americans felt Trump kept his promises in February. Now, just two months later, that number is down to 45 percent
“The first 90 days of my presidency has exposed the total failure of the last eight years of foreign policy!”
“Great win in Kansas last night for Ron Estes, easily winning the Congressional race against the Dems, who spent heavily & predicted victory!”
“Wow, @FoxNews just reporting big news. Source: ‘Official behind unmasking is high up. Known Intel official is responsible.'”
“If the people of our great country could only see how viciously and inaccurately my administration is covered by certain media!”
“I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right. Hey, look, in the meantime, I guess I can’t be doing so badly, because I’m President, and you’re not.”
“The President clings” to his false wiretapping claims “like a drunk to an empty gin bottle,” say the editors of the Wall Street Journal
“Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command…he used GCHQ” accused Spicer
Don’t give us all this grand talk about democracy dying in darkness if you’re refusing to turn on your flashlight.
When Trump claimed David Cay Johnston was “a reporter, who nobody ever heard of” he was quickly reminded Johnston wrote a bestseller about him
“It is amazing how rude much of the media is to my very hard working representatives. Be nice, you will do much better!”
Victor Davis Hanson mocks, “He did manage to lecture Americans about the evils of the Crusades, and promise to lower the seas and cool the planet.”
Trump tweeted about “122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration” but 113 of them were released by President Bush
Ben Carson says slaves were immigrant, only packed like sardines and chained in the cargo holds. Next, he’ll tell us this was ‘economy class’
“It’s just an attempt to distract from…what should be an independent…investigation of what’s going on with the Russians and the Trump administration”
We have an “erratic, vindictive, volatile, obsessive, a chronic liar” whose “presidency has veered onto a road with no centerlines or guardrails”
Trump said he’d be too busy “working for us” to play golf, but he is too busy playing golf to save his own scandal-ridden administration
“Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t voluntarily leaving the Apprentice, he was fired by his bad (pathetic) ratings, not by me. Sad end to great show”
When Brietbart ran a story about a “silent coup” by Obama, it didn’t take long to reach Trump via the West Wing
“After the votes taken earlier this afternoon, the U.S. Senate has now confirmed all of the available Cabinet nominations” – Marco Rubio
Sessions not only forgot how to speak English (Trump says he could have answered “more accurately”) but apparently forgot how to understand it
“They have lost their grip on reality. The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total witch hunt!”
“His speeches are populist…aimed at working America. His actions help the special interests and make it harder for the middle class”
“Truman: the buck stops here
Trump: the buck stops someplace else, because I’m perfect — but the actual bucks go to me and my family”
Davi is wrong, not only about the law but about who is guilty of spreading false and malicious rumors. It is his hero who is liable, not his critics
The only difference between then and now is that before Election Day he lied that he would do the things he is now lying about having done.
“If you have one of those, you can get away with pretty much anything when it comes to selling out, cursing out, or compromising your own country.”
NBC’s Peter Alexander’s point to Trump was “Why should Americans trust you on big things if they can’t even trust you on little things?”
“Kellyanne Conway does not need to text our show, as long as I’m on it. It’s not happening here.â€
“We’ve actually created a series of commercials in an attempt to bring him up to speed on some information he may lack.”
CNN had just reported on Donald Trump’s new low approval numbers when presto! He tweeted that “negative polls are fake news”
“What is our country coming to when a judge can halt a Homeland Security travel ban and anyone, even with bad intentions, can come into U.S.?”
There was a good reason Trump admitted being 3-million votes less “popular†than Hillary Clinton; it fostered his other dangerous lie to kill democracy.
*The following is an opinion column by R Muse* Once upon a time in America, there used to be an unwritten rule that no-one is above the law, but that rule is fundamentally lost on the rich, the connected, and the politically powerful. It is certainly lost on Donald Trump because it appears there is…
Of all the statements evaluated by PolitFact, only 4% of Trump statements were graded as 100% true. This means that 96% of Trump statements contain some degree false or misleading statement. In other words, if Trump is talking, he’s probably not telling the whole truth.
Subtly will get us nowhere right now, and it’s not called for. It is actually a huge mistake to fall for the genteel approach in the face of such a threat.
“He “doesn’t know much”…especially how to get people, even with an unlimited budget, out to vote in the vital swing states ( and more).”
Trump attacked journalists, Michelle Obama, and reality itself, claiming “we won by a lot. It wasn’t even close.â€
Lewandowski repeated a Trump campaign lie and said: “Donald Trump won the election campaign by the largest majority since Ronald Reagan in 1984.â€
The news media really has a very simple job; report the truth even if it is reporting the truth that a presidential candidate is a liar.
Trump told Americans that if elected, Hillary Clinton will import 650 million immigrants into America a week and lose control of the country.
Donald Trump told a lie on average once every 50 seconds during the three presidential debates, and it didn’t help him. Trump still got trounced by Hillary Clinton.
Trump stiffed American steel workers by directing untold millions to China whose trade practices helped decimate the once-powerful industrial center of America.
Here’s the reason why the Clinton campaign wants Trump fact checked in real time. Fact checkers found that over a five-day period, Donald Trump lied once every 3 minutes and fifteen seconds.
Reporting that doesn’t accurately reflect the huge honesty gap between the candidates misleads readers, giving them a distorted picture that favors the biggest liar.â€
Spokesperson Hope Hicks said in a statement Monday he has given away “tens of millions of dollars†but she offered no specifics. She said “Mr. Trump continues to be unfairly maligned for his generosity and we will continue to correct the record,†but she did not actually set the record straight.
“We spend far more per pupil than any other country in the world. If you look at education. Out of thirty countries. We’re 30th. We’re last.â€
Donald Trump pretended express regret, but it turns out that what Trump regretted was another lie that no person with two active brain cells should believe.
NAFTA was proposed, pushed, and “ceremoniously signed†by George H.W. Bush – a month before Bill Clinton was sworn in as president.
“There’s no way a Republican is going to beat a Democrat when the Republican is saying, ‘We’re going to cut your Social Security.’”
