2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumA Week of Whoppers From Donald Trump
By MAGGIE HABERMAN and ALEXANDER BURNS SEPT. 24, 2016
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. Trumps 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. Trumps 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. Trumps 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.
The list is at this link: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/24/us/elections/donald-trump-statements.html
niyad
(113,344 posts)help. the deluded fools who support him will insist that it is the media that is lying, no matter what evidence is being presented. and, since the media allowed these lies to stand for nearly 18 months, percolating into the psyche, too little, too late.
I am looking at one of his supporters right now, senior, woman, living in subsidized housing, and she thinks (as she did in 2012) that these assholes care about her.