[ExI] And they say Clinton is the one who's a Liar!

[John Clark]

It's difficult to keep track of all of Donald Trump's lies but The New York
Times figured if they could do it for just one week that might be a good
representational sample of the total number of lies told in the entire
campaign. They didn't include "untruths that appeared to be mere hyperbole
or humor, or delivered purely for effect, or what could generously be
called rounding errors", they were only interested in statements that
concerned important things and were contradicted by facts and were
objectively false. They found 31 whoppers. Keep in mind this list only
includes the lies Trump made between September 15 and September 21, that
means every 3.6 waking hours Trump tells a major lie to a cheering audience
who love him because he's a straight shooter who tells it like it is. Go
figure.

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Tall Tales About Himself


Mr. Trump’s version of reality allows for few, if any, flaws in himself. As
he tells it, the polls are always looking up, his policy solutions are
painless and simple and his judgment regarding politics and people has been
consistent — and flawless. The most consistent falsehood he tells about
himself may be that he opposed the war in Iraq from the start, when the
evidence shows otherwise.


1*He said a supportive crowd chanted, “Let him speak!” when a black pastor
in Flint, Mich., asked Mr. Trump not to give a political speech in the
church.*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 15.

There were no such chants.

2*“I was against going into the war in Iraq.”*

SPEECH IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 19.

This is not getting any truer with repetition. He never publicly expressed
opposition to the war before it began, and he made supportive remarks to
Howard Stern.

3*He said any supportive comments he made about the Iraq war came “long
before” the war began.*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.

He expressed support for the war in September 2002, when Congress was
debating whether to authorize military action.

4*He said he had publicly opposed the Iraq war in an Esquire
interview “pretty quickly after the war started.”*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.

The Esquire interview appeared in the August 2004 edition, 17 months after
the war began.

5*Before the Iraq invasion, he said, he had told the Fox News anchor Neil
Cavuto something “pretty close” to: “Don’t go in, and don’t make the
mistake of going in.”*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.

Not remotely close. He told Mr. Cavuto that President George W. Bush had to
take decisive action.6*He said that when Howard Stern asked him about Iraq
in 2002, it was “the first time the word Iraq was ever mentioned to me.”*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.

Mr. Trump expressed alarm about Saddam Hussein and the situation in Iraq in
2000 in his own book.

7*“You see what’s happening with my poll numbers with African-Americans.
They’re going, like, high.”*

SPEECH IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20; MADE SAME CLAIM IN OHIO, SEPT. 21.

Polls show him winning virtually no support from African-Americans.

8*“Almost, it seems, everybody agrees” with his position on immigration.*

REMARKS IN TEXAS, SEPT. 17.
Most Americans oppose his signature positions on immigration.

9*He has made “a lot of progress” with Hispanic and black voters, and “you
see that in the polls.”*

FRED DICKER RADIO SHOW, SEPT. 15.

No major poll has shown him making up significant ground with black or
Hispanic voters.

10*He was “never a fan” of Colin Powell.*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.

In his book “The America We Deserve,” he named Mr. Powell as among the
“best and brightest”in American society.

11*Mr. Trump said that after The Times published an article scrutinizing
his relationships with women, “All the women came out and said they think
Donald Trump is terrific.”*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 18.

Only one woman who was quoted in the article came to his defense after its
publication.

12*“Unlike other people” who only raise money for themselves during
presidential campaigns, he also raises money for the Republican Party.*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 15.

Every presidential nominee forms a joint fund-raising agreement to share
money with his or her national party.

Unfounded Claims About
Critics and the News Media

It’s not just Mrs. Clinton whom Mr. Trump belittles and tars with
inaccurate information. He also distorted the facts about his Republican
critics, including President George Bush and Gov. John Kasich of Ohio. And
he claimed that Lester Holt, the NBC anchor moderating the first
presidential debate, is a Democrat — but Mr. Holt is a registered
Republican.

13*In the primaries, Mr. Kasich “won one and, by the way, didn’t win it by
much — that was Ohio.”*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 19.

Mr. Kasich crushed him in Ohio, winning by 11 percentage points.

14*Lester Holt, the NBC anchor and debate moderator, “is a Democrat.”*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 19.

Mr. Holt is a registered Republican, New York City records show.

15*The presidential debate moderators “are all Democrats.” “It’s a very
unfair system.”*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW, SEPT. 19.

Only one, Chris Wallace of Fox News, is a registered Democrat.

16*He said it “hasn’t been reported” that Mrs. Clinton called some Trump
supporters “deplorable.”*

SPEECH IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.

It would be difficult to find a news organization that didn’t report her
remark.

Inaccurate Claims About Clinton

Mr. Trump regularly dissembles about his opponent, attributing ideas to
Mrs. Clinton that she has not endorsed, or accusing her of complicity in
events in which she had no involvement.

