NYTimes: A Week of Whoppers From Donald Trump

[spanone]

All politicians bend the truth to fit their purposes, including Hillary Clinton. But Donald J. Trump has unleashed a blizzard of falsehoods, exaggerations and outright lies in the general election, peppering his speeches, interviews and Twitter posts with untruths so frequent that they can seem flighty or random — even compulsive.

However, a closer examination, over the course of a week, revealed an unmistakable pattern: Virtually all of Mr. Trump’s falsehoods directly bolstered a powerful and self-aggrandizing narrative depicting him as a heroic savior for a nation menaced from every direction. Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist, described the practice as creating “an unreality bubble that he surrounds himself with.”

The New York Times closely tracked Mr. Trump’s public statements from Sept. 15-21, and assembled a list of his 31 biggest whoppers, many of them uttered repeatedly. This total excludes dozens more: Untruths that appeared to be mere hyperbole or humor, or delivered purely for effect, or what could generously be called rounding errors. Mr. Trump’s campaign, which dismissed this compilation as “silly,” offered responses on every point, but in none of the following instances did the responses support his assertions.

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.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/24/us/elections/donald-trump-statements.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region

[malaise]

1. King Con

is a chronic habitual LIAR

[spanone]

2. yes he is, and a segment of the american population loves to be lied to

[lindysalsagal]

3. Journalists are not supposted to take sides. But they can discredit sources and lies.

So glad they've made the decision to fact check the imbicile.

It's not an opinion that he's wrong, it's a fact that he's wrong, all the time.

They can also tally how often he lies. It's about time.

[BSdetect]

4. Start keeping this tally when he started his BS

Now its very late in the race.

He's established a toehold in the electorate.

In reality he ought to be hanging by his fingernails over a chasm.

But thanks for doing the obvious now. Doing your job.

[Bucky]

5. Just how big is this “unreality bubble that he surrounds himself with”?

about yea big
. . .

[renate]

6. wait, wut?

#15: Chris Wallace of FOX is a registered Democrat? No way. That must be for purposes of plausible deniability.