Trump tweets a blatant lie this AM

[oberliner]

Here's the tweet:

Donald J. Trump?
122 vicious prisoners, released by the Obama Administration from Gitmo, have returned to the battlefield. Just another terrible decision!

He took the 122 number from a Fox News broadcast, but he assumed the prisoners were released by the Obama admin, when in fact it was the Bush admin.

As of July, 122 former Guantanamo detainees were confirmed to be re-engaging in terrorism, while another 86 were suspected to be, according to the most recent Office of the Director of National Intelligence report on former Guantanamo detainees released in September.

Of those confirmed, 113 were released by former President George W. Bush and nine were released by Obama.

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/322541-former-guantanamo-detainee-killed-in-yemen-airstrike

The disturbing thing is that Trump lying in these tweets doesn't really seem to matter to his fans.

[mac56]

1. He is like Velcro to crazy people.

[madokie]

3. crazy people like crazy people

simple as that

[Plucketeer]

34. Yeah, the same sorta folks

that think Three Stooges films are historical documentaries! ->

[dalton99a]

27. More like Crazy Glue

[Vinca]

2. "Trump tweets a blatant lie." And the news is what exactly?????

If his tiny fingers are tapping, he's making shit up again. Anyone else terribly embarrassed to be an American these days?

[March 4th]

20. Since Election Day

[LuckyLib]

49. Nonstop disgusting. I have French relatives who simply cannot believe

that this is where we are!

[bravenak]

4. He is trying to ratchet thing up

[Denzil_DC]

5. I'm sure there have been presidents in the past who haven't been on top of their brief,

and who've had to be corrected by staffers when they've jumped to the wrong conclusions or gotten the wrong end of the stick about various issues.

With Trump, there's no such filter - straight from Fox/Breitbart/wherever to his tiny mind to his fingers and onto Twitter and the wider world.

And, of course, He can't be wrong - He's the God-Emperor - so His fans and sycophants have to contort reality horribly to bend it to His will.

I'm obviously not going to defend him, but this particular instance probably can't be classed as a lie. It's yet another example of his incurious kneejerk ignorance.

[Renew Deal]

6. Corrupt Trump can't take the heat

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. In other news, today's sun rose in the east.

And super-genius Ben Carson has discovered the secret to rehydrating water.

[Mr. Ected]

8. So this will be his excuse for declaring war?

To go back and kill those 122 former detainees?

With Trump, his tweets always have an underlying rationale. War must be on his mind this morning.

[BeyondGeography]

9. Beats working for a living

[rgbecker]

10. He's totally normal at Fox News.

He IS his biggest fan. Like all his other fans, he simply repeats the lies streaming 24/7 from Fox News.

I happened to watch about 30 minutes of Fox the other evening and I can say that together with the other RW media, they have polluted the debate in the country and there will be no relief until they are taken down.

Trump is your Fox News watching brother-in-law sitting in the most powerful position in the world.

[underpants]

17. Yes and this is a wink to his base about the "Obama shadow govt. "

He's just mentioning Obama to lure him into a public spat and to occupy what's left of the most nfs of his darkest base.

[ginnyinWI]

32. my dad used to be one of those

He died in 2010 at 82. He'd watch Fox from his recliner, and get all fired up about Kerry or Obama going to ruin the country, and then get on email and go on a tirade about it. Over and over! I didn't need to watch Fox to know what stuff they were shoveling that day!

He didn't like the McCain/Palin ticket though: "an old man and a woman!!", he said.

If he were alive today, he'd be thrilled as anyone by the current occupant. A person just like him, old and cranky!

[vlyons]

59. a lot of us are old and cranky

I'll be 70 next week. I have heart disease and tire easily, plus my hip hurts. You bet I'm cranky. I hope that you live long enough to get old and cranky, because if you do - you'll learn that old age is not for sissies. I'm still sharp as a tack with a near genius IQ, well educated and well read. Being old and cranky is not Trump's problem. Being stupid, narcissistic, and a pathalogical liar are his problems. Plus he has a history of laundering money for really bad guys.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. Another day, another lie

Someone could make a daily calendar of Trump lies by now, except I don't think anyone would want that calendar.

[oberliner]

14. With no consequence

That's the part that gets to me.

Someone needs to start calling him "Lyin' Donald" for it to stick apparently.

[bigbrother05]

18. Delusional Don, for alliterative fans. He's shadow boxing ghosts in the WH

Ghosts of scandals past, he's haunted by the weight of the office.

As it's been said, the office reveals character.

[Ilsa]

12. I hope someone tweeted that response to his lies. NT

[oberliner]

13. Yes, it was pointed out in various responses to his tweets

It just does not seem to matter.

[underpants]

15. I think he tries to lure Obama into a public fight

Obama would crush him but probably will avoid it all together.

[dalton99a]

30. That's exactly it.

[maddiemom]

40. Then again--Hillary crushed him time and time again.

It made no impression on his hard-core base. THEY'RE the problem. I'm tending to agree that Putin never really thought Trump would win, but just wanted him to develop a rabid anti-Hillary base to cause her endless problems.

