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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobert Reich: Trump lies more and more every day (40 per week now)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/reich/article/Robert-Reich-Trump-lies-more-and-more-every-day-13090304.phpAs the political season heats up, Donald Trump is ramping up his lies through three amplifiers: his rallies, Fox News and his Twitter account.
The three function as a big propaganda machine.
According to the Fact Checkers database, the average daily rate of Trumps false or misleading claims is climbing.
The problem isnt just the number or flagrancy of the lies for example, that Vladimir Putin and the Russians didnt intervene in the 2016 election on his behalf, or that the Robert Mueller investigation is part of a Democratic plot to remove him.
And its not just that the lies are about big, important public issues as when he says immigrants commit more crimes than native-born Americans, or that trade wars are harmless.
The biggest problem is that his lies arent subject to the filters traditionally applied to presidential statements a skeptical press, experts who debunk falsehoods, and respected politicians who publicly disagree.
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Trump's Political Lies Blanket TV, Twitter - And They Are Being Tracked
Lies can be fun -- especially in fictional TV dramas and comedies, and maybe even with some reality shows. Political lies? It's not a game show. On TV and other media, falsehoods have real-life consequences.
At the beginning of his administration, President Trumps false claims from his words/statements/tweets, on TV and other media platforms, had been running around eight lies a week.
Now -- through late June -- it is up to 40 lies a week, according to research from The Toronto Star.
Most of his lies comes in speeches, 648. Why? His speeches arent always fact-checked. Or they spill from off-the-cuff, improvisational stuff, according to analysis. Lies in interviews are now at 380; informal remarks at events, 369; Twitter, 339; and press conferences and so-called scrums -- informal gathering of the press -- 192.
https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/322488/trumps-political-lies-blanket-tv-twitter-and-t.html
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Robert Reich: Trump lies more and more every day (40 per week now) (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Jul 2018
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duforsure
(11,885 posts)1. He has to lie
And attack the truth in order to make his propaganda work. We see now the more lies he tells the more he has to tell to cover his original lies. This will only continue to escalate, and like ponzi schemers and con men it almost always collapses on them, as this will on trump and putin too. His level of corruption ,and crimes though out his career is coming back to haunt him now, and its just the tip of the iceburg.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. And still the redumbliCONS support their massive liar.
mucifer
(23,530 posts)3. I believe one huge problem is the news generally normalizes his behavior and even continues
to treat him as presidential.
Timmygoat
(779 posts)4. One thing that irks me
Is that a traitor like Trump who is sucking up to Russia, is picking on black people who take a knee at football games, they are the patriots, he is the traitor.