Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Presidential Manure

by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

Donald John Trump lies - a lot.  Lying is clearly his security blanket, a big part of his comfort zone.  An independent research group called the Fact Checkers began doing what its name implies during Trump's first one hundred days in office.  The group had intended for its service to the American people to be only temporary, but as Trump became more comfortable in office, the amount of lies he told on a daily basis began to rise.  The Fact Checkers decided it was in the long-term public interest to stick with the charlatan and keep monitoring his discourse.

During Trump's first 100 days in office he was telling an average of 4.9 lies or "misleading statements" per day.  Recently that number has climbed past 9 per day with an overall average of 6.5 per day.  This past June 4th when Trump completed his 500th day in the presidency, he had clocked over 3,300 false or misleading claims.

Perhaps his high water mark - so far - was an amazing thirty-five lies that he told at a speech in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 29th of this year.  Among other jewels scattered to the rubes in that crowd were claims that he had more than tripled savings by repealing Obamacare, that the individual mandate of Obamacare was unconstitutional - even though the Supreme Court had said otherwise, and that he had passed the 'biggest" tax cut in history, although it actually only ranked eighth.

The old joke is that if his lips are moving, he is probably lying.  Sadly, that is never more true than when it is applied to the wit and wisdom - and never-ending flow of small words from Donald Trump.

Trump's lies are so numerous and unrelenting that it would be hard to ever identify his most egregious untruth - but some words that he uttered yesterday in a tweet certainly have to be near the top of the list of his absolute biggest whoppers.  Yesterday Donald John Trump, a known tool and lackey of Putin's Russia, tried to make it look as though Russia feared him and would work to elect Democrats.

In one of his more bizarre - yet calculated - tweets, the Trumpeter said this:

"I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump!"

Scrape that off of your boots and spread it on the garden!

Here's the truth:  Earlier this week Corey Stewart, the GOP Senate candidate for Virginia, was regaled with laughter in a public debate after he stated that Donald Trump "stands up" to Russia.  Nobody believed that one - and it's getting to where only fools believe Donald John Trump on any subject, let alone his beloved Russia.

Putin said publicly in Helsinki that he had wanted Donald Trump to win the presidency.  That's another truth - Trump's manure to the contrary.


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