[LuckyLib]

52. This is it in a nutshell.

[phylny]

24. Please don't even joke about this. n/t

[dalton99a]

29. Best not to mention death by unnatural means when it comes to an Oval Office occupant

[BeckyDem]

19. Liar in Chief. John Dean was interviewed last night on CNN, said Trump can say anything without

the threat of a lawsuit. He has impunity except for impeachment, that is the only way and once he is impeached he is then open to lawsuits of slander and libel. I despise Pence too but we're going to need a legal means to get rid of both of them and soon. Trump's lies are so obviously about setting up a ruse to shield him from damaging evidence that may come from the investigations that are on the way. His only hope is to keep his base believing him instead of any proof the investigations bring to light.

[maddiemom]

41. Hello, Paul Ryan?

We're sunk, regardless.

[BeckyDem]

43. If it came to that at least we would be looking at a battered Republican group of liars.

He would or could be president, but think about it. The process of impeachment is damaging and although they'd technically be in power, we should be able to win seats in 2018 and they'll have even less power. I will take those odds over what we have now. They're a dangerous party so I think we fight them with everything we have.

[thesquanderer]

21. Trump lying in tweets doesn't really seem to matter to Trump, either. (n/t)

[llmart]

22. Just another attempt at diversion...

from his Russian connections.

[malaise]

23. All he does is LIE

He's a pathological LIAR

[riversedge]

25. So--113/122 total, were released by former President George W. Bush.!!!

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

26. He must have seen how hot Obama looked

in that leather jacket.

[C_U_L8R]

28. What a f'n Trumptart.

The stink of his dishonesty is fouling our country.

[ginnyinWI]

31. did anyone see BBC news last night?

They had a feature about a couple in Arkansas who have a horse ranch and voted for #45. Asked about his plans to raise tariffs, which would hurt them, they just replied that if Trump thought it was good for the country, then they would go along with it.

In other words, he's their Daddy and whatever he says, goes! And he wouldn't lie, would he, so no need to fact-check! True authoritarians.

[louis-t]

37. I had a Republican aunt who I confronted with

a repug governor we had at the time who raised gas tax twice, cigarette tax twice. I said "I thought Republicans didn't raise taxes". She said "We must have needed it."

By the way, that governor left a $4 billion deficit when he left office.

[The Wielding Truth]

33. Should Trump keep his job while continuously lying our nation?

[oberliner]

38. Republicans don't seem to care

We need Republicans to start showing some character - long shot, I realize.

[luvMIdog]

35. he's escalating

[Blue Idaho]

36. Trump doesn't need daily intel briefings...

He's got Fox, Info Wars, and Breitbart... obviously they know more than "the government."

[radical noodle]

39. trump's fans don't mind lies because

they believe them. Someone will always make up stories on right wing sites that back up the things he says with more lies. That's what they believe because that's what they want to believe.

[Bucky]

45. It's worse than believing the lies. They've come to not care what the truth is

[radical noodle]

46. They especially love hits on Democrats

like the lie about Obama wiretaps in trump tower. They can easily jump on board about believing that. I had a FB friend who posted a link to a RW story about Obama wiretapping others, so why not trump too? It must be true, they said... who would doubt it?

Ughhhh....

[D_Master81]

54. Its not just that

its that they dont believe anything is truth outside the right wing bubble. everything else is just "liberal spin" from the liberal media. the truth only gets out there through those websites and fox news. its really scary when you think about it. even if you bring facts it wont matter b/c they have chosen not to believe anything that isnt from a source they trust, which is only right wing sources.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

42. THIS morning? NT

[Bucky]

44. Fuck his fans. It doesn't seem to matter to the news or to Congress

O.o

Partisan politics is part of our system. I expect there to be a little bit of Republicans backing up a Republican president. That's logical. That's how work gets done. Lord knows I looked the other way when Clinton was fibbing about his dalliance is and Obama was going Whole Hog on deporting undocumented workers.

But they're backing up someone now who's a blatant and unnuanced liar. Someone who uses fascist techniques and inspires racist violence and racist administrative overkill within the executive branch departments. Republicans today are quite simply putting party ahead of country. That's inexcusable

[oberliner]

47. His fans dominate Congress

That is part of the problem.

[bucolic_frolic]

48. A dictatorship invents the news

it is what they say it is. By undermining MSM with the FakeNews meme,
that is what they are doing.

This is a battle for us to win. We must confront this every day at every turn.

[tavalon]

50. As a person who tweets back to the idiot on an almost daily basis,

I'm unsure what the difference is between lying, goddamn lying, lying through his teeth and blatant lying. He does them all. Occasionally there is an almost truth, but it usually comes with perfect spelling, grammar and punctuation, so I credit those to his aides.

[underthematrix]

51. Here's the thing.

Trump his businesses and buildings and golf courses in Muslim majority countries and every last one of them is still standing.

[Rex]

53. Trump proves anyone can run the country, I didn't say run it well.

Just that if you too want to become POTUS - sky is the limit. If Trump can win, anyone on the planet can I don't even think it matters to his fans where they come from.

Trump fanboys are a sad little group of wannabes. President Bannon is their leader. Vice President Pence, President Bannon and in the Big Boy chair Donawld Twump.


I hate pees unless I gotta dood them!

[MFM008]

55. why does anyone listen to this

lying POS??

[colsohlibgal]

56. About As Reliable As The Sun Rising Each Day

He is an immature psychotic flake and a serial liar. And I lay total blame on people who should know better not only voting for him but also for doing contortions defending his dangerous nonsense and baseless fabrications.

[caroldansen]

57. Good work! Thank you for the post.

[left-of-center2012]

58. Maybe Trump will apologize and issue a correction