17*“Hillary Clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther
controversy. I finished it.”*

REMARKS IN WASHINGTON, SEPT. 16.

Mrs. Clinton and her campaign never publicly questioned President Obama’s
birthplace;Mr. Trump made it his signature cause for five years.

18*Mrs. Clinton had “the power and the duty” to stop the release of
unauthorized immigrants whose home countries would not accept their
deportation after they were released from prison.*

NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN COLORADO, SEPT. 17, AND FLORIDA, SEPT. 19.

The secretary of state does not have the power to detain convicted
criminals after they have served their sentences, and has little power to
make foreign countries accept deportees.

19*Mrs. Clinton has not criticized jihadists and foreign governments that
oppress and kill women, gay people and non-Muslims. “Has Hillary Clinton
ever called people who support these practices deplorable and irredeemable?
No.”*

SPEECH IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 19.

She has denounced jihadists and foreign countries on the same grounds, if
not necessarily using the same words.

20*“Do people notice Hillary is copying my airplane rallies — she puts the
plane behind her like I have been doing from the beginning.”*

TWITTER, SEPT. 20.

He did not invent the tarmac rally or the campaign-plane backdrop.

21*Mrs. Clinton destroyed 13 smartphones with a hammer while she was
secretary of state.*

SPEECHES IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 15 AND SEPT. 19.

An aide told the F.B.I. of only two occasions in which phones were
destroyed with a hammer.

22*He said Mrs. Clinton is calling for “total amnesty in the first 100
days,” including “a virtual end to immigration enforcement” and for
unauthorized immigrants to receive Social Security and Medicare.*

SPEECH IN COLORADO, SEPT. 17.

She has not proposed this.

23*Mrs. Clinton is “effectively proposing to abolish the borders around the
country.”*

NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN TEXAS, SEPT. 17.

She is not even proposing to cut funding for the Border Patrol.

24*“Hillary Clinton’s plan would bring in 620,000 refugees in her first
term alone,” and would cost $400 billion.*

NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.

She endorsed admitting 65,000 Syrian refugees this year, on top of other
admissions. Mr. Trump is falsely claiming that she wants to do this every
year and is estimating the cost accordingly.

Stump Speech Falsehoods

Some warped or inaccurate claims have become regular features of Mr.
Trump’s stump speech. He routinely overstates the scale and nature of the
country’s economic distress and the threats to its national security, and
exaggerates the potential for overnight improvements if he were elected.

25*“Our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that
they’ve ever been in before — ever, ever, ever.”*

SPEECH IN NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.

No measurement supports this characterization of black America.

26*Fifty-eight percent of black youth are not working.*

NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 16, AND COLORADO, SEPT. 17.

This misleading statistic counts high school students as out of work. Black
youth unemployment actually was 20.6 percent in July.

27*Many dangerous refugees are being welcomed by the Obama
administration. “Hundreds of thousands of people are being approved to pour
into the country. We have no idea who they are.”*

NEW HAMPSHIRE SPEECH, SEPT. 15.

The Obama administration has admitted more than 10,000 Syrian refugees,
using an extensive screening process.

28*“We have cities that are far more dangerous than Afghanistan.”*

NUMEROUS SPEECHES, INCLUDING IN FLORIDA, SEPT. 16; COLORADO, SEPT. 17;
NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20; OHIO, SEPT. 21; AND A FOX NEWS INTERVIEW ON SEPT.
21.

No American city resembles a war zone, though crime has risen lately in
some, like Chicago. Urban violence has fallen precipitously over the past
25 years
<http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/08/us/us-murder-rates.html>.

29*Ford plans to cut American jobs by relocating small-car production to
Mexico, and may move all production outside the United States.*

FOX NEWS INTERVIEW AND NEW HAMPSHIRE SPEECH, SEPT. 15.

Mark Fields, Ford’s chief executive, said it was not cutting American jobs.

30*“We have a trade deficit this year with China of approximately $500
billion.”*

NORTH CAROLINA SPEECH, SEPT. 20.

He has made this claim repeatedly, but the trade deficit with China is
significantly smaller.

Esoteric Embellishments

Mr. Trump often dissembles on subjects of passing interest, like the news
of the day or the parochial concerns of his local audiences. But his larger
pattern of behavior still holds: These misstatements, too, accentuate the
grievances of his supporters, and cast his own ideas in a more favorable
light.

31*Senator Bernie Sanders fell victim to “a rigged system with the
superdelegates.”*

SPEECHES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE, SEPT. 15, AND NORTH CAROLINA, SEPT. 20.

Mr. Sanders did not lose the Democratic nomination because of
superdelegates. Mrs. Clinton beat him in pledged delegates, too.
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